Bridging Berkeley and Tech: Navigating Careers in the Age of AI
Please join on Friday to decompress over lunch, networking, and a candid conversation with industry leaders from right in our backyard and across the bridge about the future of work, including the skills, mindsets, and experiences they value most, offering perspectives we need as we enter and re-enter the job market. Our guests include:
- Andrew Reddie, Associate Research Professor the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, and Founder and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab
- Aidan Ali Sullivan Head of State Policy at Waymo
- Chitra Balasubramanian, CFO at CircleCI
- Rachel Gillum, VP of Ethical and Humane Use of Technology at Salesforce.
With career paths spanning the foreign service, professional services, and high-stakes finance and fundraising, our guests will share the skills most needed today regardless of your background, along with what their day-to-day roles look like, what excites them about their work, and what they look for when recruiting talent.
This event marks ta chapter of a student-led effort, to build a bridge between the UC Berkeley campus and the tech and AI industry right here in our own backyard. Through a series of candid, enriching conversations with leading voices in AI and tech, we aim to equip students with the insights and connections needed to navigate and shape their future careers
