Professionals in STEM Conference

The Professionals in STEM Conference provides a differentiated learning approach to its attendees, granting them a diverse tool kit of skills, knowledge, and experience to be successful STEM professionals. The Professionals in STEM Conference also offers cross curricular sessions with the SHPEtinas Conference and the Entrepreneurship Track to provide a more targeted learning experience.
The programming offered focuses on communication, mentorship, and best practices for technical professionals. These sessions offer actionable content for professionals to improve their careers from the moment they return to work.
Benefits Include:
- Attendees experience uniquely tailored content to help achieve their personal and professional goals
- Early, mid and senior professionals are given the opportunity to be immersed in a series of workshops, panels, and interactive activities
- Attendees leave the convention empowered with strategies that target communication and career development needed to continue their success as STEM professionals
- Networking with professionals of different backgrounds and corporations
The Professionals in STEM Conference attracts professionals from various stages in their career to share their experiences and further develop their network.

WORKSHOPS
These are tentative and are subject to change.
Are you a professional looking to make a career move, or simply want to take the next step in your career journey? Then this session is for you! Join us as a career coach highlights the best strategies to align both your personal and professional goals towards success. The session will be followed by a group coaching engagement and opportunities for potential one-on-one coaching sessions. Speaker: Gina Covarrubias, Career Coach and Engineer, Deliberate Doing LLC
Networking is something we should be engaging in constantly. Whether it’s staying in touch with old colleagues and bosses or going out of your way to meet new people and companies, networking may require getting out of our comfort zones. Learn new and fun ways of breaking the ice, making meaningful connections, and leaving a lasting impression so you can build and maintain your professional network.
At nearly every point of our career we catch ourselves thinking: “What’s next?” Discussing with and leaning on our community is both healthy and beneficial to all parties. Join SHPEtinas and Professionals in STEM as we discuss the importance of community in the workplace, and the impact coaches, sponsors, and mentors can have over the course of your career.
Employee Networking Groups are an excellent way to become involved in Leadership within your company, gain visibility, and advance your career. Learn about what other ERG leaders are doing successfully, what have been their biggest challenges, and how they’ve overcome obstacles along the way to avoid crashing in “The Big One.”
Having a diverse range of ages at work means that everyone learns from everyone else, but how do you ensure that all qualities and voices are valued? Join us as we navigate through a series of discussions that’ll empower everyone to thrive in a multi-generational workforce.
Engineers can be Leaders, and most already exhibit leadership skills even when not in Management. When leaders and managers are also engineers, everyone benefits! Learn how to plan your move, enlist mentors & sponsors, identify your unique leadership style, and make the jump from a technical to a management role. A panel of accomplished engineers will discuss their paths to management, their good habits, and the benefits of leadership.
A panel of engineers who have reached the executive suite during their careers will share their insights on the obstacles they overcame, what they would have done differently, what you can do to stand out, and tips on how to achieve success and climb to the top of the leaderboard.
Entrepreneurs share best practices on starting their own businesses and how those strategies can be applied to propel your career.
Building a leadership aspect to your career is essential to every career path, but how do you do so? Join us as our speaker breaks down the most sought-after leadership capabilities that’ll empower you to be an authentic leader in your professional career, as well as how to build strategic relationships along the way.