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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 FuturistThe 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 |