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Learn from IT Thought Leaders at FutureIT D.C.

CIO

Designed for IT professionals in the Capitol-area community, the event promises to help attendees master the complexity of digital innovation. The daylong event kicks off with a workshop on persuasive communication. He will bring his story and lessons about leadership and disruption to the FutureIT Washington, D.C.

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Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort

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Since then, the startup has made some significant moves beyond just the funding, including growing to a total of 18 employees and bringing on aerospace industry veteran and former Airbus CTO Christine Tovee. “Christine had been on our technical board of advisors for quite some time,” he said.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

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Myself and a person I mentor both got told we were both diversity hires,” says a deputy digital director in public sector. Upon leaving the organization, the recruiter told her that she had been a token hire. Now we need to work on inclusion, and see the benefits we have to offer.” But sometimes this can do more harm than good.”

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She’s now CEO of her own business, CIO Concierge LLC, a niche consultancy that provides executive-level coaching as well as IT branding and strategic planning services.

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An Engineering Manager’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)

Honeycomb

In 2018, Honeycomb co-founder & CTO Charity Majors wrote a blog post titled, “An Engineer’s Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities).” Just as we want to build organizations that don’t tolerate dunking on marketing, recruiting, support, or engineering IC work, we should cultivate the same respect for management. Be accessible.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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SaaStr London: Efficiency, Alignment, Ingenuity, Unfundability, & Ice Cream

Daniel Bryant

CONFERENCE SUMMARY Summary of SaaStr Europa 2023 at the Tobacco Docks I had the pleasure of attending the SaaStr Europa event for the first time this year, and it was a blast. When I got the opportunity to attend the event and see some of the SaaStr contributors in person, it seemed like a no-brainer!