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Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision partners with Adidas and other sports brands

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The big news at this year’s show is a number of partnerships with brands across the sports spectrum, including: Adidas Running, Trailforks (cycling/hiking), Wearable X (yoga), Slopes (skiing) and 18Birdies (golf). Wearable innovation in existing form factors is starting to reach its limits.

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Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI

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We determined that event marketing is kind of this massive team-wide sport,” Reynolds told TechCrunch. “It It involves executives, the sales team, all the different marketing teams, operations and procurement, but there’s no platform or system of record to help with that collaboration, accountability and visibility.”.

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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

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million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams. Now, the company is looking at food, beauty, fashion, and sports. The global pandemic put a spotlight on live commerce platforms, especially those catering to sports cards and other collectible enthusiasts.

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Why Sports Builds Leadership

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However, there seems to be something of a consensus regarding the relationship between sports and leadership, at least as acknowledged by governments and industry. Not just any sport will do, however. Team participation is often cited as an important aspect in using sports to develop leadership skills.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

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“That’s when it moved from being opportunistic to very purposeful,” says Meyercord, who after a search for the right fit took over the CEO reins last November at Propel Software, a SaaS provider of engineering and product management software. “I

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Drive hyper-personalized customer experiences with Amazon Personalize and generative AI

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FOX Corporation (FOX) produces and distributes news, sports, and entertainment content. “We For instance, FOX Sports experienced a 400% increase in viewership content starts post-event when applied. About the Authors Jingwen Hu is a Senior Technical Product Manager working with AWS AI/ML on the Amazon Personalize team.