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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

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To reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate climate change, the National Hockey League (NHL) has turned to data and analytics to gauge the sustainability performance of the arenas where its teams play. When the NHL began its sustainability journey, Mitchell’s role did not yet exist. We need fresh water; we need cold weather.

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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners

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The reason for this shift is simple: While CIOs can often call on talented teams of internal IT professionals to deliver business solutions, no technology department can be expected to generate every innovation necessary to compete in a fast-moving digital age. White says being an enabler isn’t a straightforward role, either.

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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

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Turn employees into leaders The best leadership hack is a self-sustaining one, says Chetna Mahajan, chief digital and information officer at Amplitude: Create an environment that produces more good leaders. “It’s important to empower employees, especially your leaders,” Mahajan says.

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13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023

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Amazon’s unending drive to outflank the rest of the world birthed an industry with its 2012 acquisition of Kiva. Robotics innovation had somewhat plateaued: Capability to innovate was heavily based on a startup’s ability to raise capital. The more money, the better the robotics; think Boston Dynamics.

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Overhaul, which taps AI to secure physical supply chains, raises $73M in equity and debt

TechCrunch

Aiming to help overcome a few of the challenges, Barry Conlon and David Broe co-founded FreightWatch, a logistics security services company that they later sold to supply chain visibility platform Sensitech in 2012. “It proved how fragile supply chains are, especially when things go wrong.

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AM Ventures extrudes $100M to support industrial 3D printing

TechCrunch

“We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”.

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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

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Data collection on tribal languages has been undertaken for decades, but in 2012, those working at the Myaamia Center and the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages realized that technology had advanced in a way that could better move the process along.

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