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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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Suzanne Vitale, who has more than 30 years’ experience in technology and business innovations, joined Cambria Solutions as executive director in 2013. She was named president in January 2020, one of few female presidents of tech companies.
This report from CalMatters poses the question, "With contact tracing apps in the works, how much personal data are you willing to trade away for a return to life as it was before the pandemic?"
Hammond, a Sacramento-area resident who attended UC Santa Barbara, describes her strengths as planning, negotiation, budgeting, vendor and partner management, government partnerships and strategic planning.
The Judicial Council of California, the policymaking body for California’s courts, wants to be able to do more with data, including extracting information from unstructured formats, quickly locating specific transactions and building reusable templates and reports.
The IT leaders of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California Highway Patrol will be featured this week in a pair of virtual briefings hosted by Techwire.
Results will count, but complex recommendations may not do well, two elected officials told a subcommittee of the California Blockchain Working Group.
“I know this sounds crazy since we’re California, we’re the tech capital of the world,” Labor Secretary Julie Su said. “But our system is … inflexible; it’s very hard to change.”
The new geographic information officer also serves as manager of data and geospatial services — an area that state IT leaders see as pivotal across many lines of business.
The Southern California municipality initially told residents that their personal information had not been compromised in the March incident, but hackers' decision to publish the city's data online shows otherwise.
"The role of innovation as a concept and as a practice is continuing to become more important for state and local governments. ... Industry partners play an essential role to this ongoing movement."
San Jose's IT leader, Rob Lloyd, shares with his peers the five levels of digital maturity in government. One takeaway: Virtualizing your operations isn't the goal — it's only the first step toward resilience and recovery.
The state will deploy a Web-based app on Tuesday to help residents apply for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance — but other solutions are also on the way, Gov. Gavin Newsom told Techwire on Friday during his daily press conference on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Sacramento employees were working remotely because of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic when officials launched the new customer resource management (CRM) platform for their 311 customer service center. The unprecedented deployment went smoothly and is already yielding positive results.
He has more than 15 years of experience working with large public safety and government agencies in the region, including cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego and San Jose.
"We were just starting that journey when this whole thing hit. … I was talking with other CIOs: It feels like we’ve progressed two or three years of IT maturity into like two or three weeks,” says San Mateo County's Chief Information Officer Jon Walton.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic gives the California Department of Vehicles’ ongoing technological modernization a new sense of urgency, its new Digital Transformation Officer Ajay Gupta told Techwire, and the agency continues to streamline processes and offer new services online.
California has had “a wonderful week of progress” in fighting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the state’s top health official said Wednesday, signaling a couple of key technology-driven gains -- and plans for more.
Huang was most recently affiliated with CrowdStrike. His previous affiliations have included CloudFlare, AviNetworks, SevOne and F5. His experience includes DevOps, OpenStack, hybrid cloud and AWS.
University of California, San Diego Health radiologists and other physicians are now using artificial intelligence to augment lung imaging analysis, in a clinical research study enabled by Amazon Web Services.
The tool is called TrackCOVID, and it is a free, open source app that its creators say also ensures the privacy of those who are potentially affected.
At the first, virtual meeting of the Closing the Digital Divide Task Force, state Assembly and Senate members heard from Internet service providers on what they have done to help connect California students to the Internet since the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made learning remote.
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Forrester just published The Forrester Wave — Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, an independent evaluation of 14 vendors in the CNAPP market. Wiz was named the Leader and received the highest score!
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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