Alumni Tech Talk with Vincent Liou from Google

Vincent Liou, DeGroote MBA Alumni and Head of Technical Account Management (Canada Central East) for Google Cloud,  has spent his entire professional career (+11 years) in big tech as both an individual contributor and a people manager. Presently, he is responsible for $275 million/year of cloud consumption spanning all major verticals. Though Vincent started full-time in the DeGroote MBA program in 2010, he switched to the part-time program and graduated in 2015 as Microsoft offered him a full-time role after a 1 year marketing coop. Vincent enjoys giving back to MBA students and recently hired a McMaster MBA graduate on his team.

Join us for a virtual ‘Tech Talk’ with Vincent.

Details:

Tuesday, March 28

• Time: 1:30 – 2:30 pm
• Register: OSCARplus
  • Zoom details will be shared with registrants one day before the event

Topics of discussion:
– Learnings from a long term Canadian tech industry professional for those thinking about joining (pros/cons) and what I would have done differently
– Hiring and the hot topic of tech layoffs
– Top skills needed to get into big tech that can be developed from today, and skills to refine long term to stay relevant
– Compensation
– Q+A