GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Freelancing platform Upwork hired former Amazon General Manager Saty Bahadur as CTO.

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CTOvision

MAY 26, 2015

The regulations themselves are a part of, and a driver to, a set of complex problems for industry — presently, with risk being transferred away from DoD to its contractors who will find risk rebounding to them via their “cyber” insurance policies. We’ll start by peeling back the onion layers around the regulations themselves. What is it not?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

PE investors have begun to realize they can achieve better returns with strong and empowered CIOs at portfolio companies, says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, a managed services provider focused on the private equity market. The CIO role is front and center on all these topics that are really top of mind for an investor.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

The global head of cyberthreat management at a leading global property and casualty insurance company suggests: “Look across your portfolio where you’ve got that kind of auto-update automation and [ask], ‘Can they be slowed down some to keep this from being bigger than it needs to be?’ This helps mitigate risks and ensures accountability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Addressing a major pain point for businesses globally, Extreme Networks CIO John Abel, Sanmina CIO and Senior Vice President Manesh Patel, and Erik Singleton, a consultant at North Highland Worldwide will discuss using data to solve supply chain challenges. Don’t miss out – register today.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 14, 2021

Often seen as “servant-leaders”, these CIOs know that their value is derived from the trust and partnership they have with the business and other technology executives such as the Chief Experience Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Data Officer. Gaining Expertise In Technology.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

. — Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. The longtime human resources vet previously served as CPO of telemedicine startup Galileo and health insurance company Surest. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Gleam, a platform for insurance brokers to implement self-funded health plans for SMBs and startups. Watto AI From left: Watto AI founder and CEO Rishabh Panwar, co-founder Ishita Bhandari, and CTO and founder Suryansh Soni. What’s your secret sauce?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But strategically important digital transformations should be protected “because they set you up over time and create more flexibility and adaptability,” says Andrew Blau, MD and US leader, eminence and insights, at Deloitte Consulting. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A new startup born out of Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle wants to help independent workers who don’t have medical insurance save money at the pharmacy. From left: Otis leaders Luke Nilles, Aaron Bach, and Steve Moses, with Pioneer Square Labs investor T.A. Otis is targeting freelance and part-time workers with a digital discount card.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“By explaining the concepts behind AI in a clear manner, the business leader can be introduced to the building blocks for AI, and the IT leader can develop an acceptable strategy,” advises Nidal Haddad, principal at business advisory firm Deloitte Consulting. Yet these topics are often foreign to most business leaders. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We experienced the impact of one of our SaaS providers, OpCon, not having a solid DR [disaster recovery] plan during the MS Azure Central Region outage,” says Gary Jeter, CTO of TruStone Financial. The nightly processing jobs were significantly delayed, which has a large impact on our credit union and our members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Your laptop breaks down, you miss a flight, or you need to call an insurance company. That wasn’t entirely the case with AirHelp, according to its chief technology officer, Tim Boisvert. We’ve all been there. Build a humane team Many organizations think of using AI in customer support in the context of cutting costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2020

Affective has nine full-time employees and contractors, plus eight part-time consultants in areas including user experience, artificial intelligence and machine learning, business and psychology. The company says its technology complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for data security and privacy.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He is joined by other hospitality and property tech vets: CTO Greg Mushen held the position of Director of Product Management at Expedia, and also served as VP of Product Management at Seattle-based sales startup Outreach. He is also the Founder and CEO of ClearClose, a startup that automates real estate contract compliance.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Healthcare companies must adhere to a myriad of regulations, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other industry-specific guidelines. Book a free consult today.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 2, 2022

Glenn Kapetansky, Chief Security Officer and Technology Capability Lead for Trexin Consulting, has a passion for building systems, organizations, and teams, and has done so across a number of business sectors, technologies, and roles. Question: What do you wish more people knew about your organization (employer)?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. “As Budgets are being slashed across industries, Avila notes.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2015

This post provides the views of the leadership team of Cognitio Corp , a consultancy with experience defending both government and commercial enterprises. Legal and Insurance Implications: How are we leveraging external security organizations for independent advice/assistance? Issues with re-insurance and rates.

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CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ). Legal experts need to be consulted if you want to know what level of encryption is allowed in an area. CTO Cyber Security Access control Consultants Information security InfoSec Management Policy Security Security policy' The Sarbanes-Oxley Act ( SOX ).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The other proposed additions to the healthcare suite includes adding inventory management systems, administrative systems including applications for management of complex contract workforce, recruiting, scheduling and payment options.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

based online insurer, is developing an LLM-based platform to handle customer requests with far more intelligent and enhanced chatbots. The WiPro exec cited an example of a recent POC that a life sciences firm conducted using Google’s Gen App Builder to reduce contract management costs and improve agreement adherence to company policies.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. And part of that is going to be your cyber liability insurance. Somebody just plops down a credit card and signs up for the service.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2015

Bob is Co-Founder of Cognitio, Former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the first Director of Intelligence (J2) at DoD’s cyber defense organization JTF-CND and author of the Cyber Threat. I have worked with Bob Gourley to come up with a set of questions that government leaders should be asking to mitigate cyber security risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. Insurance company Aflac is one company making sure this is the case to maintain human oversight over the AI, instead of letting it act completely autonomously. Most of us in AI are software engineers,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. Cold: On-prem infrastructure As they did in 2022, many IT leaders are reducing investments in data centers and on-prem technologies. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Data and API infrastructure “Data still matters,” says Bradley Shimmin, chief analyst for AI platforms, analytics, and data management at London-based independent analyst and consultancy Omdia. I’m seeing it across all industries,” says Khan, “from high tech and banking all the way to agriculture and insurance.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She retired from that position in 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. Taking an ad hoc approach Digital literacy takes time and at Rosendin, a national electrical and communications contracting firm, the approach is slow but steady. Leadership “puts their money where their mouth is.”

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

Tim McGuffin, Director of Adversarial Engineering at LARES Consulting, discusses the benefits to manual ransomware: "This is still fairly rare, however, it's a good method to bypass modern Endpoint Protection and Canary files that would alert and kill automated, system-wide ransomware.

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CTOvision

JUNE 15, 2015

“Spark, together with IBM, provides a highly scalable platform for Optibus, making it easy for us to expand our software as a service offering into new markets, and helps us simplify deployment, maintenance and application development for transportation companies worldwide," said Amos Haggiag, Optibus CTO and Co-Founder.

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