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The 2017 San Diego CIO Executive Leadership Summit

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Thursday, November 2, 2017 -- The 2017 San Diego CIO Executive Leadership Summit. This conference is designed exclusively for CIO/IT leader executives and will deliver world class thought leadership in a collaborative setting.

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Former Biotech VC Steven Burrill Draws 30-Month Prison Term for Fraud

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Steven Burrill, once a noted biotech investment fund founder, sought-after conference speaker, and life sciences publisher, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 30 months in federal prison for defrauding his investors and evading taxes. Burrill was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 14, 2017.

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Notes From the JPM ’18 Vortex: Gene Therapy’s Reckoning and Lonely Cabs

Xconomy

Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco winds down today, meaning the remaining stragglers are either presenting to half-empty rooms or headed back to colder climes. The annual J.P.

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6 Simple Steps to Avoid Becoming a Cybercrime Statistic in 2018

Xconomy

We can all agree that 2017 was a brutal year for cybersecurity. At last year’s Blackhat Cybersecurity conference, Alex Stamos, the chief security officer of Facebook, reported that passwords are one of the biggest security challenges Facebook faces. And, it’s a safe guess that this year, the percentage will grow.

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Amazon, Uber, and Bill Gates’s Robot Tax: An Automation Snapshot

Xconomy

As we gear up for Robo Madness 2017: A.I. Gets Real , our annual robotics and artificial intelligence conference at Google’s offices in Kendall Square, let’s connect a few dots around the topic of automation.

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Element Biosciences Lands $15M to Develop New Genetic Analysis Tools

Xconomy

San Diego’s Element Biosciences said Tuesday that it had secured a Series A round led by Foresite Capital, a healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm based in San Francisco, and Silicon Valley’s Venrock. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, she was a senior director of scientific research.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

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The firm will now focus on its miniLab, which CEO Elizabeth Holmes touted as a follow-on version of its Edison test system at a scientific conference in August. The funding could be as much as $100 million, and the first grants will be announced in 2017. She refused to discuss Edison at the time. —The U.S. THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE.