Sentences with phrase «more tech leaders»

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It's more common for tech startup leaders to hold an advanced degree in engineering than an MBA.

Instead, «if more tech hires held a philosophy or English degree with some programming on the side, we might in the end create better leaders.»

«We were hiring on the wrong criteria — SAT scores, schools, majors,» says Bock, who has cofounded a tech firm called Humu to help leaders, managers, and other employees be more productive and happier.

Short - sellers who placed bets that the shares of four big tech leaders, known as the FANG group, as spelled out by their first initials, were due for a fall have made more than $ 4 billion in profits over the last two weeks and more than $ 1 billion during the first two trading days in...

Tech company leaders, in particular, have become more vocal in expressing opposition to the move, which many consider ill - conceived and wrong - headed.

In a new survey of hundreds of startup founders, 23 % said they admired Tesla and SpaceX head Elon Musk more than any other tech leader.

More from Recode: Business leaders must speak — loudly and clearly — against the abuses and excesses that Trump has promised Jack Dorsey's interview with Snowden sends a strong anti-surveillance message to Trump Jack Dorsey, who created Donald Trump's beloved Twitter, has not been invited to the tech summit.

This means tech leaders need to be adamant about finding data - driven ways to assess employee engagement and happiness so they can pay more attention to high - potential yet restless employees.

[20] To provide a more focused window on diversity in high tech employment, we examined the workforce composition of those tech companies regarded by industry insiders as leaders in the field.

There's never been a more compelling time to go to Aspen for Fortune Brainstorm TECH, our annual by - invitation - only summer retreat for leaders from Fortune 500 companies, the top emerging entrepreneurs of the tech world, and the most important investors who finance tTECH, our annual by - invitation - only summer retreat for leaders from Fortune 500 companies, the top emerging entrepreneurs of the tech world, and the most important investors who finance ttech world, and the most important investors who finance them.

His newly appointed NAFTA Council includes not just prominent Tories and New Democrats, but also top union and farming voices, along with the expected business leaders from banking, auto parts, entertainment, high tech and more.

Kouhaila Hammer, Chairman and CEO of G - Tech Services, a WBENC - Certified WBE, shares her insights on how her regular exercise routine helped her become a more effective leader for her business.

The companies did not provide more details, but CNBC reports that the two companies are intending to build an independent firm that will create an open source platform, which the companies hope will encourage other tech leaders to plug in new services and features.

More than 500 from the tech industry — including the likes of Sam Altman, the leader of Y Combinator; Dustin Moskovitz, the co-founder of Facebook; and Max Levchin, the co-founder of PayPal — urged the Senate in a letter to eliminate the proposal.

Canadian tech CEOs and business leaders are pleased to see the government is interested in creating a national IP strategy over the coming year; Their timing could not be more right.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

A group of prominent tech leaders on Thursday said that a Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE presidency would be bad for innovation in America.

As someone who is in tech and not on the West Coast, Ohanian praised the fact «that after years of telling people bring in the nerds, we need more leaders, we don't need more bureaucrats in government, we need people who actually get things done, who have actually created things, we need them in office... for the first time I felt that there were candidates who represented the needs of 21st century New Yorkers.»

He's the top elected leader in one of New York's more affluent counties, where a mix of high - tech industries, rural charm and proximity to New York City generally have shielded it from the economic stagnation still plaguing many upstate counties.

More than 100 senior executives, entrepreneurs and thought - leaders from media, tech, business and civil society will gather in Accra from...

His 2008 talk at the TED Conference, the annual hajj of tech barons and thought leaders, has snagged more than 1.5 million hits since it was posted online; it also earned Stamets invitations to brainstorming sessions with Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the guys who run Google.

«It appears that text messages acted as an implicit reminder for patients to take their medicine and by the end of the study, the kids were more in tune with their illness,» said study leader Rosa Arriaga, senior research scientist in the College of Computing's School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

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Through his doctoral research at Columbia University and experience as a tech specialist at the Fieldston School in New York City, Kenny Graves has found that the partnerships among school leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their districts.

Kenneth Durham (New Tech High, Sacramento) discusses how leaders need to focus more on building relationships and less on «being in charge.»

The fact is that learning engineering is what tech - savvy education leaders — and more than a few who aren't so tech - savvy — already do every day (whether they know it or not).

Reflecting on this reality, High Tech High GSE's leaders have observed that the causes of the less - than - expected interest in their program seem to stem more from policy than from the value of their offering.

The concern is more prevalent among senior leaders, with 51 per cent of assistant heads and 42 per cent of other leaders insisting that not enough is made of ed tech in schools.

Better research will help schools evolve towards more creative use of classroom technology, ed - tech leaders predict.

We are extremely proud of many of the results, whether it is supporting teachers to improve their on task engagement by 55 % (or more), or supporting the leaders at East Tech in Cleveland to raise their graduation rate from 46 % to 73 % and scoring in the top 1 % nationally for growth on the NWEA, or working with teachers unions to support their teachers with quality professional development to support new evaluations systems.

«The Smart City Challenge offered the tech industry and city leaders a common platform to envision and plan a more intelligent, sustainable urban future.

The German offerings are market leaders and do offer some tech and driver aids that Mazda doesn't, but even at the lowest spec with most of the things missing you'll be spending a heck of a lot more money for not a heck of a lot more car.

Unfortunately for both companies, this was at a time when there were very few apps that offered granular traffic and police activity details (by way of crowd - sourced information)... now tech leaders... [Read more...]

Amazon's Kindle, the market leader, is a featureless slab of utility tech with no more identity than a wood shaving, and the iPad, the Nook, the Sony Reader, and the Kobo Reader may have their adherents (my first gen iPad has recently become a must - have for car journeys with a precocious eighteen - month - old) but no one is seriously pushing the boundaries of the electronic book.

We only manufacture one product, but our constant drive for perfection, excellence in engineering by using state of the art technology and innovation driven by consumer needs and trends has grown the flexi leash to a high - tech product that is delivered to more than 90 countries and is world market leader of retractable leashes.

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Future Games Summit will also bring together creative artists, developers, producers, business leaders, technology gurus and many more for two days of content across three stages: Future Tech, Future Business and Future Develop.

Held on Tuesday 31st October and Wednesday 1st November at the Congress Centre, London, Future Games Summit will bring together creative artists, developers, producers, business leaders, technology gurus and many more for 2 days of inspirational content across three stages: Future Tech, Future Business and Future Develop.

It's obvious that many car companies, tech companies, homebuilders, architects, city planners, airline companies, and many other industry leaders could do more, and we could (and often do) offer plenty of unsolicited advice to them, based on our own perspective, but considering how slowly the wheels of change turn, and how consumers and manufacturers alike are complicit in the creation of our current petro - based economy, the move to a more sustainable economy is more likely to be one full of baby steps, and not giant leaps.

According to PV Tech's annual analysis of R&D spending and R&D personnel numbers, SunPower had been a major leader in the field, only CdTe thin - film leader First Solar spent more on R&D expenditure than SunPower over the last 10 years.

Tech leaders and companies can be seen taking up the cause, not always for the environment but benefitting it nonetheless and are expected by their fans and consumers to do more so in the future.

By doing more than most, the EU's leaders have opened up opportunities for long - term investment in clean tech and emissions reductions.

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Burgess Allison has been a visionary leader of the legal tech community for more than 20 years.

We hope that by spotlighting more female disruptors and tech leaders in our stories, newsletters, and on our TNW Answers platform, TNW can become even more inclusive.

«Today we've assembled a very impressive group of leaders from the private sector and are putting them to work here today to work on some of the country's biggest challenges that will make a very meaningful difference to a lot of its citizens,» Kushner said, kicking off the White House's Technology Week, which will include more tech policy meetings as the week goes on.

More than 40 percent of tech executives and leaders in the blockchain sector ranked IBM as top, with only 20 percent saying the same of Microsoft.

Motion - sensing tech company Movea, wristband design firm Xm - Squared, and Bluetooth low rnergy - leader Texas Instruments are at the 2014 CES tradeshow in Las Vegas, where they have jointly demonstrated the G - series high - performance multisport wristband.The... Read more

We've seen several celebrities and tech industry leaders like Apple's CEO Tim Cook, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and many more take the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and donations towards the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.