FRIDAY, MARCH 2

In addition to the workshops listed below, we will offer a LinkedIn Headshot Photobooth from 1-5:30pm in Corwin Pavilion East.

12:30 pm Registration Open. Location: Corwin Pavilion Lobby.

1:15 pm WORKSHOP Professionalization in the Workplace. Location: Corwin Pavilion. Facilitator: Lana Smith-Hale, Career Counselor for Graduate Students, UCSB Career Services.

2:15 pm Coffee Break. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

2:30 pm WORKSHOP Networking, Branding, and Selling Yourself. Location: Corwin Pavilion. Facilitator: Jessica Roeder, Head of Data Services, Insight Data Science.

3:15 pm Coffee Break. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

3:30 pm WORKSHOP LinkedIn: Why Is It So Useful to Job Hunters. Location: Corwin Pavilion. Facilitator: Jessica Cornick, Quantitative User Experience Researcher, Facebook.

4:15 pm Coffee Break. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

4:30 pm WORKSHOP Transferable Skills for Students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Location: Corwin Pavilion. Facilitator: Arica Lubin, Professional Development Programs Manager, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships, UCSB.

4:30 pm WORKSHOP Transferable Skills for Students in SHEF (Social Science, Humanities, Education, Fine Arts). Location: Flying A Studios (UCen). Facilitator: Shawn Warner-Garcia, Assistant Director of Professional Development, UCSB Graduate Division.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

In addition to the events listed below, we will offer the following activities: Office Hours with Panelists, Various Times TBD (Santa Barbara Harbor Room - UCen). LinkedIn Headshot Photobooth, 8:30am-4:15pm (Goleta Valley Room - UCen).

8:30 am Registration and Coffee. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

9:00 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS Put Your PhD to Work. Speaker: Peter Fiske, Lecturer and Author, Director, Water Energy Resilience Research Institute - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

10:00 am Coffee Break. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

10:15 am WORKSHOP MyIDP: Career Development for STEM Students. Location: Corwin Pavilion. Facilitator: Derek Musashe, STEM Career Counselor, UCSB Career Services.

10:15 am WORKSHOP ImaginePhD: Career Development Tool for SHEF Students. Location: State Street Room. Facilitator: Caroline Schanche-Perret Gentil, Graduate Peer, Career Services.

11:00 am Coffee Break. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

11:15 am CAREER PANEL Research and Development and Data Science. Location: Corwin Pavilion. Panelists: Jes Sherman, Test Engineer, Freedom Photonics; Gregory Su, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jessica Roeder, Head of Data Science, Insight Data Science; Lauren Vucovich, Research Product Scientist, Evidation Health.

11:15 am CAREER PANEL User Experience and Tech. Location: State Street Room. Panelists: Kara Otto, User Experience Researcher, Age of Learning Inc.; Shay Hopkins, Technical Writer, Procore Technologies; Jess Cornick, Quantitative User Experience Researcher, Facebook; Brendan Barnwell, Programmer, Vocabulary Systems.

12:15 pm Networking Lunch. Location: Corwin Plaza.

1:30 pm CAREER PANEL Startups and Entrepreneurship. Location: Corwin Pavilion. This panel is sponsored by Stimulating Entrepreneurial and Economic Development in Santa Barbara (SEED-SB). Panelists: Ali Titiz, Founder, MemoryCo; Keith Guinn, Principal Development Engineer, Freedom Photonics; Melanie Matheu, CEO and Founder, Prellis Biologics; Noelle Huskey Mullin, CSO and Founder, Prellis Biologics; Jeff Shealy, CEO, Akoustis Technologies.

1:30 pm CAREER PANEL Government and Public Policy. Location: State Street Room. Panelists: Brooke Pearson, Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Programs Advisor, Engility; Kris Roth, Supervisory Chemist, FDA CDRH OIR Division of Microbiology Devices; Joseph Bernardo, Intercultural Affairs Associate, Loyola Marymount University; Angela Chen, Director, Pre-Health Dreamers.

2:30 pm Coffee Break. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

2:45 pm CAREER PANEL Consulting and Business Strategy. Location: Corwin Pavilion. Panelists: Anna Trester, Career Linguist; Emily Garcia, Medical Writing Consultant; Jamil Abo-Shaeer, Vice President, Strategic Planning at AOSense.

2:45 pm CAREER PANEL Curriculum Development, Education, and University Administration. Location: State Street Room. Panelists: Lolli Lucas, Head of Upper School, Laguna Blanca; Sean OBrien, Director of Exhibits, MOXI Museum; Meredith Murr, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Research Development and Strategic Planning, UC Santa Barbara; Malaphone Phommasa, Director of Academic Services Initiatives, UC Santa Barbara; Graciela Fernandez, Director of Student Outreach and Retention Center, UC Irvine.

4:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS. Location: Corwin Pavilion.

4:15 pm Networking Reception. Location: Lagoon Plaza.