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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO. Athira Photos).

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TechNet Augusta 2016 “Cyber in the Combined Arms Fight”

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Chemical Biological. Source selection (contracting) methodologies: Government needs to figure out what they are willing to pay more for; it’s not just about lowest price technically acceptable. Army needs to find ways to protect against obsolescent parts due to intellectual property issues. Army’s Posture in Europe. Innovation.

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GeekWire news round-up: Pulumi and Muir raise cash; LinkedIn’s new AI tools; ‘Uncommon Thinkers’

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From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. based Lisi Global replaces chemical pesticides with devices that zap soil pests such as weeds and worms with a jolt akin to a controlled lightning strike. Soma” Somasegar. Calling all Uncommon Thinkers!

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Rakesh Dhanda has joined chemical manufacturer Rossari Biotech as CIO. February 2022.

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

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Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. Liu went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and math and a master’s degree in operations science. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu. The new funds will enable BirchAI to expand and increase hiring.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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During COVID-19 lockdowns, for example, specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle developed a VPA to provide self-service assistance to over 7,000 employees at home, including a natural language interface with a chat bot, and enough AI to help people interface seamlessly with several business applications at a time.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business systems. There’s that phrase, ‘Hire people who amaze you and then teach them how to amaze themselves.’

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