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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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“As OTA’s new CIO, I am working closely with the Executive Management Team and program staff to help bring technology innovations and best practices to the organization, to meet our missions and critical business needs,” says Chief Information Officer Hieu Truong.
The webinar will cover tools and practices that an organization may use to defend against cyberattacks and will demonstrate the benefits of cyber-emergency planning and organizing the workforce for a large-scale response. It’s open to the public.
The Center for Digital Government recognized 11 California cities this year, including one first-place category winner, in its annual Digital Cities survey.
State government leaders and industry experts will gather virtually Friday for “State of Technology -- California Industry Forum,” to offer their inside views on the trends, opportunities and budget forecasts driving California’s $11 billion government IT market.
Election experts said the county's voting system in Los Angeles appears to have met its high expectations, even while changing long-held routines and habits developed around election night.
Liza Mendoza, an IT veteran, has nearly 20 years’ experience in the private sector including sales, management and executive roles with e.Republic (parent company of Techwire), FireEye, ForeScout Technologies and Oracle. Granicus also named Patrick Moore vice president for business development.
Four agencies are seeking IT professionals for several key roles. Application deadlines for the positions are within two weeks.
Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed the longtime technology leader as the city’s new leader for budget and innovation. Holm had served as chief knowledge architect and digital strategy manager for NASA before joining Los Angeles.
Following a procurement that has lasted much of the year, the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency announced a new contract with a private-sector company to quickly deploy the Homeless Data Integration System, featuring solutions from other IT vendors.
The city’s detailed website offers other resources for those seeking to learn more about its “smart city” initiatives as well as portals for open data, procurement, geographic information services and other topics of potential interest to the vendor community.
California has partnered with academia as it pursues the endeavor, to stimulate study of its AI use cases and generate “baseline recommendations” for state AI strategy and policy.
Contact tracing is considered a powerful tool in curbing the spread of COVID-19, doing so by informing close contacts of infected individuals of the exposure so that they can self-quarantine. That helps contain case clusters while they remain small.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Gainwell Technologies to the Techwire family. Formed through DXC Technology’s recent sale of its state and local health and human services business to Veritas Capital, Gainwell has a 25-year history of working with state and local public health agencies to support their health information programs. Its human services technologies reveal valuable insights from public health screening data, driving improved long-term outcomes for communities. Its human solutions empower eligibility and intervention programs as well as WIC administration. For information visit gainwelltechnologies.com or contact Bill Woodruff.
The California departments of Technology and Public Health are working with five more University of California campuses in an expansion of their ongoing pilot of an app that notifies UC students and employees of potential exposure to COVID-19.
The information harvested from e-scooters and newer forms of mobility has helped San Diego shape the way these types of vehicles will become a part of the city.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Unqork to the Techwire family. Unqork is a completely visual, no-code application platform that helps large enterprises build complex custom software faster, with higher quality and lower costs than traditional approaches. Its solutions allow government and business partners to eliminate the overhead associated with legacy code and maintenance. For more information, visit unqork.com or contact Clint Buytenhuys.
California Department of Technology officials talked about how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the blueprint and life cycle of IT initiatives, and what that may mean in the future.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Ceridian to the Techwire family. Ceridian offers a variety of services and solutions related to retail and hospitality, manufacturing, health care, financial services, the public sector, and sports entertainment. Its Dayforce enterprise human capital management software combines payroll, HR, benefits, talent and workforce management in a single cloud application to power the future of work. For more information, visit Ceridian.com or contact Gianluca Cairo.
Many contracts that were up this year have been extended to “give us time to get dispatched from the COVID response and be able to focus back on our regular PD operations,” said state Chief Procurement Officer Angela Shell. But there are still many opportunities for vendors, she noted.
The two-day online gathering will include a roster of 20 speakers in nine categories. It will include opportunities for vendors to network with Los Angeles County technology professionals and others.
The California Department of Technology’s top five most expensive purchases of IT goods in October totaled more than $7 million and included purchases of hardware, software and analytics tools.
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