Asheville Computer Science Day 2025

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Program

1:00-1:30 students arrive and mingle with Career Panelists

1:30-2:30 Career Panel

• • Elias Landsman (’22), Credit Karma
  • Holly Barham, City of Asheville
  • Taylor Van Aken (’24)
  • Karin Rogers, NEMAC

2:30-3:00 break/students mingle with Career Panelists/general audience arrives

3:00-5:00 Technical Talks (subject to change)

• • 3:00 — The City of Asheville’s ITS Response to Hurricane Helene, Holly Barham, City of Asheville

• • 3:30 — Dry-running a Kubernetes Operator Singleton, Elias Landsman (’22), Credit Karma

• • 4:00 — Application Security – Secure Coding Best Practices, Jason Symonds, NOAA

• • 4:30 — A Senior Engineer’s View of AI, Semmy Purewal (former UNCA CS faculty, former Netflix, Facebook engineer)

• • 5:00 — Thanks and wrap-up technical program, Kevin Sanft, UNCA Computer Science

5:00-7:00 Dinner+Networking event

Asheville Computer Science Day is FREE thanks to a generous donation to UNC Asheville.

If you would like to support UNCA Computer Science, you can donate here. To learn more about how your donations support UNCA Computer Science students, please visit our main Donate page and our Why Donate? page. Please direct inquiries to UNCA Computer Science Department Chair, Kevin Sanft: ksanft@unca.edu.