After a Dallas County cyber breach, a county commissioner says the government needs to fill the position, which has been vacant more than three months.
In the next few months, you will notice some changes to the Industry Insider — Texas site as we continue to refine the platform to provide more features and improve usability.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers has announced its new leadership choices, and has tapped Amanda Crawford for one of the top roles.
“Sometimes the operational tempo can be long and tough, but this team of skilled technicians, leaders and high-performing teammates never says no to a request or a challenge. They always ask how we can solve it.”
The capital city has made it official: Kerrica Laake will lead the city’s IT efforts. Laake has experience both in the city and with community-owned Austin Energy.
Industry Insider — Texas is pleased to welcome Deloitte to the Industry Insider family. Deloitte has been working in the Texas public sector for more than 50 years and continues to work with state agencies, local governments and higher education. Its public-sector professionals provide a range of services including project and program management within the Texas Project Delivery Framework. For more information, visit Deloitte or contact Kindra Allen.
The State of Technology: Texas Industry Forum has a robust speaker lineup that will discuss technology implications of the state budget and recent legislation.
Industry Insider — Texas is pleased to welcome Slalom Consulting to the Industry Insider family. Slalom Consulting is a worldwide consulting company that centers its work on strategy, technology and business transformation. In Texas, Slalom offers deliverables-based information technology services (DBITS) through its contract with the Texas Department of Information Resources under its DIR cooperative contracts, including application development, maintenance and support, as well as technology upgrade, migration and transformation and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Backed up by hubs of regional innovation, partnerships with top tech providers and a global culture of collaboration, the company’s teams move fast in 45 markets around the globe. Founded in 2001, Slalom Consulting, which is headquartered in Seattle, has grown to more than 13,000 staffers. For eight years running, Slalom has been ranked among Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at slalom.com or contact stacie.butler@slalom.com.
e.Republic CEO Cathilea Robinett and Chief Strategy Officer/Chief Innovation Officer Dustin Haisler will present a half-hour overview on how to “10X Your SLED Sales and Marketing with Generative AI.”
The city implemented a system to identify and detect drone activity in restricted airspace or near critical infrastructure. The deployment comes ahead of the FAA mandate that requires drones have remote identification capability.
As part of Industry Insider — Texas’ ongoing efforts to educate readers on state and local government, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
This month’s Insider Briefing in Austin will feature the CIO of the state Department of Agriculture and the IT director of the Texas Office of Court Administration.
