Level Up 2024
Events
Level Up 2024
29 February - 3 March, 2024 Washington, DC, USA
Discover your personal and professional skills of leadership
Are you leading a team for the first time? Are you feeling like an imposter in your current role? Do you know how to handle conflicts between colleagues? Register to attend Level Up Leadership to explore these questions and gain the communication and leadership skills necessary to advance your career to the next level. Sessions will cover an extensive array of topics that impact, influence and shape what it means to be a leader. From tackling conflict resolution, imposter syndrome or personal branding. Level Up is here to provide you with a unique approach to better address mentorship, volunteering and networking within the photonics industry.
Topics
- Personal Branding
- Career Planning
- Networking
- Conflict Resolution
- Imposter Syndrome
- Mentorship
- Volunteering
Speakers
Hannah Roberts
Facilitator
Hannah Roberts Coaching, United Kingdom
Gisele Bennett
MEPSS, LLC, USA
Jens Biegert
ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Aleksandra Boskovic
Corning Incorporated, USA
Katherine Calabro
Apple, USA
Dennis Fantone
Optikos Corporation, USA
Ulrike Fuchs
asphericon GmbH, Germany
Christoph Hitzenberger
Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Austria
Marcia Lesky
Optica, USA
Gerd Leuchs
Max Planck Institute, Germany
Antigone Marino
Institute of Applied Science & Intelligent Systems, Italy
Elizabeth Nolan
Optica, USA
Elizabeth Rogan
Optica, USA
Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram Research, USA
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Schedule
Sessions were led by a professional career coach who trained attendees on how to overcome imposter syndrome, conflict, build a personal brand, network and much more. Attendees developed and refined their personal and professional leadership skills, preparing themselves for the many challenges and personalities they'll find while working in industry.
Thursday, 29 February
15:00-16:00 Check-in to Generator Hotel
17:30-19:00 Welcome Reception
Friday, 01 March
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-09:30 Welcome Remarks
09:30-10:30 Defining Leadership
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Intentional Careers
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Leader as a Weaver
14:30-15:00 Winning Introductions
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:00 Networking Primer Exercise
16:00-17:30 The Psychology of Selves: Beyond Imposter Syndrome
17:30-19:00 Dinner
Saturday, 02 March
08:00–09:00 Breakfast, Optica
09:00-10:30 Leadership Pathways
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Communication as a Leader
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Allyship & Self Advocacy
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 Defining Your Purpose/The Chair Game
17:00-18:00 Dinner
Sunday, 03 March
08:00–09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:30 Time Domination Experience
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Optica Panel - Learning from Leadership Failures
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Optica Panel – Level Up in Optica
14:30-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Career Action Planning/Closing Remarks
16:30-18:00 A Conversation with the Optica President and Stephen Wolfram
18:00 Adjournment
