November TEBA Updates!
[PM Circle]: Insider view on building products for different audiences
Thursday, November 5th
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm PST
This is our third event targeted at recent and aspiring product managers in the CMU community. You will have unique opportunity to learn what it takes to build a product that target a particular audiences (B2E, B2B, D2C etc) at some of the brightest companies in the world.
Event Topics:
- How does the PM role vary across different industries and products?
- What skills to develop now to succeed in the retail industry?
- What you can bring to the table if you don't have engineering background?
- Handling hypergrowth and restructuring as a PM in the highly technical space like infrastructure monitoring
- Leveraging CMU network to succeed as a PM
All these and more spiced up with moderated session, Q&A, and 30 minutes networking with fellow CMU Alumni.
Agenda: (Times are in PST)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM: Moderated Panel Discussion
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Attendees Q&A
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Networking mixer
Panelists
Deep Sharma - Senior PM - Tech, Amazon
CMU - MBA, Tepper School of Business, Class'18
Summer Faruqi - PM, Tesla
CMU - MBA, Tepper School of Business, Class'18
Shalin Shah - Sr. PM, Walmart
CMU - MBA, Tepper School of Business, Class'18
Felix Amoruwa - Sr. PM, Splunk
CMU - MS in Software management, Class'16 &
MBA, Tepper School of Business, Class'12
Reinventing Reality: Exploring the Future of VR with Schell Games
Wednesday, November 11th
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm EST
As part of our Hiring Spotlight Series, CMU TEPIT hosts special guest Jesse Schell, CEO and founder of Schell Games, a team of one hundred thirty people in Pittsburgh, PA who strive to make the world’s greatest educational and entertainment games, including Yale Medical's PlayForward: Elm City Stories, Water Bears VR, HoloLAB Champions, the Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood games, and Happy Atoms. Schell Games also creates pure entertainment content, such as the award-winning VR game I Expect You To Die and Until You Fall, a VR sword fighting game. Jesse also serves as Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. Jesse has worked on a wide variety of innovative game and simulation projects for both entertainment and education, but he is best known for his award-winning book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses and his predictions about the future of gaming technology. He is a previous chair of the International Game Developers Association and former Creative Director of the Disney Virtual Reality Studio.
Join us for a behind the scenes look at the future of Schell Games and where the future of virtual reality and game technology is heading next!
Agenda: (Times are in EST)
7:00 PM - 7:05 PM: Intros
7:05 PM - 7:45 PM: Tech Talk
7:45 PM - 8:00 PM: Q&A
CMU AI/ML Meetup (featuring Director of AI Research at Avrio AI)
Thursday, November 19th
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm PST
ML/AI meetup featuring AMA with Justin Chiu, Director of AI Research at Avrio AI.
Airmeet Link:
https://www.airmeet.com/e/f05518e0-1b04-11eb-a69f-694f61e413c8
Justin is a Director of AI Research at Avrio AI - https://www.avrioai.com/. Avrio AI is a startup that develops AI solutions that supports recruiting, matching jobs, and resumes for customers.
Previously, Justin was the Speech and NLU Scientist at Jibo where he developed the Question Answering and NLU capability for the social robot.
Meet & converse with fellow alumni who are passionate about AI/ML.
We will start off with Justin sharing his journey working as an ML engineer in various early startups followed by an AMA and then split into breakout groups of 4 to allow for individual conversations.
Agenda:
* Opening
* AMA with Justin Chiu (Director of AI Research at Avrio AI)
* Breakout Room 1
* Breakout Room 2
* Closing Mixer
CMU T&E End-of-Year Game Night
Thursday, November 19th
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm PST
It's almost the end of the year! Join us at our first T&E game night where we socialize with fellow CMU alumni via rounds of popular online games and toast to the end of 2020.
We will be running multiple rounds of different games (tentatively Codenames and Skribbl). Stop by anytime and get added to the next round!
Zoom link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94096833622?pwd=czY2eDFNVFhUOEpIeXRGdzkzRW91Zz09
Meeting ID: 940 9683 3622
Passcode: 012966
The CMU TEBA board is dedicated to helping the community during these uncertain times. If you have any ideas for the community or something we can help out with, please reach out to tebacmu@gmail.com