IEEE ComSoc Student Tech Leadership Conference
9 April 2022 // Austin, Texas, USA

Program

Start Time End Time Description
6:00 AM 9:00 AM Travel to Site
8:30 AM 9:00 AM Registration
Location:  Congressional (A-B), Foyer West, 3rd Floor
9:00 AM 9:45 AM Opening Keynote: “Navigating an Evergreen Technology Career” by Lynn Comp, Corporate Vice President, Cloud Business Group AMD
Location:  Congressional B, 3rd Floor
9:45 AM 10:30 AM Industry Panel: “A Life of Learning”
Location:  Congressional B, 3rd Floor
10:30 AM 11:15 AM Choose a Session:

Breakout Session A – “First Job Ninja Resume and Internships”, Melissa Fontenentte-Mitchell, UR Program Manager, AMD
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session B – “Mentoring in Today’s World”, Amy Guesner, Sr. Director, Mediatek
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session C – “Career Progression”, Sridhar Rajagopal, Senior Vice President, Mavenir
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session D – “Day in the Life of the Engineer”, Adam Mendoza, Intel
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

11:15 AM 12:00 PM Lunch
Location:  Congressional A, 3rd Floor
12:00 PM 12:45 PM Choose a Session:

Breakout Session A – “First Job Ninja Resume and Internships”, Melissa Fontenentte-Mitchell, UR Program Manager, AMD
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session B – “Mentoring in Today’s World”, Amy Guesner, Sr. Director, Mediatek
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session C – “Career Progression”, Sridhar Rajagopal, Senior Vice President, Mavenir
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session D – “Day in the Life of the Engineer”, Adam Mendoza, Intel
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

12:45 PM 1:30 PM Choose a Session:

Breakout Session A – “First Job Ninja Resume and Internships”, Melissa Fontenentte-Mitchell, UR Program Manager, AMD
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session B – “Mentoring in Today’s World”, Amy Guesner, Sr. Director, Mediatek
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session C – “Career Progression”, Sridhar Rajagopal, Senior Vice President, Mavenir
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session D – “Day in the Life of the Engineer”, Adam Mendoza, Intel
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

1:30 PM 1:45 PM Coffee Break
Location:  Congressional A, 3rd Floor
1:45 PM 2:30 PM Choose a Session:

Breakout Session A – “First Job Ninja Resume and Internships”, Melissa Fontenentte-Mitchell, UR Program Manager, AMD
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session B – “Mentoring in Today’s World”, Amy Guesner, Sr. Director, Mediatek
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session C – “Career Progression”, Sridhar Rajagopal, Senior Vice President, Mavenir
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

Breakout Session D – “Day in the Life of the Engineer”, Adam Mendoza, Intel
Location:  Primrose; Verbena; Sage; Sunflower, 4th Floor

2:30 PM 3:15 PM Career Roundtable: “Advances in CSP over the Years” with Mike Murphy, CTO, Ericsson North America, Brian Evans, PhD & IEEE Fellow, UT Austin,  Sandeep Chinchali, PhD, UT Austin, and and Raghavan, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Telecom.
Location:  Congressional B, 3rd Floor
3:15 PM 4:00 PM Fireside Chat: “Making the Most of your Career” with Keith L. Dean, Senior Systems Engineering Manager – Unstructured Data Solutions Presales, Dell Technologies, Prakash Kartha, Smart Edge Director, Intel, and Mona Shukla, VP Packet Core and Communication Services, Ericsson
Location:  Congressional B, 3rd Floor
4:00 PM 4:45 PM Closing Keynote: “How IEEE ComSoc Can Help Your Career Development” by Sherman Shen, President IEEE/ComSoc
Location:  Congressional B, 3rd Floor
5:00 PM 7:00 PM Reception
Location:  Congressional Foyer, Third Floor
7:00 PM Travel Return