The welcome party scene for the 2019 GeekWire Summit at Flyhomes in Seattle on Monday night. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The 2019 GeekWire Summit kicked off Monday evening in Seattle with a waterfront welcome party to give attendees the chance to mix and mingle ahead of two days of our signature tech conference. Hundreds […]
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speaks at a 2018 launch event for sea.citi, alongside Amazon public policy manager Eileen Sullivan, and sea.citi CEO Nick Merriam. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Tech workers in progressive cities such as Seattle and San Francisco have a bad rap when it comes to civic engagement. As a Seattle Google engineer
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at Town Hall in Seattle on Sept. 20 about his new book, Tools and Weapons. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Brad Smith makes one hell of a convincing argument. How else can you explain the following from Bill Gates’ foreword to his book, “Tools & Weapons: The Promise and the
Jarod Greene, Apptio’s vice president of product marketing, speaking at the inaugural CloudyCon conference for FinOps. The event was held in September 2019 near San Francisco and hosted by Cloudability, which Apptio purchased in May. (Apptio Photo) A gig in a call center might not strike one as a likely launch pad for a successful
Three of the vehicles to be used for testing space technologies are Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship and Masten Space Systems’ lander vehicle. (Virgin Galactic / Blue Origin / Masten via NASA) NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 25 promising space technologies for testing aboard aircraft, high-altitude balloons and suborbital
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A tribute video plays on the big screen at CenturyLink Field as the Seahawks franchise honored Paul Allen and inducted him into the team’s Ring of Honor on Thursday. (GeekWire Photos / Kevin Lisota) Patti Hammond — better known around these parts as “Mama Blue” — knows how much Paul Allen meant to the Seattle
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An elephant herd makes its way through the Serengeti in East Africa. (Vulcan / EarthRanger Photo) Years ago, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen backed a project called the Great Elephant Census that highlighted a crisis for Africa’s elephant population, brought about primarily by illegal poaching. Allen passed away last year at the age of 65, but
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Wow, what the heck is this? Here’s everything Microsoft announced at its big Surface event, including a foldable smartphone That was our first reaction to Microsoft’s unveiling of its new Surface Neo device this morning, with two side-by-side 9-inch screens and a fold-up keyboard that turns it into a small laptop. And that was before
22 female entrepreneurs from across the U.S. met in Washington D.C. last week at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Roundtable, hosted by the newly created bipartisan U.S. Senate Caucus on Entrepreneurship. (Center for American Entrepreneurship Photo) Only 2.5 percent of venture capital funding goes to companies with all-female founders. As a female entrepreneur, I find this extremely
Microsoft President Brad Smith speaking about his new book ‘Tools and Weapons’ at Seattle’s Town Hall. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) A new wave of employee activism is forcing tech companies to rethink — and in several cases cancel — contracts with the federal government because of some of President Donald Trump’s controversial policies. While
