Dubbed the California Breakthrough Project, the initiative will focus on a number of areas, such as streamlining operations, hiring and training of state workers and improving procurements. The effort, the governor’s office says, will be led by “top technology companies.”
The executive order (N-30-25) signed by Newsom directed the Government Operations Agency to work with the departments of Human Resources, General Services, Technology, and the State Personnel Board to “improve operational effectiveness, boost efficiency and enhance customer experience, enabling innovation in the delivery of services.
“As the birthplace of modern tech, our state is uniquely positioned to bring the best and the brightest together to advance our work. We will not shy away from progress, but embrace it for the benefit of all Californians, including our state workforce,” Newsom said in a press release.
The first cohort met June 6 and includes some of the state’s major technology companies and power brokers. That list includes AME Cloud Ventures, Anduril, Coinbase, Instacart, MoonPay, Scopely, Snap Inc., Asheesh Birla (investor), Ron Conway (founder, SV Angel), Chris Larsen (executive chair, Ripple), Jeff Lawson (co-founder and former CEO, Twilio), Jen Pahlka (author of Recoding America) and Jason Wheeler (former CFO of Tesla).
This story first appeared in Industry Insider — California, part of e.Republic, Government Technology’s parent company.
