CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Girl Develop It. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2025

QueerTech, a Montreal-based nonprofit serving the LGBTQ+ tech community, gained its roots after CEO and co-founder Naoufel Testaouni began attending tech events in Montreal and New York City. To achieve this, they developed the QT Access and QT Leadership programs 10-week cohort style programs that run on an annual basis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

AnitaB.org, a global nonprofit focused on recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in technology, reports that half of women in tech leave the industry by age 35, an attrition rate 45% higher than for men in IT. Worse, a significant percentage of women in tech want to leave. Workplace discrimination and sexual harassment play roles, too.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In especially high demand are IT pros with software development, data science and machine learning skills. She works with commercially focused companies developing technologies to support and boost projects and products that impact multiple sectors within greentech. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

One organization, Feeding America, the country’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, is turning to information technology to help, having hired three years ago its first IT chief to transform how its network of 200 food banks serve the food insecure. The team supports the ERP systems for another 25% of the network.

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Network World

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A simple error like the misconfiguration of routing information in one of the 7,000 to 10,000 networks central to global routing can lead to a widespread outage, and deliberate actions, like preventing traffic with spoofed source IP addresses, can lead to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While the onus of change rests in large part on employers to alter their approaches to hiring and inclusivity in the workplace, the following 17 professional organizations are dedicated to advancing the careers of Black IT pros and increasing Black representation in the tech industry through training, networking resources, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A new nonprofit is trying to keep the momentum going. Feldblum is part of the team that helped Fair Pair Workplace develop the rules and standards used to set the bar for certification. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements inspired many companies over the past year to pledge their commitment to fighting inequities.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2025

” — The Microsoft Alumni Network , a member organization representing more than 200,000 former Microsoft employees, made a series of appointments to its board of directors. Mike Novasio was named the Alumni Network’s new board chair. Tameka McNair was named board vice chair. Trudeau is co-owner of the Seattle Storm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2024

Computers that piggyback on vast libraries with extraneous lines of code, developers who have lost count of the number of virtual machines they have spun off — all add drag and increase the carbon emissions related to software. The IT and software industry is projected to contribute 14% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

F5 Photo) — Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. Maddison was previously at California-based computer and network security company Fortinet for more than 12 years, leaving the role of chief marketing officer.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2025

The investment will help the company’s development of its digital healthcare delivery platform. The company launched in 2017 when it spun out of Providence, a multi-state healthcare network based in Renton, Wash., The Catholic organization is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare providers in the country.

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

“The deals that tech companies are making to put their own money up to achieve environmental goals are exciting,” said Josh Smith, energy policy lead at the nonprofit Abundance Institute. However, we should be “dismayed” at the pace of these developments, he pointed out.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Participants receive a $50,000 investment to develop and launch their ideas into emerging, investable companies. By drawing on MACH37’s large network of experts and entrepreneurs, startups are guided toward creating successful companies that can take a strategic market position. region, as well as California, Massachusetts and Georgia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) job opportunities have risen 79% over the past three decades, and are forecast to increase 11% more through 2030, women account for only 16% of those earning a bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences, according to according to Women Tech Network.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Tina-Marie Gulley, CEO of Ada Developers Academy. Ada Photo) Seattle’s Ada Developers Academy for years has been a success story for training under-represented people in tech and helping them embark on careers in software development. So the nonprofit brought them back to the classroom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

LinkedIn is one such company giving IT pros an opportunity to make a difference as part of a longstanding partnership with job training nonprofit Year Up, which began in 2011 when LinkedIn’s first CEO, Jeff Weiner, saw the value in working with the Year Up to open the talent pipeline and to give back.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A CCNA certification from Cisco, among other certifications, helped him land a job as a network engineer. Networking, doing his job well, and continuously learning are more critical elements for career advancement and success, he says. Gary Flowers, CIO of transformation and technology services at nonprofit Year Up, agrees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. Tech companies have set their sights on Raleigh in the past few years, in part thanks to the area’s high-powered network infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

The new nonprofit the Data & Trust Alliance , whose members include influential American corporations lik e Nike, Starbucks, American Express and Meta , is seeking to develop a new literacy for organizations to help them adopt responsible data and AI practices. Every year, Merriam-Webster makes headlines with its word of the year.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2025

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell speaks during an open house at “AI House” in Seattle on Wednesday, alongside Ada Developers Academy CEO Tina-Marie Gulley, left, AI2 Incubator co-managing director Yifan Zhang, and Markham McIntyre, director of the city’s Office of Economic Development.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

As a result, more and more companies are beginning to turn to the “board diversity ecosystem,” which has been developing over the last decade or so. The problem that is really on display — and it is the one that is easiest for technology to solve — is a networking problem. Digital networks.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2025

Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Angelique Okeke has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel at Seattle-based networking and security giant F5. Okeke, who joined the company in April 2024, succeeds Scot Rogers, who is departing after 20 years with F5.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As the manufacturing process and supply chain networks become more automated and integrated, more vulnerabilities to cyberattacks are opened. UTSA has assembled a team of best-in-class national laboratories, industry, nonprofit and academic organizations to cybersecure the U.S. manufacturing enterprise. manufacturing enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 State of the CIO , IT leaders are looking to shore up competencies in key areas such as cybersecurity (39%), application development (30%), data science/analytics (30%), and AI/machine learning (26%). From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

AllianceBernstein works directly with job training nonprofit Year Up , which connects the global asset management corporation with tech talent from underserved populations. AllianceBernstein also recently added full-time, paid apprenticeships, and tuition-free web development bootcamps alongside the Greater Nashville Technology Council (NTC).

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Prior to joining Ovum, he was an independent analyst whose company ‘onStrategies’ delivered software development and integration tools to vendors with technology assessment and market positioning services. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. 2014 Guest Judges Include: Merv Adrian. Bob Gourley. Hilary Mason.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2021

The Seattle Seahawks quarterback and his Grammy-winning entertainer wife have signed a first-look deal to develop and produce scripted series and films with Amazon, Variety reported on Tuesday. Beyond making pancakes together with Bezos back in 2018, Bezos was also an investor in Wilson’s social networking startup TraceMe.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Prior to joining Ovum, he was an independent analyst whose company ‘onStrategies’ delivered software development and integration tools to vendors with technology assessment and market positioning services. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. 2014 Guest Judges Include: Merv Adrian. Bob Gourley. Hilary Mason.

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