BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Bogota BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380118T221407 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3MO;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:-05 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19930206T230000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SA;BYMONTH=2 TZNAME:-05 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T002927Z UID:04555EEA-6699-4B5B-8D55-B6F945B736F6 DTSTART;TZID=America/Bogota:20261113T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Bogota:20261113T130000 DESCRIPTION:Empower Your Future is an intensive\, interactive workshop crea ted to show students and emerging engineers how to leverage their IEEE mem bership into a strategic catalyst for technical mastery\, professional dev elopment\, and leadership.\n\nThe session covers the full student-to-profe ssional journey through three focused segments:\n\n-\nLeveraging IEEE Memb erships & Technical Societies: María Camila Osorno (Chair of Com&Com\, Un iversidad del Norte) will share her personal path and roadmap for seizing IEEE opportunities. Attendees will learn how technical chapters relevant t o Systems Engineering and computing fields such as Computer Society (CS)\, Communications Society (ComSoc)\, and the Computational Intelligence Soci ety (CIS) enable members to build niche technical expertise\, connect with focused professional networks\, and drive early career visibility.\n\n-\n Hands-On Soft Skills & Communication Workshop: Led by Yessy Coronel (Soft Skills Specialist)\, this segment breaks away from conventional lectures t hrough interactive group activities focused on assertive communication\, p ublic speaking\, and executive presence.\n\n-\nLeadership & The Transition to Industry: Sebastián Lizarazo (Chair of IEEE Young Professionals ColCa ribe) will dissect the essential traits of modern leadership and introduce IEEE Young Professionals (YP) as the bridge between university life and t he professional world. He will showcase high-impact regional initiatives f rom ColCaribe including casual networking gatherings (after hours\, bowlin g events) and premier technical challenges such as collaborative hackathon s with industry partners like Databricks.\n\nRoom: 711\, Cra. 46 #48\, Nte . Centro Historico\, Barranquilla\, Atlántico\, Barranquilla\, Atlantico\ , Colombia\, 080002 LOCATION:Room: 711\, Cra. 46 #48\, Nte. Centro Historico\, Barranquilla\, A tlántico\, Barranquilla\, Atlantico\, Colombia\, 080002 ORGANIZER:lewisbz@ieee.org SEQUENCE:25 SUMMARY:Empower Your Future: Leadership\, Soft Skills & Membership Maximize r Workshop URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/592415 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p dir="ltr" data-path-to-node="11"><strong d ata-path-to-node="11" data-index-in-node="0">Empower Your Future</strong> is an intensive\, interactive workshop created to show students and emergi ng engineers how to leverage their IEEE membership into a strategic cataly st for technical mastery\, professional development\, and leadership.</p>\ n<p dir="ltr" data-path-to-node="12">The session covers the full student-t o-professional journey through three focused segments:</p>\n<ol dir="ltr" start="1" data-path-to-node="13">\n<li>\n<p dir="ltr" data-path-to-node="1 3\,0\,0"><strong data-path-to-node="13\,0\,0" data-index-in-node="0">Lever aging IEEE Memberships &amp\; Technical Societies: </strong><strong data-p ath-to-node="13\,0\,0" data-index-in-node="51">Mar&iacute\;a Camila Osorno </strong> (Chair of Com&amp\;Com\, Universidad del Norte) will share her p ersonal path and roadmap for seizing IEEE opportunities. Attendees will le arn how technical chapters relevant to Systems Engineering and computing f ields such as&nbsp\;<strong data-path-to-node="13\,0\,0" data-index-in-nod e="291">Computer Society (CS)</strong>\, <strong data-path-to-node="13\,0\ ,0" data-index-in-node="314">Communications Society (ComSoc)</strong>\, an d the <strong data-path-to-node="13\,0\,0" data-index-in-node="355">Comput ational Intelligence Society (CIS) </strong>enable members to build niche technical expertise\, connect with focused professional networks\, and dri ve early career visibility.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p dir="ltr" data-path-to-no de="13\,1\,0"><strong data-path-to-node="13\,1\,0" data-index-in-node="0"> Hands-On Soft Skills &amp\; Communication Workshop:</strong> Led by <stron g data-path-to-node="13\,1\,0" data-index-in-node="54">Yessy Coronel</stro ng> (Soft Skills Specialist)\, this segment breaks away from conventional lectures through interactive group activities focused on assertive communi cation\, public speaking\, and executive presence.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p di r="ltr" data-path-to-node="13\,2\,0"><strong data-path-to-node="13\,2\,0" data-index-in-node="0">Leadership &amp\; The Transition to Industry: </str ong><strong data-path-to-node="13\,2\,0" data-index-in-node="41">Sebasti&a acute\;n Lizarazo</strong> (Chair of IEEE Young Professionals ColCaribe) w ill dissect the essential traits of modern leadership and introduce <stron g data-path-to-node="13\,2\,0" data-index-in-node="175">IEEE Young Profess ionals (YP)</strong> as the bridge between university life and the profess ional world. He will showcase high-impact regional initiatives from ColCar ibe including casual networking gatherings (<em data-path-to-node="13\,2\, 0" data-index-in-node="376">after hours</em>\, bowling events) and premier technical challenges such as collaborative hackathons with industry partn ers like Databricks.</p>\n</li>\n</ol> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR