150+ Universities Hawaii At Mānoa, students from various majors took advantage of the unique opportunity to meet technology industry experts from organizations such as Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Activision Blizzard one-on-one to learn about technology career opportunities.
Held on October 11 at Kaikendall Hall, the event kicked off with the introduction of more than 20 experts, including software engineers, company founders, business leaders and cybersecurity experts, while students chatted face-to-face. Followed by an hour of mixers that could. face the speaker.
This event is sponsored by the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (pace) of hmm Mānoa’s Shidler College of Business, Association for Computing Machinery at hmm Manoa, ThriveHI, Builders VCs.
Amanda Nitta is hmm Mānoa majored in Computer Science and Data Science and is Vice President and Director of Operations for the Association for Computing Machinery. hmm Manoa. Nitta was one of the event’s student organizers and gained knowledge on how to apply his science and management of data in his future career.
“This is a great opportunity for students because it exposes them to what they can do, applies what they learn, and understands that they are not limited to one thing, such as software engineering,” says Nitta. He said. “They have so many other competencies to do interdisciplinary work and have different mindsets towards the workforce.”
Narrowing the wage gap
Kanai Gooding A computer science student and president of the Association for Computing Machinery. hmm Manoa. Gooding said many of the tech professionals featured at the event were remote workers of companies based in the mainland United States, and the salaries offered by those companies versus the salaries offered by companies based on the mainland, Gooding said. said there was a difference. HawaiiGooding’s goal of the event was to initiate a dialogue to move forward. HawaiiA company based in may be comparable to salaries for companies based in the continental United States.
“This is just one of the many aspects we are trying to solve this problem,” Gooding said. “One of the big requests we made to the experts here was, ‘Hey, we’re going to ask the students what your salary is. I hope it spreads loudly throughout the community.”
pave the way for technology
Kevin ShinSenior Software Engineer at LinkedIn manao (thinking and perspective) and hmm A current student of Manoa.Graduation from Shin hmm He earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mānoa 2014 before earning a graduate degree from Stanford University.
His goal for the event was to “let students know there is a way to technology and people. Hawaii can make it. There are many people doing it here. “
“University student Hawaii They can undertake technology careers, including tech-centric entrepreneurship, just like mainland companies.because Hawaiiare away from major tech hubs, but local students may be learning about these careers from the internet and other sources. ” pace executive director Sandra Fujiyama Said. “pacewith ThriveHI, ACM@Manoa and builder VCs, recognized the need to bridge that gap and connect students directly to people who know what it is to work in today’s technology. “
-to Mark Arakaki