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SUMMARY:Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences (CASIS) 29th Annual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to host LLNL’s 30th Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences (CASIS) workshop. The workshop returns with a full 2-day in-person schedule on Wednesday and Thursday\, June 24-25\, 2026.\nWe encourage a broad range of technical topics at the workshop and being non-archival apart from original work\, we are also considering intermediate results from ongoing efforts as well as recently published publications for presentation as a talk and/or a poster. The goal of the workshop is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and network with peers across disciplines to foster collaboration and build community. Please submit your abstract by Friday\, May 15\, 2026. Authors will be notified of the review decisions one week later on May 22\, 2026.\nApart from the regular presentation track we will feature parallel tutorials\, hands-on mini workshops and a dedicated student track to introduce career opportunities at LLNL.\nThe workshop will be held in-person at the (https://uclcc.org/) and requires pre-registration until June 18\, 2026. As this is a 2-day whole-day workshop\, we will provide coffee and snacks in morning and afternoon breaks as well as a lunch on both days. As this is our 30th anniversary\, we will also host a Happy Hour following the regular program on Wednesday\, June 24\, 2026.\n(https://engineering.llnl.gov/centers/casis/workshops)\nThis year’s workshop features presentations in the following tracks\, moderated by the Program Chairs:\n– AI/Machine Learning (PhanNguyen\, Kowshik Thopalli)\n– National Ignition Facility (Eugene Kur\, Christopher Miller)\n– Non-Destructive Evaluation (Seemeen Karimi\, Harry Martz)\n– Quantum Sensing & Quantum Computing (Kristi Beck)\n– Remote Sensing\, Non-Invasive Imaging & Inverse Problems (Sean Lehman\, Viacheslav Li)\n– Robotics & Automation (Aldair Gongora\, Abhik Sarkar)\n– Student Track: All topics (Poster only) (Ted Bauman\, Min Priest)\nBecome part of this great experience and submit your talk proposal at https://engineering.llnl.gov/centers/casis/workshops before May 15\, 2025!\nCheck out (https://www.llnl.gov/article/53041/annual-workshop-brings-together-signal-image-science-community) for last year’s amazing event to see what to expect!\nThe no-fee CASIS Workshop is sponsored by the (https://engineering.llnl.gov/) and held at the (https://uclcc.org/). It is organized by the (https://engineering.llnl.gov/centers/casis)\, and is a joint meeting with the local chapters of the (https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/oeb/SigProc/sigproc.html) and (https://r6.ieee.org/sfoeb-cs/). supported by the (https://r6.ieee.org/oeb/).\nCo-sponsored by: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences\nBldg: Building 661 L-794\, University of California Livermore Collaboration Center\, 7000 East Ave\, Livermore\, California\, United States\, 94550
URL:https://svec.org/event/center-for-advanced-signal-and-image-sciences-casis-29th-annual-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Bldg: Building 661 L-794\, University of California Livermore Collaboration Center\, 7000 East Ave\, Livermore\, California\, United States\, 94550
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SUMMARY:Efficient Stochastic Machine Learning at the Edge
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will talk about some hardware/software work my group has done in the area of stochastic computing-based machine learning acceleration. Stochastic computing or SC is an approximate\, stream-based computing paradigm enabling extremely area-efficient implementations of basic arithmetic operations such as multiplication and addition. I will talk about the suitability of the SC to the machine learning/event processing workloads\, how to deal with its inherent approximate nature and briefly discuss few chip prototypes that leverage both logic and in-memory implementations of SC-based accelerators for dense as well as a sparse compute.\nSpeaker(s): Puneet Gupta\,\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561732
URL:https://svec.org/event/efficient-stochastic-machine-learning-at-the-edge/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/561732
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SUMMARY:Systematically Managing Complexity in Power Electronics Modeling and Design
DESCRIPTION:Power electronics is a foundational technology that drives a wide range of important and emerging applications including cloud computing\, wireless communications\, robotics\, and smart energy systems. By systematically managing the increased complexity in materials\, circuits\, and systems\, new opportunities are created to greatly advance the functionality and performance of power electronics systems.\nThis speech provides a few examples to illustrate the potential of managed complexity in power electronics design. These include: 1) modular and scalable architecture for systematically managed complexity in high performance circuits; 2) artificial intelligence and machine learning for systematically managed complexity in passive component modeling. This managed complexity approach addresses key challenges in emerging applications by overcoming traditional design barriers from new angles and redefining how power electronics are conceived and implemented in complex systems.\nSpeaker(s): Minjie Chen\nMurata Electronics North America\, Inc.\, 1732 North First Street #500\, San Jose\, California\, United States\, 95112
URL:https://svec.org/event/systematically-managing-complexity-in-power-electronics-modeling-and-design/
LOCATION:Murata Electronics North America\, Inc.\, 1732 North First Street #500\, San Jose\, California\, United States\, 95112
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence\, Using Safely
DESCRIPTION:Social gathering\, presentation and round table discussion. Speakers to be determined. Audience participation welcome.\nAgenda:\nSocial gathering followed by food service and presentations. Select from menu\, or buffet depending upon the number of registrants.\nBldg: Golf course restaurant\, not pro shop\, Beeb's Sports Bar and Grill\, 915 Club House Drive\, Livermore\, California\, United States\, 94550
URL:https://svec.org/event/artificial-intelligence-using-safely/
LOCATION:Bldg: Golf course restaurant\, not pro shop\, Beeb's Sports Bar and Grill\, 915 Club House Drive\, Livermore\, California\, United States\, 94550
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SUMMARY:Multi-Agent Systems at Scale as a Shared Platform for the enterprises
DESCRIPTION:AI Agent Infrastructure as a Shared Platform: Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems at Scale for the enterprise. \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[Zoom](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/92225957844?pwd=E1L50oEkTFvwai73PYfGoqsPdi9xIL.1) (updated 6:55 pm)\nJoin via YouTube:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO72Hb30fKw \nAGENDA\n6:30 Door opens\, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)\n7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 Speaker presents.\n8:30 – 8:45 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on: \n### **Abstract & Overview** \nAn agent is simple: Prompt + Tools + Model + Boilerplate. The first three are where product teams create value. The last one—state management\, history compression\, streaming\, cancellation\, tracing\, memory\, persistence—is 80% of the code but 0% of the differentiation.\nAt ThoughtSpot\, we built an Agent Platform that draws a hard line between agent logic and agent infrastructure\, letting product teams ship customer-facing agents faster by owning only what matters: their prompts and their tools.\nThis talk covers the infrastructure patterns behind that separation:\n**State management across tool calls.** Stateless tools (state on the agent\, passed as arguments) give you testability and let the LLM reason about state. Stateful tools (state in the tool service) avoid serialization overhead. I’ll walk through flow diagrams\, show how we propagate state via tool response metadata\, and discuss when each pattern fits.\n**Configuration-driven agent definitions.** Agents defined entirely through config—templated prompts\, tool endpoints\, sub-agent rules\, compression strategies. Teams ship agents without writing orchestration code.\n**Inter-agent communication.** Two patterns: agents-as-tools (sub-agent called like any tool\, returns structured output) and agent handoff (full conversation transfer). The platform handles routing and context—teams just declare delegation rules.\n**Shared memory across agents.** Memory in the platform\, not individual agents\, means knowledge accumulates across agent boundaries. Tiered scoping (tenant\, org\, user) with retrieval that surfaces relevant context regardless of which agent captured it.\n**Tool protocol design.** MCP as the base\, with patterns layered on top: cancellation semantics\, progress streaming\, context variable propagation\, and adapters for existing services.\nBuilding for customer-facing scale adds constraints—high concurrency\, encryption\, tenant isolation\, auditability—that shaped our API design throughout.\n**Takeaways:** \n* Mental model for separating agent value from infrastructure\n* State patterns: agent-side vs. tool-side tradeoffs\n* Inter-agent communication: tools vs. handoff\n* Shared memory architecture across agent boundaries\n* MCP extensions for production systems. \nSpeaker Bio\nAshish Shubham is Fellow/Vice President of Engineering at ThoughtSpot\, where he leads the architecture of enterprise-scale AI and embedded analytics platforms used by Fortune 500 organizations. He is the author of *Architecting AI Data Systems* and an inventor on multiple U.S. patents in natural-language-to-SQL\, generative AI interfaces\, and intelligent analytics. Ashish is an IEEE Senior Member and an active reviewer and committee contributor for leading IEEE and ACM conferences and workshops. His work bridges academic research and real-world deployment\, with a focus on building scalable\, trustworthy\, and developer-centric AI systems for production environments.\n[https://linkedin.com/in/ashubham](https://linkedin.com/in/ashubham) \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/multi-agent-systems-at-scale-as-a-shared-platform-for-the-enterprises/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Silicon Photonics Qualification and Reliability Requirements
DESCRIPTION:[]\nCo-Sponsored by the Photonics Chapter\nAs silicon photonics and co-packaged optics (CPO) technologies continue to scale for AI\, cloud\, and high-bandwidth networking applications\, reliability qualification methodologies are becoming increasingly critical. While much of the industry focus has been on performance and integration density\, standardized approaches for qualification\, reliability assessment and long-term service life prediction remain an important industry challenge.\nThis webinar will present the motivation\, structure\, and key technical considerations behind the emerging JEDEC work that Cisco has led on Silicon Photonics Qualification and Reliability Requirements. The session will discuss reliability expectations and qualification strategies for silicon photonics devices\, chiplets\, integrated optical assemblies\, and heterogeneous integration approaches used in AI and datacenter applications. The webinar is intended for engineers and technologists working in silicon photonics\, advanced packaging\, NPO\, CPO\, datacenter infrastructure\, reliability engineering\, semiconductor manufacturing\, and optical module development.\nSpeaker(s): Farnood Rezaie\,\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/560599
URL:https://svec.org/event/silicon-photonics-qualification-and-reliability-requirements/
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/560599
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260718T130000
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SUMMARY:Summer Power Symposium - Paving the AI Superhighway
DESCRIPTION:Paving the AI Superhighway: Where Power Meets Intelligence\nAs part of our 2026 year-round symposium series themed “AI Super-Highway”\, this symposium will focus on advanced power technologies for AI era and will be held at Intel SC-12 Auditorium:\n3600 Juliette Ln\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, on Saturday\, July 18th\, 2026\, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM\nThis summer symposium concentrates on the critical power and energy infrastructure that underpins the continued evolution and scaling of artificial intelligence. Particularly\, it will explore how the rapid expansion of AI is reshaping the global power landscape. The symposium aims to bring together leading pioneers from industry and academia to discuss key challenges\, recent innovations\, and future opportunities at the intersection of AI and the power sector.\nSTAY TUNED.. more information to be announced.\nRoom: SC-12 Auditorium\, Bldg: Intel \, 3600 Juliette Lane\, Santa Clara\, California\, United States
URL:https://svec.org/event/summer-power-symposium-paving-the-ai-superhighway/
LOCATION:Room\, 192 California Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States
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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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SUMMARY:Modern Test Automation & Quality Engineering in Agile Systems
DESCRIPTION:LOCATION 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**: \nAs software delivery accelerates\, traditional testing approaches struggle to keep pace with Agile and DevOps environments. Modern systems demand more than automated test cases—they require a shift toward quality engineering practices that embed reliability\, scalability\, and continuous feedback into every stage of development. \nThis talk explores how test automation has evolved from a validation activity into a core engineering discipline. We will examine how to design resilient automation frameworks\, integrate testing seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines\, and build quality signals that provide real-time insight into system health.\nThrough practical examples\, the session will highlight strategies for moving beyond UI-driven automation toward API\, integration\, and workflow-level validation. It will also cover key aspects such as test data management\, environment stability\, performance considerations\, and accessibility as part of continuous quality. \nAttendees will gain a clear understanding of how to align automation with Agile delivery\, reduce flaky tests\, and create scalable\, maintainable solutions that support rapid releases without compromising quality.\nThis session is designed for engineers and quality professionals who want to modernize their automation approach and build systems that are reliable by design\, not just tested after the fact. \n**Speaker Bio**:\nShri Lakshmi Rajagopal\, a Senior Quality Engineering Leader and Test Automation Architect. She has over 14 years of experience in software quality engineering\, automation architecture\, and engineering leadership. Her work focuses on designing maintainable automation frameworks\, enabling Agile quality practices\, and mentoring teams to adopt modern testing strategies. She is passionate about sharing practical insights that help teams build reliable and scalable software systems. \nLinkedIn:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/shri-lakshmi-rajagopal-a5012428](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shri-lakshmi-rajagopal-a5012428) \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/modern-test-automation-quality-engineering-in-agile-systems/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Buzzwords: The Real Engineering Challenges of Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:LOCATION 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**:\nTalk description: Augmented Reality is often talked about in terms of its potential\, but what does it actually take to build it? This talk offers a candid\, high-level look at the engineering challenges that make AR glasses hard\, from power and thermals to silicon design\, and what it means to optimize at every layer of the stack to bring a product to life. \nReading material/blogs:\n[https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-ar-glasses-augmented-reality/](https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-ar-glasses-augmented-reality/)\n[https://www.meta.com/blog/boz-to-the-future-episode-22-wearables-orion-ray-ban-meta-alex-himel/](https://www.meta.com/blog/boz-to-the-future-episode-22-wearables-orion-ray-ban-meta-alex-himel/)\n[https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-compute-puck-reality-labs-next-computing-platform/](https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-compute-puck-reality-labs-next-computing-platform/)\n[https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-custom-silicon-chips-ip-blocks-accelerators-ar-algorithms-energy-efficiency-reality-labs/](https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-custom-silicon-chips-ip-blocks-accelerators-ar-algorithms-energy-efficiency-reality-labs/) \n**Speaker Bio**:\n**Shanmathi Natarajan is a Silicon Power Architect with experience at Meta Reality Labs\, where she led end-to-end power architecture for next-generation AR glasses. Her work spanned the full silicon lifecycle\, from early-stage SoC power modeling and architectural exploration to post-silicon validation and real-world correlation\, with a focus on turning high-level design intent into measurable efficiency gains on final silicon.**\n**Her work includes driving significant use-case power reductions on wearable SoCs\, directly enabling better battery life and user experience on AR devices. Her expertise spans low-power design methodologies\, hardware-software co-design\, DVFS and power state architecture\, and cross-layer optimization across compute\, memory\, and interconnect subsystems.**\n**Her research interests lie at the hardware-software boundary\, where low-level architectural decisions in AR glasses\, GPU architectures\, and energy-constrained systems translate directly into product-level impact.** \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/shanmathi-natarajan \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/beyond-the-buzzwords-the-real-engineering-challenges-of-augmented-reality/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Practical Lessons from Building AI Infrastructure for Billion User Products
DESCRIPTION:Practical Lessons from Building AI Infrastructure for Billion-User Products with ML Systems \nLOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid\, in person or by zoom\, you choose)\nValley Research Park\n319 North Bernardo Avenue\nMountain View\, CA CA 93043\nIf you want to join remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/99320216248?pwd=hmIZXJbNiS0F4hrJerx0ffnI8rbYOr.1)\nJoin via YouTube:\nhttps://youtube.com/live/sJ38lsfLfeU \nAGENDA\n6:30 Door opens\, SFBAY ACM 68 anniversary Cake and networking (we invite honor system contributions)\n**7:00** Upcoming events\, introduction of the speaker\n7:15 Speaker presentation\n8:15- 8:30 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on: \nAbstract\nThis talk covers what it takes to move ML/AI systems from promising prototypes to production systems that are reliable\, observable\, scalable\, and maintainable. I will discuss common architecture patterns\, rollout strategies\, evaluation and monitoring loops\, operational failure modes\, and engineering tradeoffs that show up at large scale. The talk is intended for experienced computing professionals and can be adjusted to a 45-60 minute format with Q&A. \nSpeaker bio:\nSilu Panda is a Sr. Software Engineer at Linkedin.com. He has 6 years of experience building ML infrastructure used by billions of users\, including 4 years at LinkedIn. He holds a bachelors degree in computer science from IIT Bombay. His focus areas are ML systems\, scalable infrastructure\, software engineering\, and practical AI product execution.. \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/silupanda/ \n— \nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 30+ 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/practical-lessons-from-building-ai-infrastructure-for-billion-user-products/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:VENDOR TABLE for Electrical Design Fundamentals Seminar
DESCRIPTION:*****This vTools link is for purchase of Vendor Tables ONLY! No walk-in registrations.*****\n(Limit of 10 vendor tables so do not delay!)\nVendor table will be one 6-foot exhibit table. Vendor table includes one (1) attendee ticket. A power strip will be available upon request.\nFor more than one (1) attendee to support the table\, please register additional people using the regular attendee link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562108\nTape\, Tacks\, Nails may not be applied to walls\, ceilings\, or doors and are strictly prohibited.\nOutside food\, non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverage are not allowed.\nIEEE and the Hotel are not responsible for any loss or damage to property belonging to you.\nSign-in for attendees and continental breakfast will open at 7:15AM\, so please be completely set up by 7:15AM.\nVendors are encouraged (voluntary) to bring up to three (3) giveaways to be included in the overall raffle for attendees.\nThis one-day Technical Seminar will cover the fundamentals of electrical design\, cable ampacity\, protective relaying\, and interconnections. The seminar will serve as a primer for engineers and a refresher for experienced engineers. During breaks and lunch there will be opportunities to network with your peers and meet with manufacturers. The registration cost includes continental breakfast\, lunch\, and refreshments.\nPlease join us in attending this one-day Technical Seminar which will include an impressive list of speakers from IEEE\, Eaton\, Electrical Reliability Services (a Vertiv Company)\, ETAP\, SEL\, and NEMA. Seminar topics will include:\n– Overview of IEEE 1547-2018\, Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of distributed energy resources (DER) with Electric Power Systems\n– Electrical Design Fundamentals – Circuit Breaker Applications Understood\n– Medium Voltage Cable Installations\n– Cable Ampacity and Sizing Fundamentals Generator\n– Protective Relaying Fundamentals\n– NEMA Resources and the NEMA Standards Store\nPlan to attend this timely\, educational Seminar. Registration is now open!\nSpeaker(s): Chase Sun\, Chris Lovin\, Steve Park\, Avelardo Morales \, Angel Morales\, Mike Stone\nAgenda:\n8:00AM-4:30PM (sign-in opens at 7:15AM)\n*****Vendors should be set up and ready by 7:15AM.*****\nDoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pleasanton at The Club\, 7050 Johnson Drive\, Pleasanton\, California\, United States\, 94588
URL:https://svec.org/event/vendor-table-for-electrical-design-fundamentals-seminar/
LOCATION:DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pleasanton at The Club\, 7050 Johnson Drive\, Pleasanton\, California\, United States\, 94588
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T160500Z
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SUMMARY:Electrical Design Fundamentals Seminar
DESCRIPTION:This one-day Technical Seminar will cover the fundamentals of electrical design\, cable ampacity\, protective relaying\, and interconnections. The seminar will serve as a primer for engineers and a refresher for experienced engineers. During breaks and lunch there will be opportunities to network with your peers and meet with manufacturers. The registration cost includes continental breakfast\, lunch\, and refreshments.\nPlease join us in attending this one-day Technical Seminar which will include an impressive list of speakers from IEEE\, Eaton\, Electrical Reliability Services (a Vertiv Company)\, ETAP\, SEL\, and NEMA. Seminar topics will include:\n– Overview of IEEE 1547-2018\, Standard for Interconnection and Interoperability of distributed energy resources (DER) with Electric Power Systems\n– Electrical Design Fundamentals – Circuit Breaker Applications Understood\n– Medium Voltage Cable Installations\n– Cable Ampacity and Sizing Fundamentals Generator\n– Protective Relaying Fundamentals\n– NEMA Resources and the NEMA Standards Store\nPlan to attend this timely\, educational Seminar. Registration is now open!\nFor Group Registrations\, please list all attendee email addresses under Special Requests.\n***** Early-Bird registration closes on July 3\, don’t delay!*****\n(Registration is limited to 100 attendees and must be completed on vTools. No walk-in registrations.)\nSpeaker(s): Chase Sun\, Chris Lovin\, Steve Park\, Avelardo Morales \, Angel Morales\, Mike Stone\nAgenda:\n8:00AM-4:30PM (sign-in opens at 7:15AM)\nDoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pleasanton at The Club\, 7050 Johnson Drive\, Pleasanton\, California\, United States\, 94588
URL:https://svec.org/event/electrical-design-fundamentals-seminar/
LOCATION:DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pleasanton at The Club\, 7050 Johnson Drive\, Pleasanton\, California\, United States\, 94588
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