Liana Bailey-Crimmins was named Chief, Office of Technology Services (OTech) and Chief Technology Officer on March 9, 2021. She leads the State’s only general-purpose data center which delivers cost effective, optimized, and highly available technical services to 300+ customer departments.
She has served the public sector for 30+ years. Prior to her current role, Liana was recruited by CalPERS as their Chief Information Officer where she became known for her ability to lead a large and diverse cross-functional organization to meet CalPERS' technology needs through innovative solutions.
In 2017, she was named CalPERS Chief Health Director and under her leadership, CalPERS adopted a set of Health Care Beliefs, implemented its value-based insurance design and established the California regions that CalPERS uses today for its regional healthcare pricing. For the last few years, Liana has served CalPERS’ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ensuring that member data and technology systems were protected from internal and external threats.\
Prior to CalPERS, she worked as the information technology director and CIO of California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS). In 2015, she was honored with the prestigious "CIO of the Year" award from the California CIO Academy. Other honors include recognition for her work on CCHCS' Telemedicine Program, which helped them win the 2012 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate Award, and the Best of California award in the Government Technology Digital Internal category in 2011.

Joy Bonaguro has spent her career working at the nexus of data, technology, design and policy. Joy was recently appointed as Chief Data Officer of the State of California with an overarching goal to improve government use of data. Prior to her state role, she was responsible for scaling internal systems, data, and information security at Corelight, a high-growth cybersecurity startup funded by Accel and General Catalyst. Prior to Corelight, she served as the first Chief Data Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, where she pioneered multiple initiatives to streamline data access, improve data management and governance, and boost capacity to use data through training and data science. Before that, Joy developed technology, cyber and privacy policy across the Department of Energy’s National Laboratory System. Her career started in New Orleans with seven years designing and managing the development of information systems to support planning and decision-making for local governments and nonprofits. Joy earned her Master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and her Bachelor’s in Mathematics and Philosophy from Tulane University.

Joseph Morris is the deputy chief innovation officer for the Center for Digital Government and a national keynote speaker on issues, trends and drivers impacting state and local government and education. He has authored publications and reports on funding streams, technology investment areas and public-sector priorities, and has led roundtables, projects and initiatives focused on issues within the public sector. Joe has conducted state and local government research with e.Republic since 2007 and knows the ins and outs of government on all levels. He received his Bachelor of Arts in government and international relations from the California State University, Sacramento.