1. Closing Soon- Register for BruinTech Spring Conference
The BruinTech board cordially invites you to register for our upcoming Spring Conference. The event is scheduled for May 29 with the theme ‘Becoming a more Effective Institution’.
Join us for a full day of thought-provoking keynotes, interactive breakout sessions, and cross-campus networking. Together, we will explore how we can amplify our impact, enhance service delivery, and collectively shape the future of UCLA’s digital ecosystem.
Registration is almost full, so register now to secure your spot.
Register here for the BruinTech Spring Conference
2. From Blender to VR: Building Immersive Worlds
The XR Design Subcommittee is excited to welcome everyone to their ‘XRI Design Speaker Series Talk’ for a dynamic session on immersive workflows and creative development for VR.
This hands-on session with media producer, XR designer, and UCLA Extension instructor Keram Malicki-Sanchez explores a creative workflow for building and publishing immersive experiences using Blender and the Godot engine. Attendees will learn about processes for preparing 3D assets, optimizing them for performance, and deploying them into an interactive VR environment — all using free, open-source tools.
For designers, developers, artists, educators, or those simply curious about how immersive media is made, this session offers an accessible and inspiring look at the creative process behind VR production and how to optimize for it up front. Drawing from his deep experience in immersive storytelling, game design, and event production, Keram will share real-world strategies for bringing ideas to life in XR.
About the Speaker: Keram Malicki-Sanchez
Named "Top 100 Original Voices of XR" (2021) and "Creator of the Year" at the Polys Awards 2022, Keram is a professional media & event producer, composer, writer, game/Virtual Reality/WebXR & experience developer and curator. In addition, at UCLA Extension, he teaches the Blender Foundations for Spatial Media course in the Digital Communication Arts program. Also, Keram founded FIVARS - the Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories - and is executive director of the VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & editor-in-chief of IndieGameReviewer.com since 2008.
3. Last Chance to Register for UC Tech Conference 2025!
This year's theme is "Innovate. Integrate. Inspire: Transforming Higher Ed Through Technology".
Click the UCTech 2025 page for more details and registration FAQ’s.
4. Event: Learn Prompt Engineering
UCLA Advanced Research Computing group is hosting a workshop titled "Learn Prompt Engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation using Open Source LLMs" on May 16th.
You will learn how to install and deploy an open-source LLM on your local environment, create a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) model with visual builders from Diffy and AWS Bedrock and learn prompt-engineering techniques to reduce the occurrence of hallucination and secure against prompt-injection.
Click here to learn more about the workshop
Where: Online, Register here
When: May 16, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:30 AM
