California Tech Council Podcasts

CTC spoke with Marty Cooper about completing the deployment of the infrastructure to finally cross the digital divide, and what it would mean for education, healthcare, and much more.

CTC spoke with Kyla Frye of the West Texas Enterprise Center about how the Center's programs support entrepreneurs in the Amarillo region.

We had the privilege of hosting a fireside chat with cell phone inventor Marty Cooper. During our conversation, we asked Marty for his perspective on how Chicago had sustained its telecommunications cluster for so long.

Our Startup Spotlight series explores regions of innovation and the companies and institutions that drive them.

Patrick Coughlin is co-founder and CEO of TruSTAR. He visits CalCISO to discuss industry maturation, integration, and the potential for security to evolve with metrics and measurement.

In this week's episode of CTC's Artificial Intelligence Series with Foley and Lardner, we speak with machine learning and data science advisor Beau Norgeot, an advisor to startup Lucid Lane, about entering a third phase of personalized medicine, how society pays for healthcare innovation, interoperability, longitudinal data, and more in a sweeping conversation about data, AI, and healthcare.

This Week With CalCISO, Paul Kurtz joins us to discuss the data-centric security model. In short, how can we move away from a cybersecurity model driven by a collection of tools, and towards a model of data assimilation in the cloud. This is the first in a three-part series with TruSTAR.

In this week's episode of CTC's Artificial Intelligence Series with Foley and Lardner, Antoinette Konski talks with Berkeley Professor Bin Yu on the ways machine learning and AI are being applied in health research, assisting the COVID effort, and how the human filter is being adapted to push research as quickly as possible.

On This Week With CalCISO, we ask Megan Branch of CertNexus to tell us about their new certification for ethics in emerging technology (CEET). As part of their portfolio of artificial intelligence certifications, CEET provides multi-disciplinary perspectives on the handling and implications of novel technologies, helping managers consider 360 views such as human resource, customer, privacy, and public relations points of view. Megan describes the program, available on Coursera, in detail, including a preview of the incredible team CertNexus assembled for instruction. Email us with feedback at [email protected].

On this episode of CTC's AI Series with Foley and Lardner, we discuss the maturation of Big Data and machine learning with Dr. Bin Yu of UC Berkeley. Dr. Yu points out that we are still in the very early days for these tools. Practitioners remain vigilant in an environment of supervised learning, and the vision, as Dr. Yu lays out, continues to be one of human-machine collaboration in the future.

CTC's Artificial Intelligence series, in partnership with Foley and Lardner, continues with part two of our discussion with Ken DeJarnette. In this episode, Ken talks about his experience working with management teams to foster the right environment for decision support, creating frameworks for analysis, and establishing the right business ethics for using these tools.