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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

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Christian Spannbauer, CTO for the Digital Hangar, spoke with CIO.com from Barcelona about the impact of this new initiative for the official flag carrier airline of Germany, which, as a founding member of the Star Alliance network, has become a truly global airline. We believe the differentiator is your own data.”

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Chief AI officer: What it takes to land the C-suite’s hottest new job

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Candidates for the CAIO role are typically mandated to modernize processes with AI, ensuring that AI is used with ethics and governance in mind, and in building an AI-first culture, Reeves explains. Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co., provides another model for the CAIO role evolving today.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

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Some companies, like the San Francisco-based Just Foods and Tel Aviv’s Supermeat are already selling chicken patties and nuggets made from cultured cells at select restaurants. These products don’t get at the full potential for cellular technology according to Daan Luining, Meatable’s chief technology officer.

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This Y Combinator startup is taking lab-grown meat upscale with elk, lamb and Wagyu beef cell lines

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. “The key to making lab grown meat work scalably is choosing the right cells cultured in the most efficient way possible,” Jacobus wrote. Rounding out the senior leadership is Samet Yildirim, the chief operating officer and a veteran executive of Boehringer Ingelheim (he actually served as Bubner’s boss).

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Mermade Seafoods swims in cell agriculture waters to make cultivated scallops

TechCrunch

Mermade Seafoods is out to disrupt the $8 billion global scallops market with its circular cellular agriculture technology approach for producing cultivated scallops. The Israeli company was founded in July 2021 by CEO Daniel Einhorn, CTO Dr. Rotem Kadir and COO Dr. Tomer Halevy.

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CIOs take aim at Silicon Valley talent

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That sense of purpose and yearning to do meaningful work is the ace in the hole for Optum Enterprise CTO Francois Charette, who has hired a number of Silicon Valley technologists in recent months. All of XPO’s technology is proprietary and built in-house and CIO Jay Silberkleit has hired a lot of developers from Silicon Valley companies.

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How to Hire Women in Tech: The Ultimate Guide

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Success Stories of Women in Tech Successful businesses lead by example by valuing women CTO, developers, and team leaders. Daphne Koller: As the co-founder of Coursera and the founder of Insitro, a drug discovery startup, Koller has seamlessly blended technology and education.