Sentences with phrase «piloting the work of»

New Orleans is piloting the work of a promising outfit called EdNavigator.

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Procter and Gamble, one of the world's largest advertisers, is putting several of its agencies together to work as one team in a pilot that it hopes will eliminate bureaucracy and lead to better advertising.

When you're boarding a plane, you see pilots working through a number of preflight checklists to make sure everything is in order and no steps are overlooked.

We're excited about our work towards a pilot implementation of xRapid, which uses XRP in payment flows,» said a Ripple spokesperson.

Faced with a potential strike by the airline's machinists union and a lockout of its pilots, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt referred both disputes to the CIRB on March 8, then introduced back - to - work legislation four days later.

Goldfein said part of the reason for that continued slide was that money was not the main focus for many pilots but rather the «value proposition» of working with highly skilled people on meaningful missions.

One in a handful of CEO founders on the Fortune 500 lifer list, Smith famously conceptualized FedEx in a college term paper at Yale (he worked as a charter pilot on the weekends).

I was doing a lot of work with pilots and aviators so I figured, if they could do it, I could do it.

Just after 5 p.m. on a golden San Francisco evening, Dan Cline pilots his banged - up Subaru station wagon through after - work traffic making dinner deliveries for Munchery, one of half a dozen well - funded startups hoping to corner the market for on - demand meals.

And on Wednesday night Ripple Labs, the parent company of digital payment protocol Ripple, published a tweet revealing that it was working on a pilot with Western Union, best known as a payments wire service.

Sappington plans multiple pilot tests to collect customer feedback, work out any kinks and streamline the integration with the company's existing technology systems before rolling out the finished app in nearly all 14,000 U.S. restaurants and some 6,000 others in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and China, by the end of this year.

Procter and Gamble, the world's largest advertiser, is putting several of its agencies together to work as one team in a pilot that it hopes will eliminate bureaucracy and lead to better advertising.

Stressing that «to say we love this show (HIMYM) is an understatement,» CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler said that «there were elements of the pilot that didn't work» while explaining the network's decision to pass on the pilot.

Lloyd's has several objectives for 2018, which includes a pilot of a tailored female development program, conducting a full review of its family care policies and improving flexible working for all employees.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

With initial funding from the Civil Media Company to be announced this summer, Civil Studios» central activity will be to fund and pilot ambitious works of journalism for the Civil platform that will test its limits across journalistic disciplines, formats, and business models.

The company is working now to gain approval for the pilot program with hopes of eventually expanding the number of taxis involved to the thousands.

Manitoba's demands for fairer treatment of international students has also led to a provincial pilot project that allows them to work off - campus.

«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

«As the pilot program gets underway, the Coalition looks forward to continuing to work with Congress, the FAA, and all stakeholders to advance long - term FAA reauthorization legislation that will help ensure that the United States fully embraces the immense economic potential and consumer benefits of UAS [drones] technology in the near - term,» the group said in a statement.

The EksoVest isn't quite the robot suit Jeff Bezos piloted, but it's a look into the near future of work.

«What was referenced is a pilot Google AdWords Grants program that's in the works right now with a handful of eligible nonprofit organizations,» a company spokesperson wrote to Fortune in an email.

Accordingly, the rejection of labor contracts «has not been the mechanism of last resort to save a failing business,» the Air Line Pilots Association told Congress in 2010, «but instead has often been used by employers as a business model to gain long - term economic advantage by unfairly gutting the wages and working conditions of airline and other employees.»

We also knew the program worked, because we already had a number of successful students from the pilots and first launch.

The speech is likely to point to the recently launched Digital Technology Adoption Pilot Program, talk about moving forward with copyright and privacy legislation, describe work on spectrum, and indicate that a decision has still not been made on the removal of foreign investment restrictions.

The app development pilot actually went quite well, and the team was proud of its work.

One CEO calls it industrializing, meaning, «How do I move from ideas to pilots to industrialization, i.e., convert an idea into our ways of working, so the full enterprise is bringing innovative ideas to our customers at industrial scale?»

But the company may have a bit of time to work out some of the kinks before it rolls out the Arizona pilot.

One of the first projects would support Ontario's autonomous driving pilot as well as BlackBerry QNX's work with the University of Waterloo, PolySync, and Renesas Electronics to build an autonomous concept vehicle.

Stellar will be working with MFIs in Nigeria for the pilot test; if the crypto - currency is successful there, it could see expansion to other parts of the developing world.

Wylie told the committee yesterday that a pilot of Kogan's quiz app was launched in May 2014 with 10,000 Facebook users, before formal contracts were signed between CA and GSR — GSR being the company Kogan set up to commercialize the work with CA.

In early 2015, Silevo's R&D team, working out of an old Solyndra building in Fremont, tried to develop a pilot production line that could eventually yield up to 1,000 high - efficiency panels per day, a process they hoped to one day replicate in Buffalo.

2017.04.19 10,000 new student opportunities by end of 2020: Toronto Financial Services Alliance launches ambitious pilot to help young Canadians jump - start their careers Toronto region's financial services employers are increasing their investment in young Canadians through a ground - breaking, sector - wide initiative to create 10,000 new work - integrated learning opportunities for post-secondary students by the end of 2020...

Finally, Shivom recently released an announcement about their work with the Indian State Government of Andhra Pradesh, a collaboration that allows Shivom access to up to 60 mln people in the state, as well as the initiation of a pilot project in one of the largest cancer facilities in the country.

IBM's general manager of blockchain, Marie Wieck, told CNBC that the new starter plan is «perfect for pilot projects and early - stage development work for those who want to build solutions on the IBM blockchain platform, which currently has over 250 active blockchain networks.»

The SEC - CFTC joint committee's report contains 14 recommendations, many of which have been in place on a pilot basis since the committee began its work last year.

Blending work and play, and sometimes confusing the two, Kevin is a commercial - rated jet pilot and enjoys flying a variety of aircraft, a skill that serves both his business needs and his adventurous nature.

Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue.

A diversified healthcare company and a global leader in providing solutions to help people live healthier lives, UnitedHealth Group has done a lot of pilots in its efforts to expand work flexibility, and remote work options in particular, to non-exempt as well as exempt employees.

«We are working with City of Boston officials to ensure that our automated vehicle pilots continue to adhere to high standards of safety.

Their work includes a Children's Centre, focused on single and impoverished families, a pilot micro loan program for education and business development, an ongoing partnership for home ownership within the community, and a deep local commitment to the spiritual growth, empowerment and development of the community.

There's no television pilot in the works, but I urge men of the cloth to closely examine their cloth, determining whether it's «for glory and for beauty» (Exodus 28:2)-- the purpose behind the «holy garments» of the Levitical priests.

We will work with the APA to take care of our pilots and ensure we get our customers to where they need to go over the holidays,» American Airlines (AAL) spokesman Matt Miller said in a statement, according to CNN.

But in today's world many of us will have to work wherever we can find work, though some jobs would have to be refused: being a bomber pilot in another Vietnam - like war, working in a corrupt business, or serving in a church that still practices racial segregation.

Then, there is the historic record of Pontius Pilot being in Rome for dental work at the time that Jesus was supposed to be killed.

Working directly with the Glass team and foodservice operations on the Google campus, EyeSucceed has been piloting food industry applications of Glass, including remote food safety and quality audits, since February 2015.

To help us make each day feel a bit more routine for our nugget, started doing a little morning game plan for the day, based on the location of our favorite pilot, my work / play schedule, and rotating errands, playdates and such.

To help drive innovation, Carl Byrne, CEO and president, championed the installation of a pilot plant where customers would be able to work with the R&D team to develop products to meet their objectives.

The company tries to stay ahead of its peers in technology, working with software and hardware providers and occasionally getting involved with pilot programs.

She has been working with Duke University to study the use of participatory methodologies to address climate change adaptation and has recently piloted a farmer - based workshop that reflects those learnings.