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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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

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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

” Aquagga co-founders Chris Woodruff, chief operations officer (left); and Brian Pinkard, chief technology officer. It launched in 2019 and has been testing and building PFAS destruction devices that incorporate technology from the UW and the Colorado School of Mines. Aquagga has raised $1.1

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2023

(Adaptive Photo) — Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies , the company said today in a regulatory filing. The filing stated that “his service is being terminated by May 2023.” He was first hired by Adaptive as chief technology officer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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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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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.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

Singapore’s data centers have a 1% vacancy rate, and data center availability in the huge northern Virgina data center hub stands at 0.9%, despite an 18% increase in capacity between early 2023 and early 2024, according to the report. The 2023 CBRE report found that 83% of the data center capacity under construction at the time was presold.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors.

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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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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2023

At the time, lab space was hard to find in the city, said Outpace chief technology officer Scott Boyken. Outpace Bio co-founder and CTO Scott Boyken (left) and CEO and co-founder Marc Lajoie. GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert) The vacancy rate for lab space in the Seattle area is now at 7.1%

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

The man, a cybersecurity consultant, tried covering his tracks. The startup launched in August 2023. The other two co-founders are the chief technology officer and lead data architect, both of whom also hold 9-to-5 jobs. Her previous roles include product management at The Disney Company and Expedia.

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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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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2024

Consultation with local employee representatives, where applicable, will occur before making any final decisions.” Expedia has made smaller cutbacks in recent years, including an unspecified number of jobs last year in its Traveler Products team, part of Product & Technology division.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Longevity’s management team pulls its chief technology officer, Francesco Curra , from Cerevast and its chief operating officer, Anthony Lee, from NovoKera. Longevity hired Brenda Sparks , previously the corporate controller at Cancer Prevention Pharmaceuticals, as chief financial officer.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Gartner analyst Erick Brethenoux says use of consultant data and ML models is gaining steam, especially among retailers. We now have a matrix that’s about 1,500 cells instead of just 35,” the CTO says.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

million in revenue through the first nine months of 2023, down nearly 40% from the year-ago period, with a net loss of $6.5 It entered 2023 with $162.9 Army Special Forces, and CTO Yanda Ma , who joined Airship in 2005. . “We’ve never lost a single customer,” he said. Airship AI reported $8.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. CIOs and CTOs must also set the rules of the road for using AI and navigate or mitigate potential risk and ethics issues, he says. Gartner analyst John-David Lovelock suggested that timeline was ambitious for most companies.

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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

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.

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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. decline year over year in worldwide spending on fixed voice services in 2023.

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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. The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As key officers of their companies, technology leaders have entered a more lucrative compensation bracket,” notes Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Since 2023, compensation for CIOs and CTOs has increased by more than 7% and over 20% since 2019, according to Heller. Stephenson says.

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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

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. Cybersecurity tops the list of concerns for Monish Darda, CTO and co-founder at Icertis, a developer of contract management software. Talent retention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. You might have the CIO rolled into a different role, or you might be able to merge the CIO and CTO,” he says.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Wood previously worked as chief research officer at NCSolutions, a Nielsen-owned agency that helps consumer packaged goods companies target and measure advertising. Prior to NCSolutions, Wood owned and operated LWR, an industry research consulting firm. She held the position for more than a decade. iSpot ranks No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

Operating profit gains from AI doubled to nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023, with the figure expected to reach 10% by 2025, she adds. Some backlash against the hype is likely, but gen AI will be a transformative technology in the long term, adds Hamza Tahir, CTO and co-founder of ZenML, an open-source MLOps startup.

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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

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