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Career Camp is a week-long event series designed to inspire and motivate you to pursue careers that you love.
Day 3: Explore the various tech roles within the Boston EdTech scene. From designers, engineers, to marketers, there has to be a role that fits your interests and career goals. In a speed networking format, meet industry leaders who will tell you about their career journeys and offer advice on breaking into a new field.
Below are some of the confirmed experts. This list will be updated as we get more confirmations:
- Nimisha Asthagiri, Chief Architect at edX
- Heidi Burgiel, Instructional Designer, Lasell University
- Michael Fogarasi, Producer at FableVision
- Kristina McElroy, Director of Academic Technology, Lesley University
- Miguel Mora, Product Manager at AdmitHub
- Marco Morales, Senior Product Manager at edX
- Ben Piscopo, Senior Learning Designer at edX
- Pooja Prasanna, Product Manager at Pearson
- Becky Sacks, VP Product at AdmitHub
- Jen Wang, UX Researcher at Curriculum Associates
- Joy Zhao, Product Manager at Curriculum Associates
- Also, all of our current Boston EdTech volunteers will be present:
- Robyn Belair, Learning Designer at edX
- Alan Foster, Founder of ArcLive at Lore Media
- Chelsea Giller, Business Analyst at Cengage
- Jeff King, Software Engineer at Curriculum Associates
- Kyle Paczkowski, Accountant at itslearning
- Victor Wang, VP, Partnerships at Peergrade
Agenda:
- 6:30 - 7:20 - Network based on different edtech careers/roles
- 7:30 - 7:45 - Overview of Boston EdTech 2020
- 7:45 - 8:30 - Continue networking around emerging technologies and educational trends
About Our Partners
The BETF works towards building an EdTech community in the Greater Boston Area through monthly events. We believe that being surrounded by an inspiring and supporting network of friends, advisers and mentors is key for success. For that reason, we create and promote opportunities to meet new people and collaborate.