The 2007 NA-YGN Regional Conference was held this past August in Charlotte, NC. The theme of this year’s event was “Racing Towards Your Future”.
Agenda:
Friday:
- Working group lunch presentation on the AP1000 reactor
- Keynote Address by Thomas A. Christopher - President and CEO, AREVA NP, Inc.
- Panel Discussion - “How Universities are Preparing for the Next Nuclear Renaissance and How NA-YGN Can Help”
- Panel Discussion - “Long Term Waste Disposal Options: Yucca Mountain and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership”
Saturday:
- Local Chapter Updates and Best Practices
- “The Day the Nuclear Renaissance (Unofficially) Started - The Restart of Browns Ferry Unit 1
- Panel Discussion - “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Career Development, but Were Afraid to Ask”
- How have people with less than 10 years of experience moved up the corporate ladder?
- Career SWOT
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
- Different Career Path Opportunities
- MBA / Business
- PE / Engineering
- SRO / Operations
Friday afternoon there was a barbeque picnic. If you are interested in seeing any of the presentations from the Regional Conference, email PublicInfo ’at’ carolina-naygn.org. Pictures will be forthcoming.
