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SUMMARY:Call for volunteers\, Summer STEM Workshop: Continue Team Race Car Building
DESCRIPTION:Calling all volunteers to join our Summer STEM Youth Workshop where you'll get hands-on experience with build a car servos\, learn the mechanics behind it and race an obstacle course/ track!\nWe will be helping students who build ACEBOTT 5DOF Smart Robot Arm Car Kit\, 4WD Remote Control Car: Amazon Link (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHX9QW5N?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1)\nBecause we have limited space available\, registration will be first come\, first served. There will be a mandatory zoom training for all volunteers working with children.\nSign up to volunteer today! Google Form Link (https://forms.gle/KSkkUYPK2QVNQrKS7)\nEvent Details\nWhere: Glad Tidings Family Life Complex\nWhen: 7/27\, 2pm to 7:00pm.\nWho: For volunteering\, college students and professionals are welcome to join!\n[]\nWhy STEM Education Matters\nSTEM education is more than just learning about technology or engineering—it’s about developing critical thinking\, creativity\, and problem-solving skills that are essential in today’s world. By exposing your child to STEM:\n– Help them discover new interests and talents.\n– Prepare them for high-paying and rewarding careers.\n– Show them that they can be creators\, innovators\, and leaders.\nSchedule:\n2:15 – 2:30 PM | Welcome & Kickoff\n– Welcome\n– Event Overview\n– Review of safety rules\n– Introduction of volunteers\, experiment leads\, and technology demonstrators\n2:30 PM | Presentation #1\nThree classes (Build New Car/ attach Robot Arm\, Troubleshoot Car/ Review/ Coding\, and Art class)\n2:45 PM- 5 PM | Build Car and Logo Art Design\n5:00 PM– 5:40 PM | Dinner\n6:00 PM– 6:45 PM | Finish Car Building\, and Test obstacle course/ race track\n6:45 – 7:00 PM | Closing\, Photos & Thank You\nOur Program’s Commitment\nThrough our partnership with the IEEE Oakland-East Bay Section\, TryEngineering\, and Glad Tidings\, we are dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment. Here’s why this program is unique:\nMentors Who Care: STEM professionals from your community will guide your child every step of the way.\n– Hands-On Learning: Engaging activities like designing bridges\, building robots\, and creating LED circuits make learning exciting.\nEquity in Education: Our goal is to provide access and opportunity to all children\, particularly those in underrepresented communities.\nParent Involvement\nWe understand the vital role parents play in their child’s success. During the event\, you’ll:\n– See firsthand how STEM activities boost confidence and teamwork.\n– Learn about free and affordable resources to continue your child’s STEM journey.\n– Meet other parents who share the same goal of empowering their children.\nDon’t Miss Out!\nThis is a chance to show your child that their dreams matter and that they belong in STEM fields. Secure your spot today!\nRegister by March 23th\nTo ensure we have the proper supplies and resources\, please RSVP by end of day March. 23\, so we can better plan the workshop.\nTogether\, let’s inspire a generation of problem solvers\, innovators\, and dreamers. We look forward to seeing you there!\nWarm regards\,\nAaron Lin\, IEEE\nBenita McLarin\, Glad Tidings\nCo-sponsored by: Glad Tiding International\n27709 Tyrrell Ave\, Hayward\, California\, United States\, 94544
URL:https://svec.org/event/call-for-volunteers-summer-stem-workshop-continue-team-race-car-building/
LOCATION:27709 Tyrrell Ave\, Hayward\, California\, United States\, 94544
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SUMMARY:2026 GET-AI SERIES: 4 . Driving Business Efficiency with AI
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how organizations generate revenue\, streamline operations\, and automate complex business processes. From intelligent sales prospecting and personalized customer engagement to autonomous AI agents capable of reasoning\, planning\, and executing multi-step workflows\, AI is becoming an essential driver of business efficiency and competitive advantage.\nFollowing our June session on AI-Powered Productivity\, the IEEE Orange County Computer Society GET-AI Series continues with a practical\, demo-driven July session focused on how organizations can leverage AI to improve efficiency\, reduce operational costs\, accelerate business processes\, and build intelligent enterprise applications.\nThis double-feature session combines business and technical perspectives to demonstrate how AI can optimize both customer-facing and enterprise workflows through intelligent automation\, advanced prompting techniques\, and production-ready AI agent architectures.\n—————————————————————\n🔒 July Focus: Driving Business Efficiency with AI\n[]\nAs organizations increasingly adopt AI across their operations\, the challenge is no longer simply using AI it is applying it strategically to create measurable business value.\nThis session explores how AI can help organizations:\n– Improve operational efficiency through intelligent automation\n– Reduce manual effort and operational costs\n– Increase sales pipeline quality using AI-driven insights\n– Automate repetitive business workflows\n– Build enterprise-grade autonomous AI agents to Save Cost\nWhether you're a business leader\, consultant\, architect\, developer\, product manager\, or AI enthusiast\, this session provides practical strategies and demonstrations that can be immediately applied within your organization.\n—————————————————————\nSession 1: Building Efficient Enterprise AI Systems with LangGraph (45 mins)\nThrough live demonstrations\, this session explores how LangGraph enables developers to build production-ready AI systems that are reliable\, scalable\, and designed to create efficient enterprise workflows. Attendees will learn how to move beyond simple LLM applications to intelligent agent architectures that streamline operations\, optimize resource utilization\, and reduce the cost of developing and operating AI-powered solutions.\nTopics include\n– LangGraph fundamentals\n– Designing efficient AI workflows\n– Enterprise AI agent architecture\n– Memory and state management\n– Tool orchestration and workflow automation\n– Human-in-the-loop approvals\n– Multi-agent collaboration\n– Enterprise automation and cost optimization patterns\n– Best practices for building scalable\, production-ready AI systems\n👉 Takeaway: Learn how to build efficient\, enterprise-grade AI systems that automate complex workflows\, optimize business operations\, reduce development and operational costs\, and deliver measurable business value through intelligent automation.\n—————————————————————\nSession 2: AI-Powered Sales Intelligence: Building Smarter Pipelines with Intelligent Prospecting (45 Min)\nThis session demonstrates how AI can fundamentally transform go-to-market execution by identifying real-time business opportunities through trigger events\, market signals\, sentiment analysis\, and intelligent prospecting.\nThrough live demonstrations\, attendees will learn how AI can generate highly personalized outreach\, automate prospect research\, and enable sales teams to focus on meaningful customer engagement instead of manual list building.\nTopics include:\n– AI-driven sales intelligence\n– Intelligent prospect discovery\n– Event-driven customer engagement\n– Effective prompting for business workflows\n– Hyper-personalized outreach\n– Reducing customer acquisition costs\n– Improving pipeline quality through AI\n👉 Takeaway: Learn how AI can improve sales efficiency\, reduce manual effort\, and create higher-quality business opportunities through intelligent automation.\n—————————————————————\nAbout the Organizer\nPradyumna Kodgi\nPrincipal Product Manager | Oracle Health & AI\nIEEE Senior Member | Vice Chair\, IEEE EMBS – Orange County\nMember\, IEEE AI Agentic Systems & AI Policy Committees\n📍 California\, USA\n📧 pkodgi@ieee.org\n🔗 linkedin.com/in/pkodgi\nCo-sponsored by: Pradyumna Kodgi\nSpeaker(s): Gaurav Deshmukh\, Sunil Hans\nAgenda:\nAgenda\n– 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM — Registration\, Check-In & Networking\n– 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM — Welcome\, Introductions & Opening Remarks\n– 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM — Session 1: Building Efficient Enterprise AI Systems with LangGraph: Intelligent Automation Beyond Chatbots\n– 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM — Dinner & Networking\n– 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM — Session 2: AI-Powered Sales Intelligence: Building Smarter Pipelines with Intelligent Prospecting\n—————————————————————\n🛠️ Practical Takeaways\nYou'll walk away with actionable techniques and frameworks that can immediately improve business efficiency\, including:\n– Leveraging AI to improve sales pipeline quality\n– Applying effective prompting techniques for business automation\n– Reducing operational costs through AI-driven workflows\n– Building efficient enterprise AI systems with LangGraph\n– Designing scalable AI workflows using memory\, tools\, and intelligent orchestration\n– Combining human expertise with AI-driven automation to maximize business value\n—————————————————————\n🎯 Who Should Attend\n– Business leaders and executives\n– Sales and marketing professionals\n– Product managers and consultants\n– Software engineers and developers\n– Enterprise and solution architects\n– AI practitioners and technology leaders\n– Students and professionals interested in enterprise AI\n—————————————————————\n✨ What You'll Walk Away With\n– A practical understanding of how AI can improve business efficiency and reduce costs\n– Real-world examples of AI-powered sales intelligence and intelligent prospecting\n– Hands-on insights into building efficient enterprise AI workflows with LangGraph\n– Practical strategies for automating complex business processes using AI\n– Best practices for integrating AI responsibly into enterprise environments\nAs AI becomes increasingly embedded within enterprise operations\, success is no longer defined by simply adopting AI—it is measured by how effectively organizations use AI to build efficient systems\, optimize workflows\, reduce costs\, and accelerate business outcomes. This session will equip you with practical knowledge and real-world techniques to harness AI as a strategic driver of business efficiency.\nRoom: Emerald Cove Conference Room\, Bldg: Beall Applied Innovation\, 5270 California Ave\, 2nd Floor \, IRVINE\, California\, United States\, 92617\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565627
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LOCATION:Room: Emerald Cove Conference Room\, Bldg: Beall Applied Innovation\, 5270 California Ave\, 2nd Floor \, IRVINE\, California\, United States\, 92617\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565627
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SUMMARY:System Engineering: The Role of AI and Software in Emissions Reduction
DESCRIPTION:System Engineering Our Way to a Sustainable Future: The Role of AI and Software in Emissions Reduction \nLOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid\, in person or by zoom\, you choose)\nValley Research Park\n319 North Bernardo Avenue\nMountain View\, CA CA 93043\nDon’t use the front door. When facing the front door\, turn right along the front of the building. Turn left around the building corner. The 2nd door should be open and have a banner and event registration. \nIf you want to join remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/95226212956?pwd=HnAedzSDGcYAYsCzTuavIvMYMFtILa.1](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/95226212956?pwd=HnAedzSDGcYAYsCzTuavIvMYMFtILa.1)\nJoin via YouTube:\n[https://youtube.com/live/cu5TDl8N2Mk](https://youtube.com/live/cu5TDl8N2Mk) \nAGENDA\n6:30 Door opens\, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)\n**7:00** SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 speaker presentation starts\n8:15 – 8:30 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on: \n**Talk Description**:\nTackling climate change isn’t just a moral imperative—it’s an optimization problem. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)\, the gold standard for measuring environmental impact\, has historically been slow\, expensive\, and data-starved. But AI can change that. By automating data collection\, predicting missing inputs\, and scaling complex calculations\, “life cycle LLMs” can make LCA fast\, accurate\, and actionable. With better system-level visibility\, organizations can identify emission hotspots\, avoid false trade-offs\, and make decisions that genuinely move the needle on net-zero goals.\nSoftware itself is part of the problem\, but also a powerful lever. As computing’s carbon footprint grows\, developers can embed sustainability into their work through efficient algorithms\, leaner data flows\, and low-carbon infrastructure choices—what some call “green coding.” More importantly\, software can multiply impact: powering smart grids\, optimizing logistics\, or modeling entire supply chains. This talk makes the case that the biggest climate wins won’t come from treating sustainability as charity—they’ll come from treating it like the ultimate systems engineering challenge. \n**Speaker Bio**:\nJohanna Behm is a “recovering” event planner on a mission to help the events industry cut up to 10% of global carbon emissions by automating sustainability tracking and operational workflows for live events. \nA native of Finland\, Johanna grew up in a culture where sorting household waste into seven bins and minimizing waste was simply part of daily “workfow”. She was astonished by her industry’s wasteful nature and realized majority of sustainability-related problems can be attributed to poor planning and information gaps. While recruiting technical talent for her startup Envire\, Johanna also realized that most software engineers are not aware that their skills could be deployed to solve some of the most pressing environmental issues and social challenges our whole planet and humanity is facing today.Prior to his work at Google\, Saurabh gained valuable experience as an SRE at Okta. He is also a thought leader in SRE and cloud technologies\, a mentor for startup entrepreneurs through the Google for Startups program\, and a frequent speaker on the topic of foundational thinking for scalable and reliable system infrastructure.\n**[envire.ai](http://envire.ai/)** \n— \nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/system-engineering-the-role-of-ai-and-software-in-emissions-reduction/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:What Breaks First at Scale: Lessons from Real-World Distributed Systems
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid event on Zoom and YouTube \nIf you want to join discussion remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/94932457090?pwd=SzCaJbWEJpzEpJl7wYa1aSrHa8G15r.1](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/94932457090?pwd=SzCaJbWEJpzEpJl7wYa1aSrHa8G15r.1)\nJoin via YouTube:\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=t15Ca-KblbE \nAGENDA\n6:30 pre-sign in to test and chat\n**7:00** SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 speaker presentation starts\n8:15 – 8:30 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion in person at VRP \n**Abstract:**\nAs modern AI-powered and real-time applications grow\, they increasingly rely on complex event-driven infrastructure. This session explores practical lessons learned from operating large-scale messaging and distributed systems in production. We will dive into the critical trade-offs regarding reliability\, scalability\, and observability in asynchronous environments\, and discuss how architectural decisions compound when systems reach global scale. \n**Speaker Bio:**\n*Ajinkya Kher is an Engineering Manager at Meta and former Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 15 years of experience building and leading large-scale distributed systems. Throughout his career\, he has worked on highly scaled platforms\, including real-time messaging platform powering Microsoft Teams & AI-powered experiences supporting hundreds of millions of users worldwide. At Meta\, he leads engineering teams building youth-focused experiences across Facebook and Messenger\, with a focus on trust and safety.* \n*Ajinkya is currently authoring a book with Manning Publications on designing and operating event-driven systems in production. He previously authored a book on high-performance TypeScript programming and enjoys sharing practical lessons from building software at scale. Beyond his day-to-day work\, he enjoys mentoring engineers and supporting technology and innovation programs that help develop future engineering leaders.*\n**LinkedIn:** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajinkyakher](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajinkyakher)\n— \nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/what-breaks-first-at-scale-lessons-from-real-world-distributed-systems/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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