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Three state departments are looking for high-level technical talent to run their IT operations.
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Many new laws passed by California contain requirements for progress reports. This year, agencies have sent in such reports only 16 percent of the time.
Going forward, the state will be seeking to engage more with vendors and find partners to improve compliance and cyber hygiene across its massive, complicated enterprise.
“Be prepared, get excited and enjoy the metamorphosis. My prediction is that we will look back and wonder how we got by without AI,” writes state Transportation Secretary Toks Omishakin.
“Bob’s deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities within California’s public sector will play a vital role in strengthening our ability to serve this critical market,” said Brian Glowiak, Samsara’s director of major accounts in the public sector for the Western U.S.
The CDO will work with the department’s chief information officer and chief technology innovation officer and will interact with other departments and agencies.
Vendors and other innovators have opportunities to pitch and possibly demonstrate their proposals in the areas of housing, workforce planning and state finance. The window of opportunity for these Requests for Innovative Ideas is six weeks.
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After the municipality’s former longtime CIO retired, Culver City has a new chief information officer with a history of local government IT work in J.R. Wright.
Up to 700 manufacturing and tech jobs are expected to be created, along with 1,000 temporary construction jobs, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Bosch is also in talks for up to $225 million in proposed loans from the CHIPS program.
San Jose also has expressed interest in working with Nvidia to pilot AI programs to further its sustainability goals, including reducing the carbon footprint.
Jeffrey Aguilar, the chief information security officer for the nation’s most populous county, has joined Hoag Health System, an Orange County-based company, as vice president and CISO.
Matt Mahan, who has experience in the tech-driven Silicon Valley private sector, reflected on the structural differences between government and the kinds of tech startup culture guiding the thinking of figures like Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy.
The positions in recruitment are Enterprise Project Management Office manager, architecture and engineering chief, and data and reporting specialist.
Robert Koji Kumpulainien has been named deputy director for service innovation in the Office of Data and Innovation. Jarrett Krumrei has been named ODI's lead product manager. Both have been recognized for their previous work in the California Department of Technology.
The watchdog Little Hoover Commission has distilled the findings of a series of public hearings on artificial intelligence into a set of nine specific recommendations to Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature.
“With the Broadband Master Plan initiative, we look forward to learning how to better serve San Diego and eliminate the digital equity divide,” Jonathan Behnke, the city’s chief information officer, said in a statement.
Police departments in Fresno, San Mateo, East Palo Alto and Campbell are using Axon’s Draft One technology and have praised its speed and time-saving capabilities. Critics cite concerns about accuracy and fairness.
Gov tech officials have joined the GovAI Coalition, formed late last year, to collectively form policies and best practices for introducing AI-enabled tools. They're looking to flank the fast-moving technology.
The City Council last week approved up to $1.5 million for the two-part solution. The vendors are CommunityLogiq and Replica.
The county Board of Supervisors voted to dismiss the leader of its IT department, Tonya Digiorno, and is searching for a replacement.
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