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Julie Berry joins General Dynamics Bath Iron Works as CIO
vendors and will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team .
“ I am beyond excited to be joining BIW ,” said Berry .
Julie Berry – Vice President , CIO , General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
BIW is Maine ’ s largest manufacturer , being responsible for new construction , maintenance and modernization of surface combatants for the US . Navy .
General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation ; ship construction and repair ; land combat vehicles , weapons systems and munitions ; and technology products and services .
“ My family has a long lineage serving in various branches of the Armed Forces . I am honored for the opportunity to contribute to this valuable work that helps defend our nation by joining the BIW team and advancing Information Technology that will improve the infrastructure and processes in support of building ships for the US Navy .”
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
( BIW ) has recruited Julie Berry as Vice President , CIO – stretching her family ’ s long lineage serving in various branches of the Armed Forces
In the role , Berry is responsible for the BIW IT organization , cybersecurity and associated
Berry worked for Steward Healthcare System LLC from 2011 ‒ 2021 serving as CIO and CTO .
She then worked at Maine ’ s largest hospital system , MaineHealth , from 2021 ‒ 2022 before returning to Steward Healthcare in her most recent role as Senior Vice President where she oversaw Data Management and Predictive Analytics .
Pictory enters strategic AI voice tech partnership with ElevenLabs
Pictory , a leader in generative AI technology for content marketers , has announced a new collaboration with ElevenLabs , a state-ofthe-art AI voice provider .
The collaboration will enable users to access and incorporate hyperrealistic voiceovers into their videos – optimizing engagement and viewing experience .
Now , Pictory Premium and Teams subscribers will be able to apply voices pitched as making video content more authentic and engaging .
Abid Ali , Chief Product Officer , Pictory , said : “ Access to a wider range of more realistic AI voices is one of our most popular requests from subscribers . Partnering with ElevenLabs will enable us to offer industry-leading synthetic and generative voice AI technology for a wide range of business applications such as marketing , training and internal communications .”
Mati Staniszewski , CEO , ElevenLabs , said : “ Our alliance with Pictory isn ’ t just about merging technologies . It ’ s about reimagining how we create and consume content . Together , we ’ re setting new standards for video content – I couldn ’ t be more excited about what ’ s on the horizon .”
Pictory has seen a 6x growth in revenues so far this year ; the partnership with ElevenLabs further establishes the company ’ s position at the vanguard of generative AI video technology .
Pictory plans to add several hundred more similarly high-quality voices in the next few months along with support for multiple languages , including German , French , Italian and Spanish . Advanced voice-cloning will also be added soon .
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