GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2024

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Early versions of generative AI were “like a dancing bear,” says Werner Vogels , the Amazon chief technology officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, the healthcare industry has been fascinated by the potential of AI models to generate new content. While the average person might be awed by how AI can create new images or re-imagine voices, healthcare is focused on how large language models can be used in their organizations. Library of Congress.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

A new spinout from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, BirchAI , has landed $3.1 million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. BirchAI Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

But the platform ultimately caught the attention of larger companies that opt to directly pay for the healthcare of their employees rather than purchasing health insurance plans over which they have less control — a practice called self-funding. RELATED: ‘The darkest, most bottomless pit in healthcare’: Goodbill raises $3.4M

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Her roles included working on the founding team for the tech giant’s healthcare service, called Amazon Care, which offered a hybrid of virtual, in-home primary care and urgent care services. They didn’t know which providers could help address which situations, or how to advocate for the healthcare their love one needed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As countless organizations race to investigate or adopt artificial intelligence technologies, many are building out an AI skilled workforce. That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). This approach isn’t just about technological novelty.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2020

Microsoft says it has created one of the world’s top supercomputers for the exclusive use of OpenAI , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company pursuing breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence, or AGI, new forms of autonomous technology that would match or surpass human abilities.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

” Vouched uses artificial intelligence to help more than 150 companies across a bevy of industries verify the identity of their customers, clients and contractors. He founded the company with John Cao , who was chief technology officer but announced his departure earlier this month.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

With a population of only 1,576 — as was proudly proclaimed on the sign coming into town — healthcare resources there were limited. A single screening costs $129 for consumers, but the costs come down for contracts with employers, healthcare providers and others. The nearest medical lab was over an hour a way.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Use cases are expected to include enhancements to education, training, safety, security, healthcare, transportation and optimized manufacturing. Books we appreciated for insights into the megatrend of the Internet of Things include: The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

From left: Gradient Partner Eylul Kayin; Cascade AI CTO Pulak Goyal; and Cascade AI CEO Ana-Maria Constantin. A Seattle-based startup is using artificial intelligence to help. Customers range from industries including tech, energy, and healthcare. Cascade AI announced a $3.75

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CTOvision

JUNE 10, 2016

The following are some of the events we are tracking in our CTO Events Calendar. On Wednesday, June 15 from 3:15 PM to 4:00 PM, join Bob Flores, Executive Partner of Cognitio, and Junaid Islam, CTO of Vidder, Inc, for their session on How to Stop Catastrophic Cyber Failure in Your Organization. Bob Gourley. June 16 @ 14:00 - 15:00.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Gary Steen joined assistive technology provider Tunstall Healthcare as its group chief technology officer (CTO) in August 2021, having previously been managing director for technology at telecommunications provider TalkTalk. It’s got to be a wider distributed healthcare system.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

— Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Graham Sheldon. LinkedIn Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2022

Amazon has rolled out several healthcare-related products and services, including a virtual care platform called Amazon Care, as well as Amazon Pharmacy. Late last year Amazon consolidated its healthcare groups under Amazon senior executive Neil Lindsay , a key figure in the growth of the company’s Kindle and Prime businesses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Healthcare providers want to work with companies that provide cutting-edge software and helpful customer service, but just as important, they need to trust that tech vendors will protect sensitive patient data. Personnel no longer have access to sensitive healthcare data unless specifically required for their role and region,” says Johnson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

We recently connected with Leighton James, CTO of UKCloud, to get his thoughts on data as an asset and learn what he believes is driving the demand for sovereign clouds. And we address or surpass those requirements as they relate to multiple cloud technology stacks and across private, public, and edge cloud deployments.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The company helps protect some of largest and most trusted names in financial services, technology, retail, government, healthcare, media and manufacturing around the world, including Facebook, DocuSign, UnderArmour, Lagardere, and Publishers Clearing House.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Today the venture is coming out of stealth mode, opening up the waitlist for early access to their beta product and announcing a $1 million pre-seed funding round from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Madrona Venture Group.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. Frontline workers in manufacturing, automotive, and healthcare use the product for remote video calling, document navigation, guided workflow, mobile forms, data visualization, and more. (RealWear Photo) RealWear , a Vancouver, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While the mood was light, the subjects were serious, with sessions designed to help alumni navigate the worlds of entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and the coming wave of artificial intelligence in their work and personal lives. Dee Dee Walsh, left, moderates a session on the metaverse with Magic Leap CTO Julie Larson-Green.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vieu, led by CEO Samir Manjure (left) and CTO Simon Skaria, just landed $2 million for its AI-powered enterprise sales tool. Manjure said he was inspired by recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence and interviewed more than 75 interviews about closing B2B deals.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But even in the emerging era of artificial intelligence and robotics, her new venture shows that human helpers still have a critical role to play. Yoky Matsuoka is known for her pioneering work in neurorobotics, assisting humans by connecting the central nervous system to the central processing unit.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . provides an AI-powered virtual healthcare service. (Playco Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Yoky Matsuoka has served as head of innovation at Google and as chief technology officer at Nest, and she won a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award in 2007 while a professor at the University of Washington, directing the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and the Neurobotics Laboratory. GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Here is the list of deputy CISOs, with bios provided by the company: Damon Becknel, Vice President and Deputy CISO, Regulated Industries Damon Becknel provides security oversight and governance for Microsoft’s solutions for regulated industries, including healthcare and financial services and our legal department, CELA.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Prior to eBay he held CFO roles for a variety of divisions with General Electric and GE Healthcare. In recent weeks and months Expedia announced Shilpa Ranganathan as its new chief product officer, which marks her return following 16 years at Microsoft, and former Fanatics exec Ramana Thumu is the incoming chief technology officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Employees fearing job loss should take comfort in the 2024 Stanford AI Index Report , which found that while AI is gaining in capability, it can’t match humans in many complex cognitive functions, notes Daniel Barchi, CIO of CommonSpirit Health, a healthcare provider. Artificial Intelligence, Staff Management

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. Michael Petrochuk is co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs , a startup developing more realistic AI-powered voices. Strong previously was an associate focusing on healthcare services and technology at a New York venture capital firm. Michael Petrochuk.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) The tweet provided the spark Heitzeberg needed to launch a new project, for meeting and collaborating with more people who were actively building with artificial intelligence. The ideas explore themes including AI-powered gaming, healthcare and education; generative AI for creativity; AI-assisted coding; and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2024

To better understand what’s happening with AI usage in enterprises and its impact on people, policies, and processes, I conducted an informal poll in June with several CISOs and CTO peers. NOTE: In next month’s column, I’ll highlight how AI is changing the ways that enterprise technologies are being selected and used.]

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Yoky Matsuoka has served as head of innovation at Google and as chief technology officer at Nest, and she won a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award in 2007 while a professor at the University of Washington, directing the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and the Neurobotics Laboratory. GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong).

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

Ozette co-founders Dr. Ali Ansary, CEO (left), and Greg Finak, CTO. Ozette, a biotech company that last year spun out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and was incubated at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) , raised a $6 million seed round i n February. Ozette Photos).

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CTOvision

JUNE 1, 2017

In healthcare, Meeker shows three great waves of how healthcare is delivered. For most of humanity, healthcare was done by human touch and physical examinations. For the last 25 years, there has been machine assisted and analog technology support.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Artificial Intelligence : Science fiction has brought this term to be a household word, but few realize the reality of this field of computing. Use cases are expected to include enhancements to education, training, safety, security, healthcare, transportation and optimized manufacturing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2023

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer & Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom This is a continuation of Broadcom’s blog series: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT. Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these trends from more of Broadcom’s industry-leading experts.

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