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Tech Diversity Champions
News from WTIA
The Seattle area faces a severe shortage of qualified coders. One way local organizations such as the Washington Technology Industry Association are addressing that shortage is by helping to train women, minorities and veterans currently underrepresented in the regions technology workforce. To use the interactive graphic pictured here, use this link.
A World of Expertise at LabConnect
Seattle firm streamlines clinical trials by managing the daunting laboratory process.
Conducting clinical trials is an increasingly costly, complex process for drug companies. Seattle-based LabConnect LLC offers a way to make that process more efficient and less expensive for drug companies and medical device makers. As a result, LabConnect has grown rapidly. How rapidly? President and CEO Eric Hayashi is in the enviable position of heading…
Drew Atkins, writing for Seattle Business magazine, wins national journalism award.
Drew Atkins, writing for Seattle Business magazine, won first place for “Best General Feature” in the Society of Features Journalism’s national “Excellence-in-Feature awards. The award was for “This Hacker Wears a White Hat,” a story Atkins wrote about a hacker who uses his talents to crack Google, FBI and other sites in what he says…
Geek City: The Tech invasion is changing the vibe in Seattle
But is it really a problem?
Seattle is awash in techies. And they have altered the face of the Emerald City socially, culturally, economically much as those bearded, fortune-seeking Klondike gold rushers in Filson jackets did in 1898. They are ubiquitous, these new Masters of the Universe, the term Tom Wolfe fashioned while skewering Wall Street up-and-comers in his 1988 novel…
8th & Howell: Redefining the Skyline of Seattle
Sponsored by MacDonald-Miller With technical expertise and groundbreaking creativity, MacDonald-Miller is a major player in the ever-changing landscape of the Emerald City. We interviewed Reagan Perry, Executive VP of Construction Sales, for an inside look into MacMillers role in one the biggest projects the city has ever seen–the 8th & Howell Hotel. How big is…
Bright Idea: Formula Generator
Seattle startup provides one-stop shopping for algorithms.
Computers are getting more intelligent because of algorithms those sets of instructions that enable devices to better handle complex tasks such as understanding and interpreting images and language. Few of these algorithms end up being used outside academia, so Algorithmia, a Seattle startup, is creating a sort of algorithm marketplace, which it curates through partnerships…
Bright Idea: Getting Real
Envelop VR is pushing into new tech worlds.
Bob Berry and Jon Mavor moved to Seattle to work on video game technology. We knew we wanted to do something beyond games but we werent sure what, says Berry. The answer came in 2014 when Berry tested an early virtual-reality system at Valve Corporation, the Bellevue video game giant. There was a hand-built headset…
Leadership: Going Public at Moz
Sarah Bird's background isn't in tech, but she is determined to make Moz the next high flier.
As high-tech moguls go, Sarah Bird is about as unconventional as you can get. A career in technology was the last thing on her mind when she was studying philosophy, literature and law. Shes more apt to explore the farthest reaches of the globe than climb corporate ladders. But with almost no initial technology background,…
Advertising: MediaAlpha on Auto Pilot
MediaAlpha was the fastest-growing company in the Seattle area during the past three years, recording 2,589 percent growth, according to Inc. magazine. Must be a small company, you would think. Well, it is. But not when it comes to revenue. The Redmond business generated $85.2 million in sales in 2014, operating with fewer than two dozen…
The Next Generation
How Seattle innovators are leading the new race into space.
Ever since the Boeing-centric aerospace cluster in the Puget Sound region emerged as one of the worlds leading centers of aviation, everyone has been looking for the next great industry to power the economy. They may well have found it in roughly the same place. Seattles next tech-intense, opportunity-rich, risk-intensive business cluster may be based…
Bright Idea: Not a Dry Eye
There is no cure for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss among older people and an affliction expected to affect some 20 million people in the United States by 2020. But Seattle-based LumiThera may have found a way to slow eye deterioration and improve vision. The companys device uses LED…
Wearable Tech Conference Comes to Seattle
Wearables are the hottest topic in technology these days, and the momentum shows no signs of slowing. An innovative segment just a few years ago, its now a juggernaut of massive proportions, attracting top talent and research and investment dollars. In 2013, there was an estimated $1.4 billion spent on pursuing wearable technology. By 2019,…
The 2015 Tech Impact Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TOM ALBERGMadrona Venture Group Tom Alberg has always had an eye for the technology trend, going all the way back to his first years as a young lawyer with Perkins Coie in the late 1960s. It was there that he helped develop the firms first forays into startups through the launch of…