2016 Program
Saturday, January 2 (Excalibur Banquet Hall) | |||||
3:00pm - 6:00pm | Registration | ||||
3:00pm - 5:30pm | Spaghetti Tower Competition and Ice Breaker | ||||
6:00pm - 6:30pm | Welcome Emily Cheung, Symantec, Conference Chair Tom Coughlin, Coughlin @ Associates, Region 6 Director Sean Collison, Hewlett Packard, Young Professionals Region 6 Coordinator Peter Eckstein, Northrop Grumman (retired), IEEE-USA President |
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6:30pm - 7:30pm | Opening Address: Jamie Garcia - IBM Sustainable Polymers - Global Impact to Humanity through a New Class of Materials |
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7:30pm - 8:00pm | Reception - Networking Mixer | ||||
Sunday, January 3 (Excalibur Banquet Hall) | |||||
7:30am - 8:30am | Breakfast | ||||
9:00am - 9:45am | Keynote Address: Monica Giffin - Raytheon (Strategic Missile Defense) How Do You Cope with Complex Systems? It Depends. |
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Technical Innovation | Professional Development | Meet the Sponsors | |||
10:00am - 10:45am | Joey Yang - Google Software Emersion - Developing Systems That Excite, Engage and Enhance the User Experience | Tiffany Finley - Southwest Research Institute Mission to Pluto | Guru Madhavan – National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine | Natalia Baklitskaya - Qualcomm Networking: How to Get That First Job |
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11:00am - 11:45am | Don Houde - Houde Consulting Group Cybersecurity: Reducing the Fear and Minimizing the Risk | Iris Bomdelyn - Lockheed Martin Lessons Learned from a Career in Space | Ron Hadley - IEEE Leading in a Multi-Generational World | Carolyn Andrews - Inspired Leaders Now Make it Big: Your First Ninety Days |
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12:00pm - 1:15pm | Keynote Address / Lunch Tenaya Hurst Wearable Tech Hackathon - a.k.a. Sewing Class |
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1:30pm - 2:15pm | Young Professional Panel - Lance McBride - Great Basin Scientific, Sean Collison - HP Linking IEEE, Professional Society Involvement, Career Growth and Personal Satisfaction | Michelle Yung - Orbital ATK From Sea to Space: Diversity of Solid Rocket Boosters, Today and Tomorrow |
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2:30pm - 3:15pm | Kate Jenkins - Ejenta, Inc. Mind Your Own Business: Keys to making successful entrepreneurial ventures | Peijung Tsai - L-3, Matt Smith Lightning Presentations: - What IEEE did for me as a Student Member, Young Professional, Senior Member, Life Member - Effectively Using Social Media - Pitching Your Idea or Creating and Impactful Elevator Pitch - Building Stories for Your Resume or Interview - Information Interviews (Learning About Other Fields) |
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3:15pm - 3:45pm | Break / Poster Session | ||||
3:45pm - 4:30pm | Keynote Address: Karen Bartleson - Senior Director, Corporate Programs and Initiatives, Synopsys Maximizing the Value of Soft Skills |
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4:30pm - 6:00pm | Michael Andrews, Facilitator Introducing Technology to the Next Generation – What Schools and Teachers Need – Resources and Activities - Arduino projects, Tenaya Hurst - Maker Fairs - Science Olympiad - First Robotics, Carol Popovich, Microchip - Future City, Pom Jintasawang - SMART, Michael Andrews | Kate Jenkins, Facilitator Pitching Workshop - 4:30 – 5:00 Introduction and team forming - 5:00 – 6:00 Pitch to other teams |
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6:00pm - 8:00pm | Reception, Resume Lounge, Corporate Mixer | ||||
Monday, January 4 (Excalibur Banquet Hall) | |||||
7:30am - 8:45am | Breakfast | ||||
8:45am - 9:30am | Kate Jenkins, Facilitator Pitch Your Team Idea |
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9:30am - 11:15am | Patrick Griffins – Dolby Andrew Rush - President, Made in Space William Pomerantz - VP, Virgin Galactic Steve Diamond - General Manager, Office of the CTO, EMC Brian David Johnson – Intel Futurist The Next Big Things – Where We’re Going and How to Prepare to Get There - Entertainment systems - In-space manufacturing - 3D printing in extreme environments - Space colonization-related technologies - Small satellite launch vehicle and space research - Hybrid Cloud Computing - Big Data - Data Protection |
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11:15am - 11:30am | Awards and Recognition |
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11:30am - 12:00pm | Closing Address: Michael Andrews Your Outbound Challenge |
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6:00pm - 8:00pm | Storage Visions Reception (at Luxor) Tom Coughlin, host |