Cyber Week bonus: Instructor webinars

Self-Help Stress Strategies for People Who Don’t Like Asking For Help

Deborah Grayson Riegel
12pm PST on December 10

For those of us who ruminate about the past, feel stressed in the present, and worry about the future, this session is for you. And if current events are making things even worse, you should know that you’re not alone AND there are strategies you can use to lessen your stress even in the face of uncertainty. In this webinar, you will learn five practical strategies to help you — and your colleagues, friends, and family — reduce your stress and increase your resilience.

Deborah Grayson Riegel is a keynote speaker and consultant who teaches leadership communication for Wharton Business School and Columbia Business School. She is a regular contributor for Harvard Business Review, Inc., Psychology Today, Forbes, and Fast Company. The author of “Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life,” she consults and speaks for clients including Amazon, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and The United States Army. Her work has been featured in worldwide media, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times.

The Ins and Outs of Working Remotely as a Developer

Colt Steele
7:30pm PST on December 10

This year has changed a lot, including the way we work. In this webinar, you’ll hear from working developers from around the world about how their work lives have changed for the better and worse. What is it like to work on a completely distributed team? What tools and technologies are helpful for collaborating on code? What’s it like to start your first developer job at a fully remote company?

Colt Steele is a developer and teacher with years of experience leading in-person coding bootcamps and creating online courses for hundreds of thousands of students. While he does love teaching and coding, he also enjoys spending his spare time playing in his band, tending to his pumpkin patch, and raising his flock of chickens.

Finding the Intersection of Digital Creation and Mathematics

Penny de Byl and Mike Bridges
4pm PST on December 14

From static design to animation to interactive games, an understanding and appreciation of mathematics is essential for the digital designer as it underpins and guides aesthetic vision and the creative process. In this talk, Penny and Mike will reveal the plethora of digital creation fields touched by the magic of mathematics and discuss how their appreciation of the power of mathematics grew to an essential design skill over their careers.

Dr Penny de Byl founded her computer games education company Holistic3D in 2017 after 25 years as a university professor and prolific writer of publications in the fields of artificial intelligence and computer game programming. She has also consulted for Unity, SAE, the Australian Institute of Entertainment and Wikitude. Her best selling textbooks including Holistic Game Development with Unity are used in over 100 institutions world-wide. Students who’ve graduated from her courses have found work at companies like Apple, Ubisoft, LinkedIn and Deloitte Digital.

Mike is an artist, musician and computer geek who has taught hundreds of thousands of students to become better artists. Recently he’s embraced math and programming to augment his artistic skills. This has opened up new horizons for him and saved Mike countless hours!

Building an Engaged Community for Your Brand from Scratch

Phil Ebiner
10am PST on December 14

Building a community is one of the best ways to grow your brand or business. No matter the size of your audience or the platform(s) you use, in this webinar attendees will learn ways to build a better relationship with their followers and customers via a community. Ultimately, the goal is to have a community that runs and manages itself, with you providing the space, a framework for types of interactions and activities, and encouragement to participate.

Phil is a creator of videos, photography and graphic design who also teaches those skills to people around the world through my company Video School. He started a community for his photography students called Photography & Friends, which is now 65,000 members strong and serves as a way to support students in a deeper way than just his online classes. Since 2012, over two million students have enrolled in his courses and Phil’s excited to share what it takes to grow an engaged and successful community.

What Technical Hiring Managers Are Really Looking For (it’s not what you think)

Frank Kane
8am PST on December 15

If you’re looking to land a role at one of the major technical employers, your technical knowledge isn’t enough to get you in the door. As a senior manager, Frank Kane interviewed thousands of candidates at Amazon and hired hundreds, and successfully navigated Google’s hiring process as well. He’ll share what hiring managers are really looking for, and how you can prepare for a successful interview loop with the tech giants.

Frank Kane spent nine years at Amazon.com and its subsidiary, IMDb.com, in Seattle, as a senior software engineer and senior manager. Frank served as a “bar raiser” at Amazon, interviewing candidates across the company, leading hiring decision meetings, and wielding veto power over hiring decisions. Today Frank shares his experience in machine learning, data analytics, and web services with over 400,000 learners on Udemy.

シリコンバレーから読み解くIT業界の未来
(The Future of IT Industry from Silicon Valley)

酒井潤 (Jun Sakai)
日本標準時12月12日午前11時 (6PM PST on December 11)

Of note: This webinar will be in Japanese.

IT企業の聖地、サンフランシスコにてエンジニアとして第一線で活躍する酒井講師をお招きし、世界に通用するエンジニアとしてのスキルを身につけかた、激変するIT業界の技術動向、そして次世代のIT業界を担う技術まで幅広くお話を伺います。

北陸先端科学技術大学院大学情報科学専攻修士。日本国内外でエンジニアとしてキャリアを積み、2012年から米国本社Splunk, Incでソフトウェアエンジニアとして勤務。Udemyでは6万人以上の受講者を抱え人気講師として活躍中。