WED, OCT 28 · FOUR TRACKS
Explore the tracks
Four suggested paths through Wednesday’s virtual sessions, one for each stage of a tech career. Think of them as channels. Pick one, switch between them, or build your own.
WHO EACH ONE IS FOR
Pick your channel
- New Graduate CH 1 Students, recent graduates and anyone landing a first technical role.
- Early Professional CH 2 Individual contributors a few years in, aiming at the next level.
- Switching Careers CH 3 Professionals moving into tech from another field.
- Transition to Executive CH 4 Senior ICs and managers preparing for executive scope.
AT A GLANCE · CENTRAL TIME
Wednesday, channel by channel
Each title opens that session on its track page. The pale rows are the moments everyone shares.
Swipe the table sideways to see all four channels.
| CENTRAL | CH 1New Graduate | CH 2Early Professional | CH 3Switching Careers | CH 4Transition to Executive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30 AM | ||||
| 11:00 AM | Engineering the Quantum Era | I’m Doing Great Work. Why Am I Not Moving Up? | OPEN | OPEN |
| 12:00 PMLunch hour | OPEN | From Visibility to Impact | Relationship Analytics | AI as a Decision Layer |
| 1:00 PM | Translating Tech | OPEN | Translating Tech | The Inventor’s Edge |
| 1:45 PM | ||||
| 2:20 PM | IN THE COMMUNITY BLOCK | IN THE COMMUNITY BLOCK | IN THE COMMUNITY BLOCK | Forging the FutureMainstage, to 3:05 PM |
| 3:00 PM | OPEN | Influence Without Authority | AI for Career Transitions | OPEN FROM 3:05 |
| 4:00 PM | Unlocking Big Tech | OPEN | Unlocking Big Tech | AI Is Rewriting Product & Program Leadership |
| 5:00 PM | AI Raised the Bar | Navigating from Operational to Strategic | OPEN | Navigating from Operational to Strategic |
| 5:45 PM | ||||
Virtual sessions start on the hour, and we have planned for about 45 minutes each. Mainstage sessions keep their own times. No track asks you to be in two sessions at once.
ALSO ON WEDNESDAY
Off the tracks
Six more virtual sessions run on Wednesday. Three are deeper technical swaps for a track session in the same hour.
Agentic Public Health Copilots: Reduce Noise, Speed Response, Add Guardrails in Disease Surveillance
How to combine classification, extraction and LLMs into a disease-surveillance copilot that triages reports, writes grounded summaries and hands uncertain cases to people. Technical alternative on CH 2.
AI as an emotional support tool - Rethinking Product Design in a Tech Driven World
Human-centered product design for AI products, and the moments where user trust is won or lost. Not on a track.
Bridging Bytes and Biology: Automating 3D Anthropological Topography
The architecture behind a web app that turns 3D point clouds of teeth into automated measurements for anthropology research. Technical alternative on CH 2, CH 3, CH 4.
Giving Girls Their Hidden History: The Great Women Portrait Project
How an art, history and technology project reveals the women pioneers of STEM. Not on a track.
The Solo Explorer’s Guide to SRE: Navigating the Unknown with AI
Incident response as exploration: using AI in alerting to find error patterns and move from firefighting to prevention. Technical alternative on CH 1, CH 2, CH 4.
Designing a Tech Hub with Intention: How Chicago Is Building an Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem
A mainstage talk on how Chicago is aligning industry, academia, government and philanthropy around an inclusive tech economy. Mainstage, broadcast to virtual attendees. Overlaps De-brief/Happy Hour.
Titles, times and session links come from the conference’s virtual catalog as we compiled it on July 13, 2026. Check your vGHC account for the current schedule.