Kathyleen Beveridge Talk

  • arrived from vietnam in 1980
  • SCU Finance degree
  • USC MBA
  • Switched to high tech from brokerage
  • Works at Thermo Fisher
    • scientific equiptment
    • 125k employees
    • 42B revenue
  • Background
    • HP
    • qualcomn

Kris Porter Talk

  • devops
  • UCLA electrical engineering
    • first cs class at ucla
    • failed first time, C second time
  • Started email marketing operations
  • NBC
  • Twitter for past 2 years
  • many projects
    • streaming infrastructure
    • twitter

Reflection

  • tech industry has variety of roles
    • not just coding
    • managing
  • tech can and should benefit people
  • CS is very important and affects many people