Skip to main content
WE25 Main banner
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.

Full Schedule

  1. Home
  2. Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Thursday, October 23, 2025
  • 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM CT
    Concessions
  • 6:30 AM - 7:00 PM CT
    Registration
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CT
    Yoga Lounge
  • 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Volunteer Central
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 PM CT
    First Time Attendee Meet-Up
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM CT
    Child Care
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM CT
    Nursing Room
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM CT
    Prayer/Meditation Room
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM CT
    WE25 Interview Booths
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Opening Keynote: Dr. Ruth Jones
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    AbbVie Networking Lounge
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Career Fair Prep Room (Printer Room)
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Career Fair Prep Room (Resume Review/Interview Tips)
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Cargill Networking Lounge
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Exam Proctor Room
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    PepsiCo Networking Lounge
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Phillips Networking Lounge
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Professional Headshots (sign-up required)
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Rainbow Lounge
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Social Lounge
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    SWE Boutique
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    SWE Information Center
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
    Wellness Lounge
  • 10:15 AM - 10:35 AM CT
    An Introvert's Guide to Unleashing Your Career Superpowers
  • 10:15 AM - 10:35 AM CT
    The Engineer Wears Prada
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    5 Steps to Becoming a Thought-Leader: SPARK Action for Thought-Leadership
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Beyond the Label: AI Techniques for Healthier Beauty Choices
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Diplomas to Dollar Signs: Balancing Saving and Spending Your Paycheck
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Empowering Financial Futures: Wealth Management Strategies for Engineers
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Empowering Women in Plants: GROWing a Women’s ERG
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    From Hard Hats to Agile Teams: Navigating Bold Career Transitions
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Gen Z Superpowers: Recognizing Value Brought by Early Career Engineers
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Grant Her Story: SWE Funds Events to Empower and Inspire
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Hey Look, a Squirrel! Women with ADHD in the Workplace
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    How to Get Away With Murder, Nay, Networking!
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Sustainability: The Pathway to Profitability
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    The Focus Factor: Techniques to Minimize Distractions and Boost Efficiency
  • 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    The Importance of Indigenous People in STEM
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CT
    ABB Sponsored Info Session
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CT
    Milwaukee Tool Sponsored Info Session - Relentless Improvement: From Failure to Product Launch with Milwaukee Tool
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    African-American Affinity Incubator Group
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    Early Career Professionals Affinity Group
  • 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM CT
    SWE Athletes Affinity Connect Group
  • 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    Rapid Resume Review
  • 10:15 AM - 4:45 PM CT
    Affinity Group Lounge - A
  • 10:15 AM - 4:45 PM CT
    Affinity Group Lounge - B
  • 10:15 AM - 4:45 PM CT
    Affinity Group Lounge - C
  • 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    This Meeting Could Have Been an Email
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Rainbow Lounge Sponsored Session
  • 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM CT
    Is Your Technology Human Ready?
  • 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM CT
    Spooky Action at a Distance: Quantum Entanglement Swapping in Space
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Breaking Bias, Building Bots: How SWE Can Shape FIRST Robotics
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Instead of Being Called to HR, Make HR Your Calling!
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    My Journey: Refugee. Innovator. Global Citizen. Advocate.
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Storytelling for Engineers: Simplifying Complex Concepts
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    Swing 4 SWE: Driving Women Together
  • 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    The Rebalancing Act: Navigating Career, Family, and Growth
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    Dirt, Diamonds, and Dumpsters: Careers You Didn’t See Coming
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    FOMO is Real: Tips for Improving Inclusion While Remote Working
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    Public Policy in Challenging Times
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    Self Defense Seminar
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    The Human Edge: Mastering Leadership in an AI World
  • 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    The Women Who Love Trains
  • 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM CT
    How to Travel for Free and Make Friends in College
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT
    Abbott Sponsored Info Session- Smart Starts in Healthcare Technology: Engineering with Purpose
  • 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM CT
    Executive Women’s Luncheon (Invitation Only)
  • 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM CT
    Collegian Welcome Luncheon (pre-registration required)
  • 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    Practice Safe AI: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Bias
  • 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM CT
    Semiconductor = Kind-of Conductive? Demystifying the Industry
  • 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM CT
    Open Room for Affinity Group Use
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CT
    Inspirational Insight: You're the Boss: How Bosses and Employees Can Have Each Other’s Backs Instead of Getting on Each Other’s Nerves
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Members at Large (MAL) Meeting
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Invent It. Build It. - Volunteer Check-In
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    First-Generation Students and Professionals Affinity Group
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    GradSWE Community Affinity Group
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    SWE Members in Small Businesses Connect Group
  • 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM CT
    Building Trust Like a Championship Team: Lessons From Hockey and Engineering
  • 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM CT
    Unlocking the Potential of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    A-Eye: Leveraging Computer Vision in Railroad Maintenance Equipment
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Diplomas to Dollar Signs: Balancing Saving and Spending Your Paycheck
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Embracing Their Stories: Accomplishments of SWE’s Early Trailblazers
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Empowering Financial Futures: Wealth Management Strategies for Engineers
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Facts Tell, Stories Sell: Leveraging Storytelling to Leave Your Legacy
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Fostering Belonging Through Community and Care From Affinity Groups
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Harnessing Machine Learning (ML) to Measure Access to Health Care
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Increasing Success With Intergenerational Teams
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Navigating the Storm: Handling Grief in Personal and Professional Spaces
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Navigating Turbulence: Ethical Decision-Making in Engineering
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Talent Tectonics: Navigating the Fault Lines of Organizational Change
  • 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Transform Your SWE Section From Drab to Fab
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM CT
    Honda Sponsored Info Session
  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM CT
    Jacobs Sponsored Info Session
  • 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
    WE25 Career Fair
  • 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Configuring Lunar Landers: Importance of Configuration Management in Space Vehicles
  • 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Mind Mapping: Visual Tool for Meetings and Writing
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    Abbott Tech Talk
  • 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    Bose Tech Talk
  • 2:35 PM - 2:55 PM CT
    Solid Roots: Supplementing Engineering Education With Gardening
  • 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Inspiring Future Engineers? That’s SWEET: A SWE-Led Middle School Program
  • 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Mentorship vs. Sponsorship: The Key to Unlocking Career Growth
  • 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Navigating Your 40s: Personal Branding and Your Board of Directors
  • 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Role of Computer Vision in Automating Supply Chains
  • 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    Securing Promotions and Raises as an Early Career Engineer
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    Breaking Ground, Building Futures: Women Leading the Way
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    From Sketches to Shelves: Engineering a Consumer Packaged Good
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    Radiate Confidence: The Art of Executive Presence
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    Shrink It and Pink It? No. PPE Should Actually Fit!
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    Yeeting Your Degree Across the Room: Lessons From Manufacturing
  • 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM CT
    Are You Thinking of PIE?: An Emotion Management Technique
  • 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM CT
    Embracing Errors: The Potential of Failure to Lead to Success
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Ford Sponsored Info Session
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Global Affiliate Leader Session (Invite Only)
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Latin America and the Caribbean Meet Up
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Merck & Co., Inc. Sponsored Info Session
  • 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Indigenous Peoples Affinity Incubator Group
  • 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Late Career and Retiree Affinity Group
  • 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Women in Government Contractor Careers Affinity Connect Group
  • 3:25 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    Beyond Engineering: Leveraging Skills to Pivot Early Career
  • 3:25 PM - 3:45 PM CT
    Plastics Recycling: Busting Myths, Boosting Impact!
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Eaton Tech Talk
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Rockwell Automation Tech Talk - Make a Mess in the Model, not on the Plant Floor!
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Halo Reception (Invitation Only)
  • 3:30 PM - 6:15 PM CT
    The Local's Guide to the French Quarter- Walking Tour ($)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM CT
    Engineering Your Next Move: Confidently Charting an Unconventional Path
  • 4:00 PM - 4:20 PM CT
    Office to Optimization: Applying Lean Concepts to Your Personal Life
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Decoding Communication Styles for Engineering Success
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    HR is (Sometimes) Your Friend: Navigating HR as an Engineer
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Rewrite, Reboot, Recharge: Embracing My Story and Empowering My Career
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Teaching AI That Doctors Aren’t Just Men: Building Unbiased AI
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    The Focus Factor: Techniques to Minimize Distractions and Boost Efficiency
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    The Mentorship Advantage
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    The Rebalancing Act: Navigating Career, Family, and Growth
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Apple Tech Talk
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Beyond the Blueprint: Exploring Non-Traditional Career Paths for Engineers
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Big Ideas, Bold Moves: How Side Innovation Fuels Mid-Career Growth
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Global Affiliate and Ambassador Networking Reception (Invite Only)
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    President's Reception (Invitation Only)
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    The Robots are Coming... Empowering Teams to Embrace Change
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
    Your Next Move: Making the Case for Your Promotion
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM CT
    Canada Meet Up
  • 4:25 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Life After Layoff
  • 4:25 PM - 4:45 PM CT
    Work-Life Harmony: Embracing the Jazzy Rhythm of Life
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CT
    The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Tech Talk
  • 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM CT
    Wells Fargo & Co. Tech Talk
  • 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    Securing the Bag: A Postgrad Guide to Mastering Money
  • 4:50 PM - 5:10 PM CT
    Sorry, Not Sorry: Empowering Women to Lead Without Apology
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    ALWE and WIA Reception (Invitation Only)
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    Collegiate Competition Networking Reception
  • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT
    Past Presidents' Reception (Invitation Only)
  • 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CT
    Clorox Company Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Eaton Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    ENFRA Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    GlobalFoundries Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Jacobs Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    John Deere Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Mortenson Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Rockwell Automation Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Siemens Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Southern Company Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    TC Energy Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Texas Instruments Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Turner Construction Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    United Parcel Service (UPS) Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Walmart Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
    Women in Rail Hospitality Suite
  • 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM CT
    Life Members Reception (Invitation Only)