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Member News: November 2020

Member News: November 2020

Intel to acquire SigOpt to scale AI productivity and performance, Avnet names new CEO, the City of Tempe and Arizona State University to collaborate on climate action with new graduate course, CellTrust leader recognized as a Top 25 FinTech CEO, WebPT wins 2020 Arizona Corporate Excellence Community Impact Award, Perimeter83 expands offerings for University of Advancing Technology alum, Botco.ai named Most Outstanding Startup by ACA Venture Ready Accelerator, M3 Commercial Moving & Logistics launches junk removal division, AdviNow Medical recognized as one of the most innovative healthcare solution providers, and more.

Expanded wind project to power Arizona with more clean energy

Expanded wind project to power Arizona with more clean energy

Customers of Arizona Public Service Company (APS) will soon power their homes and businesses with more clean energy. Earlier this year, APS announced a bold commitment to deliver 100% clean, carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050. By the end of 2021, APS will harness the power of Leeward Renewable Energy’s (Leeward) advanced GE wind turbine technology to help meet Arizona’s growing energy demands.

Intel to acquire SigOpt to scale AI productivity and performance

Intel to acquire SigOpt to scale AI productivity and performance

Tech-giant Intel announced it will acquire SigOpt, a San Francisco-based provider of a leading platform for the optimization of artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. SigOpt’s AI software technologies deliver productivity and performance gains across hardware and software parameters, use cases and workloads in deep learning, machine learning and data analytics. Intel plans to use SigOpt’s software technologies across Intel’s AI hardware products to help accelerate, amplify and scale Intel’s AI software solution offerings to developers.

ICYMI: Thriving in a Change Era | Building Adaptable Workforces

ICYMI: Thriving in a Change Era | Building Adaptable Workforces

It’s easy to ignore the levels of stress we experience on a day-to-day basis and write them off as normal. In these challenging times, professionals in all career paths and industry sectors are feeling overwhelmed to increasingly do more and more. In a recent virtual event hosted by KEO Marketing CEO Sheila Kloefkorn, attendees heard firsthand from AQai CEO Ross Thornley as he shared his insight and research on adaptability, leveraging the power of unlearning and letting go, as well as strategies to drive performance while reducing stress.

Arizona Technology Council elects leaders from Keap and Vonage to Board

Arizona Technology Council elects leaders from Keap and Vonage to Board

The Arizona Technology Council is proud to announce Rajesh Bhatia, chief technology officer, Keap, and Sanjay Srinivasan, vice president and chief technology architect, Business Engineering, Vonage, have been added its board of directors. Bhatia and Srinivasan were elected unanimously to serve three-year terms at the Council’s quarterly board meeting held on October 29, 2020.

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Chris Ronzio of Trainual

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Chris Ronzio of Trainual

Chris Ronzio is the founder and CEO of Trainual, a tool for growing businesses to document processes and to simplify onboarding and training. Prior to launching Trainual, Chris ran an operations consulting firm that helped businesses systematize and scale. Chris joined Molly Castelazo, storyteller-in-chief at Castelazo Content, in a lively conversation that ranged from Arizona’s big skies and amazing weather, to the shared mission of tech entrepreneurs in the state, to hiring and retaining talent.

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Wes Hummel of PayPal

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Wes Hummel of PayPal

Wes Hummel is vice president of Site Reliability Engineering at PayPal and a recent addition to the AZ Tech Council board. A longtime Arizonan, he has also held positions at Clarity Communication Systems and Motorola. Wes joined Molly Castelazo, storyteller-in-chief at Castelazo Content, in a lively conversation that ranged from how software was eating the world well before Marc Andreessen said it, to why everyone should work in the service industry at some point, to what it takes to support 25X growth.

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Grant Anderson of Paragon Space Development

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Grant Anderson of Paragon Space Development

Grant Anderson is President and CEO of Paragon Space Development Corporation, the Tucson-based company he co-founded in 1993. Paragon was formed “to change the future by creating extreme environment life support and thermal control solutions that would allow humans to expand beyond their previously believed limits.” Anderson joined Molly Castelazo, storyteller-in-chief at Castelazo Content, in a lively conversation that ranged from supporting crewed missions to Mars, to batteries, to the importance of imagination.

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Calline Sanchez of IBM

Tech Innovation in AZ: Behind the numbers with Calline Sanchez of IBM

Calline Sanchez is vice president of IBM Systems Lab Services and IBM Systems Technical Universities, as well as state leader for Arizona and New Mexico. In her role, she leads a team of worldwide technology consultants to deliver IBM Systems solutions. Sanchez joined Molly Castelazo, storyteller-in-chief at Castelazo Content, in a lively conversation that ranged from overcoming shyness to being authentic to managing a team of a thousand engineers and scientists all working remotely.

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