Wednesday October 03, 2007
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Wednesday October 03, 2007
SEED Event a Success
The SEED Engineering mentoring program big annual event here on Sun's Menlo Park campus last week felt like a success. It certainly was enjoyable to meet everyone in person. We are still collecting feedback surveys but the informal responses were very enthusiastic.
About 80 people from all over the world attended the two day event to hear executives speak, take lab tours, go to dinner together, and spend time getting to know each other. The tours (of the Enterprise Technology Center, plus two usability labs) and the dinner were sold out with waiting lists. We also held two sets of three talks by SEED participants, called the "SEED Showcase", moderated by SEED Poorna Udupi.
The speakers were inspired and fascinating. Executives speaking to the SEEDs included:
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Dr. Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer and Executive
Vice President of Research and Development
SEED program executive sponsor - Mike Splain, Senior Vice President, Sun Fellow,
Chief Engineer
4 time SEED Mentor -
Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Vice President, Sun Fellow,
Chief Security Officer
4 time SEED Mentor - Diann Olden, Vice President, Global Product Development & Operations,
Software
7 time SEED Mentor -
Dr. Sheueling Chang-Shantz, Distinguished Engineer,
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
7 time SEED Mentor - Jud Cooley, Senior Director of Engineering,
Project Blackbox
2 time SEED Mentor
More information on SEED is available at http://research.sun.com/SEED/
Here are some event photos:
Whit Diffie:
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Diann Olden:
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Greg Papadopoulos:
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Images Copyright 2007 by Katy Dickinson
Posted at 02:19PM Oct 03, 2007 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business |
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