SAN FRANCISCO —  Governor Newsom’s California Breakthrough Advisory Group — a preeminent group of technology executives first announced in 2025 — met recently at Turo headquarters in San Francisco to present new solutions to help advance efficiency and transform service delivery in state government. These solutions add to their ongoing projects, which include fast tracking state hiring, modernizing state contracting, reducing wait times at the DMV, stopping fraud, and streamlining services.

In 2025, the Governor signed an executive order directing every state agency to engage the entire state workforce in efforts to identify and implement novel efficiency measures, and established the California Breakthrough Group, which brings together the Golden State’s top executives to help guide this work. The order also created a new Governor’s Innovation Fellows Program, consisting of state staff with a mission of collaborating to address unique statewide challenges through innovative ideas.

At the meeting, the Breakthrough members provided the Governor with an update on work underway.