Excel Intermediate/Advanced- Session 2
2025-10-22 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Microsoft Excel has hundreds of features and hundreds of functions. Getting the right feature, at the right time, used in the right way, in the right sequence is very often a problem. In this three-hour session you will become aware of a few core Excel features that you can use right away and that other capabilities do exist that you can build on later as your Excel knowledge increases. Knowledge gaps will be filled in and you can rapidly build your skill-sets around the featured tools in this class. We start with these features, and if time permits, cover other interesting features.
• SumIFs, AveregeIFs, CountIFs : Get what you need from your data with minimal effort
• Tables (with structured referencing): Look good and be organized
• Pivot Tables: The easiest, best method to get unexpected and expected answers from you giant, messy data set
This is the second of two sessions. Both sessions are required to get credit for the course.
Oct 15: 9 am- 12 pm (PST)
Oct 22: 9 am -12 pm (PST)

UCOP AI Innovators Share Fair
2025-10-21 14:00 - 15:15
Join us this October for a virtual share fair to learn from fellow UCOP colleagues on ways they’re streamlining tasks, enhancing productivity, and solving everyday challenges with AI.
2:00 – 2:40 p.m.
Presentations & Demos
Attendees will get an overview of our different event tracks and hear from four UCOP AI Innovators. Presenters will share the challenges they addressed and demonstrate innovative solutions they developed.
2:40 – 3:15 p.m.
Breakout Sessions Interactive
Join the breakout room that best suits your interest!
Hear from additional presenters, Q&A, and workshop how to apply AI into your workflow
TRACK 1
Data Visualization
Using AI to create graphs, flyers, or space plans
TRACK 2
Public Research and Data Analysis
Using AI to find information and analyze large sets of data
TRACK 3
Custom Agents
Using AI to create process-specific autonomous agents
TRACK 4
Python
Using AI to generate Python code

APISA Diwali Celebration
2025-10-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Broadway Conference Center + Zoom
Please join Asian Pacific Islander Staff Association for our annual Diwali celebration. The event will include shared stories, an Indian diya lighting ceremony, singing and a dance performance, along with delicious Indian treats, music and conversation.
For general in-person attendees, no registration is required. Colleagues are welcome to attend in South Asian/Indian attire.
Register to volunteer (by Oct. 1)
Register to join by Zoom
See additional event details

Navigating Aggression, Threats, & Digital Harassment in the Workplace: Turning Fear into Power
2025-10-21 12:00 - 13:00

Smartsheet Essentials: Project Planning Made Easy
2025-10-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Learn the core skills needed to manage projects effectively using Smartsheet. This foundational session is designed for new users and project managers seeking to understand how to leverage Smartsheet for project planning and execution. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on activities, participants will gain the knowledge to set up and manage projects confidently, using features such as Gantt charts, task assignments, and resource allocation. This workshop focuses on the essentials, helping participants create organized workflows and understand best practices for using Smartsheet in real-world scenarios. Whether you’re planning a single project or managing multiple teams, this session equips you with the tools to stay on track and deliver successful outcomes. Key Takeaways: • Understand Smartsheet’s project management basics, including workspaces and sheet creation. • Build and manage Gantt charts with dependencies and critical paths. • Assign tasks and manage resources effectively. • Explore Smartsheet templates for efficient project planning. • Learn best practices for reporting project progress.

Shakespeare Club: Macbeth
2025-10-17 12:05 - 12:55 | Zoom
Join the Shakespeare Club in journeying through the Bard’s masterpieces! This is a casual read-through followed by a discussion led by Kelley Ogden (ER&C). Scripts will be shared via Zoom; no preparation is needed. All reading levels are welcome. Join via Zoom. Meeting ID: 744 708 5448 // Passcode: [REDACTED]

GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers
2025-10-17 09:30 - 12:00 | Online
GROW Plus: Accountability Conversations for Managers is the second part in the required live training series on manager and employee performance conversations. This training answers the question: What do I do when my coaching is not improving performance? In this virtual, live, and highly interactive workshop, we will cover: providing productive critical feedback, managing emotions, creating efficient documentation, and holding effective accountability conversations. Managers will also practice having role Accountability Conversations using the UCOP GROW Plus framework. This training is part of the STEP training plan developed by the STEP workgroup made up of people from all divisions. The previous STEP trainings are all prerequisites to this training.

UCOP Safety: Basic Awareness
2025-10-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Melissa Collins, Program Manager for Security, Risk and Resilience, will facilitate this 30-minute live virtual class that will provide basic safety tips to help employees feel informed, alert, and safe as they travel to and from the workplace. Extra time will be allotted for questions and feedback. Melissa recently joined UCOP after serving 20 years with the UC San Diego Police Department, retiring as a lieutenant, and is a safety expert.

Hidden In Plain Sight – The Truth About Stress and Our Health
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00
BSFO Health and Wellness Week
Mary Obideyi, “Tomi the Encourager”
Program Coordinator – Riverside University Health System – Public Health
Mary “Tomi” Obideyi, MPH, CHES, is a Program Coordinator with Riverside University Health System’s Health Equity Program and the founder of Tomi The Encourager. As a mental health educator and speaker, she works with BIPOC communities, particularly youth, on reducing stigma, preventing suicide, and accessing mental health resources.
Sonya Harris
Owner, Reself
Sonya is a Human Resource professional and instructional design expert with 30+ years of experience, including 21 years in the U.S. Air Force and a decade in the Government. Holding a Master of Education, she is dedicated to mentoring young adults in career, life, and family decisions.

Latinx Staff Association Meeting
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00
Join the UCOP Latinx Staff Association (LaSA) for their monthly membership meeting, typically held the third Thursday of each month from 12-1 p.m. (PT).
Join by Zoom:
https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/93715068634
Meeting ID: 937 1506 8634
For questions, contact Belinda Vea.

Gain Skills to Spot and Stop Waste: Lessons from Local Procurement
2025-10-16 11:10 - 12:00
Learn how to identify and eliminate the eight wastes of Lean using Local Procurement’s successful project as a real-life case study. Walk away with simple tools to streamline work and focus on what truly adds value.
All are invited to attend a no-host lunch after the meeting at Bocca Nova, 1111 Broadway.
Join the Operational Excellence Community of Practice email list!

Change Essentials, session 3
2025-10-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Change Essentials is based on the best-selling book, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. Dr. Kotter’s research revealed eight key steps and four critical leadership principles that, when applied effectively, help to ensure successful change. This three-part workshop will provide you with a foundational level of knowledge and skill to help you identify strategies to apply those steps and principles to a current or anticipated change within a department, or as part of a broader organizational change initiative. This is the third of 3 sessions. Attendance at sessions 1 and 2 are a perquisite. Attendance is required for all three sessions. Thursdays Oct 2, Oct, 9, Oct 16

Compliance, Accounting, Audit, & Policy (CAAP) Office Hours
2025-10-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-10-09 10:00 - 11:00
Ask questions about journals/reports, cost transfers, ITF’s, Chart of Accounts, General Ledger, and CashNet.

Dial-in: 1 669 219 2599
Meeting ID: 919 8651 9749
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Retiree Health Benefits
2025-10-15 14:00 - 16:00
Learn about the health plans available for UC retirees and their eligible family members.

Hidden In Plain Sight – The Truth About Stress and Our Health
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00
BSFO Health and Wellness Week
Ola Popoola
Chief of Staff & Executive Director – Procurement Strategic Transformation & Operations
A Speaker, educator, author, and transformational leader at the University of California with over 27 years of experience driving innovation and optimizing business and technology operational efficiencies across the U.S. and Europe. She is the owner and operator of a corporate training firm specializing in leadership, management, and professional development. Dr. Popoola holds a doctorate from UC Davis and is the author of Asmaa, a novel
about hope and resilience.

Celebrating Our Own – UC ANR Hispanic of the Year 2025: Ana Pastrana
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00
UC ANR Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 Webinar Series
“A Celebration of Our Dignity, Our Legacy, Our Voice / We Belong. We Build. We Rise.”

Celebrating Our Own – UC ANR Hispanic of the Year 2025: Ana Pastrana
*This webinar will be conducted in Spanish and simultaneously interpreted in English.
Guest: Ofelia Lichtenheld – Agave producer & member of California’s Women Agave Growers Collective.
Ofelia Lichtenheld is a Latina farmer who has carved out a space in the male-dominated world of agriculture. She grows olives, fruit trees, and agave, blending tradition with innovation to create new opportunities for women producers. As a founding member of California’s Women Agave Growers Collective, she is helping to build a legacy rooted in sustainability and community leadership.
Guest: Claudia Quezada – Environmental Justice Coordinator, Líderes Campesinas
Claudia Quezada is an advocate with Líderes Campesinas, one of California’s most influential grassroots organizations supporting farmworker women. She brings years of experience in environmental justice and community organizing, working directly with Latinas to provide pathways into farming, as well as programs for advocacy, health, and safety. Her work amplifies the voices of women who often remain invisible in agriculture.
Why This Matters
Hispanic Heritage Month is more than a celebration — it is a recognition of resilience, contribution, and the ongoing work to create a more inclusive future. These conversations invite reflection, learning, and connection across cultures and disciplines.
Mark your calendars and register today!
REGISTER HERE or scan the QR code below.
For more information, please contact:
Ricardo Vela, rvela@ucanr.edu, 951-660-9887

Hertz
2025-10-15 11:00 - 12:00
Hertz will highlight UC contracted benefits, including guaranteed unlimited mileage and no drop-off fees for one-way rentals within California. Participants will be entered to win one of several giveaways, including FOUR (4) Gold Club status match upgrade from current tier, up to and including President’s Circle and TWO (2) $100 Gift Certificates. Attendance is required to be eligible, and a total of SIX (6) winners will be randomly selected during the session.

BRC - Procure to Pay Office Hours
2025-10-15 10:30 - 11:30

BRC T&E Team Office Hours
2025-10-15 10:00 - 11:00
Have a travel or travel reimbursement-related question? Join the Business Resource Center Travel and Entertainment team for weekly office hours.
Zoom link: https://UCOP.zoom.us/j/3301316753?pwd=[REDACTED]

Excel Intermediate/ Advance-Session 1
2025-10-15 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
Microsoft Excel has hundreds of features and hundreds of functions. Getting the right feature, at the right time, used in the right way, in the right sequence is very often a problem. In this three-hour session you will become aware of a few core Excel features that you can use right away and that other capabilities do exist that you can build on later as your Excel knowledge increases. Knowledge gaps will be filled in and you can rapidly build your skill-sets around the featured tools in this class. We start with these features, and if time permits, cover other interesting features.
• SumIFs, AveregeIFs, CountIFs : Get what you need from your data with minimal effort
• Tables (with structured referencing): Look good and be organized
• Pivot Tables: The easiest, best method to get unexpected and expected answers from you giant, messy data set
This is the first of two sessions. Both sessions are required to get credit for the course.
Oct 15: 9 am- 12 pm (PST)
Oct 22: 9 am -12 pm (PST)

Q-Day: Quantum Computing, AI and Cybersecurity
2025-10-14 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker: John Young, ISC2 Representative and COO of Quantum eMotion America
Hosted by UCI
Moderator: Hillary Chansavang, UCI
What is Q-Day, and why is the government preparing for it now? The day that quantum computers can crack current digital encryption, and plainly read our most valuable secrets, has been tagged as Q-Day. Every government, business, and individual on Earth can be negatively affected, and the question is, even if there are post-quantum solutions available, is there time to put them in place?
Ever see the movie “Catch Me If You Can”? As a teenager, for 3 years John Young and a friend successfully hacked the AT&T network, until the FBI scared him straight into a 40-year cybersecurity career. The former network director of McDonnell Douglas’s $41 billion C-17 program, John later retired after decades at IBM, and then became one of only 11 cybersecurity experts worldwide to earn all nine ISC2 certifications. Named to the board of directors at Quantum eMotion, John recently became COO for its new US subsidiary based in Irvine, Quantum eMotion America. It’s mission: to use our cutting edge technology to save lives, protect data, and prepare industries for the onslaught of the dreaded, but inevitable, Q-Day…the day when every digital lock on Earth can be broken by quantum computers.

Privacy, AI and Cyberlaw 101
2025-10-14 13:00 - 14:00
In our increasingly complex and interdependent digital world, the convergence of privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence has reshaped how we approach enterprise risk management, data protection, and governance. This presentation will explore the evolving legal frameworks surrounding AI technologies, data privacy, and cybersecurity measures. We’ll cover existing laws, key challenges, and ethical considerations in safeguarding personal data as well as how the development of AI technology and (new laws to regulate it) factor into these challenges and considerations. Through examining regulatory trends and case studies alike, this session will give a high-level view of privacy, AI, and cyberlaw basics and new directions for this rapidly changing field.

Hidden In Plain Sight - The Truth About Stress and Our Health
2025-10-14 12:00 - 13:00
BSFO Health and Wellness Week
Marsha Treadwell
Co-Director of the UCSF Sickle Cell Center of Excellence and Co-Chair of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Diversity, Equity,Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Council
As a clinical psychologist and health services researcher, she studies how social and organizational factors impact health and wellbeing, and mentors students and faculty with a focus on historically excluded scholars.

Belonging By Design Featuring john a. powell
2025-10-14 10:00 - 11:00
Belonging by Design is a new event series featuring UCOP leaders and national experts exploring the many dimensions of belonging at work. Together, they examine why belonging matters, debunk common myths, and highlight practical ways we can create workplaces where everyone feels valued and included.
In our first session, john a. powell, director of the Othering and Belonging Institute and professor of law, African American and ethnic studies at UC Berkeley will engage with UCOP leaders in conversation around a fundamental question: How do we build an inclusive future? They will explore the challenge of bridging differences and how we can intentionally design spaces of belonging.
Registration is required.
— Oakland/In-person event registration
— Zoom/remote event registration

Travel Talk Tuesday
2025-10-14 10:00 - 10:30 | Zoom
Travel Talk Tuesdays, held the second and fourth Tuesday of each month, provide helpful resources for UCOP business travellers. For questions or upcoming topics, contact the BRC T&E Team at: brctravelandent@ucop.edu.
Pre-registration is not required: Attend by Zoom.

Hidden In Plain Sight - The Truth About Stress and Our Health
2025-10-13 12:00 - 13:00
BSFO Health and Wellness Week
LeNaya Smith Crawford, The Holistic Therapist™
Licensed Therapist, Holistic Mental Health Educator, and Wellness CEO With over a decade of experience and features in outlets like The New York Times and Essence, she makes healing accessible, inclusive, and relatable. Through her Holistic Therapist™ Academy, she empowers therapists and healers worldwide to restore wholeness of mind, body, and spirit.
Devona “Coach D” McClinton
Certified Personal Trainer and Board-Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant, and owner of The Experience Integrative Fitness & Nutrition. After a 20-year IT career, she shifted to health and wellness, specializing in women’s fitness, nutrition, and holistic healing with a focus on women over 40. Her mission is to empower women to prioritize their health, embrace resilience, and live ageless, limitless lives.

Monthly Digital Accessibility Office Hours
2025-10-09 13:00 - 14:00
Join Ethics, Compliance, and Audit Services; the Systemwide Office for Civil Rights; and UC Legal for monthly office hours focused on digital accessibility. These sessions are an opportunity to engage with subject matter experts in technical, legal and compliance roles to exchange best practices and discuss shared challenges.
If possible, submit questions in advance to help ensure relevant subject-matter experts are available. Register here.
This event will be captioned; if you need another disability-related accommodation, please note that in your registration.

Change Essentials, session 2
2025-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Change Essentials is based on the best-selling book, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, by Dr. John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. Dr. Kotter’s research revealed eight key steps and four critical leadership principles that, when applied effectively, help to ensure successful change. This three-part workshop will provide you with a foundational level of knowledge and skill to help you identify strategies to apply those steps and principles to a current or anticipated change within a department, or as part of a broader organizational change initiative. This is the second of 3 sessions. Attendance at session 1 is a perquisite. Attendance is required for all three sessions. Thursdays Oct 2, Oct, 9, Oct 16

Box Advanced
2025-10-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Want to know how to securely store sensitive data in Box? Interested in how to get data into Box via email or URL? Sign up for this advanced Box class and we will cover a wide range of topics including setting up alerts to monitor folders and using Box groups to manage department collaborations.
