Earlier. Oakland come on short 5 00, and calm over santa rosa, and nevada. We will be partly cloudy up the coast. Mostly clear elsewhere. Temperatures ranging from 60s along areas over ocean beach. A lot of 70s around the bay are inland cities, into the 80s. A few areas hitting 85. It will be areas like fairfield and antioch. Everybody else is looking quite mild for this time of year. We have 72 in oakland. Into the north bay, 83 and santa rosa. The coastline, 64 expected in pacifica. Temperatures will heat up for tomorrow. Some folks nearing 100 degrees. Details coming on the extended forecast. List check on traffic with sal. We have a lot of traffic out there. There have been a couple of spots were collisions have been worse, and other spots are normally heavy. List got take a lo at the east shore freeway. 36 minutes for this time in the morning. It is not that unusual. There slow traffic all over the place. We have had a couple of earlier incidents, and you can see that it is busy c
President of a group called the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Mr. Castro, what is that group and what do you do . Guest i with a single take. We focus on innovation where were interested in innovation and how you can have policy to support that. Host can you give an example of that innovation . Guest ten years ago we were talking about Artificial Intelligence and the benefits. We were thinking about that and thinking about policies we need to have in place to get there and so we try to help policymakers get ahead of the curve on these issues. Host who funded iti f. Guest a bunch of funders and individuals that support our thing think and we work on a lot of different issues so we get support from those interested in everyone from it issues to biotech engineering. Host for our purposes here on the communicators is it fair to say that large Silicon Valley companies are part of your funding operation, google, apple, facebook of the world . Guest absolutely. The compani
This weeks peter on the communicators, we want to introduce you to daniel castro. Groupstro, what is that and what do you do . Daniel well, im with a think tank. We focus on innovation, generally. Were interested in seeing innovation move forward. Peter can you give an example of that what you are in favor of . Daniel 10 years ago, we werent talking about artificial intelligence. Theres this new wave of automation. But we were thinking about the policies we would need to get there. We try to help policymakers get ahead of the curve on some of these issues. Peter who funds i tif . Daniel we have a full set of funders from corporate donors, individuals that support our think tank. We work on a lot of different issues, so we get support from those interested, everything from i. T. Issues to biotech and energy. Peter so for our purposes here, is it fair to say that large corporationsy are part of them . Daniel absolutely. I think these companies were all early supporters because they were
Ahead of the curve on some of these issues. Peter who funds itif . Daniel we have a full set of funders from corporate donors, individuals that support our think tank. We work on a lot of different issues, so we get support from those interested, everything from i. T. Issues to biotech and energy. Peter so for our purposes here, is it fair to say that large Silicon Valley corporations are part of your funding operation . The googles and facebooks of the world . Daniel absolutely. I think these companies were all early supporters because they were interested in the idea of how do we proceed quickly and innovation. Peter you are the director of itifs center for data innovation, which is what . Daniel we have a Research Center focused on these issues around data. I think for a long time, policymakers realize they had a few different levers of government. They could tax things. They could spend money. They could regulate things. Part of it was to say you can think about how you collect and
Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend to john and me and others at the ncaa and trying to guide us to go in the right direction. So thank you for coming here today. Well, thank you. Its an absolute honor to be here to honor derek sheely. As a father of three sons im still shaken. Ms. Sheely, listening to your words and your passion, i will not forget. I will not forget. Im going to be moving away from cardiac and we will talk about som