#WhatWorks Workshop: Careers in Tech with David Hargreaves

This workshop will equip you with strategies for a successful tech career—from job search through career progression. Learn what companies are really looking for and how to best position yourself in a fast-changing industry.

We will also cover key business skills that can enable you to overcome challenges and find success when it comes to:

• networking
• developing the mindset to thrive in tech culture
• overcoming gender biases
• leveraging the value of diversity for career and organizational performance

Evidence shows that companies with gender diversity, especially in leadership, have been widely shown to have better performance in many areas including return on equity, profit and shareholder value.

The good news is that the tech sector has broadly accepted the benefits of gender diversity and there are many efforts to improve how companies attract, retain and grow gender diverse work forces.

Companies are working on areas such as team culture, addressing unconscious bias, improving workplace environments and equalizing employment terms and benefits. Executives, HR professionals, and individuals alike can leverage these initiatives to drive career and organizational progress.

ABOUT DAVID HARGREAVES

David (Dave) Hargreaves has been in the technology sector for over 25 years in a wide variety of roles. For the past 15 years he has held increasingly broad management and leadership roles including general management, strategy and line of business management.

In October 2019, Dave will be joining Seaspan Shipyards as Vice President, Strategy and Business Development. Today’s shipbuilding industry is highly technical in all aspects from the design of the ships to the construction and manufacturing to the onboard systems to the precise operations and in-service support required to keep the ships operating with high efficiency. Complex ships are arguably the most complex of all system of systems.

Prior to Seaspan, Dave was with MDA, one of Canada’s leading technology companies. Dave joined MDA in 1994. At MDA, Dave held a wide variety of general management, strategy and business development roles where he was responsible for leading diverse businesses, driving numerous growth initiatives and executing business pursuits both in Canada and around the world. Earlier in his career, Dave was a member of MDA’s engineering staff with roles in mission system engineering, system architecture, satellite image processing and spacecraft/sensor modelling.

Dave is also a member of the board of the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BC Tech) and a past member of the boards of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI), the Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (CCUVS) and the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems Canada (AUVSI Canada). In these roles, he has and continues to play significant roles in policy development, audit, financial management, nominations and recruiting.

Agenda

5:00pm - 7:00pm | Workshop

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