| Friday, 4 January 2019 | |||
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| Noon | Registration Opens | ||
| Room Assignment | Cohiba 8-11 | Cohiba 5 | Cohiba 7 |
| 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Cyber Security Competition Chris Humphreys (The Anfield Group) | Resume Building & Job Search Workshop: Answering your employer's "Why" Carolyn Andrews (Inspired Leaders Now) Michael Andrews (Andrews Associates) Terry McNabb (Management Recruiters International) | Arduino/Hardware workshop Natalia Baklitskaya (Intel) Bryan Cover (Intel) |
| 5:45 pm – 6:30 pm | Welcome Jim Jefferies (2018 IEEE President) Thomas Coughlin (2019 IEEE-USA President) Keith Moore (2019 IEEE Region 6 Director) Ramesh Nair (2019 IEEE Rising Stars Conference Chair) | ||
| 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Panel - Recognizing Trends and People who Influence Direction Moderator - Eddie Custovic (Chair, IEEE Industry Engagement Committee) Panelists - Mark Papermaster (Chief Technology Officer, AMD) Donald Houde (Former SVP, CIO & Chief Data Scientist, LeaseHawk) Iris Bombelyn (Managing Director, Golden Seeds) Ramesh Ramadoss (Founder and President, BitCasas Inc.) Hahna Alexander (CEO and co-founder, SolePower) Mazdak Hashemi (Technology Adviser & Former VP of Engineering, Twitter) | ||
| 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm | Networking Meetup & Mixer – with Food Service Sponsored by IEEE Young Professionals | ||
| Saturday, 5 January 2019 | ||||
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| 7:30am – 9am | Breakfast & Registration | |||
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Keynote 1 - Richard New, VP of Research in the office of the CTO, Western Digital |
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| 9:45 am – 10 am | Break and Networking | |||
| Room Assignment | Cohiba 8-11 | Cohiba 5 | Cohiba 6 | Cohiba 7 |
| 10:00 am – 10:45 am | 5G - The future wireless technology James Kimery (National Instruments) | Failing to Succeed Iris Bomberlyn (Golden Seeds) | Power & cyber security Chris Humphreys (The Anfield Group) | Project Management - Building successful teams Rick Hefner (California Institute of Technology) |
| 10:45 am – 11:15 am | Break and Networking | |||
| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm | Medical Technology & Digital Senses Skip Rizzo (USC Institute for Creative Technologies for Medical VR) | Adding Value and Leading Kathy Murphy (Merryck & Co) | Smart Cities/IoT/Reality Modeling Mark Schneider (Bentley Systems) | Manage your career - Put yourself in the right place at the right time Terry McNabb (Management Recruiters International) |
| 12:00 pm – 01:15 pm | Keynote 2 - John Treichler - Chief Technology Officer, Applied Signal Technology |
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| 01:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Blockchain - hype to reality Ramesh Ramadoss (BitCasas Inc) | Finance & wealth creation Mathew Allred (Ameriprise Financial) | Space Discovery/Aviation Sid Misra (JPL/NASA) | Executing a personal networking strategy Carolyn Andrews (Inspired Leaders Now) |
| 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Break and Networking | |||
| 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm | Next Generation Computing: Enabling Machine Learning Mark Papermaster (AMD) | Humanitarian Technology Keith Moore (US Army) | History and Future of Radar Lorenzo Lo Monte (Telephonics) | Driving decisions: Relational and Rule-based ethics Dan Schweiker (China Mist) |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Break and Networking | |||
| 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Artificial Intelligence with Nvidia's GPU accelerated computing Peter Pyun (NVIDIA) | Selling a Creative Idea, Vision and Something Never Tried Justin Kugler (Made in Space) | Digital Intuition through Predictive Analysis Don Houde (LeaseHawk) | Communicating and making presentations that work Terence Yeoh (The Aerospace Corporation) |
| 5:00 pm – 5:50 pm | Career Aspiration Panel Discussion Moderator -Mario Milicevic (MaxLinear Inc) Panelists - Sanna Gaspard (Rubitection Inc) Kathy Murphy (Merryck & Co.) Ravendar Lal (Amazon) Jian (Jay) Guo (LAM Research) |
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| 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Corporate Mixer and Conference Networking | |||
| Sunday, 6 January 2019 | ||
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| 7:30 am – 9:00 am | Breakfast | Cohiba 8-11 |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am | Awards Ceremony - Competition awards and IEEE Region 6 awards Jose Moura (2019 IEEE President) Keith Moore (IEEE Region 6 Director) Kathleen Kramer (IEEE Region 6 Past Director) |
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| 9:45 am – 10:30 am | Keynote 3 - Proliferated Low Earth Orbit; Next Big Thing...In Space Paul "Rusty" Thomas (Program Manager, DARPA/TTO) |
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| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Break and Networking | |
| 10:45 am – 12:15 pm | “The Next Big Thing” panel discussion Moderator - Tom Coughlin (Coughlin Associates) Panelists - Allen Samuels (Western Digital) John Treichler (Applied Signal Technology) Skip Rizzo (USC Institute of Creative Technologies) Peter Pyun (NVIDIA) Mark Schneider (Bentley Systems) Sanna Gaspard (Rubitection Inc) |
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| 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm | Closing Remarks Ramesh Nair |
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| 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | IEEE Region 6 Young Professionals Leadership Workshop "How to start and grow an incredible IEEE YP Team that provides lasting value to IEEE Sections” |
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