Artificial Intelligence in Business, Tyler Smith

Tyler is the CEO and a Part­ner at Matson & Isom Technology Consulting, where he has spent over 20 years help­ing small busi­ness­es, non-prof­its, and local gov­ern­ments in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia lever­age tech­nol­o­gy to dri­ve growth and suc­cess. Tyler began his career with M&I as an intern in 2002 and has become a leader in deliv­er­ing inno­v­a­tive solu­tions that enhance pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and improve cybersecurity.

A proud grad­u­ate of Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty, Chico, Tyler holds a degree in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Design with a focus on Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems and Com­put­er Sci­ence. He is also a Ford Schol­ar and recip­i­ent of the Ger­ald E. Bruce Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vice Award from The Ford Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion. Tyler has deliv­ered hun­dreds of hours of train­ing to thou­sands of peo­ple and cre­at­ed Clear­IT Acad­e­my, M&I’s on-demand learn­ing plat­form, to help orga­ni­za­tions max­i­mize their tech­nol­o­gy investments.

In addi­tion to his pro­fes­sion­al work, Tyler serves as Vice Pres­i­dent of the Pleas­ant Val­ley High School Music Boost­ers, rais­ing crit­i­cal funds for local music pro­grams. He is also an avid pho­tog­ra­ph­er, cap­tur­ing por­traits and land­scapes through­out North­ern California.