The World Food Center at UC Davis is hosting the Food, Ag & Health Solution Summit on Dec. 1-3 where there will be a workshop on precision agriculture, an "idea hack" session and an app hackathon for agriculture. The app hackathon on Dec. 2 is organized by the Apps for Ag volunteer organization. Sponsors also include Intel, the University of California, AgStart and Royse Law Agtech.
Velocity Venture Capital, which for the past three years has operated its Entrepreneurs Campus facility within a converted schoolhouse in old-town Folsom, Calif., is expanding into a new space in downtown Sacramento.
The California Department of Water Resources took initial steps this month toward implementing new water basin boundary regulations. A key aspect of this project is a new Web-based reporting system for boundary modifications. The website comes nearly two months ahead of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act’s Jan. 1, 2016 deadline for new basin boundary regulations.
The World Food Center at UC Davis is hosting the Food, Ag & Health Solution Summit on Dec. 1-3 where there will be a a workshop on precision agriculture, an "idea hack" session and an app hackathon for agriculture. The app hackathon on Dec. 2 is organized by the Apps for Ag volunteer organization. Sponsors also include Intel, the University of California, AgStart and Royse Law Agtech.
The Pleasanton, Calif.-based Nautilus Data Technologies recently showed its 30,000-square-foot Waterborne Data Center fixed to a moored barge. The company has dubbed it the world’s first floating data center.
Katie Curry started work this month with enterprise security company ForeScout, serving as a named account manager for state and local government in the West.
The city of Sacramento has launched a Web-based application to help residents determine how to recycle or dispose of specific items or materials. The searchable “waste wizard” contains information about household hazardous waste, construction materials and other categories.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is hosting a free workshop in Mountain View on Nov. 17 to share information about the NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and State Broadband Initiative (SBI) grant programs.
CWS-NS, currently budgeted at $449 million, will automate and create a Web-based solution and service-oriented architecture to replace the current CWS system.
The city of Stockton this month replaced a 25-year-old legacy system with a new cloud-based online platform for permitting, inspections and plan review, city officials announced.
Orange County has nine IT projects in progress with a total budget of $21 million, and four future projects on the docket worth $9 million. Here’s a roundup of what’s happening, from a quarterly report from the CIO’s office.
CalPERS, which recently issued an RFI for information about a cloud-based data warehouse for its organization, has canceled the bid opportunity and will reissue it at a later date.
Sacramento's NBA franchise is off to a very slow start in the standings with a 2 - 7 record so far this season, but the Kings are a championship contender in the realm of tech-savviest pro sports teams.
The event, called the Sac2050 Quality of Life Civic Datathon, will put participants in groups to collect, clean and publish data sets that eventually could be used to make a dashboard.
The Sacramento City Council is expected on Tuesday to approve a contract that will replace the city’s customer relationship management (CRM)/311 call center system with a cloud solution.
The California State Library is the central reference and research library for state government and the Legislature, provides research to policymakers and the executive branch, and preserves California's historical items.
Government officials aiming to promote transparency and accountability have at their disposal a tool that becomes increasingly legitimate with each new project.
The West Big Data Innovation Hub will focus on big data technology, managing natural hazards and resources, precision medicine, metro data science, and data-enabled science and learning.
Data and analytics company Dun & Bradstreet on Monday announced Josh Peirez has been appointed president and chief operating officer and Curtis Brown has been named chief content and technology officer, effective immediately.
Self-service terminals located in 50 DMV field offices statewide collectively have processed 4 million transactions since the first machine was installed in Sacramento in 2010, officials announced.
Written in plain language, a new webpage includes topics under five phases of project management: concept, initiation, planning, execution and closing.
