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AWS launches Skills Center in Seattle, boosts efforts to give free cloud training to 29M people

GeekWire

Amazon on Thursday is opening the doors to its first Amazon Web Services Skills Center in downtown Seattle. “It’s really the start of the journey into cloud regardless of whether they go into a business-side role or tech role,” said Maureen Lonergan , vice president of training and certification for AWS.

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Madrona teams up with Advancing Women in Product to boost female tech leadership

GeekWire

Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) , a nonprofit organization with more than 16,000 members internationally, is partnering with Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and Madrona Venture Labs in order to expand its opportunities for training, mentoring and networking. (AWIP and Madrona Photos).

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. The former head of engineering and science at Amazon Web Services Health Jean-Olivier Racine joined Outset Medical as its chief technology officer. billion. —

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

GeekWire

Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. Customer training platform Skilljar promoted Sara Robba to vice president of customer success.

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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

GeekWire

It is very deep device driver level work in Windows which controls how your files are located across the network and optimized for performance and easy access across a large enterprise.”. The company provides back-end tech and software to help companies build training and onboarding programs. What did you learn from it? “I

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‘The dark matter is just sitting there’: What’s standing in the way of AI for life sciences

GeekWire

New AI “foundation” models like GPT-3 and DALL-E that can generate new sentences or images were built using massive training sets pulled from the internet. Ultimately, data from clinical trials and animal experiments could feed back efficiently into a network to help develop new hypothesis and hone questions for basic research.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.