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Must Read: New Trends for Digital Transformation in 2023 – Value Stream Management

CIO

For many of today’s global enterprises, it’s a struggle to adapt quickly to emerging challenges. With supply chain issues and the impending recession, digital transformation remains a pressing strategic imperative. However, key digital transformation milestones remain out of reach for far too many teams. To make real strides in each of these areas, Value Stream Management (VSM) has emerged as an urgent demand.

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As ChatGPT hype hits fever pitch, Neeva launches its generative AI search engine internationally

TechCrunch

Challenger search engine Neeva wants to replace the familiar “10 blue links” in search results with something more fitting for the modern AI age. Back in December, Neeva co-founder and CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy , who previously spearheaded Google’s advertising tech business , teased new “cutting edge AI” and large language models (LLMs), positioning itself against the ChatGPT hype train. “ChatGPT cannot give you real time data or fact verification,” Ramaswamy wro

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

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. It’s not a stretch to say that across the board, CIOs are continuing to invest in some form of AI. Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year.

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A Black YC alum explains how he raised $107M

TechCrunch

Nathan Beckord Contributor Share on Twitter Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors. He is also the host of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast. More posts by this contributor Cold outreach with a warm touch: Here’s the fast pitch we emailed to investors A 7-step method for running effective pitch meetings The founder of Captain, Demetrius Gray , has raised an impressive $107.3 million so far, but he’s no first-timer.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Key Pillars to Future-Proofing Your Cloud Management Strategy

CIO

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to further adopt public clouds, and geopolitical conflicts have demonstrated the importance and need for sovereign clouds. Today, many organizations are already embracing or are moving to multi-cloud environments, but this multi-cloud reality does not come without its challenges. As the nature of the cloud evolves, so does the strategy in which organizations must approach these challenges.

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Mayor of London’s CDO turns smart city visions into reality

CIO

Theo Blackwell MBE, Chief Digital Officer at the London Mayor’s Office, sits down with CIO UK editor Doug Drinkwater on CIO UK Leadership Live to give a whistle-stop tour on CDO misconceptions, smart city futures, fostering local government collaboration and balancing technological innovation with digital inclusion.

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Daily Crunch: Generative AI search engine NeevaAI rolls out subscription service to more countries

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Helloooooo, Crunchers! It’s Monday, and it’s time for premature lovers to celebrate Valentine’s Day (it’s tomorrow, you eager lovebirds). Lots of fun things are coming down the pike here at TC Towers: TechCrunch Disrupt is back in September, so now’s the time to grab the super-early-bird tickets at a ludicrous discount.

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What is Six Sigma? Streamlining quality management

CIO

What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a quality management methodology used to help businesses improve current processes, products, or services by discovering and eliminating defects. The goal is to streamline quality control in manufacturing or business processes so there is little to no variance throughout. Six Sigma was trademarked by Motorola in 1993.

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Transit tech company Via raises $110M at $3.5B valuation

TechCrunch

On-demand shuttle service and transit tech company Via has raised another $110 million, bringing the company’s total funding to around $1 billion. The fresh capital pushes Via’s valuation up to $3.5 billion at the same price per share as the company’s previous financing in November of 2021. Via intends to use the funds to further its vision of being “able to provide every city in the world access to this end-to-end digital infrastructure, where they can plan, operate, analyze a

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Dimension Data: Dedicated to Making the Greatest Impact on the Planet, the Economy and the Communities it Serves

CIO

Dimension Data is widely known for bold innovations and stalwart cloud solutions and services that enable enterprises to dramatically improve their businesses; now it is on mission to benefit the planet – and in the process, the communities it services and the economies it influences. Whether it is using the Internet of Things (IoT) to help prevent poaching with its Connected Conversation initiative or using excess heat from its data center in Berlin to help heat the surrounding community, Dimen

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Startup pledges to ‘deliver a cup of coffee’s worth of energy in just three sprays’

TechCrunch

The past two-and-a-half years have been a roller-coaster ride for the founders of VAE Labs , but today the pre-revenue CPG company has some good news: a $2 million seed round that will help boost its sprayable caffeine device into the commercial market. Draper Associates led the investment and was joined by Midnight Venture Partners and Cartograph Ventures.

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Helping the Federal Government Navigate Its Multi-Cloud Future

CIO

By Brian McNeice, Vice President Federal Sales, Broadcom Software Federal government agencies in the United States must navigate a number of considerations when evaluating solutions from cloud service providers. At Broadcom, we also understand the importance of choice and flexibility when making strategic cloud investments that won’t disrupt the mission-critical daily operations of these agencies.

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Morocco’s food tech Terraa raises $1.5M led by FoodLabs

TechCrunch

Terraa , a Moroccan B2B tech-enabled food distribution platform, has raised $1.5 million pre-seed funding in a round led by FoodLabs, a European early-stage VC investor and venture studio for food, sustainability and health. Other participants in the round were UM6P Ventures, Outlierz Ventures, Musha Ventures and Africa-centric DFS Lab. Founded by Youssef Benkirane and Benoit De Vigne last year, Terraa, which sources fresh food directly from farmers and delivers it to resellers, plans to use the

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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KIO Networks Spain: Empowering Enterprises in Spain and Beyond to Achieve Real Sustainability in the Cloud

CIO

With the most advanced tier IV data center in Spain, and one of the most advanced in Europe, KIO Networks Spain provides a diverse array of private-sector and public-sector enterprises with Infrastructure-as-a-Service for mission-critical systems and applications. The company also offers a diverse array of cloud solutions and services. Some of the many offerings in its growing portfolio include Disaster Recover-as-a-Service , Backup-as-a-Service , a fully dedicated private cloud based on VMware

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Introducing the Inside Startup Battlefield podcast

TechCrunch

Startup competitions are a mainstay in Silicon Valley, and there probably isn’t a VC or founder out there who hasn’t heard of TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield. From the TechCrunch Podcast Network comes Inside Startup Battlefield — a four-episode miniseries that takes you behind the scenes of one of tech’s most anticipated startup competitions.

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CIO Leadership Live with Mandy Simpson, Chief Digital Officer at Z Energy

CIO

Mandy Simpson, Chief Digital Officer at Z Energy, on why she embraces working for high-change organisations, the need for IT teams to build up trust across the business, and why you should always go for a job that scares you a little.

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TechCrunch Disrupt returns this September

TechCrunch

It’s a cold February across much of the U.S., but this hot newsflash should warm the cockles of every entrepreneur’s heart. TechCrunch Disrupt — the original startup conference — returns to San Francisco on September 19–21. Even better, the heat extends to tickets — they’re priced right and available now. Plan ahead for Disrupt 2023 and bank big savings Early action deserves to be rewarded.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Joel Soucy’s Roadmap To Creating A Seamless Employee Experience

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hire IQ by HackerEarth is a new initiative in which we speak with recruiters, talent acquisition managers, and hiring managers from across the globe, and ask them pertinent questions on the issues that ail the tech recruiting world. We have Joel Soucy, Employee Experience Specialist at Solink for our next edition in this series. We had an interesting conversation revolving around employee experience and how to maintain a fun and cohesive work culture, especially as teams become more and more rem

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BuuPass raises $1.3M to scale mobility sector digitization in Africa

TechCrunch

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation. Looking to bridge the gap, booking platforms are emerging in the space, including BuuPass , which is actively looking to promote order in the highly-fragmented sector by helping operators to digitize their operation

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CIO Leadership Live with Lekan Olawoye, Founder and CEO, BPTN & Obsidi

CIO

Lekan Olawoye, Founder and CEO, BPTN & Obsidi, talks about the Obsidi platform and building community and networking for Black technology professionals.

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Strava searches for new CEO with cofounder Michael Horvath departing for a second time

TechCrunch

Strava is on the hunt for a new CEO, after Michael Horvath revealed that he’s stepping down from the role for a second time. Horvath co-founded Strava back in 2009, steering the company to become one of the world’s biggest activity tracking social communities, passing 100 million registered users last year. After leaving the Strava hotseat back in 2013 for family reasons, Horvath returned as CEO six years later , with his co-founder Mark Gainey also returning as executive chairman.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities

DevOps.com

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still […] The post Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Volunteer at TC Early Stage for a free pass to TC Disrupt

TechCrunch

What’s it take to bring a tech conference to life? A village, people. Not to be confused with The Village People , but I digress. We’re searching for outstanding volunteers to support our events team and help make TechCrunch Early Stage , our one-day founder summit taking place on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, an awesome experience for our attendees.

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Widen Your Idea Lens to Generate Worthwhile Ideas

CEO Insider

Groupthink is stealth. Beware. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) combat groupthink, which is a mode of thinking that occurs when individuals of a highly cohesive, insular group or an in-group strive for consensus and might avoid or override alternate viewpoints, ideas, actions, or dissent. Also, an in-group might be unfamiliar with outside perspectives, unwilling or reluctant […] The post Widen Your Idea Lens to Generate Worthwhile Ideas appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Phenomenal Ventures, built by Meena Harris and Helen Min, debuts

TechCrunch

Meena Harris knows how to build. The lawyer and author grew her side hustle of making activist T-shirts into a behemoth of a brand, Phenomenal , which recently expanded from merchandising to media to entertainment. Now, she wants to invest in those who show that same scrappiness with her next, and literal, venture: Phenomenal Ventures. The entrepreneur, who is the niece of U.S.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Perficient is a 2023 Best Places to Work Finalist in St. Louis Once Again

Perficient

An organization that is strong and engaged understands its employees, customers, and partners. That said, a strong organization also creates and fosters a culture where employees feel valued, heard, and appreciated for their contributions. Given this, we’re honored to be recognized once again for our commitment to cultivating an award-winning culture here at Perficient.

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Writer deploys home-cooked large language models to power up enterprise copy

TechCrunch

There’s a lot of noise right now about how generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard are going to revolutionize various aspects of the web, but companies targeting narrower verticals are already experiencing success. Writer is such a one, and it just announced a new trio of large language models to power its enterprise copy assistant. The company lets customers fine-tune these models on their own content and style guides, from which point forward the AI can write, help write or edit copy so tha

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Help I Have a REALLY LAZY Coworker! How Do I Stay Motivated?

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Deal with a Lazy Coworker and Still Be Seen as a Team Player When I was a little girl, my mom loved to tell us the story of the Little Red Hen. In this sweet little children’s book, our little, plucky, red heroine stays focused on her MITs (most important things) and gives her barnyard friends plenty of chances to pitch in. When a lazy coworker refuses her requests to help, she just keeps doing what needs to be done.