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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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CIO legend Chris Hjelm on developing future-ready IT leaders

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One of the issues is that social media and smartphones have taken away from the necessity of building relationships through physical interaction. We discuss about avoiding social media pitfalls. Now, some jobs are harder to build successors for, but at least present options for finding good candidates.

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How CIOs can be pillars of stability in an uncertain world

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minutes of downtime per year), and expanding digital capabilities in a world characterized by massive economic, political, social, and technological uncertainty. Mike McSally, a human capital advisor with 20-plus years of experience in executive recruiting, does not believe recruiting has to be a problem.

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Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round

TechCrunch

Plus there is Moxie , where coaches create their own courses. Each course is presented in high-quality video. Dorffer told me: “People love to follow their sports idols on TV, social media, print and audiobooks… Masters represents a brand new publishing format, we call it ‘interactive training documentaries’.

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Get your Disrupt day three highlights right here

TechCrunch

TechCrunch will sit down with Clubhouse co-founder and CEO Paul Davison to talk about the company’s past, present, and future. Metafy is bringing video game coaching to the masses, and it’s not only for gamers who may want to go pro. Negotiating Your First Term Sheet. TC Plus Stage | 10:50 am. TC Plus Stage | 1:30 am.

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. Only go social when they go social. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. Stay on point.

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Let's talk engineering; building software by building community

CircleCI

People are also welcomed to lead or present at sessions if they are interested. I was encouraged to start the group by my mentor, a Senior Staff Engineer on my team. Years prior, I attended a talk in San Francisco featuring the CTO of the United States, Megan Smith, speaking about the social implications of technology.