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CIO100 2024: The top transformational tech leaders and teams in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong

CIO

CIO ASEAN is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 CIO100 Awards – recognising the top technology leaders and teams across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong who are driving innovation and influencing rapid change. These are in addition to CIO100 awards in the US, UK, and the Middle East. …

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Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech

TechCrunch

Since Treepz, formerly Plentywaka, was founded in 2019 in Lagos, the startup has expanded west into Ghana and east into Uganda. You’re seeing investors make a lot more time for due diligence. Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch.

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Beyond the hype: Key components of an effective AI policy

CIO

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role in transforming businesses across various sectors. Understanding the need for an AI policy As AI technologies become more sophisticated, concerns around privacy, bias, transparency and accountability have intensified.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

TechCrunch

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. It wasn’t a bad year, though. African startups nearly raised $1.5

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Best Practices for Micro-Services Management, Traceability and Visualization

Speaker: Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor, Founding Partner at Kumulus Technologies

This session will provide an overview of service mesh, a review of the Istio service mesh itself, and dive into best practices and integration models for integrating the traceability model into a distributed application. January 31 2019 11.00 Trace Data - Visualizing application traces to understand application interactions.

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Twinings tech chief stirs up the IT department

CIO

As the chief business transformation and technology officer at Twinings Ovaltine (TwO), some might imagine Sandeep Seeripat’s role to be the epitome of what a senior technology executive should be, with a remit beyond IT operations, an authoritative voice in the boardroom and a reporting line straight to the CEO.

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Elon guts Twitter, Google shutters Hangouts, and the tech layoffs continue

TechCrunch

Hey, all — welcome back to Week in Review , the newsletter where we sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Layoffs everywhere : Meanwhile, news of tech industry layoffs continues to pour in. And oof, what a week it was. Want this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Let’s just dive right in.