DC BLOX, a premier provider of secure and reliable data center and fiber network solutions throughout the Southeast, announced the completed expansion of its Birmingham, Alabama data center. This expansion entails a new data hall design, tailored to meet the burgeoning demand for High-Performance Compute (HPC) applications, and marks a significant milestone in DC BLOX’s commitment to foster technological growth and innovation in Birmingham and the surrounding region.

The innovative mixed-hall design not only streamlines the allocation of floor space and power between high-density and standard cabinets, but also sets the stage for adaptable configurations catering to specific regional requirements across the company’s data centers. The new data hall design signifies a major advancement in DC BLOX’s mission to deliver cutting-edge solutions that empower local businesses, government entities, and academic institutions.

By accommodating both high-density cabinets and standard cabinets within the same space, the new design enables researchers to deploy GPU clusters in close proximity to traditional retail racks, both for convenience and for shorter cabling for data transfer. The state-of-the-art infrastructure provides the ability to support up to 2.4MW of 3N/2 distributed redundant power, aligning with the concurrently maintainable Tier III design of our standard data halls. The data hall can house up to 240 standard retail cabinets and 36 HPC-capable cabinets, each supporting up to 35kW of power.

The expansion responds to the surging demand for HPC applications driven by several factors, including the availability of cost-effective HPC systems based on commodity hardware, specialized processor accelerators such as GPUs, and the escalating utilization of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) applications. HPC technology is vital for a wide range of industries, including government, universities, manufacturing, and bio-sciences, yet is often inaccessible due to the lack of data center infrastructure to support its power and connectivity requirements.

Birmingham’s recent recognition as a federal tech hub by the U.S. Economic Development Administration is derived from their transformation into a center for technological excellence. This designation not only recognizes Birmingham’s dedication to innovation, but also its commitment to emerging technology areas, notably artificial intelligence and biotechnology. DC BLOX’s HPC-capable facility and its interconnected network enable customers like the University of Alabama System to process, store, and transmit timely data to research facilities across the country.

“This expansion underscores DC BLOX’s steadfast dedication to empowering the technology-based economy of Birmingham and beyond,” said Jeff Uphues, CEO of DC BLOX. “Our innovative mixed-hall design and HPC capability are testaments to our commitment to respond to the specific needs of our customers in Birmingham. And our new HPC-enabled data hall can be added to the data centers in any of our markets, as demand requires.”

“DC BLOX Birmingham is a key partner for our strategy at UAB IT—Research Computing,” said Ralph Zottola, AVP for UAB Research Computing. “The facility, operations, and staff enable us to design and deploy cutting edge cyberinfrastructure in support of the world-class research conducted at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. From tailoring custom colocation solutions to meet emergent needs during a crisis [COVID-19] to constructing a new data hall engineered and equipped with the infrastructure to deliver the denser power and cooling necessary for high performance computing, the DC BLOX team has proven to be a true partner to UAB Research Computing.”

DC BLOX’s Birmingham data center originally opened its doors in July 2019, unveiling 13,000 square feet of office space and 18,000 square feet of data center space. With 50+MW of additional future power available and plans for multiple hyperscale and/or build-to-suit data centers, this campus is poised to become the heart of connectivity and compute infrastructure in Alabama.

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He will be responsible for the go-to-market implementation and successful usage of Socure’s market-leading identity verification, sanction screening and fraud prevention products across both the commercial and public sector business units.  He will report directly to founder and CEO, Johnny Ayers as a member of Socure’s executive leadership team.

“We are fortunate to add such a tremendous leader and proven executive as we continue to innovate in helping our customers implement AI to make smarter identity and risk decisions,” said Ayers.  “Christian has the rare combination of a background in AI, anti-money-laundering (AML) and hypergrowth SaaS, as well as a strong philosophical alignment around our culture and a desire to build world-class teams to solve hard customer problems. I look forward to partnering very closely with Christian as we deliver on our goal to make Socure the world’s most accurate and inclusive risk and identity verification company.”

Prior to joining Socure, Woodward was senior vice president and general manager at Chainalysis, where he was the executive leader of the Americas (US, Canada, LATAM) and accelerated growth within the largest markets across public and private sector segments.  While there, Woodward quickly scaled the sales team and led the company’s growth from its early beginnings to its current multi-billion dollar valuation.  Prior to that, he held commercial leadership roles at OutSystems, Apple, VMware and New Relic.  Over his career, Woodward has remained focused on consistently delivering strong results, driving customer success and is passionate about growing and motivating his teams. 

“As nearly every industry and government service moves online, the need for accurate and inclusive digital identity verification has never been greater, all while fraud losses continue to cost organizations billions of dollars and good consumers tons of unnecessary friction,” said Woodward.” With the blistering pace of innovation in fraud with the use of generative AI, fraudsters are now incredibly advanced and are only accelerating in their attacks. This requires the kind of breakneck innovation and uniquely creative problem solving with AI that has come to define the Socure brand. I am thrilled and humbled to join them during this next phase of hypergrowth,” said Woodward. 

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Moloco, a machine learning company, announced that Barbara Rogan has joined as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary and Brendan Browne as Chief Human Resources Officer. The additions to Moloco’s leadership further strengthens the company’s executive stewardship through expansive growth and new market opportunities. Both positions report to CEO Ikkjin Ahn.

Moloco’s vision to make the digital economy more equitable and profitable by making machine learning accessible to companies of all sizes has attracted the most talented machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data analysts from tech giants such as Google, Apple, Twitter, and Amazon, many of whom have PhDs and/or are International Olympiad medalists. With a culture that lives and thrives through its values, Moloco has built a unique employee environment evidenced by earning a Great Place to Work^® designation for 2022.

The addition of Barbara Rogan and Brendan Browne to the leadership team will ensure the company’s culture of openness and humility is further cultivated, its operational model and global operations prepare it for continued financial success, and enable the company to move into new product areas. The company’s advanced machine learning-based solutions, Moloco Cloud DSP and Moloco Retail Media Platform with its unique business model, focus on performance ad campaigns helping mobile app publishers and marketplaces grow their businesses with automated, scalable return on ad spend.

“As Moloco strengthens our leadership amidst aggressive company growth plans, Barbara and Brendan have the right experience and skills that will help us build and scale Moloco thoughtfully and sustainably as we seek to set new global standards for a thriving and empowering workplace,” said Ikkjin Ahn, CEO and Co-Founder, Moloco.

Adding Leadership Talent from LinkedIn, Cadence, Y Combinator, and Microsoft

With her background in guiding companies through sustainable growth to increased valuations, Barbara Rogan will lead Moloco’s legal affairs globally and will be a strategic advisor to executive leadership and the Board of Directors. Prior to joining Moloco, Ms. Rogan led legal and compliance teams at Neophotonics Corporation (acquired by Lumentum Holdings), Velodyne Lidar, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and Loglogic, Inc. (acquired by TIBCO Software).

“Moloco has built a strong company that is poised for long-term growth,” said Barbara Rogan, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Moloco. “With the market opportunity ahead and the visionary leadership CEO Ikkjin Ahn and his team have, combined with my experience preparing companies for public entry, it makes joining Moloco a perfect choice.”

Brendan Browne joins Moloco in the newly created Chief HR Officer role to lead Moloco’s People Operations and Talent teams. Most recently, Browne was Head of Leadership and Executive Talent at Y Combinator where he collaborated with founders on all aspects of recruiting and maintaining top talent. He also spent over a decade at LinkedIn scaling the organization from 800 to over 16,000 employees and grew a global talent team which delivered 10,000s of hires in his time. He also architected LinkedIn’s RAMP apprenticeship program aiding in diversifying the company’s recruiting talent and, in the longer term, transforming talent teams across Silicon Valley companies as these recruiting professionals sought careers beyond LinkedIn. Brendan Browne also served as an advisor to Pure Storage and Koru in addition to guest lecturing at Stanford University. Previous positions include talent roles at Microsoft where he led recruitment for Microsoft Research (MSR), the company’s world renowned industrial research lab, Deem, and Sapient.

“Throughout Moloco’s continued global growth, our people have remained front and center,” said Brendan Browne, CHRO at Moloco. “The focus is building a culture with a people-first approach. A world-class, transformative employee experience is essential to this. This spans from the moment someone is a candidate to onboarding as a new hire to acquiring new skills, and experiences, to accelerating one’s career while feeling a deep sense of belonging throughout their journey with us. This is our aim. We will do it together. The relationships we share are the fuel.”

2022 a Year of Growth & Industry Recognition

The addition of these two leadership positions adds to 2022 being a significant year in the company’s history. Milestones include:

• Awarded Inc. 5000’s Fastest Growing private companies in 2022, ranking #95 overall and #5 in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Recognized by AppsFlyer as the #1 option outside of Walled Gardens in key categories
• Despite a difficult economic year, Moloco remains on pace to reach $200M in revenue and has remained profitable for 10 consecutive quarters
• Board of Director additions and leadership hires including:
  • Sabrina Simmons and Pat Wadors – Board of Directors members bringing experience from LinkedIn, Gap, Inc., ServiceNow, and Yahoo!
  • Sunil Rayan, Chief Business Officer – most recently with Disney Hotstar+ and Google
  • Bill Michels, General Manager, Retail Media – most recently with The Trade Desk
  • Hoon-Jung Kim, Chief of Staff to the CEO – most recently Founder/GM & Investment Partner at Google’s in-house incubator
  • David Simon, Head of Growth Initiatives – most recently with Fyber
  • Daisuke Yokokawa, VP of Global Marketing – most recently with Coinbase and Google

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Uplinq, the tech-powered company that provides advanced bookkeeping solutions through data automation and machine learning, today announced it has raised $5.6 million in seed funding to revolutionize how small business owners manage bookkeeping and provide a more streamlined way of accessing financial data to empower small-to-medium-sized business owners (SMBs) with actionable insights. The funding was led by AZ-VC, the Arizona-focused venture capital fund that is uniquely focused on supporting emerging technology companies throughout the state. The round included a strategic investment from Live Oak Ventures, the fintech-focused venture arm of Wilmington, NC-based Live Oak Bank, one of the biggest SBA lenders that knows firsthand the struggles of bookkeeping for small businesses. Additional investors include Merus Capital and Members of the Kuwaiti Royal Family.

“SMBs start a business because they have an interest, expertise, or opportunity in a certain area or industry – not bookkeeping. They are often forced to choose from poor options such as outsourcing to firms with inconsistent service, hiring an internal finance manager, or doing it themselves,” said Uplinq CEO, Alex Glenn. “That’s where Uplinq comes in. We offer businesses a better way to get professional help through our proprietary technology, that not only makes bookkeeping worry-free for the business owner, but also provides them with powerful data automation and machine learning to better understand their finances and how their business can improve.”

With monthly subscriptions and pricing based on business needs across a variety of industries including technology, construction, healthcare, real estate, and more, Uplinq seamlessly integrates with over 10,000 financial institutions and many of the resources businesses already use including QuickBooks, ADP, BambooHR, and most payroll, accounting, point-of-sale, and HR vendors. This process is done through Uplinq’s proprietary technology that comprehensively gathers, organizes, and categorizes business transactions, to provide unparalleled review-ready, real-time analysis at the touch of a button. Due to their innovative technology, they provide customers with updated financials every week — instead of monthly or quarterly — and are piloting additional solutions with a planned release in 2023.

“With continued economic uncertainty, new automated fintech like Uplinq helps businesses take advantage by keeping track of changing costs and financials more efficiently than ever before to make smart business decisions fast,” said Glenn. “This funding round will accelerate the next phase of Uplinq’s growth plans and expand our reach across this lucrative $15 billion industry.”

The funding amount will scale Uplinq’s marketing efficiency, sales power, engineering capabilities, and customer delivery departments to support the demand for its next-level solution in the vastly underserved bookkeeping fintech market.

“Our investment reflects our view that machine learning and artificial intelligence, coupled with comparative financial analysis in bookkeeping, is an untapped vertical, and Uplinq is poised to lead the charge in making SMB data accessible and actionable for everyone,” said Stephanie Mann, EVP of corporate development and strategy for Live Oak Bank. “Businesses are only as strong as their accounting systems, and the list of organizations that will benefit from Uplinq’s financial data and automation technology is growing steadily each day. We look forward to seeing the new ways Uplinq will help our network and new businesses thrive now and in the future.”

“We have met with dozens of top-notch technology companies within Arizona and beyond, and what stands out about the Uplinq team is their infectious energy and passion for reimagining the bookkeeping industry. It is extremely rare to feel impacted to the point where you meet a company and wake up the next morning with a pronounced sense of conviction about a team’s ability to execute their vision, but that is Uplinq,” said Benjamin Brockwell, Principal, AZ-VC. “We are eager to put our vast regional and global fintech weight behind Uplinq as they enable SMBs to build more sustainable businesses.”

This current funding is in addition to a previously unannounced round of $1.6 million from additional seed investors.

For more information, visit https://www.uplinq.com/

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Strangeworks, Inc. (“Strangeworks”) and Rigetti Computing, Inc. (“Rigetti”) (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced Strangeworks’ commitment to make available on its platform two new quantum machine learning (QML) applications from Rigetti. These new QML applications are Rigetti’s quantum kernel and quantum convolutional “quanvolutional” neural network methods, which are optimized specifically for Rigetti quantum computers and are designed to advance the development of applications related to classification and regression problems. These QML applications are expected to initially be available exclusively on the Strangeworks platform in early 2023.

The applications are planned to be made available through Rigetti’s on-demand, pay-as-you-go access model via Strangeworks. This on-demand access to Rigetti systems has been enabled by tightly integrating Rigetti’s quantum processing units with the Strangeworks platform. The integration has also resulted in higher performance of Rigetti systems on Strangeworks by enabling lower overall program latency and native Quil programming language support.

“Rigetti is excited to continue its close partnership with Strangeworks and make its first reference applications available to users through their platform,” said Eric Ostby, VP of Product. “We believe that quantum machine learning applications continue to be promising candidates for quantum advantage research.”

“These new applications will accelerate businesses’ ability to create valuable quantum applications by enabling them to bring Rigetti quantum capabilities to their classification, modeling, and detection problems,” said whurley, Founder and CEO of Strangeworks. “Today’s announcement deepens the partnership between Rigetti and Strangeworks, and advances Strangeworks’ goal to make access to quantum applications simple, flexible and performance-driven.”

More about applications and the Strangeworks platform:

• Strangeworks Managed Applications
  These applications are anticipated to be available on the Strangeworks platform, which features a rapidly growing catalog of turn-key services that are designed to make applying quantum computing technologies easier to integrate into workflows and apply to problems.
• Rigetti Quanvolutional Neural Network Method
  Rigetti’s Quanvolutional Neural Network method is designed to enhance image and video analysis by adding quantum-enhanced features to an existing data set for use by classical neural networks. This method is potentially well-suited for simplifying follow-on machine learning processing, since it may require less data and fewer parameters to train the classical model.
• Rigetti Quantum Kernel Method
  Rigetti’s Quantum Kernel Method is designed to assess similarities between points in a data set, which may be valuable for usage in a classification or regression model. By assessing similarities in the exponentially larger space afforded by the quantum processing unit, the output of this method could potentially be used in anomaly detection.

These applications are planned to be available on the Strangeworks platform in early 2023. The quantum kernel method is planned to be available to all users on the Strangeworks platform, while the quanvolutional neural network method is planned to be available only to select customers and partners.

Rigetti has also announced its intent to join the Strangeworks Backstage Pass program, with plans to offer up to $10,000 of sponsored credits to each approved user. Rigetti plans to prioritize users with an interest in quantum machine learning for enterprise applications, including but not limited to those interested in leveraging Rigetti’s quanvolutional neural network method. To apply for access to Rigetti through the Backstage Pass program, please visit https://strangeworks.com/backstage.

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AI leader DataRobot today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC Marketscape: Worldwide MLOps Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment. The report cited ease of use with point-and-click interfaces, clear transparency and reproducibility, and the DataRobot unified MLOps reporting interface as key strengths that make DataRobot stand out in the Leader category.

According to the report, users should “consider DataRobot for machine learning operations if your organization needs a consolidated view of machine learning models across model development tools and deployment environments.”

“A capable leader in the machine learning market, DataRobot has made MLOps a first class citizen in its platform, giving users everything they need to scale AI and offering one place to manage all your models running in production,” said Dave Schubmehl, Research Vice President, IDC. “This makes DataRobot a great choice for organizations that need broad and deep capabilities for a mix of personas managing large portfolios of models across a diverse set of frameworks.”

The report noted that Trusted AI is enabled in the DataRobot AI platform through prediction explanations, humility rules, and bias and fairness monitoring, allowing users to apply custom actions based on triggers such as suspect data or uncertain predictions. Other key areas of strength recognized in the report include:

• Ease of Use – DataRobot MLOps augments much of the machine learning development process. Automatic monitoring records the performance history of models in production and manages model replacements, while automated compliance documentation provides greater efficiency and governance to all models, even those built outside of DataRobot. Point-and-click interfaces drive the activation of most of the MLOps capabilities.
• Consolidated MLOps Reporting Interface – DataRobot MLOps provides a single pane of glass management console for testing, viewing, monitoring, and governing model deployments, displaying information in easy-to-understand charts, graphs, and alerts.

“Today’s organizations are using MLOps to address complex and critical business problems and we are proud to offer a comprehensive and easy-to-implement set of capabilities to integrate ML into their business-critical workflows and applications,” said Venky Veeraraghavan, SVP of Product, DataRobot. “We have made significant investments in our MLOps capabilities to enable data scientists, software engineers, IT, and governance professionals to collaborate in order to realize the value of machine learning in production. We’re honored to be recognized by IDC as a leader in its inaugural Worldwide MLOps Platforms vendor assessment.”

The Worldwide MLOps 2022 Platforms Vendor assessment measured 13 businesses across 10 categories aligned to strategy and capability factors including functionality, growth, innovation, and customer satisfaction. IDC analysts base vendor scores and positions on detailed surveys and interviews with the vendors, publicly available information, and end-user experiences.

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Medacist, the industry leader in drug diversion technology solutions, today introduced RxAuditor Reconcile, a new addition to the company’s extensive product portfolio, designed to provide users the capability to close the loop on the medication use process and quickly identify anomalous activity in real time. 

Built on the firm’s 24 years of industry-specific data, RxAuditor Reconcile supports RxAuditor Investigate to help healthcare professionals streamline and accelerate drug diversion investigations with actionable information. Powered by Medacist’s Genesis platform, the drug analytics solution leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide organizations with standardized, collaborative workflows for drug diversion activities.

“Medacist’s RxAuditor Reconcile delivers a simpler, faster, and more cost-effective solution for accountability in healthcare facilities,” said David J. Brzozowski Jr., CTO, Medacist. “The addition of this new product to our portfolio provides our customers with a powerful drug diversion detection solution that enhances medication observability by monitoring the entire drug chain of custody.”

The ongoing opioid crisis continues to boost the need for advanced analytical solutions as organizations have increased their vigilance in tracking dispensing patterns. To meet this need, RxAuditor Reconcile was designed to accommodate search capabilities consistently across all transaction types, including all care areas, all individuals, and all medications; to help protect healthcare facilities from legal, regulatory, and reputational risk. Unlike other standard industry solutions, drug diversion teams can use RxAuditor Reconcile to create a case from the transaction list for reconciled and non-reconciled transactions.

“At a time where health professionals are continuing to be deluged with more and more challenges in their workplaces, we are pleased to introduce RxAuditor Reconcile to the industry,” said David J. Brzozowski Sr., President & CEO, Medacist. “Medacist’s suite of analytics services continues to serve as an ally for healthcare workers by eliminating hours of manual audits with advanced algorithms. RxAuditor Reconcile saves time where it counts.”

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Deloitte today announced the formation of Olympus with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a global investment fund focused on building industry cloud solutions. This initiative combines the virtually unmatched engineering and industry domain knowledge of Deloitte with the security and scale of AWS to co-innovate and engineer solutions that tackle the toughest challenges in key industries, employing the principles of modern software engineering. 

“Our goal is to help our clients more rapidly leverage the power of industry cloud solutions and modern technologies, like AI, machine learning, blockchain, IoT, 5G, AR/VR and quantum computing, all on the cloud, to address their most urgent issues such as food waste, access to financial products, clean energy, geo-political risk, etc., leveraging digital technologies, cyber security and modern architecture and engineering,” said Forrest Danson, principal and global chief commercial officer of the Amazon/AWS alliance, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Industry clouds have the potential to both reshape entire markets and enable our clients to quickly realize future-looking business strategies.”

According to Deloitte’s research, industry clouds have the potential to reach $640 billion by 2025. This initiative is aimed at delivering the industry cloud solutions to accelerate digital transformation across industries. Deloitte and AWS deliver innovative value in the life sciences, consumer banking and smart manufacturing sectors, among others, with Converge by Deloitte on AWS live in over 30 countries globally.

Deloitte’s ConvergePROSPERITY BankingSuite will be a part of the Olympus program. This suite of services helps financial institutions meet the growing demands of consumers and small businesses and to expedite the launch of digital-first banking services. Deloitte and AWS have already co-invested and worked on the engineering, using Deloitte’s digital banking platform — which helps banks and non-banks deliver innovative customer experiences, modernize legacy product platforms, drive greater efficiencies and bring products and services to market faster on AWS technology.

“With ConvergePROSPERITY BankingSuite on AWS, we were able to de-risk and drastically accelerate the launch of our digital banking platform in three European markets,” said Tom Mazzaferro, chief data and innovation officer, Western Union. “More importantly, our ability to expand the set of products to countries incrementally has been significantly enhanced due to the module components and cloud-based architecture.”

“Together, we have already co-developed several groundbreaking industry cloud offerings,” said Chris Niederman, general manager, Global Account Sales and Strategic Alliances at AWS. “This new investment fund will help us to scale and expand across all industries globally, as we give our customers access to more powerful solutions that address their increasingly complex and specialized problems. Together with Deloitte, we have committed to translating our technology expertise and their industry experience into new industry solutions that reimagine and reinvent how business is done.”

Deloitte is committed to developing industry-focused solutions with AWS while supporting customers with their core offerings, including application migration and modernization, data modernization and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), large-scale package migrations to cloud and security and customer engagement on Amazon Connect. 

Recognizing leaders across the globe playing a key role in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS, Deloitte was the recipient of five 2022 Regional and Global AWS Partner Awards. These include Sustainability Partner of the Year in Asia Pacific and Japan; Global Public Sector Partner of the Year; Security Partner of the Year in Latin America; Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) Partner of the Year in Europe, Middle East and Africa; and, most notably, Global Systems Integrator Partner of the Year in North America. These awards recognize Deloitte’s dedication to building and driving client solutions on AWS across industries.

Deloitte was recently named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Industry Cloud Professional Services 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US48187622, September 2022), recognized for the breadth and depth of its solution portfolio and its network of ecosystem relationships, including AWS. Over the last three years, Deloitte has continued to grow its cloud practice globally and and has made numerous acquisitions of software and product engineering organizations around the world in support of industry clouds and the next generation of cloud technology, and was recognized as a Leader by Gartner® (Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services by Mark Ray, Tobi Bet, David Groombridge, Craig Lowery, DD Mishra, William Maurer, July 20, 2022).

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Joining the Amazon SageMaker Ready Program differentiates Domo as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product that works with Amazon SageMaker and is generally available for and fully supports AWS customers. The Amazon SageMaker Ready Program helps customers quickly and easily find AWS Partners that can help accelerate their machine learning (ML) adoption by providing out-of-the-box abstractions for most common challenges in ML that build on top of the foundational capabilities Amazon SageMaker provides.

Amazon SageMaker offers a robust set of capabilities and AWS Partners help extend its value by integrating these capabilities with their solutions. By providing customers with a catalog of solutions that lift the complexities of machine learning, the Amazon SageMaker Ready Program will broaden the user base and increase customer adoption. Amazon SageMaker Ready Program members offer AWS customers Amazon SageMaker-supported products that offer Amazon SageMaker both in AWS Partner solutions they already know, or offer products that simplify each step of the ML model building. These applications are validated by AWS Partner Solutions Architects to ensure customers have a consistent experience using the software.

Customers can review the Amazon SageMaker Ready Partner product catalog to confirm their preferred vendor solutions are already integrated with Amazon SageMaker. Customers can also discover, browse by category or ML model deployment challenges, and select partner software solutions for their specific ML development needs.

“We’re dedicated to helping companies unlock the full potential of their data and are pleased to become an Amazon SageMaker Ready Partner,” said John Mellor, CEO at Domo. “This designation highlights the work we’ve done to incorporate machine learning directly into the Domo platform to provide customers deeper data insights and help improve critical business processes in record time.”

To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Service Ready Program to help customers identify solutions that support AWS services and spend less time evaluating new tools, and more time scaling their use of solutions that work on AWS.

Powered by Amazon SageMaker, Domo’s automated machine learning (Auto ML) makes it possible for anyone – whether they’re a data scientist or front-line worker – to process large amounts of data and determine the most accurate models for data analysis. The combination of Domo and Amazon SageMaker helps makes ML accessible to all employees and drives valuable ML-driven insights for business. With just a few clicks, customers can transform their data to prepare for ML and find the model that achieves the best performance for their task.

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insitro, a machine learning-powered drug discovery and development company, today announced that Philip Tagari has been appointed as chief scientific officer. Tagari joins insitro following a 24-year career at Amgen, where he has led the organization’s research platforms for over a decade as vice president, research – therapeutic discovery.

“I am deeply excited to partner with Philip on insitro’s journey to build a transformative biology platform for the efficient discovery and development of effective medicines for patients in need,” said Daphne Koller, Ph.D., founder and CEO of insitro. “Philip brings unparalleled experience in drug development, including building and utilizing cutting-edge platforms, profound scientific expertise across therapeutic areas and modalities, and most importantly, the humility and courage to transcend the drug discovery status quo and do things differently.”

Tagari joins a cross-functional team of experts in biology and technology at insitro, part of a uniquely collaborative culture that spans the boundaries of both fields. “Philip’s inspiring track record of fusing science and technology to build innovative platforms and leading therapeutic programs from bench to approval will guide us in the next step of insitro’s journey, as we deploy our expertise to identify exciting new targets and design therapeutic molecules,” said Koller.

“insitro is completely redefining our understanding of disease biology and developing novel therapeutic strategies for a variety of grievous illnesses. Using machine learning on genetics and multi-modal phenotypic data at scale from human cohorts and cellular systems, their cutting edge laboratories are rapidly generating differentiated approaches to currently intractable unmet needs,” Tagari said. “I’m thrilled to partner with Daphne and insitro’s world-class scientists and technologists in achieving a patient-driven vision brought to life in a different kind of drug company.”

Tagari joins insitro in early 2023 from Amgen, where he has held a variety of roles since 1998, and served as vice president, research – therapeutic discovery, since 2012. During his time at Amgen, Tagari built and led a global organization of over 600 scientists that delivered numerous experimental and marketed therapies in neurology, inflammation, cardiovascular disease and oncology. Throughout his career, which includes a decade at Merck and research positions at McGill University and Oxford University, Tagari made significant contributions toward multiple first-in-class, disease-modifying, life-changing therapies including Lumakras, Repatha, Singulair, Aimovig, Evenity, Tarlatamab, Acapatamab, Efavaleukin alfa, and AMG 133.

With more than 30 years of research experience, he brings expertise across neurobiology, metabolic disease, hematology/oncology, immunology and inflammation, cell and molecular biology, antibody discovery and biologics engineering, medicinal, peptide and oligonucleotide chemistry, analytical chemistry and biochemistry, structural biology, pharmacokinetics, safety pharmacology, laboratory automation and information technologies. Tagari has published or contributed to more than 70 peer-reviewed publications.

“I had the privilege of working with Philip for more than 15 years, first at Merck, and thereafter at Amgen, and can say unequivocally that he ranks among the most accomplished, and most innovative, scientific leaders in the industry,” said Roger M. Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D., currently president, chief executive officer, and chairman of Eikon Therapeutics, Inc., (formerly EVP R&D both at Amgen and at Merck), and is a member of insitro’s Board of Directors. “With Philip as chief scientific officer and partner to Daphne, insitro will be well positioned to ensure that insights from its machine learning-enabled discovery platform contribute to the development of important new medicines that will make a meaningful difference for patients.”

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