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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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The departments include the Office of Legislative Counsel, the California Department of Veterans Affairs, the California Department of Technology and the Employment Development Department.
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The California Blockchain Working Group examines the technology's potential uses, risks and benefits to state government and business in its new report to the Legislature — which could have considerable influence on policy and direction. Among its findings are three recommended pilots and possible future use cases.
“We've used it for COVID; we also used it throughout the George Floyd protests,” said Los Angeles' Chief Innovation Officer Amanda Daflos. “It was a really important tool for understanding what people were feeling and thinking about. ”
One piece of broadband legislation still making its way through the statehouse is aimed at making it easier for local governments and Internet service providers to access funds for high-speed broadband projects. A critic, however, charges it would "upend" the direction of state funding and potentially shift focus away from areas that lack service.
The health-care agency found its new chief information officer in the educational sector, where he has worked for nearly seven years of a 30-year career that spans the private and public sectors.
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National protests have prompted Amazon to halt police use of its facial recognition tech for one year, but advocates take issue with the company’s law enforcement partnerships, which enable police to access video recordings from doorbell cameras in private homes.
In his current role as the state’s chief technology innovation officer, Gregory has most recently led a team in the Office of Enterprise Technology within CDT.
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The state transportation and technology agencies have released a multimillion-dollar RFP seeking vendors to create a system that will do more to help manage transportation assets -- driving efficiencies and meeting state and federal laws in the process.
Slocum has more than 25 years’ experience in technology sales and sales management, having been affiliated with, among others, Varonis, NetBrain Technologies, Oracle, Symantec and Texas Instruments.
Quentin Wright, chief information officer and chief technology officer for the California Department of Technology, talks about his role at CDT, an RFP to watch out for, and his more than 20-year career with the state.
Malware attacks on prominent businesses and institutions are nothing new. But experts say the shift to working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic may be making it easier for hackers to find a way in.
The city was working on its Continuity of Operations plan when the pandemic forced everyone to work remotely. Chief Innovation Officer George Khalil and his team had to scramble, and security was paramount. And the city didn't have an IT security chief.
Jonathan Nunez, 33, has 16 years' experience in data, intelligence and security, beginning with a role in the U.S. Air Force. His appointment caps a recruitment that had been ongoing since November 2018.
“This is an excellent opportunity for an emerging or established leader to help guide the technology growth of a progressive criminal justice department," the job posting says. The specialist will work with counterparts from a variety of governmental and criminal justice agencies, both regional and on a statewide level.
The state's 2020-2021 Fiscal Year budget is about 6 percent smaller than last year's and takes into account a projected $54.3 billion shortfall, due to the economic climate brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. But it also finds funding for several technology and innovation projects and initiatives.
The state is seeking to replace the "forms-driven" system for tracking lobbying and campaign contributions. The new system will rely primarily on data.
Areas of opportunity abound for partnerships, digital innovation, and community engagement and advocacy.
Before joining ZScaler this month, Ford’s affiliations included Globanet, Mimecast, Metalogix and Symantec. “I've covered Public Sector/SLED in all of my positions, and will most likely have a few SLED accounts at Zscaler as well,” Ford told Techwire.
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Technological innovation in artificial intelligence has shifted. For the better part of a decade, AI operated within tightly bounded constraints: classifying images, generating text, and using these capabilities to surface recommendations. While these systems were powerful, they were fundamentally passive. They needed to receive a prompt in order to return a result. Once the result was achieved, the system stopped.
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