This week, I’ve been doing a lot of presenting as part of my job, and some as part of work extracurriculars. Our team has switched to agile development, and one of the deliverables in Agile is to do a demo of your completed work. So last week I’ve been preparing, and recording a demo of my feature. I also ended up doing a live, web-conferenced version of the demo which after having preparing for so long was pretty easy.

On Wednesday and Thursday, IBM held an internal conference called TechConnect which was a showcase of technologies that people have been working on around the lab. The last few years, I’ve done a lot of poster sessions so I’m kind of used to it by now; so used to it that I didn’t prepare, so the first couple of talks were a bit awkward. But overall, it was pretty straightforward and fun. I had two posters, one of which was that old topic that I wrote my thesis on, and submitted a IEEE paper. I think it’s finally time to retire that idea, at least I’m really tired of talking about it.

Finally today, our early-career networking group did our quarterly presentation to our executive sponsor. I’ve been taking more and more of a leadership role on the executive council so I ended up driving the planning and organization for this meeting. Although our group has kind of been lazy lately, so it’s tough to BS that we actually did stuff the last few months.

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