TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Free trials?

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event. Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. Last June, for example, Dun & Bradstreet launched D&B.AI

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

But 45% also said they feared that AI will make their work less relevant to their employers, and 43% said they fear the loss of their jobs due to AI. Good CIOs will have a vision of the tech skills their organizations will need in the next three years or so, he adds. They need to have a culture of experimentation.”

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

If you don’t join board meetings often, preparation is paramount, starting with learning about the directors’ backgrounds and reviewing minutes from previous meetings. Be prepared to answer common board questions about cyber readiness, technology roadmaps, and plans to hire and retain a diverse team.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7%

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Kaiko Systems, which Fussek founded in 2020 with Eddy del Valle, the former CTO of freight-forwarding unicorn Sennder , provides a smartphone-based tool for front-line workers and inspectors to collect operational data onboard. “Shipping companies finally made their long-overdue investment in digitization,” said Fussek.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Fast-forward a year and things have changed significantly. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2017

Cooley is an international law firm recognized for its technology practice and experience in multiple practice areas, including Mergers and Acquisition (the firm has handled over 1,000 M&A transactions since 2010). Specialists with substantive knowledge are now often brought in to perform detailed diligence in these technical areas.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road. But early returns indicate the technology can provide benefits for the process of creating and enhancing applications, with caveats. One example is with document search and summarization.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. Bam and co-founder and CTO Dr. Barbara Rosario started the company in 2015 and raised a $2.1

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Digital technology is infiltrating our business in ways we never thought of ourselves,’’ he says. So it is imperative the C-suite have digital literacy” not only to protect and enhance the customer value proposition but to understand new technologies and how they can be applied in their business. The payoff can be significant. “We

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Talented technical people aren’t looking online for a job. We’re creating things that don’t exist yet. Here is their advice.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

A 1958 Harvard Business Review article coined the term information technology, focusing their definition on rapidly processing large amounts of information, using statistical and mathematical methods in decision-making, and simulating higher order thinking through applications.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. Many of these next-generation projects are on track due to the organization’s decision to go all-in to the public cloud well before the pandemic hit.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

So business technology leaders in financial services are carefully navigating a path toward AI. AI dominates discourse and headlines, but financial services technology leaders know there’s a lot of substance amid the noise. We’re seeing how fast this technology is maturing, so it’ll have a very different hype cycle.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” But it’s not the only one.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. It attributed the rise to the proliferation of new technologies in regions around the world, with many more people than ever before possessing IT skills.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TechCrunch spoke with co-founders Sara Du , CEO, and Gregg Mojica , CTO, about the round, their market and their experience in Y Combinator. Alloy’s tech was being used by Shopify and BigCommerce customers, helping make e-commerce a fertile area for the company, its co-founders said. Why $4 million?

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

The market for technology talent has been white hot over the past year. The four of us had a wide-ranging conversation about the broader environment and how it’s affecting the role of technology leaders. The four of us had a wide-ranging conversation about the broader environment and how it’s affecting the role of technology leaders.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

Even those once adaptable may have become change resistant due to years of near-constant turbulence. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Some changes — buyouts or leadership shifts, for example — don’t allow for much notice. Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees.

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CIO

APRIL 13, 2023

I started studying art to give myself a break from the high-tech world. Now, ironically, the art world is being disrupted by emerging technology–specifically generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Meta’s LLaMa. Deep learning models, for example, can have thousands or even millions of parameters.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The cost of migrating is simply too high, says Sid Nag, VP of cloud services and technology at Gartner. that make migration to another platform difficult due to the complexity of recreating all of that on a new platform. Security is a good example. “If One big reason: they’re often locked into their chosen provider’s ecosystem.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

A September 2021 Gartner report predicted that by 2025, 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020. Here are some examples of how IT pros are using low code/no code tools to deliver benefits beyond just reducing the workload on professional developers.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years. There’s so much cross-pollination of the tech stack now.” We’re big proponents of bringing in people with technical aptitude and curiosity,” he says. “We It’s actually being delivered by a web service that’s run by IT.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late. Its success is yet another example of how competitive — and lucrative — the corporate card and expense management category has become.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Today, a startup called Spectrum Labs — which provides artificial intelligence technology to platform providers to detect and shut down toxic exchanges in real time (specifically, 20 milliseconds or less) — is announcing $32 million in funding. “We can technically cover any language in a matter of weeks,” he said.

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Blue Sentry

OCTOBER 4, 2023

AWS Event-Driven Architecture Overview Hi, I’m Todd Bernson – CTO at Blue Sentry Cloud and an AWS Ambassador with 12 AWS certifications. An example of an event-driven system is the game mousetrap. Our example is a simple one – we have a serverless application running on AWS Lambda that I’m going to deploy now.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech.

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CIO

MAY 21, 2024

But not all problems are best solved using LLMs, some IT leaders say, opening a next wave of multimodal models that go beyond language to deliver more purposeful results — for example, to handle dynamic tabular data stored in spreadsheets and vector databases, video, and audio data.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

They are joined by Guido Caldara, a lead teacher at coding bootcamp Le Wagon and Tablevibe’s chief technology officer. The idea for Tablevibe came after Rutten, its chief executive officer, visited a restaurant in Singapore that used paper feedback forms. “We

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Leveraging the right set of technologies will be a key success criterion for such apps. Grab for example started out as a ride-hailing app. Gartner anticipates that Superapps will be one of the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2023. Today its offerings include deliveries, mobility, financial services among others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

. “We always found that using the right permissions with data was always the bottleneck,” said Ali Golshan, the CEO who co-founded the company with Alex Watson (CPO) and John Myers (CTO). In more complex applications — for example in a genomic database, it could take several days. .

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. To address these issues, establishing an AI review board and implementing an ethical AI framework are critical, Wollersheim says. “An As McIntosh sees it, bias is fundamentally a data problem. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Luxury wholesale marketplace The Main Tab is redesigning its platform following a $1 million pre-seed raise earlier this year from serial entrepreneur Jason Bright, who is now the company’s CTO. We have deployed a significant amount of the funding to the technology side to completely replatform our website from scratch,” she said.

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