After a decade working in the tech sector, Joe Nguyen tackled his new role as a state senator like any good program manager. He sat down and created a process… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) revealed the 33 startups based in Washington state participating in its 10th Founder Cohort Program. The six-month program is virtual and free for seed-stage startups. The… Read More
Terrance Stevenson is bringing his passion for peace-building, community development, and innovation to the Seattle tech industry. Stevenson this week was named director of Sea.citi, a nonprofit that launched in… Read More
Washington state Rep. Amy Walen went to the state’s capitol planning to work on gun violence and affordable housing. But when she arrived in Olympia, Walen discovered an additional important… Read More
A newly issued report says Washington state provides one of America’s best settings for expanding the frontiers of quantum information science — but those frontiers are so strange and new… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) trade group is laying off 11 employees, or 14% of its workforce, with cuts mostly affecting positions in its non-profit tech worker apprenticeship program Apprenti.… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has announced the 34 startups from around the state that will be participating in its eighth Founder Cohort Program. The six-month program is virtual and… Read More
The Apprenti apprenticeship program run by the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) was awarded a $23.5 million grant to help train more tech workers across 11 states. The funding comes from the U.S.… Read More
Do people on your team multitask in meetings, or focus on the person speaking? The answer to that question will help to demonstrate how much your organization prioritizes attention, which… Read More
Deploying broadband throughout Washington state has been at the top of local lawmakers’ minds for years. The state legislature enacted a bill in 2019, which recognized that access to reliable… Read More
After holding the GeekWire Awards virtually for the past two years, there was a feeling of real catharsis Thursday evening as hundreds of people streamed through the doors of the… Read More
Successful tech ventures don’t materialize in a vacuum. They need talented, skilled leaders and employees, and capital and customers to fund their ventures. And they benefit from supportive policy makers… Read More
It’s been a year since Marc Dones was hired to lead King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCHRA), a newly created government agency that is bringing together multiple disparate programs and… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has selected 30 Washington state tech startups for its seventh Founder Cohort Program. The virtual program is designed to help seed-stage startups grow and scale over the… Read More
What does Microsoft’s return to the office mean for everybody else? That was one of the questions raised by the tech giant’s announcement Monday that it will fully reopen its… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association organization says its priority is to “recruit, develop, and retain technology talent in Washington state.” That isn’t keeping the 40-year-old trade group from looking beyond… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association has sued the state’s Department of Labor & Industries over what it claims was nonpayment of federal grant funds earmarked for non-traditional apprenticeships. The lawsuit,… Read More
— Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its… Read More
They arrived over the past month in the inboxes of Microsoft coders, Amazon copy editors, and Boeing engineers along with tens of thousands of other employees across Washington state: Emails… Read More
Facing explosive growth in NFTs and cryptocurrencies coupled with vague regulations for the wave of new financial technology and investment startups in Washington, the state recently announced a new Center… Read More
With time running out on the legislative session, Washington state lawmakers approved a $59 billion state budget including a tax on capital gains that has divided the region’s tech community.… Read More
Update: The Washington state Senate on Saturday passed SB 5096 by a slim margin, 25-24. The bill now moves to the House. Washington state’s startup community spent much of this week… Read More
— The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) elected Dave Cotter as the new chair of its board of directors and Kristen Forecki as vice chair for the next two years.… Read More
Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the 22 tech startups that have been selected for the organization’s recurring Founder Cohort Program on Thursday. Part of WTIA’s Startup Program, the virtual… Read More
The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced Wednesday that it is launching a Canadian XR Startup Market Accelerator program to help prepare 10 Canadian virtual reality, augmented reality and voice-related startups… Read More
— Seattle-based consulting firm Slalom announced Iesha Berry as its first chief inclusion and diversity officer. Based in the Dallas area, Berry was most recently SVP of human resources and… Read More
In hopes of addressing what it considers widespread racial bias across the tech industry, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has created an “Anti-racism in Tech Pact” to guide organizations… Read More
— David Shim, founder of Seattle startup Placed, is stepping down as CEO of Foursquare after about a year in the role. Board member Gary Little will take over as… Read More
— Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Toth was previously VP of… Read More
Guest Commentary: Seattle, like much of the world today, is reeling. Crumbling infrastructure. Failing entertainment venues and restaurants. An underfunded school district. One of the largest homeless populations in the… Read More
