It started like many ideas do here at GeekWire: Over beers at a craft brewery just down the street from our office in Fremont. GeekWire co-founder John Cook was retelling… Read More
As an American historian, University of Washington history professor Margaret O’Mara says she’s particularly interested in understanding “how did we get to now?” During a talk at the recent GeekWire Summit… Read More
When Saturday Night Live spoofed Amazon’s Echo smart speaker with a version for the “Greatest Generation,” it turns out they might have been on to something. In the parody commercial,… Read More
Over the past year, Bob Ferguson has stepped into the media spotlight by repeatedly challenging President Donald Trump on everything from environmental protection to immigration. Immigration, in particular, has put… Read More
Blockchain is one of the hottest trends in tech right now, but it remains a mystery to many outside the industry. A startup based in the Seattle area is building… Read More
They may not know it, but anyone who has backed a company on Kickstarter or taken a Lyft is engaging with Stripe. The company provides the online payments backbone for… Read More
Note-taking can be a mundane and repetitive process that doesn’t always help inspire innovative new ideas. But that all changes when Guillaume Wiatr puts pen to paper. Wiatr, CEO and… Read More
Satya Nadella is most well known for transforming Microsoft as its third, and current, CEO. He’s taken the company in a new and exciting direction, doubling its stock price and… Read More
Getting a read on attendees and speakers at the GeekWire Summit doesn’t seem like such a difficult task. They’re likely into technology or science or some other related field that… Read More
CEOs and executives shared their best practices. Professors and researchers offered their expert opinions. Inventors and entrepreneurs demonstrated their latest ideas. The 2017 GeekWire Summit was a melting pot of innovators,… Read More
When he isn’t reimagining Microsoft’s culture and direction, Satya Nadella is a man of many varied interests, from cricket to poetry. At the 2017 GeekWire Summit, The Microsoft CEO was… Read More
GeekWire reporters travel all over the country covering some of the most prime tech events on the planet. But this week, we had the exciting role of hosting one of… Read More
As cities across the U.S. fall all over themselves to pitch themselves as the best destination for Amazon’s second headquarters, sounds like they don’t need to waste their time lobbying… Read More
There’s not a lot of regular folks who realize that mobile payments processor Stripe is one of the most influential and widespread companies behind a lot of the services they… Read More
Online payment powerhouse Stripe just opened an office in Seattle, its first engineering outpost outside of Silicon Valley, and it’s already growing fast. Plans for the Seattle office first surfaced… Read More
Ed Lazowska, a leading computer science professor at the University of Washington, wants Facebook and other big tech companies to take responsibility for enabling Russian meddling into the 2016 election. The… Read More
The controversy over fake news may focus on politics, but it’s also slipping into the scientific realm, says one of the country’s pioneers in the study of B.S. The hunger… Read More
Technology has changed just about everything it has touched, and that is especially true when it comes to the distribution of news and information around the planet. Early hopes that… Read More
You can never have too many inventions worth loving. And in Seattle’s bustling tech scene, startups continue to wow us with their geeky gadgets. On Tuesday during the annual GeekWire… Read More
GeekWire started more than six years ago in a loft space in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, later expanding to the back tables of a gritty coffee shop in Seattle’s Greenwood… Read More
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is calling BS on tech industry leaders who avoid hiring female candidates because they don’t want to “lower the bar.” In an on-stage interview at the GeekWire… Read More
If you’re playing a role, any role, in creating technology, Todd Stabelfeldt — AKA “The Quadfather” — has a message for you. (And when The Quadfather talks, you really ought… Read More
This session isn’t just a talk — it’s also live recording of Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff’s Office Hours podcast. Rascoff will moderate an in-depth discussion as part of a special episode… Read More
With a rueful smile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged on stage at the GeekWire Summit that “one of the (really bizarre) things to do is speculate in technology about the… Read More
Technology is a critical part of American history but it typically occupies little more than a marginal note in history textbooks. Margaret O’Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington, says… Read More
About a year after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella became the third chief executive officer in the company’s history, he outlined in April 2015 what seemed at the time an audacious… Read More
Amazon’s decision to open a second headquarters equal to its hometown Seattle campuses is largely unprecedented in modern business history, and the Seattle area’s other top tech giant has no… Read More
When he was 29 years old, Satya Nadella was looking forward to the birth of his first child. Like many parents, the Microsoft CEO looks back on that time and… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has brought something of a renaissance to the company. Although many see him as a new, innovative force at Microsoft, it turns out Nadella has learned… Read More
Update: The session has concluded, but you can watch the archived live stream above. Listen to a podcast version below, or download the MP3. Microsoft is a starkly different company… Read More
CEOs, presidents, founders, venture capitalists, scientists, inventors, professors, researchers, and an attorney general — Day 1 at the 2017 GeekWire Summit had it all. More than 900 of you joined… Read More
The GeekWire Summit kicked off yesterday with an amazing slate of speakers, and we’ll be back on the stage again this morning at 8:30 a.m. for an impactful diversity and… Read More
Amazon Prime members can expect to get some deals when they shop at Whole Foods. Jeff Wilke, CEO of Worldwide Consumer at Amazon, spoke at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle… Read More
Insurance and machine learning are hot, virtual reality is not, and cryptocurrency is complicated. Those are a few takeaways from “The VC View” — a panel of venture capitalists featuring… Read More
There’s a lot to love about technology in 2017, including one of our favorite segments of the GeekWire Summit: Inventions We Love. This year we split the crop of contending… Read More
Seattle, don’t take Amazon’s search for a second headquarters personally. The company’s CEO of Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke said at the 2017 GeekWire Summit that Amazon now has 50,000 people… Read More
Executives, scientists, and politicians say the darnedest things. The casual-yet-focused discussions on stage at the GeekWire Summit led top names across the entire range of the technology spectrum to share… Read More
It may sound like a zombie movie, but Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is studying fresh human brain tissue to see up close how our neurons work — and perhaps… Read More
After Travis Kalanick resigned from Uber amid a series of sexual harassment and other scandals, investor Benchmark Capital filed an unorthodox lawsuit against the former CEO. Benchmark General Partner Sarah… Read More
Alexa has been a hit, helping Amazon capture an early lead in the voice-activated speaker market through the Echo and igniting an arms race among tech giants to see who… Read More
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed 19 lawsuits against the administration of Donald Trump since the president took office. When asked at the GeekWire Summit on Tuesday whether… Read More
Tech startups tend to break through in their early days with a game-changing product or an irresistible service, but companies that last are the ones that invest in their people,… Read More
The fight against cancer isn’t just about drugs and genetics. It’s also about wearable devices, health-savvy chatbots, machine learning and one of the biggest challenges that cloud computing will ever… Read More
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson became the central face in the battle against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. Longtime Amazon exec Toni Reid is the woman behind the voice… Read More
As Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson took the stage this morning to kick off the 2017 GeekWire Summit, a giant structure with bloodshot eyes, made of more than 500 used Starbucks coffee cups… Read More
Amazon’s blockbuster deal to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion shocked the foundation of the grocery/retail world, and it also put grocery delivery startup Instacart in an awkward spot.… Read More
Like many places around the world, Washington state has a talent crisis. The state creates thousands of highly skilled jobs every year in industries like technology and medicine — but it… Read More
Fully automated cars are looked at by many in the tech community as a near certainty, maybe even in the next few years, but a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot… Read More
The grocery and delivery markets are rapidly changing, and Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta — a former supply chain engineer at Amazon — has seen it all. Mehta is… Read More
Dr. Missy Cummings, who serves as director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University, spoke about the future of driverless vehicles during a power talk at the GeekWire Summit… Read More
Over the past decade, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have gone through a massive disruption as digital tools and the internet change the way people shop. Many have seen in-store sales drop substantially,… Read More
The GeekWire Summit kicks off today, with more than 900 business, tech, media and government leaders joining us to talk about the future of the innovation economy. We’re excited to… Read More
Baidu is known primarily as a search giant in China, but the company, which just opened an office in the Seattle area, is putting its full weight behind artificial intelligence… Read More
The 2017 GeekWire Summit is finally here. After months of planning, we’re thrilled that more than 800 business, tech, media and government leaders will join us starting tomorrow for our… Read More
We’re just four days away from the GeekWire Summit, which will bring together more than 800 leaders to explore what’s next in tech, business, science, media and society. A few… Read More
One of Amazon’s traditions is the “6-pager,” a detailed memo read silently at the outset of an internal meeting to get everyone on the same page, literally. This has been… Read More
The GeekWire Summit is just around the corner, and we’ve got an amazing lineup of speakers, parties and other fun surprises in store. If you’ve not yet purchased your tickets… Read More
We’re less than two weeks away from the 2017 GeekWire Summit, taking place Oct. 9-11 in downtown Seattle. Hundreds of people are already registered for this one-of-a-kind event, which will… Read More
The GeekWire Summit is less than a month away, and we continue to add awesome speakers to what’s turning out to be our biggest and best lineup ever. Today, we’re… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson. Amazon Alexa and Echo devices chief Toni Reid. Yes, this year’s GeekWire Summit is shaping up to be our biggest and best… Read More
Jeff Wilke, the chief executive of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, and Toni Reid, the vice president who leads the company’s fast-growing Alexa and Echo Devices group, will be featured speakers… Read More
We’re going to open the 2017 GeekWire Summit with a jolt. Kevin Johnson, the respected technology executive who was named the new Starbucks CEO earlier this year, will kick off our… Read More
We love innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs here at GeekWire — especially those with offbeat and unusual ideas. And that’s why we’re excited to bring back the popular “Inventions We Love”… Read More
Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft
Kevin Johnson
CEO, Starbucks
Toni Reid
VP, Amazon Alexa & Echo Devices
Bob Ferguson
Attorney General, Washington State
Apoorva Mehta
Founder & CEO, Instacart
Mary Cummings
Director, Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University
Dr. Gary Gilliland
President, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Emily Chang
Anchor, Bloomberg Technology
Jeff Wilke
CEO Worldwide Consumer, Amazon
Rebecca Lynn
Partner, Canvas Ventures
John Collison
Co-founder, Stripe
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Founder, theBoardlist
Julie Sandler
Managing Director, Pioneer Square Labs
Dr. Christof Koch
President and Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Sarah Tavel
General Partner, Benchmark
Spencer Rascoff
CEO, Zillow Group
Nick Wingfield
Reporter, The New York Times
Todd Stabelfeldt
CEO, C4 Database Management
Leslie Feinzaig
CEO, Venture Kits
Arif Kareem
CEO, ExtraHop Networks
Dana Lewis
Founder, OpenAPS
Brian Monnin
CEO & Co-founder, Play Impossible
Naria Santa Lucia
Executive director, WSOS
Chuks Onwuneme
Co-founder, Pillsy
Chloe Harford
VP of Product, OfferUp
Jonathan Sposato
Chairman, GeekWire + PicMonkey
Margaret O'Mara
Professor, University of Washington
Brad Smith
President, Microsoft
Reetu Gupta
CEO, Cirkled in
Joe Roets
Founder, Dragonchain Inc.
Amy Bohutinsky
COO, Zillow Group
Effenus Henderson
President, Institute for Sustainable Diversity & Inclusion
Ina Fried
Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios
Eric Osborne
Co-founder, HERE Seattle
Sarah Bird
CEO, Moz
Sahil Diwan
CEO, SafKan
Jevin West
Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington