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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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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

TechCrunch

Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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Bosch picks up Five.ai after the self-driving startup pivoted to B2B and then put itself up for sale

TechCrunch

Today, Bosch announced that it would be acquiring Five.ai , the autonomous driving startup that started with big ambitions to build and operate its own fleet of robotaxis but ultimately pivoted to focusing on technology development as a B2B play. Scale matters in building automated driving technology. Headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.,

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Gorilla Logic to Sponsor 2023 ‘Women Who Code Medellín’ Software Development Program

Gorilla Logic

The program is an initiative by Women Who Code Medellín and is meant for women who are interested in technology and want to guide their professional life toward this discipline. Over the past decade, Medellín has become a technical epicenter in Latin America, earning the nickname “the Silicon Valley of Latin America.”

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Agile Goes Virtual

Accenture

A 2017 Gallup poll reported that 43% of employed Americans had spent at least some time working remotely, and U.S. workers being based entirely at home.” – Harvard Business Review, Aug 2019. Over the last year, I’ve been privileged to work with Accenture Learning as their Agile Coach. Conclusion.

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Why You Should Be Adopting a DevOps Culture in 2020?

Dzone - DevOps

The year 2020 has arrived, and its arrival brings a lot of innovations and transformations in the Information and Technology (IT) sector and especially to DevOps technologies. The adoption of DevOps practices rose 17% in 2018 as compared to 10% in 2017, according to Statista. billion USD by 2025.

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How Startups Can Revamp Their Executive Leadership Talent for Growth

N2Growth Blog

In 2017, CEO and Founder Tim Chen decided to reshape its senior leadership by bringing in five new executives. The Swedish audio streaming service went on an executive hiring spree to remain agile at scale, allowing the $2-billion music tech company to maintain its capacity and drive to innovate. . First, learning agility.