Google, Amazon, and AppFolio Execs Visit UCSB and Discuss Staffing in S.B.
At TechTopia Event, Chamber and Businesses Talk About Exciting Internship Initiative
Excerpt from the Santa Barbara Independent
At the 2024 TechTopia Summit hosted on August 29 by the S.B. South Coast Chamber of Commerce, guests got a fascinating tour of four of UCSB’s high-tech centers, followed by an insightful panel discussion with tech executives on the challenges and benefits of Santa Barbara as a business location. Also, the chamber explained its multifaceted internship initiative followed by an industry panel on the benefits of internships.
The tour, in which more than 200 guests participated through rotating small groups, visited UCSB’s AlloSphere, CA NanoSystems Institute, UCSB Nanofabrication Facility, and UCSB NSF Quantum Foundry, with presentations from key staff at each.
Afterward, guests returned to the Hilton Garden Inn in Goleta for the remainder of the program. In a panel on Santa Barbara as a business site, AppFolio VP of Product Operations Cat Allday shared that UCSB has been a great recruitment source for its business, including through internships, to attract talented people who want to live here. As a result, AppFolio boasts long tenure for its employees, which is unusual in the software industry, with 25 percent of staff having been there for at least five years. She credits the longevity in part to S.B. being such a great place to live and a good entrepreneurial community.
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