‘League of Legends:’ Previewing The NALCS 2016 Summer Split Quarterfinals

The League of Legends Champion Series 2016 Summer Split introduced best-of-three series to the North American region, and while the EULCS standings were full of surprises – last year’s World Champion semi-finalists Origen just finished up their promotional games to remain in the league – the NALCS simply affirmed the top organizations in North America.

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CTO of Cloudera: I Absolutely Recommend People Go Into High-Tech Fields

Amr Awadallah is a highly successful entrepreneur whose views on tech issues are in demand in Silicon Valley. Amr came to America planning to earn a Ph.D. at Stanford and then to return to Egypt and become a professor. Instead, he was able to work on visas (J-1 and then H-1B) and became another in a long line of highly successful immigrant entrepreneurs in America. (Read his full story here.)

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10 Factors Fueling The Rise Of MarketingTechnologists

100% of U.S. marketers surveyed say data and analytics will play a crucial role within their team as well as within other marketing teams in the future
66% of marketing teams interviewed have a Chief Marketing Technologist (CMT) in place today, and 26% are looking to fill a CMT role in the next 12 months.
46% of U.S. marketers plan to increase investments in both customer insight analytics and programmatic marketing in 2017.
23% of global marketers say “being stretched too thin due to working with and managing too many vendors” is their biggest threat.

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