UCLA: BruinTech Spring Conference + Geography von Humboldt

UCLA

Doubleheader: BruinTech + Geography

Happy Birthday, Mr. Lee.

Kicking off the BruinTech Spring Conference.

Lucy Avetisyan, Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO, UCLA. Q&A time.

Q&A time.

Alex from UCLA Capital Programs.

Alex's turn to present. Showing the importance of knowing how to connect to our users.

Many IT professionals on stage.

Steve Yu, COO/CFO UCLA South Bay.

UCLA von Humboldt.

On the patio.

Beef pies.

Pork and beef meatballs.

Falafel.

Cream cheese, asparagus, tomato, olive.

Professor Park Williams.

Lots of Geography faculty.

Lots of Geography graduate students.

Professor Marilyn Raphael.

More Geography graduate students.

Professor Emeritus Dennis Lettenmaier.

Lots of Geography faculty.

Professor Jamie Goodwin-White and Professor Marilyn Raphael.

One last drink before the evening wraps up.

Staff at UCLA Luskin Conference Center always do a great job.

Professor Yue Li and Professor Kaily Heitz.

Faculty and grad students.

UCLA BruinTech's annual spring conference was a bit more focused on presentations this year than previous years, with no real panels or free-form working groups or anything. Honestly the format worked out fairly well, with Steve Yu, COO/CFO of the new UCLA South Bay campus, giving a particularly good presentation on motivation and communication to become a more effective individual; we get a lot more emphasis on becoming a more effective institution or more effective contributor, but the focus specifically on the individual was quite interesting and effective.

Evening event was UCLA Geography's annual von Humboldt awards celebration, this time at UCLA Luskin Conference Center, celebrating both recent awards as well as retirements. Well-attended and quite good as usual, and a nice change of format from the previous more formal sit-down dinner.