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Seattle startup Moondream, led by AWS vets, raises $4.5M for vision language model software

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“From transportation, retail, manufacturing, security and more, they see Vision AI as a critical factor to their success.” ” Allen previously spent seven years at Amazon Web Services, where he helped build AWS IQ, a marketplace for on-demand AWS talent, as well as internal sales products.

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Data science drives big decisions at Kohl’s

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Like many retailers, Kohl’s also uses publicly available machine learning models on the Google platform and has used Google’s Vertex AI platform. Data Science, Google Cloud Platform, Retail Industry

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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. moved all the data from its headquarters and its three data centers in Charlotte, Louisville, and Atlanta to Amazon Web Services and a handful of SaaS providers in 2019.

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Tech Moves: OpenAI nabs top Microsoft AI researcher; Lime taps Amazon VP as CTO

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. — Jon Jenkins , who previously led Amazon’s cashierless technology efforts, joined mobility giant Lime as its new chief technology officer. Schmitz previously spent more than nine years with Amazon Web Services.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. Gopuff Photos).

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. Open and transparent communication with vendors is essential.

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