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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

As companies scramble to find qualified IT talent, they are struggling to achieve greater female representation in their technology ranks, particularly in key areas such as software engineering and cybersecurity. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says.

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Fetcher raises $27M to automate aspects of job candidate sourcing

TechCrunch

Reflecting the growing investor interest in HR technology startups, Fetcher , the talent acquisition platform formerly known as Scout, today closed a $27 million Series B funding round led by Tola Capital with participation from G20 Ventures, KFund, and Accomplice.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO

In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. When evaluating a vendor product, Palermo and his team focus on scalability, and fundamental principles for release and version management: how does the vendor use customer review boards, and how do they use telemetry to evolve the product.

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How a CIO’s approach to cloud, AI and ML is transforming Nigeria’s Dangote Industries

CIO

His endeavour to get into the technology space led him to learn about enterprise application platforms and he eventually started his ERP career at IBM. Later he joined SAP Labs in the US where he was immersed in product management for cloud technology. Can you describe the importance of cloud technologies across Africa today?

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10 celebri disastri provocati dall’intelligenza artificiale

CIO

L’IA per il recruitment di iTutor Group che rifiuta i candidati a seconda della loro età Nell’agosto del 2023, la società di tutoring iTutor Group ha accettato di pagare 365.000 dollari [in inglese] per risolvere una causa [in inglese] intentata dalla US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

Nowadays, when tech companies are among the largest businesses in the world, CTOs are some of the most influential and innovative people that shape how we live and work. With the technological outlook for the years ahead, these people manage to drive the striking change both within the company and beyond. The role of CTO.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

TechCrunch

Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. When it came to raising a Series B, Merchant says the company struggled to close and lost investor interest due to WeWork’s failed IPO. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020).