Lauren Hepler covers the California economy for CalMatters. Her past stories have been published by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian and others. She previously worked as a staff reporter for Protocol and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Since 1998, BM Associates has been providing quality services to State of California public sector clients and Fortune 500 companies across the country.

BlackLine’s cloud-based solutions and market-leading customer service help companies move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility.

Mark Melnicoe is a writer and social media specialist with the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal). He has a long background in journalism and foreign affairs, including as a journalist with the Sacramento Bee and McClatchy Newspapers, as well as with Bloomberg BNA and other news outlets.

AvePoint accelerates your digital transformation success. Over 16,000 companies and 7 million SharePoint and Office 365 users worldwide trust AvePoint software and services for their data migration, management, and protection needs in the cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.

Tek Yantra inc. is serving majority of the VIP, most visited high user volume top 10 public websites of California in 2019,2020, continued in 2021, We provide multi cloud-based solutions for applications to serve millions of concurrent users with five 9's availability and with zero downtime updates, no more wait for infrastructure, our frameworks and processes enables you to deliver the complex cloud Infrastructure in hours. we can give interim solutions and road map to long term solutions that

Hayden AI was founded on the belief that by combining mobile sensors with artificial intelligence, we can help governments bridge the innovation gap while making traffic flow less dangerous and more efficient.

NICE inContact works with organizations of all sizes to create extraordinary and trustworthy customer experiences that build deeper brand loyalty and relationships that last.

Effectual, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, holding the VMware Master Services Competency in VMware Cloud on AWS, is a modern, cloud first managed and professional services company that works with commercial enterprises and the public sector to enable modernization and mitigate risk.

Yubico sets new global standards for simple and secure access to computers, mobile devices, servers, and digital accounts, and helps government and industry organizations mitigate cybersecurity risk by securing access to critical business and customer data with high-assurance multi-factor authentication using the YubiKey.

Qlik's vision is a data-literate world, one where everyone can use data to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems.

In 2015, Whyline was founded to help companies manage the flow of people through the use of virtual queues and ‘smart’ appointment scheduling. Built with hyper-automation and cloud computing, Whyline’s clients’ customers can see the live wait-times, enter into the queue remotely or pre-book their appointment, and let the software wait on their behalf until they are to be seen

Katya Maruri is a staff writer for Government Technology, a sister publication of Techwire. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in global strategic communications from Florida International University, and more than five years of experience in the print and digital news industry.

Delphix is the industry leader in programmable data infrastructure. Delphix automates the biggest constraint in digital transformation programs—the data. With our multi-cloud data platform, state and local government agencies can modernize legacy apps 20% faster, migrate to the cloud 30% faster, and release software 50% faster, while maintaining compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, etc.

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. We're committed to protecting government agencies from the inherent risk that comes with providing technology access across today's diverse and remote workforce. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of organizations\s worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring that each worker has the right access to do their job - no more, no less.

Tenable®, Inc. is the Cyber Exposure company, providing vulnerability management and cyber compliance solutions for the State of California. Over 30,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand their network vulnerabilities and reduce cyber risk.

Altair works with 35+ State of California departments to provide automated self-service data preparation solutions and to build predictive and prescriptive analytic models with no coding or advanced Excel skills needed. One of Altair’s key strengths is the ability to extract data from unstructured formats, like PDF or txt files, generated by a legacy mainframe or reporting system.

Dr. Keith Clement, a professor of criminology at Cal State Fresno, is the chairman of the Workforce Development and Education Subcommittee of the governor’s California Cybersecurity Task Force (CCTF). Clement, described by a peer as “the lightning rod and the champion” of the cybersecurity curriculum initiative, has been leading a team working to develop and refine a standardized model curriculum.

IDCI’s mission is to provide our clients with effective project management and information systems services characterized by exceptional competence, integrity and subject matter knowledge.

Infosys Public Services, a U.S. based subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), is a leader in business consulting, technology solutions, and next-generation digital services. We enable public sector organizations in the US and Canada to navigate their digital transformation.

Life as a technology leader in government has never been more challenging. On the one hand, citizens are demanding streamlined, sophisticated digital experiences while on the other hand you need to support the functionality of dated legacy systems. Antiquated paper-based processes can make this transition even more challenging. Hiring more staff helps, but it’s not a sustainable solution.

SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection through a single agent that successfully prevents, detects and responds to attacks across all major vectors.

Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. (“Ceridian” or the “Company”) (NYSE:CDAY) (TSX:CDAY) is a global human capital management software company. Dayforce, our flagship cloud HCM platform, provides human resources, payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management functionality.

Granicus provides citizen engagement technologies and services for the public sector, bringing governments closer to the people they serve. Over 4,500 federal, state, and local government agencies trust Granicus for cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, short-term rental compliance, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services. For more information, visit www.granicus.com

Cradlepoint is a global leader in cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless network edge solutions for branch, mobile, and IoT networks. Cradlepoint NetCloud, the personification of the company’s Elastic Edge vision, is a subscription-based service with purpose-built endpoints that delivers a pervasive, secure, and software-defined Wireless WAN edge to connect people, places, and things over LTE and 5G cellular networks.