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Upcoming 2026 Events
MARCH
CENVAL-ARC Symposium
March 5-6, 2026
UC Merced
Practical Accessibility – Documents and PDFs
Date & Time: March 6, 11am-12pm
Presenter: Brian McNeilly – Web Accessibility Specialist – UCOP
In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to design a document from the ground up with accessibility in mind. An introduction to accessibility will be provided, along with tips and tricks for ensuring Word files are ready to convert into accessible PDFs.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand different types of disabilities people have & what types of assistive technologies they may use to interact with your documents
- Use features in Word to structure content semantically, including headings, lists, and tables
- Determine what alternative text an image needs & be able to tell when an image is purely decorative
- Describe basic features of PDF accessibility, including tags and reading order
- Conduct automated scans for accessibility in Word and Acrobat
Registration: https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/4CM2EGjxRKW0ZlVm5uv8zg
*Must register and attend using a UC email address
Practical Accessibility – Video and Zoom
Date & Time: March 19, 3pm-4pm
Presenter: Brian McNeilly – Web Accessibility Specialist – UCOP
Videos & online calls require different accessibility considerations than documents or websites. In this session, we will discuss what you can do to ensure your audio/visual content – including live meetings – is as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand accessibility requirements for videos, including captions and audio descriptions
- Describe tools and methods for editing or uploading captions after events
- Be able to articulate when an audio description is needed & what should be included in them
- Understand the various accessibility features included in Zoom
Registration: https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/DNRkXUuoTxiFTrhYkXuVLg
*Must register and attend using a UC email address
Practical Accessibility – Canvas LMS
Date & Time: March 25, 2-3pm
Presenter: Rolin Moe – Associate Vice Provost UC Online – UCOP
Accessibility for the LMS in an Hour is a practical, design-focused webinar for anyone building or teaching online courses in the UC system. In just sixty minutes, we’ll cover what it actually means to create an accessible LMS course—without turning you into a legal expert or a developer. You’ll learn how accessibility shows up in everyday decisions like page structure, documents, media, navigation, and assessments, and how small, intentional changes can make a big difference for learners. While accessibility regulations are evolving, this session focuses on what works now: clear design, inclusive practices, and strategies you can apply immediately in the tools you already use.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the foundations of accessible course structure and why accessibility is both a teaching best practice and a compliance imperative
- Build accessible LMS pages using proper headings, descriptive links, meaningful color, and logical reading order
- Recognize and resolve common LMS accessibility barriers, including navigation, multimedia, documents, and interactive elements
- Use LMS accessibility tools strategically to test, improve, and maintain inclusive course design over time
Registration: https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/rs3o0KvhR9S68kXCpWpJug
*Must register and attend using a UC email address
APRIL
Practical Accessibility – Presentations and Visual Aids
Date & Time: April 2, 12-1pm
Presenter: Brian McNeilly – Web Accessibility Specialist – UCOP
Presentations often contain a unique hybrid of static documents and an accompanying live presentation or talk. This interface of live discussions along with a displayed visual document creates a unique tension for accessibility. In this session we will discuss ways to ensure not long that your slide deck is accessible, but that the whole presentation experience is as accessible as possible.
Learning Objectives:
- Design slides using accessible layouts
- Adjust the reading order of content within a slide deck
- Ensure sufficient font size & color contrast
- Understand how animations should be used for digital accessibility
- What to include on screen vs in the spoken presentation
Registration: https://UCOP.zoom.us/meeting/register/NM6IpEiSSWmZmGkUONGYYA
*Must register and attend using a UC email address
2026 UC Health – CD12 Data Conference
Tuesday-Wednesday, April 14-15, 2026
UC Irvine
MAY
UC Davis Information Security Symposium
Tuesday-Wednesday, May 12-13, 2026
UC Davis
Call for Proposals due Feb 21
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Informatics Summit
May 18-21, 2026
Denver, CO
JULY
UC Tech Conference 2026
Wednesday, July 8–July 10, 20-2026
UC Merced
AUGUST
California Cybersecurity Education Summit
October 8, 2026
Sacramento, CA
OCTOBER
UC Cybersecurity Summit
October 6-7, 2026
Virtual
The 2026 Cybersecurity Summit will be held virtually on October 6 & 7, 2026 from 9 am – 12 pm. Building on the success of past virtual Summits, we’re excited to once again offer a lineup of engaging speakers and discussions on timely topics. Stay tuned for more information.
2026 Past Event Archive
FEBRUARY 2026
Accelerating Digital Accessibility
February 24-26, 2026
Deque
Topographic Change with OpenTopography: Adventures in Cloud Computing, Spatial Uncertainty, and Impactful Applications
Host: San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Date & Time: February 25, 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Pacific Time)
Description: Topographic differencing measures landscape change at the Earth’s surface due to natural and anthropogenic processes. OpenTopography, an NSF-funded data facility, provides access to topographic data and processing tools. OpenTopography has recently developed on-demand topographic differencing and uncertainty calculation tools that can be applied to roughly 25% of the US mainland. Our uncertainty tool, available via a cloud-based app and Jupyter notebook, quantifies the magnitude of uncertainty at multiple spatial scales, mirroring the variable scales of common error types. We demonstrate these capabilities by calculating topographic change for the 2025 Eaton and Palisades Fires in Los Angeles.
Contact: events@sdsc.edu
UCUX Event: Drupal CMS Advanced Editor Experience (EX)
Host: University of California User Experience
Date & Time: February 25, 2026, 12:00 pm-12:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Description: The topic is the Editor Experience in Drupal CMS: using Layout Builder and reusable components to leverage on-page content creation. Component-based editor interface overview Demo of UCSF implementation Demo of UC Davis’ more advanced implementation Q/A – presenters will stay late for any questions This event is for all UC folks who are interested in UX. Please share with interested people you know. We hope to see you there!
Zoom link will be emailed after registration
Linux Tools for Text Processing (COMPLECS Webinar Series)
Host: San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Date & Time: February 26, 2026, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Description: An overview of commonly used Linux tools for searching and manipulating text. We progress from the simplest tools, such as head, tail, cut, paste, to more complex tools grep, awk and sed.
Contact: events@sdsc.edu
Exploring the NAIRR Pilot Portal Sandboxes
Host: SGX3
Date & Time: February 10, 2026, 10:00 am – 11:00 am PST
Description: The NAIRR Pilot Portal serves as the primary entry point to the NAIRR Pilot, providing researchers, educators, and students with a unified environment to discover AI research resources, explore opportunities, and connect to the broader NAIRR ecosystem. SGX3, The NSF Center of Excellence for Science Gateways, provides the portal, which features a growing set of interactive sandboxes that demonstrate how researchers, educators, and students can explore advanced AI-ready infrastructure and data through hands-on environments. The webinar presentation will highlight three sandboxes, two sandboxes which leverage Jetstream2. The first sandbox highlights Numerical Image Recognition using Jetstream2 based on a NAIRR classroom project. It illustrates how scalable cyberinfrastructure can support teaching, learning, and applied AI experimentation. The second Jetstream2 sandbox, Making Biomedical Data FAIR on the NAIRR (EAGER), focuses on practical approaches to FAIR data management within the NAIRR ecosystem. A third sandbox showcases capabilities enabled by the National Data Platform (NDP). This sandbox presents the NDP dataset catalog and NAIRR workspaces, including projects such as HydroGen and OpenTopography.
Contact: events@sdsc.edu
Co-Designing Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure for Computing Continuum: Overview of the Activities at the NSF-AI Institute ICICLE
Host: San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Date & Time: February 10, 2026, 11:00 am – 12:00 am PST
Description: This talk will start with an overview of the ICICLE (Intelligent CyberInfrastructure (CI) with Computational Learning in the Environment), an NSF-AI Institute, to address these challenges.
Contact: events@sdsc.edu
Batch Computing: Working with the Linux Scheduler (COMPLECS Webinar Series)
Host: San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Date & Time: February 12, 2026, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PST
Description: A brief introduction to the Linux scheduler, how to interact with it, and run your research workloads on your personal computer, a shared workstation, or even a high-performance computing system.
Contact: events@sdsc.edu
INNOVATE Tech Conference
Host: Easton Technology Management Center – UCLA Anderson School of Management
Date & Time: February 6, 2026, 8:45am-1:30pm PT
Description: The INNOVATE Conference 2026 brings together UCLA and industry leaders to explore how agentic artificial intelligence is being scaled to create real business value, reshape competition, and redefine leadership in the AI era.
Contact: easton@anderson.ucla.edu
JANUARY 2026
Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism
Host: Carpentry @ UCSB
Date & Time: January 5, 6, 8, and 9, 9:30am-12:00pm PT
Description: Hybrid (UCSB Library and Zoom); Master geospatial analysis in R in this four-day workshop. We will cover R basics, working with raster and vector data, and performing essential GIS operations. Instructor: Jon Jablonski
Contact: dreamlab@library.ucsb
JP Morgan 44th Annual Health Conference
January 12-15, 2026
San Francisco, CA
COMPLECS: Parallel Computer Concepts
Host: San Diego Supercomputer Center
Date & Time: Thursday, January 15, 11:00am-12:30pm PT
Description: Remote. Free registration; A brief introduction to fundamental concepts in parallel computing. Topics include threads, processes, Amdahl’s Law, benchmarking, and factors that limit scalability. No programming experience needed.
Intermediate Linux
Host: San Diego Supercomputer Center
Date & Time: Thursday, January 29, 11:00am-12:30pm PT
Description: Remote. Free registration. Linux command line interface (CLI) skills are essential for advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI). This session covers filesystem hierarchy, permissions, links, wildcards, finding files, environment variables, modules, config files, aliases, history & Bash scripting tips.
Can’t Look Away: A Screening and Fireside Chat with Meta Whistleblower Arturo Béjar
Host: Design It for Us partnered with Political Computer Science at Berkeley and Youth Power Project
Date & Time: Friday, January 30, 5:00-7:00pm PT
Description: An in-person screening of Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media, followed by a fireside conversation with Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar on social media accountability and youth wellbeing.
Contact: vinayasivakumar@berkeley.edu