CCST meets three times a year. The meetings inform state leaders about CCST's ongoing projects and initiatives and focus attention on current science and technology related issues. Each meeting features a keynote speaker who is an expert in his/her field.

Keynote Speakers Include CCST Senior Fellows:

• Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, and Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine. The Predictability of California's Hydroclimate System: Lessons from Historical Records and Message from Climate Models, October 2008.
  
  
• Charles Kennel, Director of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Environment and Sustainability Initiative, and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ...Think Globally, Predict Regionally, Act Locally, A Climate Change Agenda for California, May 2007. Rainfall to Outfall: Using Climate Science to Manage California's Water Resources, May 2001.
  
  
• Molly Coye, M.D., Founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center. Connecting California: The Role of State Leadership in Advancing Health Information Technology, October 2005.
  
  
• Edward Moses, Director of the National Ignition Facility, and Associate Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Building and Using the National Ignition Facility, the World's Largest Laser, February 2005.
  
  
• Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences. Generating Science and Technology Information for Public Policy, September 2004.
  
  
• Stephen Ryan, M.D., President of the Doheny Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. California and the Biotechnology Industry, February 2002.
  
  
• Henry Riggs, President Emeritus of the Keck Graduate Institute, a member of the Claremont Colleges. Venturing in Higher Education, October 2001.
  
  
• Hal Varian, Dean and Professor in the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Information Rules, February 2000.
  
  
• Burton McMurtry, Venture Capitalist. California's Entrepreneurial Machine Organism, October 1999.
  
  
• David Baltimore, President of the California Institute of Technology and Nobel Laureate. October 1998.
  
  
• Richard Zare, Stanford University Professor of Physics. Evidence of Possible Primitive Life on Early Mars, February 1997.