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“I’m excited to join the team at Golden Bridge Strategies and hope to build on the success they have had in working with clients on IT projects that have a positive impact on the delivery of public-sector services,” Smith told Industry Insider.
Erdkamp brings extensive leadership experience to the CalSAWS executive director role. The high-profile project to streamline benefits access spans all 58 counties in the state.
As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to inform readers about state and local agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with IT leaders. Responses have been lightly edited.
The nation’s largest state justice system spent $1,669,358 on the corresponding purchases in the first quarter of 2023.
With the state staring down the barrel of a multibillion-dollar deficit, lawmakers have been busy looking for solutions. Here’s a look at some of the changes for IT.
The report shows just how much the possibilities of AI, and very real worries, have come to the fore since OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot that sent the artificial intelligence industry into overdrive.
“Part of the AIO role is to support and partner with the other departments within the agency,” Robinette told Industry Insider — California. “I want to focus on the innovation part of it. There’s some super-capable CIOs within the agency.”
The Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative will host its advisory committee meeting Friday.
Emanavin, a seasoned government IT leader, has been tapped to serve as the California Department of Technology's deputy chief technology officer.
The move to the cloud is still underway, with the first phase of the migration of back-office systems and services complete. The department will now turn its attention to migrating “non-production environments to the cloud,” Murty wrote.
This time around, the vast majority of the layoffs are not in the tech industry, a sector that has been trimming jobs at an elevated pace for more than two years.
The California Highway Patrol is seeking a CTO, and the California Department of Technology is recruiting for a GISD data engineering architect.
The unauthorized individuals had access to users’ personal information, including their name, address, date of birth, part or all of their Social Security number, email address, phone number, EBT card number and other information about their program eligibility and benefits.
California Department of Social Services CIO Chad Crowe and Gregory Nelson, the information security and privacy officer, will be speaking Thursday about the department’s IT governance and current projects in this exclusive Industry Insider — California event.
The California Health and Human Services Agency’s new IT and Data Strategic Plan underscores a resident-centric, integrated approach to services. It highlights the crucial role of IT professionals in advancing digital equity.
Industry Insider — California is pleased to welcome Radian Solutions to the Industry Insider family. Since its inception in 1998, Radian Solutions has been a trusted provider of comprehensive IT services to the state of California. Radian Solutions is a certified small business and an approved vendor on the CMAS and TDDC IT-MSA (Tier 3, $5 million limit). Its expertise encompasses program management, procurement support (PAL support), cloud solutions, data management, modernization projects, disaster recovery (SIMM 5325 support), business analysis and quality assurance. For more information, contact Josh Koshy or go to radiansolutions.com.
The California Department of Insurance spent just over $6 million on its five largest purchases of IT goods last year.
As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to inform readers about state and local agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with IT leaders. Responses have been lightly edited.
The legislation would set the stage for courts in 11 counties to implement and test remote court reporting technology.
The Governor’s Office of Planning and Research is seeking a chief information officer, and the California Lottery is seeking a data supervisor and a back-end analytics developer.
The system's loop cable, which transmits the data between the central servers and the trains, is old, “has less bandwidth than an old AOL dial-up modem,” and is too fragile to extend above ground.
In his new role, the Los Angeles-based executive will manage six sales teams covering California, the Pacific Northwest, the Rockies, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
TechNet, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of tech companies like Meta and Google with huge investments in AI, says the kinds of disclosures that bill calls for would kneecap the U.S. edge in AI technology.
The California Department of General Services is looking for a vendor to provide a solution for the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
“The hope is that by it being user-friendly on the back end, we can enhance the experience on the front end as well,” said city public affairs manager Jennifer Carey.
An AI-enabled tool from the journalism nonprofit CalMatters is giving unprecedented and streamlined access to the data created at the Capitol.
“Whether we like it or not, AI is going to be a dominant technology,” said Khaled Tawfik, San Jose’s chief information officer. “We want to be the leader in discovering the risk and finding ways to mitigate it.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Warren to our leadership team,” said Jeff Smith, president of TabordaENS. “His extensive experience and proven track record in financial and operational leadership will be instrumental in driving TabordaENS forward as we continue to innovate and grow.”
“One of my primary goals as a Box representative for California is to educate IT leaders on the ways Box can help them accelerate their missions and modernize their infrastructure while reducing, not increasing, their total spend,” Ternan told Industry Insider — California.
The California Health and Human Services Agency’s IT and Data Strategic Plan offers an in-depth look at how the massive agency will deploy technology and services in the years ahead.
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