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What I have been working on: Modal

Erik Bernhardsson

I then spent six years as a CTO, although I managed the data team directly for a long time and would occasionally write some data code. I spent a lot of time as a CTO, and if I had to condense how to make engineers productive into one thing, it would be something like: make the feedback loops fast. Most of my career has been in data.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business systems. It was all about creating and testing the capabilities that I just talked about, and how to embed that back into our core manufacturing processes. Look at Tesla.

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

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seed round, they are ready to move towards testing and deploying their actual product. Just one problem: when you get a new codec, you need new hardware. When you’re serving videos hundreds of millions of times (or to a million people at once), even fractions of a percent add up, let alone gains of this size.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. WABTEC products and locomotives have numerous embedded digital pieces – both hardware and software, which allow us to track performance, and assess their reliability and warranty for the customers.

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Music wearable Mictic raises $2.5M to get you shredding, scratching and strumming

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We hope that people will find new ways of using our product,” says the company’s CTO Matthias Frey. ” The funding round will enable the company to grow further and to test out its product in the market. “We are also planning to expand our platform business in the very near future. million round.

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Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day

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The collection of companies is, however, defined by a wide range of focuses, from pioneering diabetes treatments to retrofitting autonomous trucking, curated by the SkyDeck’s small team and a number of advisors. The technology was developed by Hurd’s CTO, Charles Cai. Image Credits: Humm.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

We currently have cloud vendors that offer end-to-end solutions from the developer experience down to the hardware: What if cloud vendors focus on the lowest layer, and other (pure software) vendors on the layer above? I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered.

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