School of Technology and Computing
Invited talks are recurring educational forums where industry pioneers, seasoned engineers, and specialized researchers are brought into the academic environment to share their frontline expertise. These sessions serve as a vital link between classroom theory and professional practice, offering students a window into the current state of the global technology landscape. By rotating speakers from diverse niches ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Cybersecurity the program ensures that students are exposed to the newest tools, methodologies, and ethical challenges that are currently shaping the industry.
Speaker: Serah Daniels is the
CEO and co-founder of Blue Canoe
Sarah Daniels is a serial entrepreneur and executive with more than 25 years of experience starting, growing, and selling high technology companies.
She will discuss how start-up is and why you should join. She will also provide job seekers with direct advice from the industry.
Sarah received her bachelor’s degree in Math from Yale University and received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM PDT, Wednesday, June 02, 2021
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Speaker: Kendra E. Schraml Senior Technical Project Manager at USAA.
Kendra is currently a Senior Technical Project Manager at USAA. She has extensive experience with traditional Waterfall and Agile methodologies in the field of software engineering.
This time, she will share how to manage the BIG project in the fast-paced corporate world and how to succeed in project management.
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Speaker: Paul Pottorf
Are You Cloud-Ready?
Paul is the founder of a consulting practice that provides cloud architecture & information security services. His company runs the security and PCI compliance program for a few companies in the tolling industry. They also work in the R&D development for a Fortune 100 company, helping build the technology & process to support an enterprise migration to Amazon AWS. In a prior role, Paul spent 10 years at Microsoft as a Program & Product Manager. He completed a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity & Leadership from the University of Washington Tacoma in 2016.
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Speaker: Charlie Manger Founder and CEO at Development and Investment LLC
Charlie has worked in more than 50 countries with multidisciplinary teams to open & expand new markets, development projects, build teams, solve gnarly problems. As a result, he’s built-up an extensive resource network that can be tapped for technology, capital and know-how. He draws upon his work with consortia in public-private partnerships to figure out ways to design-build-operate-finance big projects on a turnkey basis.
More about the speaker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliemanger/
