Webinars

Indigenous at Microsoft

Community at Microsoft: Come learn about the company and our Indigenous @ Microsoft Community
Date: Wed, June 15, 2022 
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MDT), 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (PST), 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CST), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)

About the Webinar

Topics covered include:

  1. Q&A Panel with members and allies of our Indigenous @ Microsoft Employee Resource Group (ERG)
  2. 2022 recruiting season

By the end of this course, students will have a high-level practical knowledge of:

        Many paths to Microsoft

About the facilitator

Adonis Trujillo, Business Program Manager | Datacenter Community Development (DCCD) 
Adonis Trujillo is from Taos Pueblo, NM and joined Microsoft in 2018 with a personal objective to facilitate the creation and acceleration of community-based initiatives to benefit every person in every community he is part of. He is committed to bringing long-term meaningful impact in communities in which Microsoft operates and where Microsoft employees live and work. Through conversations with community leaders and organizations, he works to deliver on this commitment to support inclusive economic opportunity, protect fundamental rights, build a sustainable future, and earn trust.
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Technology, Innovation & Partnership Resources from NSF

NSF Webinar
Date: Wed, March 24, 2022 
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MDT), 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (PST), 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CST), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)

About the Webinar

Topics covered include:

  1. Tips to get a job in the tech industry
  2. What is involved with being a tech start-up

By the end of this course, students will have a high-level practical knowledge of:

  1. Tech

About the facilitator

Ella  Morawski, TIP
 


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NASA Webinar: Natives at NASA

Feb 23, 2022 Receive FREE guidance and best tips about NASA applications
Date: Wed, February 23, 2022 
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MDT), 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (PST), 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CST), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)

About the Webinar

Topics covered include:

  1. You will get to hear from NASA Internship coordinators who will share tips and tricks for applying to a NASA Internship.
  2. Attendees will also hear from Native American NASA employees and interns who will be sharing their story on how they got to NASA

By the end of this course, students will have a high-level practical knowledge of:

  1. NASA applications

About the facilitator

Caroline Montgomery 
NASA Office of STEM Engagement 

Communication Strategist
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AISES & Microsoft Webinar

Community at Microsoft: Come learn about the company and our Indigenous @ Microsoft Community
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MDT), 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (PST), 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CST), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)

About the Webinar

Objectives:

  1. Hear from our Indigenous @ Microsoft ERG Executive Sponsor
  2. Q&A Panel with members and allies of our Indigenous @ Microsoft Employee Resource Group (ERG)
  3. How to best prepare for the upcoming 2021 recruiting season

Speaker Bios:

Executive Sponsor: Steven Worrall, Area Vice President
As Managing Director, Steven Worrall is responsible for Microsoft’s overall business in Australia. He ensures the company meets the needs of its customers and the more than 11,000 partners and independent software vendors that sell or build on the Microsoft platform. 

Steven joined Microsoft in March 2014 as Director, Enterprise and Partner Group, responsible for driving business growth and building strong customer and partner relationships in the Australian Commercial and Public Sector markets. In this role, Steven worked with organisations to drive innovation and business improvement through the application of technology in many areas, including productivity solutions, mobility and cloud services. 

Previously Steven worked for IBM for 22 years and held a number of marketing, sales and general management roles in the services, software and financing segments of the organisation. Most recently, he led IBM’s software business in Asia Pacific region where he built organisational capability in diverse markets across the region and drove the business towards more cloud delivered services. 

Steven is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion with a particular focus on improving Indigenous inclusion and addressing wellbeing and mental health in the workplace. Steven is the founding Chair of Corporate Mental Health Alliance in Australia and the Microsoft Global Indigenous Employee Resource Group Executive Co-Sponsor. Steven is also committed to a sustainable and inclusive future and is a founding member of the Climate Leaders Coalition in Australia. 

Steven holds an Honours degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s in Business Administration. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and lives in Sydney with his wife and three children.

Joseph Paranteau, Director Sales 
Joe Paranteau is a Sales Director at Microsoft, where he has worked for sixteen years, helping many Fortune 500, SMBs, and startups in commercial and government segments. He is the events lead for Indigenous@Microsoft and a member of the Little Shell Tribe and Metis. Joe is a US Air Force veteran committed to helping indigenous communities, veterans and preventing child trafficking/exploitation. When he is not working, he enjoys traveling, fishing, and hiking. He recently finished writing a book called Billion Dollar Sales Secrets, which provides coaching to salespeople on developing a winning mindset and habits for success. 

Steven Gum, Software Engineer 
 Steven Gum is a multi-racial Kānaka Maoli SDE 2 at Microsoft working on Conversational AI. He received his BA in Economics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and worked in Research Administration post-graduation. After moving to Seattle with his fiancée (now wife), he completed a coding bootcamp and began working at Microsoft as a contractor before joining fulltime in 2018. Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Steven started programming in 2016. Recently diagnosed with ADHD, he looks forward to spreading awareness and increasing indigenous representation in the tech industry with traditional and non-traditional educational backgrounds. 

Nicole Ghazal, Senior Business Program Manager 
Nicole Ghazal started at Microsoft in 2005 and spent much of her career working as a marketer spanning the areas of newsletters, relationship management, and paid media. Today, she works on the Datacenter Community Development team as a communications manager and owns the internal and external community newsletters across ten global regions.

Nicole spent her early life living in Stevensville, Montana, approximately 30 miles south of Missoula in the Bitterroot valley. Nicole’s childhood home was next door to the St. Mary’s Mission Historical site which was the cabin location of Salish Chief Victor (Little Bear Claw, Slemcry-cre). While Nicole is not of indigenous descent, throughout her life she has felt a reverence and connection to indigenous people and is honored today to serve as an Ally in the Indigenous@microsoft group. 

Nicole lives in Kenmore, Washington with her partner Brian, son Roman, and 16 year old dog, Gus. Together they love to travel, ski and camp. While most of her recent travel was in the US, she has visited 12 countries with the most notable being Egypt, Japan, and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. 

Outside of work and travel, Nicole loves I love creating art with paint or fibers. 

Kimberly Marreros, Business Program Manager 
Kimberly Marreros Chuco is a Quechua Latinx woman born in a mining town in the Andes of Peru. She is a first-generation student and will graduate with a double major in Information Systems and Operations at Boston University in January 2021. She interned as a Business Program Manager at Microsoft within the Cloud Operations and Innovation team. During her internship, she led Training, Augmented Reality, and Cybersecurity projects. At BU, Kimberly is the Co-Founder of Boston University Cybersecurity Association and she works as an IT Consultant for the Questrom School of Business. Before attending BU, Kimberly took a gap year to work at a software company, where she managed the daily operations of three sports betting shops. In her spare time, she loves dancing bachata, cooking Peruvian food, and attending virtual networking events. After graduation, Kimberly will join Microsoft as a full-time employee! 
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Intel Webinar: Technology applications within the Hotel, Resort, and Casino Industries

This webinar will address the application of computer technologies that enable the hotel, resort, and casino industries. 
Date: Wed, April 22, 2020 
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MDT), 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (PST), 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CST), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)

About the Webinar

Topics covered include:

  1. An overview of the business drivers and technology solution provider landscape within the hospitality industry, i.e. hotel, resort and casino gaming. 
  2. System level and individual workload process flow required to facilitate and innovate the industry. 
  3. The role of networking, data processing, computer vision, data analytics, location-based services used to create an enhanced guest experience and increase operator profitability. 
  4. Background information on self-service kiosks, service robotics and interactive signage system

By the end of this course, students will have a high-level practical knowledge of:

  1. How Intel® hardware and software can be applied to the hotel, resort and casino gaming industries. 
  2.  STEM opportunities for contribution in the hospitality industry.

About the facilitator

Tom Lasiter 
IOTG/RBHE Vertical Markets, Intel Corporation 

Tom Lasiter leads Intel IOTG Americas Hospitality vertical segment with a focus on application of cross Intel and cross industry technologies into the hotel, resort, and casino ecosystem. Tom has experience with both large tech companies as well as venture capital funded startups with experience in digital signal processing, artificial intelligence, communications infrastructure, wireless strategy, and casino/lottery gaming systems. Tom holds a BSEE and MSEE from Oklahoma State University as well as an MBA from University of Missouri.
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Intel Webinar: Introduction to AI

This course is for students or industry professionals who are curious about AI and want to explore AI—what it's used for and why. 
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2020 
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (MDT), 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (PST), 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (CST), 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)

About the Webinar

Topics covered include:

  1. The history of AI and why it's one of today's key technologies 
  2. The role of AI in the enterprise and various industries—from medicine to automated driving 
  3. Why data is important to both training neural networks and the steps in a data science workflow 
  4. An introduction to supervised learning and deep learning (prior to taking a full deep learning course) 
  5. An introduction to current hardware and software

By the end of this course, students will have a high-level practical knowledge of:

  1. The definition of AI, machine learning, deep learning, and the historical developments that now differentiate modern AI from AI of the past 
  2. How AI can help solve problems in the industry today (with examples), and how it is becoming more important in enterprise computing 
  3. The importance of datasets, data sources, problem-solving with data, and data science workflows The fundamentals of supervised learning and an introduction to the concepts of deep learning 
  4. How Intel® hardware and software can be applied to solve AI problems

About the facilitator

Meghana Rao
 AI Developer Evangelist, Intel Corporation

Meghana Rao is an Technical Marketing Engineer at Intel and serves as a developer evangelist for Intel family of products and solutions. In her current role as an AI evangelist, she works closely with universities and developers in evangelizing Intel’s AI portfolio and solutions, helping them understand Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts, building models and POCs using Intel optimized frameworks and libraries like Caffe*, Tensorflow* and Intel®️ Distribution of Python*. She has also worked on the Intel(R) RealSense(TM) Technology and Windows* 8 application development for scalable form factors. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering and a Master’s degree in Engineering and Technology Management with past experience in embedded software development, Windows* app development and UX design methodologies.
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US Air Force and AISES Student Networking Chat

A panel discussion of inspirational Native American Air Force and Space Force Members.
Date: Thu, June 3, 2021 
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (MDT), 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (PST), 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CST), 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EST)
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AISES & Salesforce Webinar: American Indians in Tech: Contributions, Successes, and Experiences

Community at Salesforce: Come learn about the company and our Indigenous WINDforce Community
Date: Wed, November 17, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (MST), 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PST), 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CST), 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)
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AISES Career Path Webinar: Computer Game Design

Interview with Warner a new Game Designer
Date: Wed, January 19, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (MST), 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PST), 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CST), 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)
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AISES Career Path Webinar: BPA Internship

Informational webinar about how to prepare and apply for a BPA Internship
Date: Wed, February 9, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (MST), 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PST), 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CST), 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)
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AISES College Readiness Webinar: AISES Summer Internships

Informational webinar about how to prepare and apply for AISES Summer Internships
Date: Wed, February 2, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (MST), 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PST), 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CST), 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)
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AISES College Readiness Webinar: IHS Scholarships

Informational webinar about Indian Health Service Scholarship
Date: Wed, January 26, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (MST), 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PST), 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (CST), 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)
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