Katy Dickinson

SEED Events and Tea Photos

Sun's SEED Engineering mentoring program offers monthly meetings as well as some local events. Most of the monthly meetings are by phone. We are now planning SEED's annual MidTerm in-person meeting, to be on 11 April. We have confirmations so far from the following speakers: Jonathan Schwartz (Chief Executive Officer and President), David Yen (Executive Vice President, Microelectronics), plus Tiki Dare (Associate General Counsel). I am in discussions with other potential presenters now.

SEED's regular monthly meetings provide opportunities for current and alumni program Participants, Managers, and Mentors to get to know each other, share experiences, and talk with Sun executives and engineering leaders. Sometimes the topics are very practical - such as an overview of intellectual property law or how Sun's engineering career paths work - but other talks are intended to broaden awareness of technical or business potentials at Sun.

One of the local SEED events held here on Sun's Menlo Park, CA campus is our weekly tea during which we serve hot tea from all over the world, plus cookies, and other goodies. The weekly tea offers an informal setting in which local and visiting SEEDs who want to know other people in the program can drop by to visit and chat. Tea is held in a library and casual meeting room in Sun Labs called "The Noosphere".

At yesterday afternoon's tea, I took some photos to brighten up the SEED schedule web page. Here they are:

More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program: http://research.sun.com/SEED/

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

Posted at 11:19AM Feb 07, 2008 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |  Comments[1]