Author Archive: UC IT Blog

INTERVIEW: Creating a vibrant Black at UC community – key takeaways from Van Williams’ fireside chat with Charron Andrus, UC Berkeley

Van Williams Fireside Chat with Charron Andrus: Key Takeaways

By Jackie Brown and Laurel Skurko. “We have moved ‘UC Tech’ from being a conference to being a community,” explains Van Williams, the vice president (VP) of Information Technology (IT) and chief information officer (CIO) for the University of California…
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EVENT: 2024 California Cybersecurity Workforce Development and Education Summit on March 8 – Register Now

EVENT: 2024 California Cybersecurity Workforce Development and Education Summit on March 8 - Register Now

Register now for this important event for cybersecurity workforce development and education professionals and colleagues, including industry, the public sector, and K-12 education/higher education communities and partners. This event will be addressing the vision of creating a cybersecurity career…
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NEWS: UC Investments and Technology Delivery Services at UC Office of the President forge a new path in cybersecurity excellence 

UC Investments

By Laurel Skurko and Brendon Phuong. As cyber criminals have become more sophisticated, so has the battle to stop them. That explains why UC Investments, which manages the University of California’s investments ($152 billion in Fiscal Year 2023), and Technology…
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NEWS: UC Tech Conference 2022 Planning Committee wins Yvonne Tevis UC Wide Collaboration 2023 silver award

UC Wide Collaboration Award goes to the UC Tech Conference 2022 Planning Committee

Last year, the UC San Diego UC Tech Conference 2022 Planning Committee received the 2023 silver “Yvonne Tevis UC Wide Collaboration” award for their successful management of a challenging hybrid event. Despite time constraints and remote work, the committee, comprised…
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INTERVIEW: Kelsey Couzzo, recently at UCSF, speaks about using data visualization to communicate to a different part of the brain and addresses its inherent challenge – accessibility

UC Tech Community Member: Kelsey Couzzo, Data Visualization Specialist, There are strengths to data visualization that can’t be replicated: it can communicate to a part of the brain that doesn’t require mental energy.”

By Derek Shue. Kelsey Couzzo, a data visualization specialist, spoke with the UC Tech News team about her journey spearheading accessibility education and implementation at UCSF. In an era driven by data, dashboards are a valuable tool to quickly communicate…
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EVENT: ‘Beyond the Hype’ and other essential insights on AI, a six-part series hosted by UC Center Sacramento – register now

Beyond the Hype AI Event Series by UC Center Sacramento - Register now

The UC Center Sacramento, which produces weekly events to provide research-based knowledge to policy-makers and the UC community, created a six-part series to provide important elements of the AI conversation for state policy makers and the UC community. Please register…
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RESOURCE: Scholarship program to advance diversity in the tech industry – deadline January 31st

AWT Scholarship Program - deadline Jan 31

Thank you, Lucy Avetisyan, chief information officer (CIO) of UCLA, for bringing this important opportunity to our attention. This program advances diversity in the tech industry, and is available to female students in STEM fields in 4-year universities or colleges….
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RESOURCE: AI Resources – provided by the UC Tech community

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This resource guide provides AI news sources and other resources based principally on University of California, EDUCAUSE and Gartner literature, among other sources provided by the UC Tech community. To stay current on developments in the rapidly evolving tech industry,…
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