2025 UEN Tech Summit

Join Jeremy Cox for an interactive Q&A following his Keynote: Command Line Culture. Dive deeper into how leadership behavior shapes team dynamics, ask questions about building intentional culture in tech teams, and explore practical strategies for scaling trust, accountability, and innovation from the top down.

In tech, the right command can change everything—and the same goes for leadership. In Command Line Culture, Jeremy Cox unpacks the concept of “leadership contagion,” showing how a leader’s mindset and behavior ripple through an organization to define its culture. Drawing on 25 years of experience in IT from both sides of the team, Jeremy illustrates how intentional leadership in IT can inspire innovation, psychological safety, collaboration, and accountability. Through personal stories, actionable insights, and a systems-thinking approach, this talk challenges leaders to treat culture not as an afterthought, but as critical infrastructure—engineered, tested, and deployed from the top down.

A history of the optical technology evolution, from where we started to where we are now. Highlighting research and education advancements and where we see the industry going.

PowerPoint slides on the evolution of technology, highlighting how far technology has come.

How to establish a recurring risk management/assessment process

This presentation will discuss how to implement an annual risk assessment using a business impact analysis and by performing qualitative risk assessment.