Jeff Warren is a consultant on "Design Thinking" and other topics for the Los Angeles County Information Technology Service Division. He is also lead consultant for the Barkley Consulting Group, working with CIOs, business leaders, administrators, and IT professionals.

West Advanced Technologies, Inc. (WATI), a Digital Transformation consulting company, with special focus on public sector, offers technology solutions that help our customers address complex business challenges and transform their business for growth since 1998.

Delegata is the trusted go-to partner for California State Agencies. Known for quality, innovation, and delivery-excellence, Delegata has more than 19 years of experience leveraging technology to deliver business value.

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John Frith is a Folsom-based writer and editor with a background in state, local and federal legislative affairs as well as journalism and public relations.

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CALmatters is a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.

Janet Grenslitt is the director of surveys and awards for the Center for Digital Government.

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and soon-to-be-former executive director of Code for America. As the U.S. deputy chief technology officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013 to 2014, she designed and helped found the United States Digital Service. She is searching for her CfA successor as she transitions to an advisory role.

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Rebecca Friedman is media services director for Los Angeles County’s Internal Services Department.

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Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham is a Republican representing Assembly District 35 in San Luis Obispo. He may be reached at Assemblymember.cunningham@assembly.ca.gov. He wrote this commentary for CALmatters.

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 57 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers. At one point in his career, at age 22, he was the nation’s youngest daily newspaper editor. He subsequently covered the Capitol for the Sacramento Union and the Sacramento Bee and, in 1981, began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to state political, economic and social events. He's written books and has been a frequent guest on national televis

Carmen Marsh is CEO of Inteligenca Inc., a Roseville-based cyber-risk management company founded in November 2017. Her experience in technology encompasses the public and private sectors, and her specialties have been systems engineering and cybersecurity.

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Benjamin Palacio is an IT Analyst on the ESSG-Enterprise Solutions Team in the Placer County Information Technology Department and is a CSAC-credentialed IT Executive. The views expressed here are his own. He may be reached at bmptech@cebridge.net