THE FUTURE IS SMASH. THE FUTURE IS US.
We’re bringing the SMASH community together to reconnect, engage and grow at the first-ever Alumni Summit!
Come out and reunite with old friends, expand your professional networks, learn the latest in career development in STEM and beyond, and hear from inspiring leaders in tech and entrepreneurship, including some from our very own alumni community.
The SMASH community we’ve built over the last 14 years is more important now than ever before. Let’s build the future we want to see together.
***Business casual suggested***



LinkedIn Headquarters | 222 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Enter via Second Street. Travel stipends available! Fill out this form to apply.
Closest BART stop: Montgomery. Walk three blocks on 2nd St towards Howard.
8:30AM |
Registration OpensCoffee & Donuts |
9:15AM |
Welcome Remarks |
9:30 AM |
Interactive Design WorkshopDavid Clifford, Founder/Executive Director, design school x (DSX) |
10:45 AM |
Keynote Presentation + Q&AJason Mayden, CEO/Co-Founder, Super Heroic |
11:30 AM |
‘Meet a Mentor’ Networking LunchProfessional Headshots by LinkedIn |
12:45 PM |
Alumni Womxn in STEMFreada Kapor Klein, Founder of SMASH, Partner at Kapor CapitalEstefania Avila, Systems Engineer at Boeing, SMASH Berkeley ’11Esther Melton, Entrepreneur, Member Advocate at Collective Health, SMASH Stanford ’13Fionnghuala (Fig) O’Reilly, Datanaut at NASA, Program Manager at Square Peg Technologies, SMASH Berkeley ’11 |
1:30 PM |
‘Pitch Perfect’Ulili Onovakpuri, Partner, Kapor CapitalPhaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Co-Founder, PromiseLeandrew Robinson, CEO, HingetoMichael Seibel, CEO, Y Combinator |
2:00 PM |
SMASH Rising Pitch PresentationsSMASH Rising Scholars |
2:40 PM |
Augmented Reality (AR) Art ExhibitEvent Happy Hour |
3:20 PM |
Special Musical PerformanceMusical Guest: Rexx Life Raj |
4:15 PM |
Event Concludes |








FIONNGHUALA (FIG) O’REILLY
Datanaut at NASA, Program Manager at Square Peg Technologies
SMASH Berkeley ’11, @FigOReilly




SMASH RISING 2018 INAUGURAL COHORT
Scholars at Pandora, IDEO CoLab and the Canary Center at Stanford, #SMASHRising
SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST

REXX LIFE RAJ
@RexxLifeRaj
