Events

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

Berkeley Institute for Data Science: Seminar with Tristan Chambers

Tuesday, November 30, 2023, 12 – 1 p.m.
Host: Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Location: Zoom

The Data Science Toolbox with Collins Udanor, PhD

Thursday, November 30, 2023, 1 – 2 p.m.
Sponsor: George Obaido, PhD
Host: Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Location: Zoom

Building Conversational AI Applications

Saturday, December 2, 2023, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Host: UCSC Silicon Valley Extension AI Program

UC Health systemwide grand rounds on data science and AI

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12 – 1 p.m
Speakers: Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Data Scientist, UC Health, Cora Han, J.D., Chief Health Data Officer, UC Health, Sara Murray, M.D., M.A.S., Vice President and Chief Health AI Officer, UCSF Health, and Karandeep Singh, M.D., M.M.Sc., Associate Chief Medical Information Officer of AI, Michigan Medicine & Incoming Chief AI Officer, UC San Diego Health
Host: UC Health
Location: Zoom registration

Health AI Symposium – French American Innovation Days

Wednesday, December 6 – Thursday, December 7, 2023
Hosts: The Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at UCSF and the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States

State of the University Address

Thursday, December 7, 2023, 12 – 1 p.m.
Speakers: Sam Hawgood UCSF chancellor, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, and Sara Murray, MD, MAS
Host: UCSF
Location: Livestream link

Festive Code – A UC Women in Tech Committee Festive Gathering

Monday, December 11, 12 – 1 p.m.
Host: UC Women in Tech
Location: Zoom registration
Join us for an hour of virtual connection, collaboration, and festive cheer at our UC Women in Tech Networking Event.

Networking Event: Database design for enduring relevance

Wednesday, Tuesday, December 12, 2-3 p.m.
Host: UC Office of the President
Topics: Network and enjoy conversation led by Robert Krumm, UCSF, Ernesto Carrusco and Harold Shin, UCLA, and Kelsey Couzzo, Quantivly, followed by your perspectives and questions
Contact: Laurel.Skurko@UCOP.edu
Registration: Zoom Registration Link

UC IT Marketing & Outreach sessions

Wednesday, December 13, 3 – 3:45 p.m.
Host: UC IT blog news team
Location: Zoom link
Audience: Open to those interested in expanding outreach to the UC tech community, and/or about this community and their work to broader audiences.
Objective: 2024 content calendar

December Digital A11y Campaign Social Media & Accessibility

Wednesday, December 13, 12 – 1 p.m.
Host: UC Davis
Location: Zoom link
Contact: Joshua Hori jhori@ucdavis.edu

2024 CERSI Innovations in Regulatory Science Summit

Sunday, January 7, 2024
Host: UCSF – Stanford CERSI Location: Robertson Auditorium, Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens St, San Francisco, CA

UC Tech Academy: IT Leadership Program

January 23 – January 24, 2024
Host: UC Office of the President
Location: UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

Data Privacy Week [save-the-date]

January 24-28, 2024

UC Tech Academy: IT Leadership Program

April 16 – April 18, 2024
Host: UC Office of the President
Location: UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

Process Palooza [Save-the-date]

Wednesday, August 21 – Thursday, August 22, 2024
Host: UC San Diego

UC Cyber Security Conference 2024 [Save-the-date]

Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Host: UC Irvine

UC Tech Conference 2024 [Save-the-date]

Friday, October 27 – Sunday, October 29, 2024
Host: UC Davis, Sacramento Campus
Contact: Iris Chelaru – ichelaru@ucdavis.edu>

PAST EVENTS

Disrupting Prior Auth (Twitter Spaces)

Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 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, 2022, 12 – 1 p.m.
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, 2022, 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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, 2022, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m
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, 2022, 12 – 1 p.m.
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month; Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: Chad Spensky, Founder & CEO – Allthenticate

Healthy Living

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 12 – 1 p.m.
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, 2022, 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, 2022, 12 noon – 1 pm
Disability Awareness Symposium; Hosted by UC Davis
Speaker: TouchGraphics

Apple Accessibility

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 1 – 2 pm
Disability Awareness Symposium; Hosted by UC Davis
Speaker: Apple

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 12:00 noon – 1 pm
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: Reema Moussa

Climate Change Effects

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 10-11:00 am
UC Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Hosted by UC Santa Barbara
Speaker: Giselle Brun, Zoom 

Social Engineering

Monday, October 24, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 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, 2022, 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 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
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 

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR)

Sunday, November 20, 2023
Host: GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)

Leadership Development Opportunities Information Session

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Host: UC Office of the President 

Building Conversational AI Applications

Saturday, December 2, 2023, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Host: UCSC Silicon Valley Extension AI Program

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


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

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

Black Staff and Faculty Organization (BSFO) Juneteenth Celebration

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

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Host: UC Office of the President,
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 anyone at the university who is interested in cybersecurity.

UCSF: SummeR of LeaRning – Learn R Programming

Every Friday, June 16-August 18 11:05 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Host: UCSF Data Science Initiative (DSI)

UCUX: UX Meetup

Monday, June 17, 2023, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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

Digital Accessibility Office Hours

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

Digital Health Humanities Symposium

Friday, June 23, 2023
Host: UCSF Digital Health Humanities

What is Generative AI and How It Can Transform Business Process Management: from ChatGPT to ProcessGPT?

Wednesday, July 7, 2023, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Host: UCSF

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.

Testing Websites with Users with Disabilities

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

UCSF at AIDS Walk San Francisco

Saturday, July 16, 2023, 8:30 a.m. – 3 pm
Host: UCSF

UC Tech Conference 2023 [Registration closed]

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

UC IT Marketing & Outreach Session: Birds of a Feather Presentation

Monday, July 17, 9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Location: MLK Student Union, “Tilden,” MLK Student Union is located at 2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, with a parking garage in the building.
Host: UC Tech Conference
Audience: For in-person UC Tech 2023 Conference registered guests only
Contact: Laurel.Skurko@UCOP.edu

UC Tech Awards Ceremony and Dinner [Online and in-person elements for UC Tech Conference registered attendees]

Tuesday, July 18, 6-9 p.m.
Location: UC CIO Council and UC Tech 2023 Conference organisers
Hybrid (7-7:30 pm awards ceremony will be streaming)
Contact: Laurel.Skurko@UCOP.edu

Social Mobility and Adjusting to an Office Culture

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

Bayesian Latent Variable Models for Mortality Surveillance

Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 1 p.m.
Host: UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering

UC Service Now User Group (UC SNUG)

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

UC IT Marketing & Outreach for UC Tech Colleagues

Thursday, July 27, 3-3:45 p.m.
Host: UC IT news blog team
Location: Zoom link
Audience: Open to all members of the UC tech community interested in expanding outreach to the UC tech community

AI: A World of Possibilities and Perils

Friday, July 28, 2023, 4:30 – 7 p.m.
Host: UC Santa Cruz

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 9 – 10 a.m.
Email Monte.Ratzlaff@UCOP.edu, Director, Cyberrisk Coordination Center, UC Office of the President, 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 and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Professional Etiquette Post Pandemic

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 12-1 p.m.
Host: UC Alumni Career Network

Marketing & Outreach Session for IT (2nd Wednesday of each month)

Wednesday, August 9, 3-3:45 p.m.
Host: UC IT blog news team
Location: Zoom link
Audience: Open to all members of the UC tech community interested in expanding outreach to the UC tech community
Objective: UC tech community outreach scorecard – the the results of recent communications (ROI)

Cybersecurity Summer 2023 Project Showcase

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Host: Berkeley School of Information

TECHTalks: Sara Danford, Jonathan Whitman, David Hutches, Student Information System

Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Host: UC San Diego Information Technology Services

Data Science 2023 Capstone Project Showcase

Thursday, August 17, 2023, 5 – 7:30 p.m.
Host: UC Berkeley School of Information

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 9 – 10 a.m.
Host: UC Office of the President
Email Monte.Ratzlaff@UCOP.edu, Director, Cyberrisk Coordination Center, UC Office of the President, 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 and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

A Tutorial for Ansys Products with Application to Cross-Platform Programming

Wednesday, September 13, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Host: UCLA Advanced Research Computing

Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI – Jaron Lanier

Wednesday, September 13, 12-1 p.m.
Sponsors: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science and Society, and BAIR
Location: UC Berkeley

Marketing & Outreach Session for IT (2nd Wednesday of each month)

Wednesday, September 13, 3-3:45 p.m.
Host: UC IT blog news team
Location: Zoom link
Audience: Open to all members of the UC tech community interested in expanding outreach to the UC tech community
Objective: See UC IT blog survey results (both “tech” and “all-UC” audiences) and provide your feedback; Learn about best-practices in information sharing across the UC.

Preparing for the AI Future

Wednesday, September 13, 6-7 p.m.
Host: UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension

TECHTalks: Alex Wu, Application Development Environment

Wednesday, September 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Host: UC San Diego TECHTalks

Understanding Large Language Models and Breaking Down the AI Hype

Wednesday, September 20, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Host: The Privacy Whisperer

Privacy 101 Workshop

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

AI Agents That Do What We Want: Progress and Open Challenges – Anca Dragan

Wednesday, October 4, 12-1 p.m.
Sponsors: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science and Society, and BAIR
Location: UC Berkeley

Protecting Your Identity Online in the Age of Big Data and AI

Thursday, October 5, 2023 11 a.m. -12 p.m. PDT
Host: UC Santa Cruz

Educause Conference 2023

In Person: October 9-12, 2023
Online: October 18-19, 2023
Host: EDUCAUSE

K1st World Industrial AI Conference

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 9 a.m. – Thursday, October 12, 2023 6 p.m.
A generous alumni has offered to sponsor 90% of the attendance cost (~$100)  for the first 20 members of the UC community who register for K1st World via this link: See #events on the UC Tech Slack.

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 9 – 10 a.m.
Host: UC Office of the President
Email Monte.Ratzlaff@UCOP.edu, Director, Cyberrisk Coordination Center, UC Office of the President, 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 and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Computer Security and Privacy Research: The Past, the Present, and the Future 

Wednesday, October 11, 12:10 – 1:30 p.m.
Location: 210 South Hall, Berkeley, CA 94704
Host: UC Berkeley School of Information

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Protect Your Digital Life – Be CyberSafe 

October, 2023
Contact: Cecelia Finney: cecelia.finney@ucop.edu 

Gartner IT Symposium

October 16-19, 2023
Gartner Conferences

Manual Accessibility Testing with Lucy (Lunch and Learn)

Wednesday, October 18, 12 – 12:50 p.m.
Host: UCSF
Facilitator: Lucy Greco, UC Berkeley’s Web Accessibility Evangelist
Location: Zoom [use this link for registration]

Marketing & Outreach Session for IT (2nd Wednesday of each month)

Wednesday, October 18, 3 – 3:45 p.m.
Host: UC IT blog news team
Location: Zoom link
Audience: Open to all members of the UC tech community interested in expanding outreach to the UC tech community
Objective: 10th anniversary of UC IT blog – be a part of bold new plans shaping the year ahead

Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Global Insights to Anticipate and Address Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Challenges

Friday, October 20, 3:10 – 5 p.m.
Host: UC Berkeley School of Information
Location: 107 South Hall, Berkeley, CA and online via Zoom

Optimizing the Student Experience for University of California 

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Host: Genesys & Carahsoft

Independent Community-rooted AI Research – Timnit Gebru (postponed)

Wednesday, October 25, 12 – 1 p.m.
Sponsors: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science and Society, and BAIR
Location: UC Berkeley

UC Tech Discussion Session on the recent “Future of AI” distinguished speaker series

Wednesday, October 25, 2 – 2:45 p.m.
Host: UC Tech news blog team
Guest: Camille Crittenden
Location: Zoom [use this registration link]

UC Cyber Leadership Panel Discussion with Van Williams

Thursday, October 26, 12- 1 p.m.
Host: UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Panel: Moderator: Van Williams, other panelists will include: Mary Morshed, Pegah Parsi, Troy Wright, and Frank Fimbrez
Location: Zoom Registration Link
Audience: Open to all members of the UC tech community interested in cybersecurity
Contact: Cecilia Finney, Cecelia.Finney@ucop.edu

Cybersecurity Futures 2030: Global Insights to Anticipate and Address Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Challenges

Friday, October 27, 3:10 – 5 p.m.
Location: 210 South Hall, Berkeley, CA 94704 or via zoom
Host: UC Berkeley School of Information

UC Electronic Records Day webinar: Mark as Read, Managing Email Overload

Wednesday, November 1, 10 – 11 a.m.
Host: UC Records Management Committee

Achieving Shared Prosperity in The Age Of AI: A Conversation with Simon Johnson 

Wednesday, November 1, 5:30 p.m.
Host: UC Irvine

Fireside chat with Van Williams, VP and CIO, University of California [Zoom Registration link]

Monday, November 6, 2023, 2 – 3 p.m. Facilitator: Charron Andrus, associate CISO and co-founder of Black Leadership Alliance Council at the University of California (BLAC@UC)
Hosts: Black Leadership Alliance Council and the UC Tech Community

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Workshop (open to public)

Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Host: UC San Diego
Contact: Anita Rivera, aarivera@ucsd.edu

Digital Accessibility Program

Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12 p.m.
Host: UC Berkeley
Presenter: Suzanne Harrison, Digital Accessibility Program Manager, Campus IT Experience, Berkeley IT

Toward Algorithmic Justice in Precision Medicine 

Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Host: Precision Medicine at UCSF

Information Technology Policy & Security (ITPS) Community of Interest

Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 9 – 10 a.m.
Host: UC Office of the President
Email Monte.Ratzlaff@UCOP.edu, Director, Cyber-Risk Coordination Center,(C3), UC Office of the President, 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 and anyone at UC who is interested in cybersecurity.

Veterans Job Fair and Open House 2023

Thursday, November 9, 2023 1 – 4 p.m.
Host: UCSF

Gaddys 2023

Thursday, November 9, 2023 6 – 8 p.m.
Location: 1155 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Host: The GAAD Foundation

Spotlight on the Healthcare Industry

Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 5 – 6 p.m.
Host: UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business
Location: Zoom

“Ask Me Anything” session with Uma Karmarkar, PhD on communicating polished professionalism

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Host: UC San Diego Health
Contact: Leiya Shan: ljshan@health.ucsd.edu

UC IT Marketing & Outreach sessions

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 3 – 3:45 p.m.
Host: UC Tech blog news team
Audiences: Open to all interested in exchanging insights about the recent impact of outreach regarding the UC Tech community news, events and jobs.
Location: Virtual

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. They are pictured here discussing the Women in High Performance Computing Bay Area Chapter which they co-founded]

Transgender Day of Remembrance/Día de los Muertos Altar

Tuesday November 21, 2023, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Hosts: Women of Color Collective, Berkeley Immigration Group, La Alianza – Law Students of Latin American Descent, Law Students of African Descent (LSAD), California Asylum Representation Clinic, Berkeley Law Queer Caucus, Queers United In Revolutionary Subversion (QUIRS)
Location: UC Berkeley Law (Centennial Lobby (outside Booth) 2778 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

The digitization of ancient Egyptian coffins and their shareability in museum and academic environments

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Host: Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Location: Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley