CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

He was also founder and CEO of i3D, which enhanced the interconnectivity of web platforms with the virtual 3D world of the product Second Life, and was an engineer at Redmond, Wash.-based Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

One of his healthcare providers suggested that his family apply to the program, and Price described his excitement about fighting villains and a fascination with robots. Tarcha talked to the nonprofit Virtual World Society , which put out the request to its network to see who could help.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

This crisis is the “result of the ongoing pandemic, which has been exacerbated by continued isolation, difficulty engaging with virtual learning, and lack of regular in-person interaction with educators, school personnel, mentors and peers,” states an emergency proclamation signed by the governor on Monday.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

based company is planning for a 2022 IPO, according to a report by BetaKit. Computational biologist Robert Bradley was named the scientific director of Fred Hutch’s Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center , a program that applies data science to cancer and disease research. The 13-year old Vancouver, B.C.-based

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

“I turn 65 at the end of the month, which is kind of p **g me off,” Stanton said last week during a virtual event hosted by Madrona Venture Group. My partner at the Mariners makes a point of calling his direct reports and randomly calling other people in the organization on a regular basis. I love what I’m doing.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G. Carl Bickford Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

Hearst says it will continue to publish the website, while implementing “a newsletter strategy that complements seattlepi.com and takes advantage of original reporting and curates the most important information for Seattleites.” “You can camouflage the lack of reporting resources, if you have a sharp voice.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

” Microsoft committed millions of dollars to Black-owned suppliers and internal diversity and inclusion programs as part of a sweeping racial justice plan. Kids continued to explore nature and science through virtual and in-person camps. COVID-19 doesn’t prevent a chem lab camper from getting her hands dirty.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

” Spector wrote in a blog post, “They are benefiting from the reduced competition: recruiting teams we are talking to are reporting two to three-fold increases in response rates to their outreach via LinkedIn.” Zillow Chief People Officer Dan Spaulding at one of the company’s virtual onboarding sessions.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. Winners accepted via Zoom — only two forgot to un-mute! .”

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2021

The more urgent question for many is this: what are the climate impacts of tethering the sales of virtual items to cryptocurrency? That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Their sensors and software can collect and analyze huge amounts of information about their surroundings — through geolocation and depth sensing, computer vision programs, or intimate biometric technology like eye-tracking cameras. Over the past decade, nobody has managed to merge these capabilities into a mainstream consumer device.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Vamosi: Maybe you remember this: In 2014, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek succeeded in hacking a Jeep Cherokee while a reporter was driving it on a freeway during rush hour in St Louis, Missouri. ” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Tennisha: Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. So, the second barrier is time so like if we can, you know, for example, give them a boot camp or not a boot camp the cost 10s of 1000s of dollars, all of our programming for Black House hack is free.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Black Girls hack is a nonprofit organization we recently got our 501 C three designation. So, the second barrier is time so like if we can, you know, for example, give them a boot camp or not a boot camp the cost 10s of 1000s of dollars, all of our programming for Black House hack is free.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. "The billion of losses were reported.". You might say, 'Why bother reporting?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

In this episode, Sonny Sandelius , Assistant Director of the SANS workforce programs, talks about programs that recruit people from outside computer sciences, encouraging those from diverse backgrounds who share the curiosity and the basic aptitude necessary to become hired cybersecurity professionals in as little as six months.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Honestly, I think for anyone who’s been tracking ransomware closely, this really shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Philip Reiner, CEO of the nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology. DarkSide also stole data from the company and threatened to publish it online, Bloomberg reported.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Then a couple days later, two startup founders who had been a part of Y Combinator tweeted that they had been kicked out of the program for criticizing it. It reminds me of, like, a TPS report in Office Space in its stupidity. We have a growth program for companies that are way post-product market fit. The early program?

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

But will these virtual acts of employee resistance culminate in lasting systemic change? Workers between the ages of 16 and 24 have the lowest union membership rate , according to a 2022 Bureau of Labor Statistics report. It’s not necessarily that different generations hold different attitudes about work,” Damaske argued.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

They told Recode that even when they reported these kinds of interactions to human resources, the offending colleagues often faced few or no repercussions, especially in cases where there were no other witnesses. I have been at Amazon long enough to actually see change happen because of articles being reported,” she added.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

And people are talking about hacking control system tackling PLCs and what we quickly realize is they don't they've never touched to be able to say they have no idea what these control systems are how they work their security researchers, you know that that maybe the firmware or maybe they found a program or something somewhere.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

They told Recode that even when they reported these kinds of interactions to human resources, the offending colleagues often faced few or no repercussions, especially in cases where there were no other witnesses. I have been at Amazon long enough to actually see change happen because of articles being reported,” she added.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The story here, reportedly, is that Roblox developers end up with few useful skills, since programming for Roblox bears little resemblance to making a game anywhere else, and the poor conversion rate on the in-game “Robux” awards means they’re effectively working for pennies. In theory, the blockchain could help solve that problem.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

Today let’s talk about a comprehensive new report on election integrity, and the particularly low marks it gave to one platform in particular. The 283-page report, which was published today, is called “ The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election.” Reading through the report, there’s a lot to be impressed by.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

“We are so pleased that Facebook worked with us to create an unprecedented program to help people performing work that was unimaginable even a few years ago,” said Steve Williams, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, in a statement. Reported cases in California: 69,520. Reported cases in New York: 342,267. Berkman Klein Center).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

The program that eventually appeared, a testing program for California run by Google’s sibling company Verily, was quietly phased out after it created more problems than it solved. Big tech companies can be extremely useful,” says Andrew Schroeder, who runs analytics programs at the humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

I think we were one of the earliest companies to publish transparency reports, and we’ve shared that ever since. And we just released our recent annual diversity report. He’s doing it all virtually now. We’ve made modest progress in critical areas. There’s a long ways to go. But it is really important. So we are doubling down.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Youngsook Park uses her foresight skills to promote social justice and human development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

In particular, companies that were leaders at using data and analytics had three times higher improvement in revenues, were nearly three times more likely to report shorter times to market for new products and services, and were over twice as likely to report improvement in customer satisfaction, profits, and operational efficiency.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Second, I’m excited to share a conversation I had this week with Facebook’s chief diversity officer, Maxine Williams, on the occasion of the company releasing its annual diversity report. I wanted to know why progress on the issue has been so hard to come by, what it means that she reports to Sheryl Sandberg now, and much more.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

That has created an opening for its rivals, including Shopify, Target, and Costco, which have all grown faster in the past two months than Amazon has, according to a separate report in Bloomberg last week. Reported cases in California: 71,171. Reported cases in New York: 343,705. Reported cases in New Jersey: 140,743.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he planned to ban TikTok from operating in the United States , and a few days later he did. But the TikTok Transparency and Accountability Center is now open for (virtual) business — and on Wednesday I was part of a small group of reporters who got to take a tour over Zoom.

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Vox

AUGUST 8, 2022

The foundation of Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto billionaire and dedicated effective altruist donor, announced a program meant to bring fellow EAs to the Bahamas , where his crypto exchange company FTX is headquartered for largely regulatory reasons. Obviously the money should go to bed nets! Flash forward to 2021.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal documents and interviews with current and former employees. Anyway, Facebook reacted to the Journal report with significant frustration. Which he reiterated at a virtual shareholders’ meeting today.).

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