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Microsoft allies with community colleges to help U.S. train 250k new cybersecurity workers by 2025

GeekWire

The company says it will offer free curriculum to all of the nation’s public community colleges, training for faculty at 150 community colleges, and scholarships and other resources for 25,000 students. home to the National Cybersecurity Training & Education Center. . ‘Why aren’t organizations doing better?

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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). Membership includes women and men.

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

GeekWire

She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. The former head of engineering and science at Amazon Web Services Health Jean-Olivier Racine joined Outset Medical as its chief technology officer.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. To secure executive support, CIO’s must first demonstrate value and need. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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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. Melina Garcia , an attorney at Seattle-based Davis Wright Tremaine LLP specializing in data privacy and security. Customer training platform Skilljar promoted Sara Robba to vice president of customer success.

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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.