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John McCurry has served as an account manager with the industry giant since 2021 and is now setting his sights on serving the company’s California state agency clients.
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The state is abandoning a regional design for Next-Generation 911 after experiencing outages, delays, and mounting costs, shifting to a more conventional statewide system that could take years — and hundreds of millions more — to build.
Industry Insider — California will not publish a newsletter Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The newsletter will resume Monday morning. The Industry Insider staff wishes our friends and readers a safe and meaningful holiday celebration.
Sacramento-based IT and management consultant Delegata has tapped Panagiotis Fotopoulos to serve as its senior delivery director.
Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Samsara to the Insider family. Samsara is an international leader in safer, more efficient fleet operations. The San Francisco-based company serves tens of thousands of customers across North America and Europe, which includes a host of state, local and education customers. Samsara was founded in 2015 by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket, who previously co-founded Meraki, and has grown exponentially in the last decade with its solutions that connect vehicles, equipment and people to real-time logistics insights. For more information about Samsara, visit the website or connect with a representative.
A dozen California cities were recognized this year for their work to improve constituent services and daily operations through existing and emerging technologies. In this series, we’ll take a closer look at the work these jurisdictions are doing.
Three IT leaders from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation recently sat down with vendors at an exclusive Industry Insider — California event and talked about how to do meaningful work while “looking for pennies under the cushions.”
As part of a newly approved agreement with Qwake Technologies, the Turlock Fire Department will be one of 10 U.S. cities to pilot helmet-mounted technology, aiming to improve rescue operations.
Long Beach IT officials are set to share short- and long-term plans at an exclusive briefing early next month. Here's what you should know.
At a recent Industry Insider — California event, IT leaders with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation gave several concrete examples of projects they'd like to take on, although funding is a challenge for many of them.
The city of South San Francisco has a new procurement platform that is streamlining local government-vendor relationships. The new platform, from Glass, focuses on connecting the city with smaller, local vendors.
The new “procurement tool and shopping experience” enables state agencies seeking IT goods and services through leveraged procurement agreements to find them at the line-item level.
For vendors interested in Southern California, Industry Insider — California will host two leaders from the IT department of the city of Long Beach in December.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has ideas for how it can better capture data and put it to use. But that's going to take some doing. Three IT leaders from the agency recently outlined the challenges and opportunities for vendors.
Not every chatbot launch goes to plan, a lesson the city of Long Beach learned with the introduction of its own digital assistant, Ask Elby! Officials shared their experiences with the technology at the recent GovAI Coalition Summit in San Jose.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power tapped identity security firm BeyondTrust to strengthen its access management defenses. The move is already paying dividends with fewer help desk calls.
With all California's work toward improving the procurement process, columnist Daniel Kim asks: What can be done to improve the solicitations themselves?
Technologists are in demand at the California Student Aid Commission, the Department of Transportation and the State Compensation Insurance Fund, as each agency looks to strengthen its team.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office will test the use of wearable technology to alert staff of medical emergencies, following past concerns over reliability and infrastructure.
What to Know:
- The purchasing threshold has been raised, meaning agencies can spend more without needing to go to formal procurement.
- The Department of General Services has also consolidated its classifications for agencies' purchasing authority, reducing the number of tiers from four to three.
Industry representatives talked through some of the considerations surrounding government adoption of artificial intelligence during the recent GovAI Coalition Summit in San Jose.
The city’s new request for information invites innovators — from startups to major tech firms — to apply artificial intelligence solutions to city operations, public access and transparency challenges.
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