Join us on Wednesday, December 8th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm for a conference focused on the intersection of environmental sustainability and technology. Learn about innovative sustainability work happening at UCLA with Nurit Katz, UCLA's Chief Sustainability Officer. Examine possibilities and the social and environmental impacts of blockchain technology with a panel representing multiple viewpoints, moderated by Davida Johnson. After the panel, you will have the opportunity to learn more about BruinTech’s history and also host or attend a "Geek Out!" session in which IT staff members share their interesting hobbies, passion collections, or quirky obsessions.
Agenda
1:00pm - UCLA: A Living Laboratory for Sustainability
- Nurit Katz, Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA
2:00pm - Panel Discussion on Blockchain Technology
- David MacFadyen - Professor, UCLA
- Deepak Rajagopal - Associate Professor; Director, Leadership in Sustainability Certificate Program, UCLA
- Dr. Olivier Jutel - Lecturer, The University of Otago
- David Gerard - Author, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
3:00pm - BruinTech History & Geek Out Sessions
- Volunteer and Board Member Acknowledgements
- Perspectives: Computing and Information Systems newsletter published by UCLA 1971-1990
- …and more!
If you have an interesting obsession, hobby, or collection (cooking, historical artifacts, NFT artwork, etc) that you would like to share during our Geek Out! sessions, please complete this form.
A virtual gift bag containing multiple zoom backgrounds will become available to you upon registration, along with the access details for the conference.
Please reach out to Relvyn Lopez at rlopez@it.ucla.edu with any questions or comments.
