Computing Career Week - alumni & students

Goldsmiths, Department of Computing

A week of talks and activities to support and inspire alumni and students in the Department of Computing in their careers.

This year it is more important than ever to support our alumni and students from Computing in their careers and to hear from experts in industry. We will be working with some wonderful employers, alumni, Careers experts and academic staff to offer a programme of really useful talks and activities. We hope you will join us.The week will be roughly structured as follows, but many talks will be relevant to all students and alumni:<ul><li>Monday June 14th &amp; Tuesday June 15th - talks, panels and activities related to our Postgraduate programmes</li><li>Wednesday 16th June - CV &amp; Portfolio clinics (times TBC)</li><li>Thursday June 17th &amp; Friday June 18th - talks, panels and activities related to our Undergraduate programmes</li></ul>Each talk or activity has a ticket that is bookable. There is some more information about each talk (including timings) if you click on the tickets.This sign up page is only for alumni from Goldsmiths, University of London(If you are a prospective student interested in attending please contact your Programme Leader for information. For current students info will be shared via your Teams calendar, if you don&#x27;t see it please contact computing@gold.ac.uk)Events from an expanding list will include:<ul><li>AR/VR alumni and industry talk, including artist Wei Wang from Perfect World</li><li>Computational Arts alumni panel discussion (chaired by Becky Aston)</li></ul><ul><li>Goldsmiths computing academics talk about their work and careers (chaired by Theo Papatheodorou)</li><li>VR/AR industry guests</li><li>Neuroscientist Joerg Wichard from Bayer Pharma</li><li>Neuroscientist Shinichi Furuya from Sony</li><li>Neuroscience alumni panel discussion (chaired by Max and Maria)</li><li>Dom Shaw from UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE)</li><li>Games alumni panel discussion (chaired by Alan Zucconi)</li><li>Kate Lynham from Unit 9 production company</li><li>Astrid Refstrup from Triple Topping indie game studio</li><li>Andy Driver on getting a job in the games industry</li><li>Lucie Prunier from Dontnod Entertainment</li><li>Panel discussion: doing a PhD in computing (chaired by Golnaz Badkobeh)</li></ul>Get InvolvedYou may also be interested in delivering a talk or helping our students in other ways over the week. Students love to hear from people who are out there working in the industries and doing the jobs that they aspire to do themselves in the future. Could you give up an hour of your time to help us? Here are some of the ways you could get involved:<ul><li>Delivering a talk about working in your industry or your own career journey</li><li>Taking part in our CV &amp; Portfolio clinics - we will match students to relevant employers for short advice clinics: students will prepare their CVs and Portfolios in advance and indicate what sort of role(s) they are interested in</li></ul>Contanct e.macdonald@gold.ac.uk if you can give up some time to help us.

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