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Labcorp Speaker Series Proudly Presents Google Cloud Leader Slawomir Chylek

Please join us on March 29^th at 6:30 p.m. in room 1231 in Engineering Building 2 for the final lecture in the Spring Labcorp “Leadership in Technology” Speakers Series. 

Our special guest speaker will be Slawomir Chylek, software engineer and Google Cloud Leader at Google.  The topic of Chylek’s talk is “Google Cloud Networking Takeoff in RDU.”

Chylek has a PhD in Computer Science in the reliability field, and he is a developer, researcher, mentor and speaker at academic conferences. He has over 15 years of experience that varies from programming mobile phones and lottery systems to power plants. In 2016 he joined Google where he worked on the Google server infrastructure including Borg, Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine. In 2021, he shifted his focus to Google Networking to take on new challenges.

Abstract:  Transition to cloud computing is the most democratizing change in the industry this generation.  The Raleigh-Durham (RDU) area is going to play a significant role in this transformation as it has incredible growth potential. The talk outlines how Google is investing in the RDU area, what Google Cloud is and why Networking plays such a significant role. Special focus is given to opportunities and challenges that are on the path of this ambitious transformation.

The event is free and open to the public.  Ample free parking is available on Centennial Campus after 5 pm.  For directions and more information, click here.

***Consult University COVID guidelines for the current directives regarding masks. If you are unable or uncomfortable joining us in person, the talk will be broadcasted live at https://go.ncsu.edu/labcorpspeakerseries. As always, talks will be videotaped and made available (pending speaker approval) on a dedicated YouTube channel.***

These lectures have been approved by the CSC Graduate Oversight Committee to count toward the required lectures for graduate students.

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