Notes from a CTO - technology, AI, and innovation in higher education. People management and technology leadership with a product focus — mostly aimed at helping higher education use technology more efficiently, effectively, and strategically.
A 2018 talk to the Common Solutions Group on why higher ed’s digital transformation kept stalling at the halfway point — and what ‘fully digital’ actually looks like in practice.
CTO Introduction to Berkeley’s Mobile Platform, kicking off the Arts+Design 2018 Mobile Think Tank at UC Berkeley.
Goodbye Data Center, Hello Cloud — presented at the EDUCAUSE 2016 Annual Conference.
Slides from Security in the Cloud @ UC Berkeley, presented at the Common Solutions Group meeting at Rice University, Houston TX, January 2016 — an expanded version of the prior CSG talk with more time for discussion.
We are pleased to announce that William Allison has been appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the University of California at Berkeley, effective today, November 24, 2015. Reporting to Deputy CIO Lyle Nevels with a dotted line to CIO Larry Conrad for campus-wide initiatives, Bill is responsible for the leadership of Berkeley’s IT architecture and consideration of emerging technologies in support of research, teaching, and administration. Bill will facilitate the governance and oversight of IT architecture activities University-wide, guiding the development and implementation of a shared vision and architectural standards that support and enable the University’s strategic goals.
Tom Holub interviews Bill Allison on how he keeps his teams innovative and creative, transitioning from legacy technologies, and assessing performance as a manager.