New AI projects are shaving off hours of work and enticing more people to work for government, said the AI center's director.

VR simulations dramatically improved students' self-reported confidence with their career options after high school.

Students attending local colleges, universities and trade schools are invited to join a local competition to solve real-world challenges flagged by the city.

The new center will help state agencies incorporate AI into their long-term plans, following the success of a similar strategy to encourage cloud adoption.

Technologies that can help agencies automate processes were a huge help this year, but there are still some pockets of reluctance in government, several state CIOs said.

"We have a heightened awareness of how important security is," Colorado CISO Deborah Blyth said during an online event about post-pandemic IT.

More than 30 non-IT employees in Garland, a Dallas suburb of about 240,000, taught themselves how to design digital workflows making government more efficient.

A new law requires nearly all state and local employees across the Lone Star State to undergo annual cybersecurity education.

A new state-funded program seeks to shrink the gap in the IT security workforce by offering digital forensics and cybersecurity training.