GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Microsoft also launched a global biodiversity program; an ecology-based “Planetary Computer;” and a suite of waste reduction strategies; along with a $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund. “We have reached the point globally where humanity depletes the available freshwater supply at a rate of 4.3 “This needs to change.”

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The program, known as Project Transcendence, marks a significant push by the Kingdom to develop a robust AI ecosystem that can rival leading tech hubs, including neighbouring United Arab Emirates and other global technology centers. In recent years, the Kingdom has set up research centers, ministries, and educational programs focused on AI.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Sonos on Wednesday announced a new product sustainability program with a lofty carbon neutrality goal for its entire line by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2040. Read more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2023

The state must cut emissions 45% below 1990 emissions levels by 2030, and continue ratcheting down emissions to net-zero by 2050. state with a similar carbon capping program. Jay Inslee participated in a briefing Wednesday providing details of the rollout of the initiatives. The volume of allowances declines over time.

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2020

Microsoft President Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, and CEO Satya Nadella preparing to announce Microsoft’s plan to be carbon negative by 2030. The company will provide $50 million in grants to community organizations working on education, habitat restoration, clean energy programs, and job training.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For decades, we’ve been investing in innovation, partnerships, and programs that apply our technology, scale, and talented workforce to drive human progress – all intending to have a measurable influence on some of the complex challenges important to our business, customers, the communities we serve and society at large.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

Uptime Education, for example, has a recertification program every three years. Uptime Institute Data Center Fundamentals Uptime Institutes Data Center Fundamentals (DCF) is a one-day program that provides an overview of what data centers are and what they do. It gives you that awareness into the industry.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

Amazon on Tuesday launched The Climate Pledge Fund , a new venture capital investment program that will funnel an initial $2 billion into startups building sustainable technologies across various industries such as transportation, food, manufacturing, and more. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announcing the Climate Pledge in September 2019.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2020

as part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge, a commitment to be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2030. Despite those efforts, an employee activist group inside Amazon and other environmental advocates have been pressuring the company to adopt more extensive sustainability programs.

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2021

Amazon said last October that it will have 10,000 custom electric delivery vehicles on the road as early as 2022, and all 100,000 by 2030. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said in a news release that the latest funds will allow Rivian to scale new vehicle programs, expand its domestic facility footprint, and fuel international product rollout.

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GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2020

Over the next three years, Microsoft says it will double its number of Black-owned suppliers and spend an incremental $500 million with those companies; double its investment activity with Black-owned financial institutions, including a $100 million FDIC program; and establish a $50 million investment fund to support Black-owned small businesses.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Like IBM’s Gambetta, Svore says she expects to reach quantum advantage before 2030. Quantum investment expert Jennifer Addie, COO of advisory firm VentureScope and strategy direction at MACH37, a cyber accelerator program, says she was excited to hear Microsoft’s announcement.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines announced a program in August allowing corporate customers to pay for sustainable fuel credits to reduce their carbon emissions. The program is a partnership with WSU, Boeing and Microsoft and builds on a 2020 arrangement between the commercial airline and software company. of jet fuel used worldwide.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These priorities are concretely influencing IT buying decisions: According to a global survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, 98% of IT decision-makers report that IT suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs influence their IT purchasing decisions, and 85% have eliminated a potential technology supplier due to ESG concerns. [1]

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

SDOT Photo) The Seattle Department of Transportation has deployed a fully electric compact bike lane sweeper as part of a pilot program to test the viability of such a machine in the city. The eSwingo 200+ electric compact sweeper.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

The program aims to provide charging infrastructure for EV owners who lack off-street parking charging options, though anyone will be able to use the sites on a first-come, first-served basis. City Light will evaluate the pilot program before considering expanding, according to a spokesperson.

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GeekWire

JUNE 17, 2021

Both companies are participating in a pilot program for last-mile delivery in Seattle. The Seattle Department of Transportation is a partner on the project, which dovetails with a program to foster cargo bike use and a 2030 goal to achieve 30% zero-emission delivery in the city, said Kelly Rula, the department’s New Mobility Manager.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As the United Nation’s COP26 climate talks in Glasgow kicked off this week, the Bezos Earth Fund on Monday announced its plans for $2 billion of the $10 billion fund: programs supporting land restoration and food production. Grants from the fund, which will be disbursed by 2030, will target efforts across the globe.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

New KPIs, experience insights and enriched dashboards are delivering customer benefits, helping stc contribute to Saudi Arabia’s 2030 vision and meet the operator’s ‘dare’ strategy to digitize, accelerate performance, reinvent experience, and expand scale and scope. Mohammed A. external_url. TM Forum assets used.

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JUNE 30, 2020

Microsoft isn’t the first big tech company — or even the first from the Seattle area — to launch an ambitious skills training program. But the breadth of Microsoft’s program and the focus on workers and employers outside the company sets it apart.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

ESA expects to launch the first IRIS satellites in 2029, and SpaceRISE, a consortium formed by satellite operators Eutelsat, Hispasat, and SES, said it expects to begin providing service in early 2030. As the third major EU space program, IRIS is poised to enhance Europes technological resilience and competitiveness. billion ($11.1

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

A policy-based program will reduce confusion and arbitrary choices, and increase manageability.” “As Gartner predicts that by 2030, 80% of humans will engage with smart robots on a daily basis, up from less than 10% today.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Bellevue’s grant is part of more than $50 million awarded by the USDOT to 34 technology demonstration projects across the country as part of the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) program.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The EU Chips Act has officially come into force today, putting in place a comprehensive set of measures to shore up the European Union’s semiconductor supply chain resilience and reach its target to double its current global market share to 20% in 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

The importance of education in supporting the success of Saudi Vision 2030 cannot be overstated. Thus, the digital transformation of the education sector is another important part of Vision 2030’s success, to ensure young people in the Kingdom have the right skills for the future world of work.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2021

Last summer, Amazon unveiled its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund, a venture capital program directed at sustainable technologies that could help it fulfill its promise to become net carbon neutral by 2040. A year ago, Microsoft created its $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund and announced that it would be carbon negative by 2030.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2021

The Bezos Earth Fund has hired Charlotte Pera as vice president for Strategy and Programs for the $10 billion effort to fight climate change. The Earth Fund plans to spend its $10 billion by 2030. Charlotte Pera. Photo via LinkedIn). Since 2012, Pera has been the president and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2023

The “metaverse” has been described as the next iteration of the internet; McKinsey said last year that it could generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030. . “We’re at the tip of the spear in the beginning of what we believe is a massive, a massive industry,” Rawlings said.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

.” The update, which is currently being tested in the early-access Xbox Insider program, introduces a new set of options to control how the console acts when it’s in sleep mode, in order to tie into Microsoft’s goal of being a carbon negative company by 2030.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The recipients include programs with a focus on climate justice and benefiting underserved communities, nature conservation and restoration efforts, and tying the work in to climate goals. Justice40 initiative, a program tied into federal investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transit in disadvantaged communities.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I expect it to supplement (and maybe replace) the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that largely replaced the Command Line interface, which replaced computer cards for data entry and programing. Researchers have already advanced the date of the Singularity from the 2040s or 2050s to around 2030.

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GeekWire

APRIL 6, 2023

Roboto went through the incubator program at Seattle’s Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2), where Barash spent a year as an entrepreneur-in-residence after more than six years at Amazon. But many companies still landed big rounds and robot sales reached record highs last year as companies address the ongoing labor shortage.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2021

The Seattle-based coffee chain has committed to cutting its waste in half by 2030. The program ended at the end of May. The company is determining what it learned from the pilot in order “to adapt the program and continue to evolve it for the future.” Approximately 80% of Starbucks beverages are taken to go.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

Recent initiatives include: State and local agencies created a program called NextCycle Washington , which runs an accelerator to support sustainable, circular economy businesses. .” Washington state is a leader in supporting companies focused on sustainability and in approving policy addressing these issues.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

” The report found that 50 percent of the students in quantum information science programs are foreign nationals, and that many of those students struggle to get visas to continue working in Washington state. Funding for research and development is also a mixed bag. “University of Washington has been tremendous. .”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A study from Korn Ferry estimates that by 2030 more than 85 million jobs will go unfilled due to a lack of available talent, a talent shortage that could result in the loss of $8.5 The return on investment in internal workforce training and upskilling programs can’t be overlooked, as the successes of the following four companies can attest.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2020

Washington , Oregon and California are among the states that have adopted the California Zero Emission Vehicle program, which requires automakers to reach an annual quota for delivering zero emission cars and trucks. It expects the order to be filled by 2030.

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