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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. It’s fair to say that tennis has lived up to its roots as a traditional sport,” says Mat Pemble, executive director of IT for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s governing body.

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Red Sox CTO Brian Shield on building a world-class IT team

CIO

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. Any successful team starts with cultivating the right talent, whether that’s in baseball or in IT.

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Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI

TechCrunch

Two former Shutterstock execs, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, were working together monetizing APIs and computer vision, and having attended some of those bad events, thought there could be a better way to make decisions on what events should be at the top of the list and which company team members should go to maximize return on investment. “We

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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

CIO

Speaking at the CIO UK 100 awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Drake explained what it meant to be ranked the top CIO in the UK , how her tennis background shaped her leadership, why automation is freeing up her IT team, and how THG is supporting engineers relocating from war-stricken Ukraine.

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Rift Between Junior and Senior Developers

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

By which I mean it can make developers produce more. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference between an experienced developer and a junior is that an experienced developer knows: There’s more than one good solution to every problem. This is great!

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

TechCrunch

Employing a combination of Open AI’s ChaptGPT, combined with its own proprietary coaching platform for staff well-being, Loopin hopes to break out from the rest of the field. After leaving the armed forces, Ben went into coaching leadership teams at corporates, including the England Football Team and Manchester United.

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The Intangibles: Leadership Approach & Authenticity

N2Growth Blog

Most HR teams today have their hands tied to basic employee engagement, motivation, and retention programs. The Leadership Gap: Why Strong Leaders Are Needed Now More Than Ever This drives home the critical importance of finding, developing, and retaining the best leaders you possibly can. Those first few weeks of practice were brutal.