GeekWire

JULY 29, 2024

“Everyone says they’re the SpaceX of, you know, ‘Z,'” said Jake Armenta , a former Boeing engineer who’s one of Outbound’s founders and its chief technology officer. Outbound is partnering with Collinear Group, an engineering consulting firm based in Renton, Wash.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Yet the leading tech execs who make up CIO’s 2023 CIO Hall of Fame share many of the same attributes, attitudes, and ambitions. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” NTT i 3 ), a research and development center; and CIO and CTO of Magellan Health.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Gartner has forecast that 65% of organizations will adopt ERP applications that use one or more of what it calls “fourth-era hallmarks” by 2023. Those include AI, data-centric design, systems that can be used off the shelf, functions that augment decisions, developer enablement, and customer-facing technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Oberoi made hundreds of calls to lawyers, paralegals, contract managers, consultants, and various other stakeholders. . “That social validation felt good.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1%

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

Relativity Space , a startup that was born in Seattle but grew up in Los Angeles, says it has signed an agreement to develop launch facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and a contract with Iridium to launch satellites from those facilities. (Relativity Space Illustration).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “Any

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Longevity is developing treatments and products to “increase health span” for aging individuals, according to a statement Thursday announcing the SPAC deal. Longevity’s management team pulls its chief technology officer, Francesco Curra , from Cerevast and its chief operating officer, Anthony Lee, from NovoKera.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

But most of the attention on stopping malicious deepfakes is focused on political candidates and issues , Hutchins notes, which while incredibly important, misses the majority of the technology’s victims. The man, a cybersecurity consultant, tried covering his tracks. The startup launched in August 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO. These priorities must fundamentally tie back to the business’ priorities and goals,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Our responsibility as CIOs is certainly to fund and empower work to develop and implement AI tools safely in our workplace.” Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. CIOs are company executives and change agents first, and technologists second,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

million in 2023, and is expected to grow by 5% in 2025, equal to 3.75 Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. million compared to about 3.6 This helps us screen about applications 5,000 per hour.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

No one denies its transformative potential, but digital leaders say a majority of people seem to think generative AI, which Gartner recently placed at the peak of inflated expectations in its 2023 hype cycle , has more capabilities than it does — at least at this time. Consider some recent survey findings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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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. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(Y Combinator Photo) Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Generative AI applications continue to change as new use cases are developed.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 15, 2024

Hardware development isn’t the point of the study. Instead, DARPA is interested in developing ideas that could give rise to future commercial applications on the moon — and perhaps technology spin-offs here on Earth. “Early on, it was too speculative,” he told GeekWire. ” he said. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

The resulting redefinition of their role is influencing their priorities as they prepare for the 2023 financial year. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. For the safety of internal data around development, we are implementing new device management solutions. Talent retention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. Meanwhile, The Global CTO Survey 2023 released last November by IT consulting company STX Next found that 35% of responding tech leaders listed technical debt/refactoring as their biggest challenge — making it the No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case. Paul, Minn.,

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It laid off more than 1,000 employees in October 2023. Kunal Anand, F5’s chief innovation officer. (F5 F5 Photo) — Kunal Anand of F5 is changing roles, moving from chief technology officer to chief innovation officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

He aims by year’s end to earn the ISO /IEC 27001 certification as well as certification for SOC 2, a security framework developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. a real estate and parking investment, development, and operations company. That’s up from 85% who said as much in 2023. For Rev.io

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For more technical employees, there’s another course, about eight hours long, for 6,000 developers and engineers. The bulk of the learning material was developed in-house, she says, with involvement from the head of product engineering and other technology and lab team members. We stopped everything,” says Andres.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

According to an IDC Survey, “Ransomware attackers are getting more effective at finding valuable data; half of North American ransomware attacks where data was exfiltrated included the loss of valuable, sensitive, or security data ( Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 11 , IDC 2023). Contact us today to learn more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

(Snapbar Image) Nearly three years after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live events and put Sam Eitzen’s physical photo booth business in serious jeopardy, the co-founder and CEO of Snapbar now has a developing picture of what survival and success looks like. ” The software engineer, Patrick Ellis, is now Snapbar’s CTO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

More than 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors and tech leaders gathered for Founders Bash 2023, a massive meet-up celebrating the region’s innovation sector. Ryan Bruels , head of engineering at Atypical AI , which is developing tools focused on education. I do think it’s something that’s extremely valuable. Ryan Bruels. Varun Sharma.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. He attributes the cautious attitude of tech leaders to elevated inflationary pressures and higher interest rates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

All central government departments will confirm an adoption strategy and roadmap for the new One Login programme by April 2023, and their services will have begun onboarding by 2025, according to Natalie Jones, director of digital identity at the Government Digital Service (GDS). One Login for government. Pay and Notify.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months. Building enterprise-grade gen AI platforms is like shooting at a moving target, and AI progress is developing at a much faster rate than they can adapt. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

The announced intent of AI @ Morgan Stanley Debrief, one of a suite of generative AI tools the company is developing for its financial advisors, is to record, transcribe and then summarize key points from the more than 1 million conference calls that Morgan Stanley people hold every year. Clients are going to ask ‘How are you protecting us?’

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