More than 250 IT leaders from state agencies and leading technology companies attended a WaTech IT Industry Forum & AI Summit on March 25 to explore using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve government services and ensure equitable outcomes for Washington residents.
WaTech Director and State CIO Bill Kehoe kicked off the event, urging the audience to brainstorm new ways of…
More than 200 government IT leaders attended the Esri Public Sector CIO Summit on March 20-21 to discuss Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how to integrate geospatial thinking into their work.
The Esri Public Sector CIO Summit was an invitation-only event for government IT leaders who want to understand GIS capabilities and discover how to leverage GIS to build…
Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech) is excited to announce the Open Data Advisory Group's participation in the global celebration of Open Data Week, taking place from March 2-8, 2024.
This week-long event is dedicated to encouraging open data awareness, sharing best practices in data management, and fostering a community that supports data…
March 2-8, 2024, marks the annual celebration of Open Data Week, a celebration of data that's aimed at raising awareness and building a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and research data services. The Open Data Week purpose is an annual celebration of open data all over the world.
…Katy Ruckle, WaTech’s state Chief Privacy Officer, and Nick Stowe, WaTech's state Chief Technology Officer, appeared on TVW’s Inside Olympia this week to discuss how the state plans to handle the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Gov. Jay Inslee recently released an executive order to “develop guidelines for how the state adopts…
