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15 worthwhile conferences for women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

But according to data from a survey from Women Tech Network , women earn around $15,000 less per year than their male counterparts, with an average annual salary of $60,828 for women compared to $85,000 for men. This years’ event will be a week-long virtual summit that is free to attend, with the aim of making it accessible to everyone.

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Seattle startup City Pods aims to address homelessness with standalone indoor mini homes

GeekWire

His idea was to create affordable, easy-to-assemble pods that would provide budget travelers with privacy and security at a lower price than a typical hotel room. A narrower follow-up survey found that the number of tents swelled by 53% over roughly nine months ending in the summer of 2020. The challenge was overwhelming.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Amid widespread tech industry layoffs, some companies are still hiring in a ‘flipped’ labor market

GeekWire

Seattle security startup ExtraHop is one example. Seattle startup 98point6 raised $43 million earlier this month to help increase development capacity for its virtual healthcare technology. Maria Hess, partner at Seattle-based Madrona Venture Labs , said it’s primarily data and security startups that are hiring at its studio.

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10 Top Ways: Building an Effective Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign

SecureWorld News

If these things are true, how do we share information with others in a way that is proven to work and create a culture of security? Security awareness and how you talk about cybersecurity. Because we in security are the only people for who those words have any meaning. Collaboration is where you get the value.

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The cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ that led to the Colonial Pipeline disaster

The Verge

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. Companies are regularly failing to practice even basic security hygiene, which leaves critical infrastructure open to attack.

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