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 podcast@californiatechnology.org.

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.

In this first episode in our new AI series, we look ahead at future topics with series partner Antoinette Konski from Foley and Lardner, then explore major business trends in the use and culture around data tools for decision support with Ken DeJarnette, former global risk leader at Deloitte.

On this special episode of Inside the Founder's Studio, CTC's BioCalifornia Initiative explores the manufacturing of biotech products with Eric Langer, renowned international expert in biomanufacturing. Eric discusses the product development and strategic implications of manufacturing for those in industry, as well as workforce and economic development considerations for those interested in the industry.

We go Inside the Founder's Studio with Tara Kochis-Stach of Slone Partners and Jonathan Norris of Silicon Valley Bank to discuss the financial trends in the medical diagnostics and research tools space. We look at how emerging companies are dealing with Big Data, new players on the scene from tech, and planning for success with excellence in hiring great people.

In part one of a special series putting the Startup Spotlight on Riverside, California, we speak to Dr. Paul Zorner about the computational biology startup Sensorygen. Dr. Zorner describes the company's early efforts as we begin to take a closer look at the unique startups originating from California's Inland Empire.

Doug Curry is founder of Xceligent, a commercial real estate technology platform and a member of the California Technology Council. Doug goes 'Inside the Founder's Studio' to discuss the inspiration for Xceligent, the challenges of creating a new approach to commercial real estate as a digital marketplace, and the maturation of this industry segment. Doug gives a look deep inside the development of Xceligent over time, including its own transformation at times of major industry change.

The Honorable James Connaughton is CEO of Nautilus Data Technologies, a data center company poised to lead a revolution in that industry's well-established business model. Connaughton goes Inside the Founder's Studio with CTC to explore the company's inspiration, its growth, and an optimistic vision of the future.

In this episode of 'The Innovation Agenda,' CTC speaks with Liz Hyman of our national affiliate CompTIA about the initial indications for skilled workforce immigration in the Trump Administration, including the potential for changes in the H-1B Visa program which has been important to both technology industry and to the funding of training programs.

Oren Falkowitz goes Inside the Founder's Studio with CTC to discuss his company Area 1 Security. Area 1 aims to help every enterprise address one of the most common forms of vulnerability in the cyber world, phishing attacks. He also gives a fresh perspective on how an entrepreneur needs a support network, and looks back with grace on his own experience with mentors.

Marlon Evans, CEO of GSV Labs, visits with Temples of Technology to talk about the unique assets and global approach of GSV. He explores their four-sector strategy and details some of the ways GSV provides support to entrepreneurs from all over the world seeking to access the best Silicon Valley has to offer.

Filmmakers Darren Mann and Christian Johnston joined us for a conversation about their documentary, "State of Control." In our wide-ranging discussion, we explored the ways technology enables and simplifies undercover journalism, cybersecurity, and risks of the trade of filmmaking.