Industry Liaison Committee

Infosessions

• Arrange CSGSA co-hosting of several infosessions each semester, through the department's Industrial Relations Office (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/). The list of infosessions are available here (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/infosessions.shtml). Be sure to look here early and often!
• Arrange CSGSA co-hosting of infosessions by talking directly with contacts with companies. Bear in mind that companies must be industrial members (http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/members.html) of EECS (at least at the ILP level) to hold infsessions in Soda/Cory Halls.
• Try to have co-hosted infosessions that are EECS grad specific, e.g. with information about careers in industrial research labs; general infosessions are also valuable, e.g. for funding purposes.
• Once the CSGSA is listed as the co-host, IPRO should order food for the infosession or else the company will itself if they have special requests. Ask IPRO/the company whether we can be of help with this.
• Once the CSGSA is the co-host, in the thank-you email to them, ask for the "co-hosting fee" that is usual for all student societies co-hosting infosessions. They should pay it, IPRO asks them to in general. Ask the President/past committee members for the going rates. Checks should be made payable to "Berkeley CSGSA" and sent to "CSGSA, Computer Science Division, Berkeley, CA 94720-1776". The mail will arrive in the student mail room in the CSGSA mail slot.
• Check that the room is reserved.
• The company may post "swag" to hand out to people, offer them the address of your office and hold it there until the day.
• If the company has flyers for the event, print them out (in color if necessary). Again IPRO can print in color for you. Put the flyers up around Soda and Cory Halls (especially Soda). If a grad-only, concentrate on Soda floors 3-5, and somewhat on floors 6-7. If ugrad only focus on floors 1-4. Concentrate on floor 2 in Cory Hall.
• Send out announcement emails to the ugrad/grad lists, as appropriate, well in advance. Send out reminder emails a few days before, then again on the day. If it is a grad event, tell your friends about it and try to get a good turnout.
• Arrive early to help the company and IPRO setup. Most usually: you'll need to set up chairs in the Woz (from the side room), move tables out of the way/set them up for food -- sometimes they'll have specific directions; wait for the food delivery and sign for it; get the portable microphone for them; get their laptop working with the projector.
• During the presentation you may need to "guard" the food, e.g. make sure people take only 2 pizza slices at a time. Sometimes the company will want the food held until the presentation is over, so that students don't leave early. This is up to your judgement and their directions.
• After the presentation clean up all food/debris. Move furniture back to how you found the room when you started.
• Make sure you follow-up on the co-hosting fee, sometimes it isn't sent before-hand

Industry sponsorship

• Industry sponsors donate money to the CSGSA (not including co-hosting fees).
• Maintain a good relationship with current industry sponsors, e.g. emailing to check up on them, letting them know what we're up to.
• Involve the sponsors in special events e.g. lounge opening, etc.
• In general make sure most CSGSA announcements thank the sponsors by listing them, make sure the website frontpage mentions them, look for opportunities to acknowledge sponsors at events and in the lounges.
• Consider other benefits the CSGSA can offer sponsors e.g. infosessions, resumes (ask previous committee members and the President).
• Seek new industry sponsors.
• Work with other committees to find opportunities for the CSGSA to work with industry, particularly the social committee.