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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

CIO

For the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), effecting change for women working in IT is a holistic endeavor. We like to make the distinction that it’s about fixing systems, not fixing women,” says Ashcraft. But the education system isn’t the only — or biggest — problem in the tech pipeline.

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

CIO

According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. A Rockerfeller Asset Management / Stern NYU study found that “Improved financial performance due to ESG becomes more marked over longer time horizons.” Intelligence builds on these connected systems.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO

The global standard at lightning speed Based in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture specializes in digital, cloud, and security technology strategies, consulting, and operations, serving more than 40 industries in more than 120 countries. Previously, deployment planning was laborious, requiring substantial time and investment.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Alan completed his schooling at Brooklyn Technical School in New York. In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. In 2002, Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology, Colorado. In 2004, the Kyoto prize.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring. Done well, TDD eliminates an entire class of programming errors. TDD isn’t perfect, of course. TDD is difficult to add to legacy codebases. Why TDD Works.

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Black Friday 2020 E-commerce: What’s on the Mind of Consumers and Tech Teams?

xmatters

Legions of tech teams have frontline war stories about technical glitches when thousands of dollars were on the line. A t AWS Reinvent 2018 Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, shared his “ worst day at Amazon ” when a b u g in the customer database took down all of Amazon for twelve hours back in the holiday season of 2004.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

Any Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Magic [DEV5689]. Moscone West – Room 2004. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved. Moscone West – Room 2004. – 4:45 p.m.