UBC Student Leadership Conference brings 1200 delegates to campus
The 2015 Student Leadership Conference (SLC) took place this past weekend, drawing over 1200 students, faculty, staff and alumni to the UBC campus to ask “what’s your next step?”
For context, the SLC is now in its 13th year of bringing together inspiring speakers and interactive workshops. The student-led conference is one of the largest of its kind in Canada and is known amongst students as one of the landmark campus events of the year.
Talented local music group Class Act kicked off the conference inside the Chan Centre followed by an address by UBC’s President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Arvind Gupta. The opening keynote speech was given by Shaifali Puri, Executive Director of Global Innovation at NIKE Foundation. Through discussing her career path from journalist, to lawyer, to Senior Advisor to the President and COO of the Empire State Development Corporation, to Executive Director at Scientists Without Borders, and finally to Nike Foundation, Puri talked about stumbling toward your next step through “adjacent possibilities”.
Delegates then began their day filled with two featured presentations, two workshops, a lunch session, and a final closing keynote. Workshops touched on topics such as networking, the quarter-life crisis and leadership essentials and the closing keynote was given by renowned speaker Derreck Kayongo. Kayungo talked about his inspirational work with the The Global Soap Project and his journey from child refugee to NGO Director.
Vancity Buzz’s own Manny Bahia, Chief Business Development Officer, and Farhan Mohamed, Editor-in-Chief, led a featured presentation, giving students insight on the business, story of Vancity Buzz and how our newsroom is run.
Throughout the conference, delegates were asked to share their experiences on social media using #UBCSLC, causing Twitter and Instagram accounts to light up with photos of and tweets about the conference’s best moments.
Take a look at some tweets and photos from Saturday’s event:
Early Saturday morning commute to school can only mean one thing – it's the #ubcslc time of year!
— Jaylene Olson (@jayleneadriel) January 10, 2015
The happiest day of the year. #UBCSLC – Let's do this. pic.twitter.com/uKvT67PD6O
— Jon Parnell (@JonParnell) January 10, 2015
Watch the video that opened today's #UBC Student Leadership Conference. #UBCSLChttps://t.co/jjA5MECx8r
— UBC (@UBC) January 10, 2015
At his first #UBCSLC, @ArvindUBC invites delegates to take their next step with flexibility, passion, and guts. #UBC pic.twitter.com/QnRfzXnoLQ
— UBC (@UBC) January 10, 2015
Had fun speaking at the #UBCSLC this morning. What's your next step? http://t.co/LRaKSFWgwY #UBC pic.twitter.com/pwK6bwvofh
— Arvind Gupta (@ArvindUBC) January 10, 2015
@VancityBuzz thinks "People want you to fail, keep your head up." What do you think? @UBCSLC #ubcslc #nextstep
— Jasmine Khungorey (@jasmineubc) January 10, 2015
"Your top 5 strengths, are your top 5 weaknesses." @StrengthsFinder #MindBlown #UBCSLC
— Scott Henry (@SScottHenry) January 10, 2015
"Leaders should not lead to rule, but to inspire people to lead." #UBCSLC #enlightenment
— Elaine Baluyut (@ebalut) January 10, 2015
"The secret about failure is that failure is the secret to success" – Derek Juno, 2015 Featured Presenter #ubcslc #thenextstep
— UBC SLC (@UBCSLC) January 10, 2015
Goosebumps and speechless scenes after Mary Kitagawa's presentation. Wow. #UBCSLC #thenextstep @UBCSLC
— Coby Cobankiat (@cobycobankiat) January 10, 2015
Even Carter is at the #UBCSLC. I thoroughly enjoyed his reflective campus tour – a campus home to our next steps. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/JmQKx3TYVa
— Jon Parnell (@JonParnell) January 10, 2015
Derreck Kayongo, the closing keynote speaker, was definitely the highlight of UBC Student Leadership Conference
#UBCSLC #TheNextStep— Amal AlHuwayshil (@AmlHuwayshil) January 11, 2015
Hilarious @DerreckKayongo is ending the #UBCSLC closing ceremony on a high note! pic.twitter.com/6Tlkhq38yt
— Vivien (@VivienAvenue) January 11, 2015
Congratulations to Mona Maleki, 2015 Nestor Korchinsky Leadership Award recipient. #UBCSLC #UBC pic.twitter.com/026EkoGvPg
— UBC (@UBC) January 11, 2015
Featured Image: UBC via Shutterstock
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