Salomon Davila: Welcome, this is a cadence employer outreach webinar that we're hosting to inform siber and str str firms with potential opportunities to partner with Community colleges of California, to obtain some assistance to help them commercialize or develop or even get some.
Salomon Davila: sort of.
Salomon Davila: employer assistance to port God contracts in the future that many of these silver and str firms are looking to move into but my name is Helen wonderful i'm the project coordinator that helps that helps at the ground level from students onboarding to employers.
Salomon Davila: Facilitating the internships and outreach to the Faculty as well i'm glad to ever all of you to join us i'm going to introduce the brief agenda and then i'll introduce a couple of folks who will be working with us here.
Salomon Davila: So the goal of today's agenda is to really introduce to you multiple opportunities for you to partner and to understand the cadence is a larger were to have.
Salomon Davila: A dozen projects within the cadence umbrella so we'll introduce a little bit about cadence and how this may not be the only project that your firm may want to take advantage of.
Salomon Davila: So we'll explain that the 15 projects and then we'll and we'll describe a little bit of how you actually partner with colleges and.
Salomon Davila: How that may look like for potentially either more manufacturing or more business type opportunities that your firm a look into.
Salomon Davila: And then we'll describe a little bit of how the actual internship happens if, in case.
Salomon Davila: You want to get under the hood and how the foundation for California Community colleges, who is the actual employer record will assist in actual placement and payment of the actual Internet so.
Salomon Davila: At this moment i'm going to switch it over to Mr chuck he said to describe a little bit about the cadence project itself.
Chuck Eason: Great thanks a lot solman.
Chuck Eason: So i'm chuck ISA and I am the statewide director for a business and entrepreneurship, with the California Community college system, and I also have been working with the.
Chuck Eason: SPR companies for about 25 years now, I do work with the nor cal small business development Center through their tech futures group.
Chuck Eason: i've been doing that for about 25 years now working helping people get funding through SPR and i've actually been through the process myself as well, I had an nsf.
Chuck Eason: Phase one and phase two grant but yeah what's your little bit about to this opportunity, and this is actually the third governor's office duty grant that we've secured and.
Chuck Eason: The first two were were called cascade we had different acronyms for them, but we did have another student internship project called cassie to which we're just now finishing up actually here in November.
Chuck Eason: which was the assistant dean of the several companies with cybersecurity readiness and compliance and also commercialization.
Chuck Eason: We placed their student interns from 10 different colleges around the state that super companies, the system with that we're just wrapping that up now, this is a new grant called cadence.
Chuck Eason: If the California Defense equalization ecosystem and national consortium efforts with Kaden stands for.
Chuck Eason: So it's a deal D grant that self managed by the governor's office office of planning research and it's through the do D what used to be the office of economic adjustment.
Chuck Eason: Of the beauty office of local Defense committee cooperation that the governor's office managers this project.
Chuck Eason: And we have 15 different components will share with you in a minute with the different projects ours, we have different agencies.
Chuck Eason: Around the state to their participate in this project, so we're just gonna be sharing with you to the actual projects today through the cadence grant.
Chuck Eason: And this particular grant which is through the Defense manufacturers, we support program requires you to have what's called a Defense manufacturing is to partner so for us it's next FLEX who's up here in the Bay area and they help out with companies who are trying to.
Chuck Eason: Manufacture commercialize flexible electronics just kind of their focus area.
Chuck Eason: So i'm cadence project itself is targeting California defensive players and there's some specific key technologies that will be focused on so they're.
Chuck Eason: Looking at micro electronics 5g wireless cyber space artificial intelligence and then fully network command control and communications and then go to the next slide so.
Chuck Eason: So, again here's the list of the different with called modernization priorities that we're looking at this graph, but we can try to fit you and, depending on what your technology areas, maybe any of these and.
Chuck Eason: Hopefully we can fit for what we're doing for our grant here.
Chuck Eason: And that cadence has a for the 15 different project partners there's several different projects there's some around supply chain diversification.
Chuck Eason: And then we have some around workforce development so that's what our projects are where the student internship or workforce development we've done some apprenticeship programs the cascade grant.
Chuck Eason: And then we also are very connected with here in California with what's called ATP the employment, training, panel.
Chuck Eason: So we can help fund some of the training for employees of companies as well, so there's different projects and those areas and one of the goals that also is to help with procurement reduce the cost for that Defense human costs as well, the next slide.
Chuck Eason: here's the this is shows the 15 different projects and it's broken down into business assistance projects workforce development projects and then outreach and engagement projects so.
Chuck Eason: That reach engagement is primarily through the governor's office, and then the business assistance, you see, on the left there we've got.
Chuck Eason: six different projects going on, and these are projects that you can, if you participate in our project, I will probably try to do an overview and more depth about these other resources that are available, some of the projects available.
Chuck Eason: that are specifically on the right there that workforce development, but today we're going to be talking about projects nine and 10.
Chuck Eason: So the dual use advanced manufacturing internships an extra shifts and the dual use innovation internships externship so that's the opportunity with me share with you today next slide.
Chuck Eason: So.
Chuck Eason: The way this project actually came about when we were doing our governor's office cascade grant we were doing these 10 regional Defense supply chain workshops around the state.
Chuck Eason: And one of ours, we were down in orange county and we had a keynote speaker Lockheed Martin and we were talking about how super companies.
Chuck Eason: Do do you think about allowing some funding for helping with cyber security and other things, so they want to know if we have a project we come up with, and one of the project ideas I had was to.
Chuck Eason: Do the student internships, in fact, the the externship and I do a genesis of it was kind of from my experience when I had my MSF phase one and phase two grant.
Chuck Eason: Through the National Science Foundation, they had a funding what they call phase two CC funding and CC stood for Community colleges are.
Chuck Eason: They actually give the SPR firm an additional $40,000 on top of their face to grant if they would then subcontract with the Community college.
Chuck Eason: So I applied for that and got the additional $40,000 and I subcontracted with that napa valley college their digital design department.
Chuck Eason: at work with the Faculty Member headed that up and their students and they did all my 3D CAD modeling for me and they had 3D printer so they did so my prototyping for me as well.
Chuck Eason: that's kind of where the idea came from what that will lead me to expand this to other agencies that do D, so this grant would propose to basically team up students.
Chuck Eason: With that beauty several companies, and also with the Faculty extra who's kind of a mentor so the Dr Dee Graham.
Chuck Eason: pays for the Faculty staff, and so we have a stipend for the Faculty to help the the mentors and cut that liaison between the students and use the businesses.
Chuck Eason: And the dld also pays for the interview ages, which is a great thing is, we always have a challenge, trying to figure, how can we pay for the intern wages go to 100% subsidy.
Chuck Eason: Of the interns wages up to 150 hours per God separate company that cascade ground we have a little bit more is to enforce this one, we have 150 hours and that could be saved to students at 75 hours to assist you, and then the Faculty stipend is also paid directly through the.
Chuck Eason: Grants as well, so there's no cost to you for the cost of the faculty for the student interns.
Chuck Eason: And the other thing we do is, we also use what's called a foundation for California Community colleges.
Chuck Eason: which has a program called career callous and it's basically where they're the employer record and they can handle all the payroll and workers compensation, so all the paperwork seven so you don't have to worry about any of that makes it real simple for us to participate.
Chuck Eason: We just learned lots of grants here.
Chuck Eason: Earlier this year, and it runs through August 32,022 so we've still got the fall here in spring Semester and potentially even next summer to we could potentially do internships as well.
Chuck Eason: So that's what we're looking to you know, try to let you know about this opportunity and hopefully might be interested in doing internship either this fall, maybe spring.
Chuck Eason: semester, and we would team you up with the Faculty external who can work with you and kind of negotiate a scope of work for that internship and then have the students assist you and, in our case it's going to be around.
Chuck Eason: commercialization of duties technology, so we have the two projects i'm the statewide director for this and entrepreneurship and then.
Chuck Eason: Allen who's our statewide director for advanced manufacturing will be heading up project nine but will, I think the next slide is that on the project nine so i'm I can't remember we had next see yes, so I know how much Alan do you on the line.
Chuck Eason: Turn okay.
Chuck Eason: i'll turn it over to you to let you talk a little bit project nine.
Alan Braggins: Okay, I just just get in the door truck so.
Alan Braggins: my mind getting on, I apologize.
Chuck Eason: I just gave an overview of all the projects, and you know the general review of how this hundred 50 hours of billable in the perfect faculty.
Alan Braggins: So Solomon if you want to go the next slide i'll talk a little bit about what we're looking for so Julius capabilities in the innovation ecosystem and.
Alan Braggins: Basically what we're looking for is any company that either currently deals with the God or is close to getting to that point and needs assistance in that and sell them you want to go ahead and go to the next slide to my two slides are pretty much oh that one's wrong way.
Alan Braggins: There we go so um what we can do is, we will actually match you to a faculty Member who will as chuck said.
Alan Braggins: Talk about the scope of work for interns we'd like to put two interns at your site 75 hours each.
Alan Braggins: um and it doesn't have to end there that's the that's, the main thing I want to talk about is that we have other funding sources that the interns can last longer go ahead and go to the next slide Solomon is that the banner yep go ahead.
Chuck Eason: Alright, so pricing 10 artists is with the business entrepreneurship sector, so when I was proposing for ours is to more on the business side of things, I guess is to assist you with commercializing.
Chuck Eason: Whatever you're doing use innovation might be and I guess you can go to the next slide Solomon.
Chuck Eason: And you know the you're probably aware, I guess, with the God that dual use is very important for them, I used to work in the aerospace industry when I started college over for trw ballistic missile program and.
Chuck Eason: I never a lot of times, where some of the stuff we've developed with us up commercial off the shelf stuff but.
Chuck Eason: We always want to make sure that we had access to whatever that technology is that's been developed so.
Chuck Eason: The God likes to see that you know there's not only you developing maybe that technology with this, you know you have customers not able to do it, but you might have commercial customers as well, so they're not the only ones, investing in the technology and supporting it.
Chuck Eason: So that's kind of the idea for what we're looking to do is help you with those commercialization of the dual use innovation so that's something that the beauties.
Chuck Eason: interested in and then we're trying to create that pipeline of workforce through our curtail education programs at the Community college to support the.
Chuck Eason: dual use capabilities and so critical to our national Defense see a picture here, this is a that F works as a way to go, the spark tank Casey mark Cuban there we've had a couple clients that work with a through F works which is kind of an open topic.
Chuck Eason: solicitation for the god, but that you'll do these a little interesting because outside of APP works in the open solicitation.
Chuck Eason: Since there are contracting agency will do D proposes the problem you propose a solution so their topics are doing fairly.
Chuck Eason: Specific but then, since they are contracting agency, if you can solve the deities problem in Phase one phase two you know the SPR legislation allows you to be a sole source.
Chuck Eason: provider for that so they don't have to go out to bid necessarily they can they can become your face three customers that's one of the nice things about the contract agencies add or NASA next slide.
Chuck Eason: So again, our focus is on the workforce Eric trying to you know meet the you know, create that pipeline of talent for you that you need to.
Chuck Eason: build your business, so the idea is to place our student interns with the Faculty X turns at dld super company so that's one of the requirements is.
Chuck Eason: You have to be a California do D siber phase one phase two phase three customer care company and you don't have to be current necessarily phase one and phase two be a recent already or if you're already based three be eligible as well.
Chuck Eason: If you don't meet those requirements is still if you have at least I think 5% of your revenues through God contracts, we can qualify you for the project as well.
Chuck Eason: Again, is to assist with commercialization of those duties innovations and what we're really interested is providing those experiential learning opportunities for our students.
Chuck Eason: So student internships are free opportunity there's a big focus now in our system around work based learning.
Chuck Eason: So there's a benefit to you, and is also a benefit to our students and then there's a benefit to our faculty to because they get to learn and bring things back to the classroom as well, so next slide.
Chuck Eason: And this is just a contractually shows how I mentioned how we have the Foundation offered to me colleges, we have the crew catalyst master group which, when my host college, a lot of college project 10.
Chuck Eason: Ellen has a his coaches calibrate college, so we handle that master agreement, and then we have agreements with 10 different participating colleges for project 10.
Chuck Eason: And now, and I think it's nine participant colleges and then the external partner that's you that's the deal be super companies, so we have a little cold works at agreements.
Chuck Eason: And when we did our cascade grab this last year we're just wrapping up that was right during we lost a REP for coven lunch, so we ended up doing all of our internships at virtual internships.
Chuck Eason: And if their virtual internship, then the boy or the placement claim is considered they are can be college, so we just have one agreement.
Chuck Eason: But if it's actually on site at your location, then we have to do what's called the external works at agreement is the foundation that their hand on the workers COMP they want to know.
Chuck Eason: What we do is we doing if they're gonna be working around machinery in their professional workers bounce rate and all that type of thing.
Chuck Eason: This is just showing you that actual relationship, but for you there's no money involved than other thing we asked for you is just to have an external website agreement to be on time.
Chuck Eason: Next slide.
Chuck Eason: So turn it back over to you solman I know, there was a couple questions in there, do you want the chat box to try and address those are we want to go ahead and jump into your stuff first or.
Salomon Davila: Yes.
Salomon Davila: been able to address some of these questions on the chat and if anyone else has questions, please feel free to put them in the chat there and we can take them as well.
Chuck Eason: i'll i'll mention them, the first one that went level education, I can touch on that briefly um.
Chuck Eason: You know, we had kimmy colleges interesting when we did our last governor's office grab the cascade grant we had a I was really impressed with some of our Community college students, we have involved in the project someone more younger students that.
Chuck Eason: was focused on cybersecurity race and clients, so we actually had information communication technology student work with the business to it that.
Chuck Eason: Some of the students might have completed their a degree or certificate program and cyber security.
Chuck Eason: So they met somebody I want to have one or two classes, but then we also had students, we had quite a few veterans we have people who are getting out of the.
Chuck Eason: rings, the navy the coast guard and they already had their security clearances and we also had a couple of three colleges, we had students that actually have their bachelor's degree Sierra college had.
Chuck Eason: Student intern from uc Davis with degree in mathematics and then we had one for cal poly has green mathematics and then.
Chuck Eason: Another one from UCLA I think it was so we do get people coming back to me colleges that are have their bachelor's degree, sometimes too so it's a whole range.
Chuck Eason: For people who have been stuck high school for a couple years to people already have their bachelor's degree, so it really varies tapestry.
Salomon Davila: Exactly a little bit how that process will entail and in this small graphic that is more focused on the actual students, so that you can see, and then we'll get into.
Salomon Davila: More of the general process, but what we're attempting to do is, of course, develop partnerships within our Community colleges with employers and serve the students as well, for their progression in their careers so it's a you know when when we believe for everyone involved.
Salomon Davila: Once you speak to the.
Salomon Davila: faculty at the respective college that.
Salomon Davila: Myself chuck or Alan would would best partner you with really a negotiation process to understand what your.
Salomon Davila: needs are what challenges you're facing and what particular issues you would like addressed and it's the responsibility of the Faculty to then take that information back to their college.
Salomon Davila: And as chuck mentioned seek out individuals with the appropriate background, it may be that you need someone with a high level of clearance high degree of it background.
Salomon Davila: high degree of potential even legal background remember our Community college system we have the top 100% of students and so we'll find someone that best meets your needs i'm sure.
Salomon Davila: So the students themselves are coach this process with the Faculty and partnership with you as the business leader, develop the scope for the actual internship.
Salomon Davila: And we're asking that the scope is defined ahead of time, so that is presented to the students that are involved, it could be one, it can be two.
Salomon Davila: And the students starts developing potential questions for the problem at hand and essentially presents to you different questions.
Salomon Davila: That you may want to address, so that the individual students have something to work on to essentially present a potential solution.
Salomon Davila: chuck mentioned some examples and we've had previous firms get not only CAD files and 3D files, but also presentations on a market analysis of era P systems to use, for example, to implement for business purposes different security.
Salomon Davila: Guidelines and whether a like a self study to walk through the firm to make sure they're in compliance with certain security standards, so the business challenge or the.
Salomon Davila: task at hand is going to be different for every one of you, and of course the colleges have different backgrounds and.
Salomon Davila: they'll draw the students for that, so it is a process and, once you get into it, the goal is to have you learn about potential solutions.
Salomon Davila: to your issues and to essentially take that information and utilize it and implemented.
Salomon Davila: And at the same time, potentially either save some costs of implementing solutions or be best in form if, in case you need a more professional solution that you need to graduate to as well, but now you have a background of some.
Salomon Davila: aspect of your firm that that your best did a little bit of research or basically offloaded that research to the students themselves.
Salomon Davila: So that's the idea behind this and just to show you a little bit of of the general process itself that's the internship.
Salomon Davila: So stepping back a little bit about the different happenings that this is a very busy slide i'm just going to point out to just a little area that.
Salomon Davila: You would be involved with and that's essentially this part right here, where the employer negotiation with the Faculty is really happening, and if it's a fit, obviously we want to make certain that the Faculty.
Salomon Davila: see your challenge and your issues to be solvable we would onboard you to the career catalyst program that chuck mentioned from the Foundation.
Salomon Davila: Where we develop the job or you with the Faculty develop the job description, the learning outcomes and the schedule themselves, there was a question about.
Salomon Davila: schedules that's negotiated negotiated with you and the Faculty in the intern If you recall there's so many five hours per internship up to two interns that you would be.
Salomon Davila: sort of applicable to any given college, if your if your opportunity has maybe more dimensions to it, potentially there that you know we can talk further about how to extend that help.
Salomon Davila: there's several ways we can do that, and those would be just neglect negotiation and talks a little bit later.
Salomon Davila: So as you're sort of working with the Faculty there's a parallel process of onboarding students.
Salomon Davila: So that we onboard both of you to the foundation's career catalyst program, which is what you see here.
Salomon Davila: And then there's a lot of tasks that really are involved more at the College level where they share the time.
Salomon Davila: Time card and the payment of the student that's handled by someone else at the College and that's this process that you see here where students, need to be maintained in the database for payment purposes, obviously.
Salomon Davila: So you can see there's several steps that will walk you through it you'll work with myself and the Faculty at the College to make sure that you know all this goes as smoothly as possible.
Salomon Davila: I think we're pretty much towards the end and we wanted to open it up to any questions I see some questions in the chat and we'll address them, but if you feel free to just unmute yourself, you can also feel free to ask any questions at this point.
Chuck Eason: I see there's one question I don't know if I will answer this on how export controlled Informations handled i'm not an expert in that area at all, but.
Chuck Eason: I know for a cascade grant which is cyber security focused one first i'll mention to all of our students go through a background check with the god counterintelligence folks before they start the internships.
Chuck Eason: And I know for the cyber security internships that we did since we're doing all those virtually remotely.
Chuck Eason: One of the things that the Faculty these are some of the ICT faculty had to work on is how to do a communication plan between the super company.
Chuck Eason: And the students how they're going to move transfer how they're going to move data and information between them.
Chuck Eason: And I can't remember the names of the programs that they were using but they developed a secure way to transfer information.
Chuck Eason: Between the separate company and the students, as one of the things that they actually worked on up front part of the internships and I don't know the specifics on that, but that.
Salomon Davila: I can jump in on that one chuck that they essentially use different more secure communication protocols, for example, they did not use zoom, which is what we're using here they had to use a different tool that had encryption and there was some other protocols involved with the file.
Salomon Davila: That the students would have access to and things of that so they had a their own protocol, and maybe that's something that you may need and that's we have that knowledge within our Community colleges and would be glad to share that.
Chuck Eason: And he went into depending on the export control information mcnamee something you don't even share with the student intern I don't know if there's there's certain information you wouldn't share with them too, so.
Salomon Davila: yeah exactly yeah there's, by the way, most.
Salomon Davila: Students are aware that they would have to sign an nda it has struck mentioned, they also have background checks.
Salomon Davila: I see another question related to the focus of the internal work, whether it's business commercialization or technical.
Salomon Davila: And that's really up to your needs we don't dictate to choose one or the other, we were we're showcasing that we have opportunities for both.
Salomon Davila: And depending on your needs, we would partner you with a college, that would be closest to that particular need, whether it be business.
Salomon Davila: And commercialization or something more technical and even technical there's different branches, as many of you would be aware, more manufacturing product base or more it based technical and and even that would help us parse out the colleges, that we would put you in contact with.
Chuck Eason: You have for project tonight vision, you know the focus would be on a commercialization more the business side but.
Chuck Eason: A lot of our students are what we caught cross discipline, they might be studying.
Chuck Eason: Some sort of engineering or computer science, but they're also taking you know, business and entrepreneurship so some of them are cross discipline students that have.
Chuck Eason: technical background and then Allen and he said, I think, would definitely be more technical Allen and if you must speak to the technical side of yeah.
Alan Braggins: So I would, I would say yeah generally it'd be a more technical person that we would supply however that's, not to say they wouldn't have a background in it, because, as we all know, manufacturing is.
Alan Braggins: A you know controlled by computers this day, and so we have a wide variety, we can customize the project for the student interns to what you need at your at your place of employment, so.
Salomon Davila: Thank you.
Salomon Davila: Is there any other questions that any anyone may have, I think we've addressed all of them.
Salomon Davila: There was a question about earlier about the flexibility of the timeline and in the chat I put in there again that really until next.
Salomon Davila: I guess next June is the ultimate deadline, but that's totally flexible between you and the Faculty students typically attend colleges and semester frames, so you may have like three or four months of a window that the Faculty may want to sort of achieve this.
Salomon Davila: And also students are going to school in most cases, so that it's typically part time no more than 15 hours a week, is what we are speculating that the intern would do that's at the Max so that gives you some parameters to work with so it's.
Salomon Davila: yeah it really depending on on your names and the timeline that's all negotiated between you and the college's.
Chuck Eason: yeah typical semesters but 16 weeks so that's sort of you know, the students, a lot of times we find the students have beginning semester, but we can also do it over the you know.
Chuck Eason: break or summer break break or whatever to that could be something shorter, I know, for you you're when you're doing SPR str you'd have your start and end dates for your projects that you have to work around today.
Salomon Davila: And he has remote options are available, these internships if if not need be don't have to be in in any location or in person.
Salomon Davila: Any other questions.
Chuck Eason: I see there's a question whether the interns have to be close to you.
Chuck Eason: know, we had particular during your kovats since we're doing all those remotely we had.
Chuck Eason: No people from Sierra college, which is updated by sacramento working with maybe a company in La or something too, so they can be it can be anywhere in the state really.
Chuck Eason: In ideally we're trying to match up geographically like if you're in the Bay or would try and match with the very cautious.
Chuck Eason: it'd be nice if we could at least have like a field trip or something.
Chuck Eason: If it's all virtual and they come see or something or if there's something that can compete at one time or something that'd be great, but it doesn't have to be It can be done remotely can be done in California, working with the northern California college.
Salomon Davila: Regarding the phases, I think chart You may know a little bit more detail about this, but there's any faces applicable, including a percentage of your sales going to do the contract as well.
Chuck Eason: yeah phase one phase two or if you already phase three with contracts has great.
Salomon Davila: Good any other questions, while we have.
Salomon Davila: Mr Allen dragons and Mr Charles ease and these individuals are make the make this opportunity happen for the colleges and.
Salomon Davila: If there's no questions you may get a follow up from myself asking more details about potentially if you've selected.
Salomon Davila: Your.
Salomon Davila: You know topics that you would like to focus on, so that I can have the best information possible to approach a college that may have that background to help your needs.
Chuck Eason: Now, as mentioned as far as timeline it's probably at least a couple week process to get started, you know, once we set up a call and meet with you, and then we introduce you the Faculty and start that kind of negotiation scope of work.
Chuck Eason: Once we select the students, they have to do the do the counterintelligence background check which could take a few days or a week, maybe it's.
Chuck Eason: Three or four days and then to get them set up in the payroll system at the foundation is a week process to so we're probably at least two weeks ago, something we can't just start immediately so.
Alan Braggins: And then I see there's a question and Solomon just responded to it, yes solomon's the first point of contact because he's familiar with both the projects and he can identify what you're looking for and decide which one of the two projects you'd been the best fit for.
Salomon Davila: And also be glad to follow up with a 20 minute call just to understand your firm a little bit more I i'm very lucky to have a background in both advanced manufacturing and it matters.
Salomon Davila: And so I can be of some assistance to understand your needs and and sort of recruit the right faculty to address those so be glad to speak to any one of you personally.
Chuck Eason: And that you use some ask about our faculty but you asked about our student background, but our faculty to some of them do have business.
Chuck Eason: Industry background experience, too, so we found that very useful as well, so that's what we're trying to match you up to the appropriate faculty Member to.
Salomon Davila: Correct we have faculty that have variety of.
Salomon Davila: Business implementation practices yeah exactly.
Salomon Davila: Well, if there's no other questions, I want to thank all of you here, thank you all, and thank you chuck for your time and look forward to working with all of you.
Chuck Eason: Thanks a lot.
Alan Braggins: Thank you.