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What is the biggest issue that you’re helping customers with at the moment? “Spotting when they spend more on a financial product or service than they need to and helping them save significant sums of money.”

Sokowatch's Global Head of Operational Excellence, Fatma Nasujo, is this week's #QuickFire guest.

What makes an effective tech strategy? "An effective tech strategy is one that actually delivers usage and adoption."

– In an effort to reduce the number of opioid-related deaths in San Luis Obispo County, local health officials, in collaboration with the Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub), powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and a team of university students are releasing a new app.

UC Davis Health and AWS will launch the world’s first Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) that will allow clinicians or clinical care providers...

As a three time founder, and now investor in thirty founders, some patterns are pretty clear to me about the things that make most founders tick and the way that can cause problems as the company…

Breakthrough infection is likely to lead to a hospitalization and hopefully never to happen but could lead to death. working backwards, i would say for the majority of americans, it is not something we want but it is something that we will start to become familiar with. because our future is that we are going to have people who are vaccinated who will get infected but it will not lead to hopefully any of those devastating outcomes because well build out enough immunity where the breakthroughs ar...

The okay. >> i do too, by the, way and i had a patient who is technically high risk and needs qualifications to get a booster today who begged me to let her daughter, who was in her thirties, and very healthy, but visits and -- it broke my heart to say, no, she really doesnt need it. it doesnt meet the criteria. you are hitting on the nerve that a lot of americans are feeling because they see the two views -- the two cohosts of the view and are thinking, that could be me, i think almost all of u...

July 14, 2021 Arizona State University’s Smart City Cloud Innovation Center, powered by Amazon Web Services, has been named a winner of the IDC Government Insights’ fourth annual Smart Cities North America Awards. The awards recognize the "most innovative and forward-thinking municipalities across North America.” The center, or CIC, has developed solutions to improve public safety, spur economic development and increase sustainability, and the Civic Engagement award ...

I do think this is an important idea to call out, though, because a naive reading of product development methodologies is “ahh, I just have to follow this process slavishly, and I’ll be able to build a product that people want.” Which — as anyone would know if they’ve ever put any of these product development methodologies to practice — is simply not the case. Learning All the Ways Product Validation Can Fail I started my first startup at the end of my freshman year of university. ...