Virtual IEEE-USA Conference Focuses on Tips for How to Enhance Your Career
Registration is now open for EVO 2.0, IEEE-USA's third and final virtual event of the year, taking place on 3 November. The free half-day conference features all-new speakers, with a continued focus on emerging technology, future perspectives, and career-enhancing tips.
SNEAK PEEK
Enjoy a fireside chat with Nichol Bradford, cofounder and executive director of the Transformative Technology Lab, an international nonprofit. The organization works to improve people's health, happiness, and potential by catalyzing new visions, opportunities, and well-being technologies. Bradford, who says she is fascinated by human potential, adds that she has always been interested in how technology can help individuals go beyond their perceived limits.
John Yaglenski, IEEE-USA's director of communications and IT, is set to host the chat with Bradford. Yaglenski also plans to host a panel that explores where technology is today, where things are headed, and the future of engineering careers. Scheduled panelists include Amy Peck, founder and CEO of EndeavorVR; Maxim Jago, filmmaker, screenwriter, and chief futurist at GameFace Labs; and James Finlay, senior director of engagement and enablement at WorkBoard.
PAST EVENTS
The first IEEE-USA EVO virtual event, EVO 1.0, focused on career development and technology trends. More than 1,000 people registered for it. The opening keynote speaker was rocket scientist Natalie Panek. She spoke about the power of perseverance, how she continued to follow her dreams despite setbacks, and how she is working on the next generation of robotics for space explorations.
Following her keynote, Panek stayed on for a fireside chat with Paige Kassalen, who helped develop the first solar-powered plane to circumnavigate the globe. Kassalen talked about her career and what lies ahead in space technology.
Then attendees tuned into a panel hosted by Yaglenski with Peck and Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, founder of content-creation company Transport Evolved, which focuses on green transportation. They discussed artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, and other technologies.
Keynote speaker Nate Ball, Emmy-winning TV host and chief executive of Atlas Devices, wrapped up the event with a talk about innovation and inventions.
Building on the success of EVO 1.0, the professional-level EVOPro more than doubled registrations, to more than 2,000 people.
The opening keynote speaker, career coach Ashley Stahl, brought her perspective on uncovering opportunities.
Joe Grand, founder of the Grand Idea Studio, discussed computer hardware and cybersecurity.
Jago also hosted a panel on the future of technology and its impact on society, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Jago and panelists Tom Conte, Forrest Shull, and Yolanda Gil explored what technology could look like in the years to come and how it might change lives. Conte is associate dean for research at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. Shull is IEEE Computer Society president. Gill is a director at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, in Los Angeles.
EVO 1.0 and EVOPro are available on demand on IEEE-USA's YouTube channel.