2018 Process Palooza Schedule

Meet our emcees Emcees: Tracey O'Rourke, Ric Van Der Linden, Rachael Lapidis and Paul Krueger as they tie the event together - expect to learn, laugh and have fun!

Grab a box lunch or a slice of pizza and enjoy keynote speaker Cathy O'Sullivan.

Competition Presentations & Awards,

Rajesh Gupta, UC San Diego kicks off the afternoon competition presentations and awards.

• 2:05 - Emcees
• 2:15 Rajesh Gupta
• 2:15-2:30 Team 
• 2:30-2:45 Team
• 2:45-3:00 Team
• 3:00-3:15 Team
• 3:15-3:30 Team
• 3:30-3:45 Team
• 3:45 Judges Sequestered
• 4:00 Raffle
• 4:10 Awards

Learn more about Lean Six Sigma and the ways practitioners are leveraging these powerful process improvement tools across campus. This workshop includes a hands-on application for participants.

An effective Daily Engagement System (DES) accomplishes three goals: alignment, improvement, and readiness (acronym: AIR). DES empowers people at all levels not only to do their work (Readiness), but to do the right work (Alignment), and to continuously improve the work (Improvement). For the UC San Diego Health System, the dual aims of DES are first, to engage everyone in assuring that we are ready every day to deliver outstanding patient care, and also to continuously improve our processes, to achieve our longer term goals. The most tangible aspect of DES is tiered huddles, which promotes bi-directional communication between those serving our patients directly and organizational leaders, allows problems to be solved at the appropriate level, and provides a clear process for escalating operational needs. UC San Diego Health has begun its adoption of these previously mentioned DES components, and would like to share the successes/lessons learned from the implementation process.

It is tempting to view Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR) and its related activities as merely about new applications to help you work more efficiently and effectively. This is certainly true, but more fundamentally, ESR is about reshaping the way UC San Diego does business, and this represents potentially radical change across the organization. One of the most far reaching changes will be in how individuals and units access and use data, which means that helping customers manage change involves customers helping us understand what drives their data needs now and in the future. In this talk, we'll discuss efforts associated with the identification and inventory of the myriad ways in which campus personnel currently use institutional data, and how those data will be available to customers in the future.

Join us in a session about Strategic Organizational Change Management (SOCM), the approach to managing the people side of changes across UC San Diego.  In this session, learn about what it means, what’s involved, and how are we applying change management at UC San Diego.  Learn about a real life application of SOCM through the Enterprise Systems Renewal Program, a four-year business transformation initiative across every part of the University.

Elevate Your Team’s Performance! 

UC San Diego Recreation has one of the largest Recreation programs in the Nation.  The UC San Diego Challenge Course and Team Building Program has been a growing part of the Recreation Department since 2004.  They have been successfully serving the campus community, San Diego schools, non-profits and businesses and many organizations that choose San Diego for their retreats and conventions. 

Come to the Process Palooza Challenge Course in Town Square to take part in these great activities that range from individual or paired challenges, to group initiatives that will help your team to collaborate and unleash your creativity. 

You'll also have an opportunity to learn about your own style of leading / communicating / interacting and how to understand others... all while having FUN!

• Infinite Loops: How creative can you be to untangle yourself or your fellow Process Palooza attendees from a deceptively simple knot?
• 3-D Bullring: Can you and your team transport a critical package from point A to point B while navigating a challenging course?  (no climbing necessary!)  Now imagine that package represents your onboarding process, customer service experience, your workplace community!
• ‘I am Able To’:  Take a moment to creatively reflect on your strengths, consider how you want to continue to develop and discover new resources in your Process Palooza attendees who can support you on that journey
• Postcards: Discover how easily & quickly you can form a sense of community through shared stories
• Team Draw: Can you and your team navigate a team drawing challenge with all of you using one drawing device?  What about if you are all blindfolded but one?  Now imagine, instead of a drawing, you are trying to embody your organization's mission or provide the direction for a team?  Is everyone clear on the direction or understand what's happening?

During Process Palooza, visit the Challenge Course team at the Town Square, just outside of the Price Center.

Take an exclusive tour of UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection. On this hour-long tour you’ll visit Alexis Smith’s Snake Path, Bruce Nauman’s Vices & Virtues, Tim Hawkinson’s Bear and Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star.  Don’t miss this opportunity to visit these site-specific artworks by leading artists of our times – truly one of UC San Diego’s jewels!

You’ll experience a custom tour of EnVision Arts & Engineering Maker Studio, a hands-on experiential education facility where visual arts and engineering communities converge. Innovation at its best! 

We all contribute to continuous improvement and Process Palooza wants to hear your story! Stop by the Share Your Story booth to record your process/continuous improvement experience. We all learn from, and inspire, one another, so don’t be shy, stop by and tell us about your training, what are some of the challenges you’ve faced, do you mentor or are you being mentored by someone, how you have made a difference, endless opportunities to share. 

In the heart of Process Palooza is our Red Carpet experience.  Plan to stop by the red carpet for filmed interviews with our emcees.

We want to know:

• Why you are at Process Palooza
• How are you creating a culture of continuous improvement
• Why are you making investments to support continuous improvement initiatives
• How are investments shaping your organization

You’ll experience a custom tour of EnVision Arts & Engineering Maker Studio, a hands-on experiential education facility where visual arts and engineering communities converge. Innovation at its best! 

Take an exclusive tour of UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection. On this hour-long tour you’ll visit Alexis Smith’s Snake Path, Bruce Nauman’s Vices & Virtues, Tim Hawkinson’s Bear and Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star.  Don’t miss this opportunity to visit these site-specific artworks by leading artists of our times – truly one of UC San Diego’s jewels!

Elevate Your Team’s Performance! 

UC San Diego Recreation has one of the largest Recreation programs in the Nation.  The UC San Diego Challenge Course and Team Building Program has been a growing part of the Recreation Department since 2004.  They have been successfully serving the campus community, San Diego schools, non-profits and businesses and many organizations that choose San Diego for their retreats and conventions. 

Come to the Process Palooza Challenge Course in Town Square to take part in these great activities that range from individual or paired challenges, to group initiatives that will help your team to collaborate and unleash your creativity. 

You'll also have an opportunity to learn about your own style of leading / communicating / interacting and how to understand others... all while having FUN!

• Infinite Loops: How creative can you be to untangle yourself or your fellow Process Palooza attendees from a deceptively simple knot?
• 3-D Bullring: Can you and your team transport a critical package from point A to point B while navigating a challenging course?  (no climbing necessary!)  Now imagine that package represents your onboarding process, customer service experience, your workplace community!
• ‘I am Able To’:  Take a moment to creatively reflect on your strengths, consider how you want to continue to develop and discover new resources in your Process Palooza attendees who can support you on that journey
• Postcards: Discover how easily & quickly you can form a sense of community through shared stories
• Team Draw: Can you and your team navigate a team drawing challenge with all of you using one drawing device?  What about if you are all blindfolded but one?  Now imagine, instead of a drawing, you are trying to embody your organization's mission or provide the direction for a team?  Is everyone clear on the direction or understand what's happening?

During Process Palooza, visit the Challenge Course team at the Town Square, just outside of the Price Center.

Elevate Your Team’s Performance! 

UC San Diego Recreation has one of the largest Recreation programs in the Nation.  The UC San Diego Challenge Course and Team Building Program has been a growing part of the Recreation Department since 2004.  They have been successfully serving the campus community, San Diego schools, non-profits and businesses and many organizations that choose San Diego for their retreats and conventions. 

Come to the Process Palooza Challenge Course in Town Square to take part in these great activities that range from individual or paired challenges, to group initiatives that will help your team to collaborate and unleash your creativity. 

You'll also have an opportunity to learn about your own style of leading / communicating / interacting and how to understand others... all while having FUN!

• Infinite Loops: How creative can you be to untangle yourself or your fellow Process Palooza attendees from a deceptively simple knot?
• 3-D Bullring: Can you and your team transport a critical package from point A to point B while navigating a challenging course?  (no climbing necessary!)  Now imagine that package represents your onboarding process, customer service experience, your workplace community!
• ‘I am Able To’:  Take a moment to creatively reflect on your strengths, consider how you want to continue to develop and discover new resources in your Process Palooza attendees who can support you on that journey
• Postcards: Discover how easily & quickly you can form a sense of community through shared stories
• Team Draw: Can you and your team navigate a team drawing challenge with all of you using one drawing device?  What about if you are all blindfolded but one?  Now imagine, instead of a drawing, you are trying to embody your organization's mission or provide the direction for a team?  Is everyone clear on the direction or understand what's happening?

During Process Palooza, visit the Challenge Course team at the Town Square, just outside of the Price Center.

We all contribute to continuous improvement and Process Palooza wants to hear your story! Stop by the Share Your Story booth to record your process/continuous improvement experience. We all learn from, and inspire, one another, so don’t be shy, stop by and tell us about your training, what are some of the challenges you’ve faced, do you mentor or are you being mentored by someone, how you have made a difference, endless opportunities to share. 

In the heart of Process Palooza is our Red Carpet experience.  Plan to stop by the red carpet for filmed interviews with our emcees.

We want to know:

• Why you are at Process Palooza
• How are you creating a culture of continuous improvement
• Why are you making investments to support continuous improvement initiatives
• How are investments shaping your organization

Elevate Your Team’s Performance! 

UC San Diego Recreation has one of the largest Recreation programs in the Nation.  The UC San Diego Challenge Course and Team Building Program has been a growing part of the Recreation Department since 2004.  They have been successfully serving the campus community, San Diego schools, non-profits and businesses and many organizations that choose San Diego for their retreats and conventions. 

Come to the Process Palooza Challenge Course in Town Square to take part in these great activities that range from individual or paired challenges, to group initiatives that will help your team to collaborate and unleash your creativity. 

You'll also have an opportunity to learn about your own style of leading / communicating / interacting and how to understand others... all while having FUN!

• Infinite Loops: How creative can you be to untangle yourself or your fellow Process Palooza attendees from a deceptively simple knot?
• 3-D Bullring: Can you and your team transport a critical package from point A to point B while navigating a challenging course?  (no climbing necessary!)  Now imagine that package represents your onboarding process, customer service experience, your workplace community!
• ‘I am Able To’:  Take a moment to creatively reflect on your strengths, consider how you want to continue to develop and discover new resources in your Process Palooza attendees who can support you on that journey
• Postcards: Discover how easily & quickly you can form a sense of community through shared stories
• Team Draw: Can you and your team navigate a team drawing challenge with all of you using one drawing device?  What about if you are all blindfolded but one?  Now imagine, instead of a drawing, you are trying to embody your organization's mission or provide the direction for a team?  Is everyone clear on the direction or understand what's happening?

During Process Palooza, visit the Challenge Course team at the Town Square, just outside of the Price Center.