Cybersecurity consistently ranks as state CIOs’ top priority in IT. But resilience – the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyberattacks and disruptions, ensuring critical services continue despite adversity, and moving beyond prevention to focus on rapid response and continuity of operations when breaches inevitably occur – has not received the same kind of attention. A report in November 2024 focus...

The challenges and issues facing state agencies regarding IT investments and modernization are very similar to those federal agencies are dealing with, but often are compounded because state responsibilities (licensing, inspection, and citizen assistance, to name a few) are that much closer to the customers who need their services. This three-day event tracks many of the priorities that state CIOs are paying attention to –cybersecurity,...

The National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) reported in its 2025 State CIO Survey that many states have been providing supplemental funding to their CIO organizations to use on IT modernization and/or innovation. Whether streamlining state DMVs or setting up digital services for courts, agencies are focusing on providing better, more streamlined services to their customers. Included in these modernization efforts is the continuing embrace...

State and local governments are concentrating on improving internal operations in order to deliver services more efficiently and cost-effectively. In plain terms, agencies want to simplify the work employees do and the steps constituents must take to receive services.State-level CIOs are looking to reduce operational friction, leverage technology to automate processes, and streamline bureaucracy for both employees and the public. For instance,...

State and local agencies are exploring how to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations – as long as they observe their own state-level and any applicable federal-level regulations. To meet these requirements, AI governance and compliance platforms help organizations manage, monitor, and enforce policies for safe, ethical, and legal use of AI, covering the entire lifecycle from development to deployment, by automatin...

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry share their expertise, their experiences, and their suggestions for harnessing the power of AI to provide noticeable improvements to internal operations while improving security and opening up opportunities for new and expanded services to their constituencies. Agencies throughout state, local, territorial, and tribal governments are being encouraged to incorporate artificial intelligence...

It is widely recognized that the introduction of AI tools is a two-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. Attackers, whether profit-driven hackers or hostile nation-states, are using AI to launch faster, wider-spread and more sophisticated attacks, including AI-generated phishing and spear phishing emails, malware capable of adapting to changes in defensive responses, and deepfakes that are very hard to detect. State and local agencies ar...

At its annual conference in October 2025, the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) focused on “measurable modernization” facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI). Intelligent, AI-powered tools can streamline IT, converting slow, manual legacy system upgrades into faster, cheaper, and more secure processes by automating code analysis, testing, data migration, and even generating code, ultimately making systems more efficie...