Events

Amy Neeser and Kelly Rowland at UC Tech Conference 2022

Events for the UC Tech community help introduce new skills, resources, perspectives and people/network in support of your work and career. Mark your calendar with these upcoming events. To share events here, contact us.

UPCOMING EVENTS

R for Everyone – Part 1

Friday, June 2, 2023, 11:05 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Host: UCSF Library
Instructor: Albert Lee, Instructional Designer and Analyst for the Data Science Initiative, UCSF Library

Including Disability and Accessibility in Computing Education

Friday, June 2, 2023, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Host: UCI Department of Informatics

UCUX Usability Workshop Summit 2023

Tuesday, June 6, 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Host: UC User Experience

R for Everyone – Part 2

Friday, June 9, 2023, 11:05 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Host: UCSF Library
Instructor: Albert Lee, Instructional Designer and Analyst for the Data Science Initiative, UCSF Library

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Digital Accessibility Office Hours

Thursday, June 22, 2023, 9 – 10:20 a.m.
Host: UCSF Information Technology

Black Staff and Faculty Organization (BSFO) Juneteenth Celebration [Save the date]

Monday, June 12 – 16, 2023
Host: Black Staff and Faculty Organization (BSFO)
Contact: BSFO-L@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU

UCUX: UX Meetup

Monday, June 17, 2023, 2 p.m. – 4 pm
Host: UC Berkeley

Information Security Symposium [Registration now open]

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 – Wednesday, June 21, 2023 8 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Host: UC Davis Information and Educational Technology (IET)
Contact:  infosecsymposium@ucdavis.edu 

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Primer

Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 2 p.m. – 3:30 pm
Host: UC San Diego Privacy Office

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

UC Tech Conference 2023 [Registration OPEN]

Monday, July 17 – Wednesday, Jul 19, 2023
Host: UC Berkeley
Hybrid
Contact: uctech@berkeley.edu

Social Mobility and Adjusting to an Office Culture

Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 12 p.m. – 1:15 pm
Host: UC Alumni Career Network

UC Service Now User Group (UC SNUG)

Thursday, July 20 – Friday, Jul 21, 2023
Host: UC Berkeley
Hybrid
Contact: uc-snug+managers@ucsc.edu

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Privacy 101 Workshop

Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Host: UC San Diego

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

PAST EVENTS

Disrupting Prior Auth (Twitter Spaces)

Tuesday, September 27, 3-3:30 p.m.
Host: UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation
Speaker: Aaron Neinstein, MD

Environmental Justice in the San Joaquin Valley

Wednesday, September 28, 12 noon -1:00 pm
UC ANR Hispanic Heritage Month; Hosted by UC ANR (Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources)
Speaker: Jose Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Ph.D.

ATXPO 2022: 9th Annual Academic Technology Conference

Monday, October 3, 8 am – 3:30 pm
Hosted at UC Berkeley for UCSF, UC Berkeley and other Bay Area institutions of higher learning
Keynote workshop lead: Dr. Jenae Cohn

Accessibility and Security Panel Discussion

Tuesday, October 4, 11 am-12:00 noon
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month; Hosted by UCSF
Panel Discussion led by: Cecile Puretz, Assistant Director of Disability Access & Inclusion, UCSF

State of Authentication, 2022

Wednesday, October 5, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month; Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: Chad Spensky, Founder & CEO – Allthenticate

Healthy Living

Wednesday, October 5, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
UC ANR Hispanic Heritage Month; Hosted by UC ANR (Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources)
Speaker: Susana L. Matias Medrano, Ph.D., UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology at Berkeley

Annual University of California A.I. in Radiology Conference

Thursday, October 6, 8 am – 4:00 pm (in-person or online)
Hosted by UC San Diego
This one-day program will showcase multiple efforts and activities across multiple UC Campuses dealing with Artificial Intelligence projects and solutions

Mayan Pollinating Techniques

Wednesday, October 12, 12 noon – 1:00 pm
UC ANR Hispanic Heritage Month; Hosted by UC ANR (Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources)
Speaker: Magda Argueta

UC Davis Campus Air Filtration*

Wednesday, October 12, 11 am – 12 noon
Disability Awareness Symposium; Hosted by UC Davis
Speaker: UC Davis Facilities Management
+For UC Davis immune compromised individuals to learn more about the air quality on campus

Tactile Audio Campus Map, or TAC Map

Wednesday, October 12, 12 noon – 1 pm
Disability Awareness Symposium; Hosted by UC Davis
Speaker: TouchGraphics

Apple Accessibility

Wednesday, October 12, 1 – 2 pm
Disability Awareness Symposium; Hosted by UC Davis
Speaker: Apple

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, October 12, 9 am – 10:00 am
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitatations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Baking Accessibility into Zoom

Thursday, October 13, 12:00 noon – 1 pm
Hosted by UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging DEI Committee
Speaker: Jill Wolters, Web Standards Program Manager, Digital Accessibility Program, UCSF IT-Web Services

Education Sector: Back-to-School for Cyber Criminals Too

Friday, October 14, 2-3:00 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Irvine
Speaker: Yu Chao, Cyber Threat Warning Analyst, California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC)

Privacy & Cybersecurity Law for All

Monday, October 17, 12:00 noon – 1 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: Reema Moussa

Climate Change Effects

Thursday, October 13, 1 pm – 2:00 pm
UC ANR Hispanic Heritage Month; Hosted by UC ANR (Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources)
Speaker: Samuel Sandoval Solis

The California Agricultural & Robotics Technology Forum (aka FIRA)

Tuesday, October 18, 8:00 am – 7:00 pm – Thursday, October 20, 7:00 am – 3:30 pm
Hosted by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR)
Speakers: Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA); Ben Alfi, Co-Founder of Blue White Robotics; and others

Privacy 101 Workshop (Webinar)

Wednesday, October 19, 9 am – 12 noon
Hosted by UC San Diego Campus Privacy Office

We Like Your Product – Can You Pass Our 26-Page Security Assessment?

Wednesday, October 19, 12:00 noon – 1 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: John Green, VP and Chief Security Technologist at Aruba

Cyber Threats and Trends in 2022

Wednesday, October 19, 2-3:00 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Irvine
Speaker: Bryan Willett, Supervisory Special Agent (SSA), FBI

BICG Summit

Thursday, October 20, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Business Intelligence Collaboration Group (BICG) – inaugural, UC-wide event/initiative focusing on student data analytics. Hosted by UC Irvine
Speakers include: Tom Andriola, Larry Coon, Ryan Cherland, Tony Hwang and Ray Vadnais

Zoom Security & Awesome New Features

Friday, October 21, 10-11:00 am
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: Giselle Brun, Zoom 

Social Engineering

Monday, October 24, 10 – 11 am
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UCSF
Speaker: Rosa L. Smothers, Senior Vice President of Cyber Operations at KnowBe4 

Educause 2022

Tuesday, October 25 – Friday, October 28, 2022
Denver, Colorado 

Human Hacking & Social Engingeering

Wednesday, October 26, 12 noon – 1 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: Chad Spensky, Founder & CEO – Allthenticatens at KnowBe4 

You are the Gatekeeper

Thursday, October 27, 2-3:00 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Irvine
Speaker: Orange County District’s Office

Social Media Privacy and Security Best Practices

Friday, October 28, 12 noon – 1:30 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Santa Cruz
Speakers: Researcher and PhD Candidate at Cornell University, Diana Freed; PhD student in Computer Science at University of Maryland, Julio Poveda; and UCSC ITS Compliance Coordinator, Cecilia Carrillo

The Great Digital Transformation – What’s in it For You?

Tuesday, November 1, 10-11:00 am
University of California Electronic Records Day. Hosted by UC Records Management Committee
Speakers: Christina Velazquez Fidler, Eric Kalmin, Jordan Thaw and Kent Wada

Educause 2022

Wednesday November 2 – Thursday, November 3, 2022
Online 

University of Michigan Pivots with Professional Development

Thursday, November 3, 2022, from 11 am – 12 noon
Host: Kaltura

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, November 9, 2022, from 9 am – 10:00 am (final session for 2022)
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitatations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Veterans Job Fair and Open House

Thursday, November 10, 2022, 1-3:30 pm
Host: UCSF
Speakers:  Chancellor Sam Hawgood and Chief Human Resources Officer Corey Jackson

Veteran’s Day

Friday, November 11, 2022 (Federal holiday)

Join NAIPISA’s Native American Heritage Month events

UCOP Link News

Native American Heritage Month Events & Resources

UC Berkeley
UC Davis Native American Student Success Center
UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
UCLA Center for Excellence in Engineering & Diversity
UC Merced
UC Office of the President
UC Santa Barbara Engineering
UCSF
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital

Privacy 101 Workshop

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 1 pm-4 pm
Host: UC San Diego

Veteran’s Day: UC Veterans Events and Opportunities

Veteran’s Day Events and Veterans resources at the University of California
Source: UC Net covering UCLA, UCSF and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with UC

UC Net
November, 2022

Born in California Demo Days

Wednesday, November 16 – Thursday, November 17, 2022
Host: UC Beal Applied Innovation

Cybermed Summit [Wait List Only]

Friday, November 18 – Saturday, November 19, 2022, 8 am – 6:00 pm
Location: UC San Diego
Speakers from the University of California include: Jeff Tully, UCSD Anesthesiology, Christian Dameff UCSD Emergency Medicine, Medical Director of Security, Kristina Spurgeon UCD Emergency Management, Grant Madden UCSD Emergency Management, Ana Arevalo UCSD Emergency Management, Nazanin Chinoforoushan UCSD Emergency Management, Anthony Earthen UCSD Biomedical Engineering 

Optimizing Qualitative Research in Public Health

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 1 pm – 2 pm
Host: UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup, Berkeley Skydeck, Berkeley Computing, Data Science & Scoeity, Berkeley Lab, CITRIS Banatao Institute, Berkeley Information Services and Technology, Reserach IT at Berkeley
Speaker: Wan Naszeerah, Domain Consultant at Research IT & Doctor of Public Health Student at UC Berkeley

Gender Recognition & Lived Name Policy – Considerations for Implementation

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 11 am – 12 noon (Registration deadline 12/5/2022)
Host: UC Office of the President, Department of Graduate, Undergraduate and Equity Affairs (GUEA)
Webinar Contact: Jessica Heredia Jessica.heredia@ucop.edu

Access Lunch & Learn: How to Write Alt Text

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 12 noon – 1 pm
Host: UCSF

Privacy 101 Workshop

Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 1 pm-4 pm
Host: UC San Diego

UC Davis library website redesign presentation

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 1 pm-4 pm
Host: UC User Experience (UCUX), a friendly community of design and design-curious staff; join the slack channel #UX-andor-design
Speaker: Kimmy Hescock, User Experience Designer, UC Davis

Reciting MLK’s “I have a dream” speech

Thursday, January 12, 2023, 2-2:45 pm
Host: Black Staff and Faculty Organization (BSFO), UC Office of the President
Speakers include UC President Michael V. Drake, MD; Rachael Nava, EVP/COO; Nathan Brostrom, EVP/CFO; Kristin Cordova, Chief of Staff, Information Technology Services, UC Office of the President (UCOP); Jayesh (Jay) Panchal, Chief Information Security Officer; Nancy Pluzdrak, Executive Director, Human Resources, UCOP; Monte Ratzlaff, Cyber Risk Program Manager, UCOP; Charles F. Robinson, VP/General Counsel; Lalitha Sankaran, Director, Office of Workplace Inclusion & Belonging, UCOP; Paul Williams, Associate VP/Chief Procurement Officer; and Van Williams, VP IT/Chief Information Officer.

Martin Luther King Celebrations at UC San Diego

Saturday, January 14 -Sunday, January 15, 2023
Host: UC San Diego

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Monday, January 16, 2023

National Data Privacy Week – Events and Resources

Sunday, January 22 – Saturday, January 28, 2023
Source: UC San Diego

Council of UC Staff Assemblies Chats: Black Staff Leadership Panel

Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 11:05AM – 11:50AM
Host: Council of UC Staff Assemblies

Becoming an Anti-Racist Campus Virtual Symposium

Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 9AM – 2PM
Host: UC Berkeley

UC Tech 2023 Proposals: Info Session

Thursday, February 7, 2023, 8:35 – 9am on Zoom
Host: UCSF

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, from 9 am – 10:00 am (the 2nd Wed of each month)
Email UC Office of the President, Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to mailing list.
Host: UC Office of the President

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Path to Assessment

Thursday, February 8, 2023, 11 am – 12 noon
Host: Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP)

Seeing Like an Algorithmic Error: What are Algorithmic Mistakes, Why Do They Matter, How Might They Be Public Problems?

Friday, February 10, 2023
Host: UCI Department of Informatics

Information from the Individual’s Perspective

Friday, February 10, 2023, 3:10-5 pm
Host: UC Berkeley

UC Tech 2023 Conference Presentation Proposals: Info Sessions

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 12:35 – 1 p.m. on Zoom
Host: UC Berkeley and UCSF

UC Love Data Week

Monday, February 13 – Friday, February 17, 2023
Host: University of California

UC Tech 2023 Conference Presentation Proposals: Info Sessions

Friday, February 17, 2023, 2:05 – 2:30 p.m. on Zoom
Host: UC Berkeley and UCSF

Leading Toward Equity

Wednesday, February 15, 1-2 p.m.
Host: UC Office of the President
Speakers include: Van Williams, VP IT and CIO University of California, Pamela Brown, VP Institutional Research & Academic Planning, UC Office of the President, and Andenet Emiru, director of external partnerships and projects at the Center for Data-driven Insights and Innovation at University of California Health and a member of the UCOP EDI and Anti Racism Advisory Group

Blacks in Tech (Zoom link)

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 1 – 2 p.m.
Host: UC Office of the President, Black Staff & Faculty Organization
Panelists: Marsha Evans, Office of Information Technology, UC Merced; and Marie Sylla-Dixon, Amazon Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Accessible PowerPoint Presentations 101

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 12-1 p.m.
Host: UCSF
Contact: Cecile Puretz cecile.puretz@ucsf.edu

Version Control with Git and GitHub 

Thursday, February 16, 2023, 9-11 a.m. on Zoom
Host: UCLA

National Engineers Week

Saturday, February 22, 2023 – February 24, 2023
Host: UC Santa Cruz

Save the date for a UC Town Hall with President Drake

Friday, February 24, 2023, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Hosted by UC Office of the President
Contact: Cecile Puretz cecile.puretz@ucsf.edu

Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) 25th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, February 25, 2023, 4 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Host: UC Berkeley

Smarter Tech for a Resilient Future

Thursday, March 2, 2023
Host: CITRIS Banatao Institute, Edge in Tech (TM) Initiative at University of California, Berkeley Engineering

Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Speaker Series

Thursday, March 2, 2023
Host: Berkeley Center for Law and Technology

22nd Annual Developmental Disabilities: An Update for Health Professionals, Live Stream Virtual Conference

Thursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023
Host: UCSF

Authentically Me? Microstreamers on Twitch and the Challenge of Being Real, Live Seminar Series

Friday, March 3, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00 p.m.
Host: UCI Department of Informatics

User Research Tactics: Using Dovetail

Friday, March 3, 2023, 12:00pm – 1:00 p.m.
Host: UC User Experience Group

Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference

Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 9 a.m. – 4:15 pm
Host: UC Berkeley

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 9 a.m. – 10:00 am
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Sustainable Secure Simple Pairing (SSP)? Automate your Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Efforts with ChatGPT

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 11 a.m. – 12:00 pm
Host: Regulated Research Community of Practice

Towards High-Efficiency and High-Usability Hardware Acceleration

Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Host: UCI Department of Informatics

Broadening Software Quality Assurance: From Improving Machine Learning Models to Making Software Accessible Seminar Series

Friday, March 17, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m
Host: UCI Department of Informatics

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Call for Proposals

Monday, March 20, 2023
Location: Chicago, Illinois

When your Identity is Inherently “Unprofessional” – Navigating Dominant Culture Definitions of Professionalism for LGBTQ+ Staff

Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12 p.m. – 1:30 pm
Host: UC Berkeley
Panelists: Melissa Charles, Elisa Diana Huerta PhD, Harris Mojadedi, Victor A. Sanchez and Liat Wexler; Moderator: Em C. Huang (see bios.)
Contact: Claudia Gey, Program Manager at UC Berkeley, Institute of International Studies Center on the Politics of Development cgey@berkeley.edu.

Digital Accessibility Office Hours

Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Host: UCSF

UC Berkeley Extension’s “Future of Work: A Better Workplace for Tomorrow”

Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Host: UC Berkeley
Location: UC Berkeley Extension San Francisco Campus

UC Women’s Initiative for Professional Development

Nominations due: Friday, March 24, 2023
Sponsor: UC Office of the President and Systemwide Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (SACSW) 

Earth Hour

Saturday, March 25, 2023, 8:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Process Palooza

Tuesday, March 28 – Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Host: UC San Diego

Waypoints Symposium

Thursday, March 30, 2023 – March 31, 2023
Host: UC Irvine

How Not to Destroy the World with AI with Stuart Russell

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 12:00 p.m. – 1 pm
Host: UC Berkeley

UC Tech Awards Program Applications & Nominations Info Sessions

Thursday, April 6, 11-11:45 a.m. [Zoom link]
Friday, April 21, 3:00-3:45 p.m. [Zoom link]
Thursday, April 27, 8:30-9:15 a.m. [Zoom link]
Host: UC Office of the President
Contact: laurel.skurko@ucop.edu

Emerging Security Challenges in the Indo-Pacific: Innovation in an Era of Strategic Competition

Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 4:10 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Host: UC Berkeley School of Information

Testing Websites with Users with Disabilities

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Host: UCSF

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 9 a.m. – 10:00 am
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Imitation and Innovation in AI with Alison Gopnik

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Host: The CITRIS Research Exchange and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR)

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Tools from University Use Case panel

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 11:00 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Host: Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP)

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Health Conference & Exhibition

Monday, April 17, 2023 – Friday, April, 21, 2023
Location: McCormick Place Convention Center

UC Cyber Security Summit

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Host: UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center (C3)
Location: UCLA

Returning to “Rumoring” for Understanding and Responding to Misleading Content Online

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 4:10 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Host: UC Berkeley

ReINVENT at UCI Merage

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 4:10 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Host: UCI Merage School of Business

How AI Fails Us, and How Economics Can Help with Michael I. Jordan

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Host: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Location: Banatao Auditorium, UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley AI Policy Research Symposium

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Host: AI Policy Hub

Marketing your event to disability communities

Thursday, April 20, 2022, 12 p.m. – 1 pm
Host: UCSF
Contact: Cecile Puretz cecile.puretz@ucsf.edu

Earth Week

Friday, April 14 – Saturday, April 22, 2023

Volunteer Recognition Day

Thursday, April 20, 2023

UC Tech Awards Program applications & nominations info sessions

Friday, April 21, 3:00-3:45 p.m. [Zoom link]
Host: UC Office of the President
Contact: laurel.skurko@ucop.edu

Earth Day

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Privacy 101 Workshop

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 9 a.m. -12 pm
Host: UC San Diego

If a UC member requires the training prior to or outside of April 25 and September 26, they can email aarivera@ucsd.edu for special provisions and registration.

Generative AI Meets Copyright with Pamela Samuelson

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Host: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

UC Tech Awards Program applications & nominations info session

Thursday, April 27, 8:30-9:15 a.m. [Zoom link]
Host: UC Office of the President
Contact: laurel.skurko@ucop.edu

Location: Banatao Auditorium, UC Berkeley

Lunch-n-Learn with InfoSec Webinar: Fight the Phish!

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Host: UC Santa Cruz

15th Annual Chancellor’s Leadership Forum on Diversity and Inclusion

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Host: UCSF

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 042: Generative AI – A Critical Conversation

Thursday, April 27, 2023 1 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. [Zoom link]
Host: UC Berkeley
Panel moderated by Anthony Suen, Director of Data Science Discovery Program at the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society; Panelists include: Camille Crittenden, Executive Director of CITRIS’ Jenae Cohn, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning; and Greg Merritt, DevOps Lead of C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute

Latinx Staff Leadership Panel

Friday, Apr 28, 2023, 11:05 a.m.
Host: Council of UC Staff Assemblies

DeBugging Black Death in the Digital: How Black Youth Survive, Resist and Redesign Anti-Black Technologies Towards Collective Change

Friday, Apr 28, 2023, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Host: UCI Department of Informatics

Grad Slam

Friday, May 5, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Host: UC Grad Slam

Cognitive Science Conference at UC Davis

Saturday, May 6, 2023, 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Host: UC Davis

UC Risk Summit 2023

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 – Wednesday, May 10, 2023 (Optional workshop on Monday, May 8, 2023)
Host: UC Office of the President, Office of Risk Services
Location: Anaheim, CA
Contact: RiskServices@amanai

Leading Toward Equity

Wednesday, May 10, 1-2 p.m.
Host: UC Office of the President
This Leading Toward Equity conversation will feature Rachael Nava, executive vice president and chief operating officer and Paul Williams, associate vice president and chief procurement officer. Shirley Bittlingmeier, executive director, IT Client Services, Information Technology Services (ITS), will moderate.

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 2023 9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Email UC Office of the President, please contact Robert Smith, Systemwide IT Policy Director, to be added to the mailing list and receive invitations to this meeting, which occurs on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This systemwide group is open to all UC information security professionals, all UC Workforce members who have information security as a portion of their job responsibilities, and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

56th Annual Faculty Research Lecture, given by Distinguished Professor J.J. Garcia Luna Aceves

Thursday, May 11, 2023, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Host: UC Santa Cruz

Confronting Differential Power in Data – Designing Futures of Public Technologies

Friday, May 12, 2023, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Host: UCI Department of Informatics

UC GAAD Day 2023 Webinar [Registration link]

Thursday, May 18, 2023, 10-11:30 a.m.
Host: UC Electronic Accessibility Committee
Note: The  webinar will be live-captioned and include American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Contact: Stephanie Nielsen – smniel@ucsc.edu. Please submit accommodations requests by May 11, 2023. 

BruinTech 2023 Conference

Tuesday, May 23 – Thursday, May 25
Host: UCLA

Professional Cultures and Inequality in STEM

Friday, May 26, 2023, 12:10 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Host: UC Davis


The events listed here are hosted by, and/or feature, the UC tech community. They are provided by University of California colleagues. We work to ensure they are current. Please let us know if you have additional events to provide the UC Tech community for the purpose of learning new skills and perspectives and/or as an occasion to meet/network with colleagues. Contact us

[Photo caption: Amy Neeser, Research IT, UC Berkeley and Kelly Rowland, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, at the UC Tech Conference 2022 in San Diego. They are pictured here discussing the Women in High Performance Computing Bay Area Chapter which they co-founded]

Women & Philanthropy: STEM, Stories & Sheroes: Impacting the Next Generation

Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Host: UC Davis

Education Outcome Area Working Group – State Digital Equity Planning

Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 3 p.m.
Host: Broadband For All

TEDxUCR Talk: Beyond Limits

Thursday, May 18, 2023, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Host: UC Riverside