NASCIO Midyear Brings Data to Life
An afternoon session got participants moving to weigh in on AI, key traits for a CIO and digital transformation.
Nevada CIO Michael Dietrich defends his position to session emcee, Texas CIO Todd Kimbriel. By a wide margin, attendees felt that the No. 1 personality trait for chief information officers was to be an effective communicator, followed by strategist and negotiator, with nearly the same amount of votes. In dead last was technologist, which earned just a single vote.
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Participants move about the room to cast their next vote. A particularly provocative question asked whether artificial intelligence represented utopia or the downfall of humanity. Most attendees thought that the answer fell somewhere in the middle, but felt the integration of AI into state government was inevitable.
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The last question of the session asked whether states would ever achieve the promise of digital government. Most CIOs struck an optimistic note, agreeing that citizens are a sophisticated group who will demand government meet their needs. "Sometime we have to get to Star Trek," said New Mexico CIO Darryl Ackley.
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BALTIMORE — Texas CIO Todd Kimbriel emceed an active afternoon session in which attendees of the NASCIO Midyear conference aligned themselves with different colored flags in corners of a ballroom to indicate their point of view on a series of questions. Meant to jolt conference-goers out of the traditional afternoon meeting slump, results (as indicated in photo captions above) seemed to validate surveys conducted by NASCIO itself as well as other organizations with a finger on the pulse of tech in state government.
