State Senator Steve Padilla is chair of the Standing Committee on Insurance.
Time and Talent to Move California Forward
“I wanted to say ‘hello’ and congratulate our premier research university in California and all of you for coming together with your diverse backgrounds and expertise to share thoughts, best practices, knowledge and information about how to really put together a framework for data-driven insurability in times of disaster planning and response. We have a lot of work to do in California. We have to create a broader market to make it more competitive to deal with how we capitalize the liability of such a large state with such potential. How do we mitigate risk, and how do we use technology and data to make sure we’re getting it right? You’re already setting an example with your work and dialog today to help all of us in California work together to solve our biggest problems. Thank you so much for coming together and for investing time and talent in helping move California forward.”
Moderators of panels at the event included: Neal Driscoll, PhD, principal investigator, ALERTCalifornia, UC San Diego, professor of geology and geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Nathan Hui, PhD, research engineer, ALERTCalifornia; İlkay Altıntaş, PhD, chief data science officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, founding faculty fellow, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego; and Ramesh Rao, PhD, director, QI / CalIT2, UC San Diego, who also provided introductory and closing remarks.
Visit QI’s YouTube channel to watch video recordings of the plenary sessions.
The February 12 event at the Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego was the first of three CalIT2 symposiums, to be followed by UC Riverside’s “Quantum Infrastructure from Academia to Community” and another at UC Irvine later this year.
