"Mission Tomorrow" — Richmond's premier mega-STEM and career exploration
Join us for a joint ACM & IEEE Computer Society Richmond Chapter (Virginia) technical session!
The ACM & IEEE Computer Society Richmond Chapter invites you to a live session on Saturday, August 8 · 10:00–11:00 AM EST.
Keynote Speaker: Shailesh Kadam, Lead Architect at Saks Global
We're also honored to welcome our Chief Guest, Allen Jones:
Past Chair, IEEE Richmond Section
MGA vTools Committee Member (2024–2026)
OU Analytics User Group Lead (2026)
This one is built for software engineers and architects looking to sharpen their technical and architectural perspective and connect with the local engineering community.
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- Co-sponsored by ACM Richmond Chapter
- Starts 02 August 2026 09:00 PM UTC
- Ends 08 August 2026 12:02 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Allen
"Mission Tomorrow" — Richmond's premier mega-STEM and career exploration
We are thrilled to announce that Allen Jones, a well-known champion for technology, robotics, and leadership across Richmond, will be joining us as our Chief Guest! Allen will be speaking about "Mission Tomorrow" — Richmond's premier mega-STEM and career exploration event that inspires thousands of local students to explore the future of science, technology, and engineering. His dedication to building the region's future talent pipeline makes this a must-attend talk for anyone passionate about community growth and tech education.
Biography:
Allen is helping bring people together and teaching them to work as a team to create breakthrough products.
he has over 20 years of experience leading advanced development teams using Agile development approaches. When applied well, these methodologies yield shorter development times, quicker return on investment, and happier customers. he has many years of experience managing embedded firmware projects ranging from small 8-bit devices with simple loop schedulers to ARM core designs with realtime operating systems. He also has extensive experience with the hardware design for these microprocessor based products and with the regulatory approval processes that are a part of these designs. he has worked with global marketing teams to help bring together a common product vision, and has led multi-site, multi-nation projects.
Over the years, I have found that working within a single team, with multiple teams across sites, or with colleagues across national boundaries is greatly simplified by simply showing others the same respect and consideration that you would like for them to show you.
Address:United States
Shailesh
"The Invisible Weight of the Web"
Following Allen's keynote address, our Keynote Speaker Shailesh Kadam (Lead Architect at Saks Global) will dive straight into the technical side of modern systems with "The Invisible Weight of the Web." Shailesh will break down the hidden performance costs, bloat, and architectural bottlenecks that affect modern web platforms — giving software engineers and architects actionable ways to build leaner, faster, and more efficient code.
Biography:
Designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architecture using AWS.
-- Establishing best practices for cloud adoption, governance, and cost optimization.
-- Architecting AI- driven solutions leveraging existing machine learning (ML) models and NLP systems.
-- Optimizing cloud infrastructure for performance and cost-effectiveness.
-- Very good technical design skills and experience.
-- Team player and demonstrated relationship building with clients and external vendors.
-- Collaborating with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to integrate AI driven
solutions
-- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to team.
-- Evaluating new AI and Cloud technologies to drive innovation.
Address:United States