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The mission of the Artificial Intelligence Community (AIC) is to bring state experts together in shaping the future of ethical, transparent, and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI).
AI has the potential to create significant opportunities for government transformation, enabling greater efficiency while improving the accuracy and effectiveness of decision-making and service delivery.
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm PDT Guest Speaker:
- Daniel Ho, Professor and Director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab), Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI); Member of Governor Newsom’s Technology Innovation Council
- Shera Mui, Acting State Chief Platform Officer, California Department of Technology
- Lucy Andrews, PhD, Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Water Resources
- Ben McDonald, Deputy Counsel, California Workforce Development Board
Topic: Early Use Cases of AI in California
Please subscribe to CDT’s AI community to attend the above events.
Past Events
Friday, May 15, 2026
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm PDT Guest Speaker: Matthew Forsberg Topic: The Nexus of AI and Cybersecurity
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Special Event! Time: 09:00am – 12:00pm PDT Location: In-person in Sacramento
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm PDT Guest Speaker: Gerard de Graaf Topic: Taking Stock of AI Policy in the EU
Friday, January 23, 2026
Time: 10:00am-12:00 pm PDT Agenda:
- How use cases are supported and nurtured: featuring the State Innovation Process + UCB process
- Co-presentation from:
- Ren Pope, State Chief Enterprise Architect
- Bill Allison, UC Berkeley Chief Technology Officer
- Co-presentation from:
- Fireside chat with Ren and Bill moderated by Vera Zakem, State Chief Technology Innovation Officer
- Use Case Lightning Round featuring:
- Chaeny Emanavin, Deputy State Chief Technology Officer, CA Department of Technology
- Christian Beltran, Deputy Director of Legislation, CA Department of Finance
- Douglas McSkimming, Chief of Staff & Director of Communications, UC Berkeley People & Culture
- Tom Tripp, Executive Director, Haas Digital, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
November 20, 2025
Time: 10:00am-11:30am PDT Guest Speaker: Liam Wilkinson, Head of AI Incubation, Incubator for AI in the Government Digital Service in DSIT Topic: How the UK is Building AI for the Public Good
September 25, 2025
Time: 10:30am-12:00pm PDT Guest Speaker: Hemant Bhargava, Distinguished Professor of Management, UC Davis, + Suran Chair in Technology Management, Director, Center for Analytics & Technology in Society Topic: Making AI Work for You
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Time: 10:00am-11:30am PDT Guest Speaker: Dr. Radha Iyengar Plumb, Former Chief Digital and AI Officer at the United States Department of Defense Topic: From the Pentagon Playbook – Scaling AI in Practice
May 21, 2025
Guest Speakers: Vera Zakem, State Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Deirdre Mulligan, Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley and former Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Topic: Fireside Chat on AI
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time: 2:30am-4:00pm PDT Guest Speaker: Ed Clark, Chief Information Officer, California State University Topic: The AI-Empowered CSU
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Guest Speaker: Anirban Sen, Senior Product Manager, California Department of Technology and Yiannis Theodorou, Senior Advisor & Global Lead – Digital Identity, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Topic: Digital Identity and AI
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Guest Speaker: Fernando Pérez, Associate Professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley, a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the current Faculty Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley (BIDS)
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Guest Speaker: Dr. Safiya Noble, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at UCLA; Professor of Gender Studies, Information Studies, African American Studies; Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice; Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative Topic: Algorithmic Discrimination and Technology Bias in the World of AI
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Guest Speaker: Bob Kasenchak, Information Architect at Factor Topic: Uses, Abuses, and Risks: an Information Science Perspective on GenAI
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Guest Speaker: Dr. Lauren Sanders – Project Scientist for the NASA Open Science Data Repository and the Lead of the Artificial Intelligence for Life in Space working group Topics: NASA real-world use cases that cover the full spectrum of AI
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Guest Speaker: Brandie Nonnecke, PhD – Director, CITRIS Policy Lab; Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; Host of TecHype Topics: Primer on AI and what it is, e.g. traditional AI vs. generative AI; A look at what goes into developing AI strategies using CA, WA, and the UC system as case studies
January 11, 2024
Guest Speaker: Lake Dai – Founder of Sancus Ventures, Adjunct Professor of Applied AI at Carnegie Mellon University **Topics:**AI Use Cases, Risks, Governance, and Collaborative Development
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