About us
This Meetup group supports the SF Bay ACM Chapter. You can join the actual SF Bay Chapter by coming to a meeting - most meetings are free, and our membership is only $20/year !
The chapter has both educational and scientific purposes:
- the science, design, development, construction, languages, management and applications of modern computing.
- communication between persons interested in computing.
- cooperation with other professional groups
Our official bylaws will be available soon at the About Us page on our web site. See below for out Code of Conduct.
Videos of past meetings can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/sfbayacm
Official web site of SF Bay ACM:
http://www.sfbayacm.org/
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Article IX: Code of Conduct - from the ACM Professional Chapter Code of Conduct
Harassment or hostile behavior is unwelcome, including speech that intimidates,creates discomfort, or interferes with a person’s participation or opportunity for participation, in a Chapter meeting or Chapter event.Harassment in any form, including but not limited to harassment based on alienage or citizenship, age, color, creed, disability, marital status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, childbirth- and pregnancy-related medical conditions, race, religion, sex, gender,veteran status, sexual orientation or any other status protected by laws in which the Chapter meeting or Chapter event is being held, will not be tolerated. Harassment includes the use of abusive or degrading language, intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording,inappropriate physical contact, sexual imagery and unwelcome sexualattention. A response that the participant was “just joking,” or “teasing,”or being “playful,” will not be accepted.2. Anyone witnessing or subject to unacceptable behavior should notify a chapter officer or ACM Headquarters.3. Individuals violating these standards may be sanctioned or excluded from further participation at the discretion of the Chapter officers or responsible committee members.
Upcoming events
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The IEEE Mass Storage Roadmap 2026 Update
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USLOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/
Join via YouTube:
https://youtube.com/live/sJ38lsfLfeUAGENDA
6:00 Door opens.
SFBAY ACM 69th year anniversary. Pizza, Birthday Cake and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
6:30 SFbayACM Annual Business Meeting, Slate of board members and annual election, upcoming events.
7:00 ACM introduce upcoming talks and speaker
7:10 Dr. Tom Coughlin :"The IEEE Mass Storage Roadmap 2026 Update"
8:25- 8:40 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for 2026 Election for the following candidates:
| Position | Candidate |
| -------- | --------- |
| Chair | Karthik Chinnusamy |
| V. Chair | Venkata Kolla Gopi |
| Treasurer | William Bruns |
| Member-At-Large | Greg Makowski |
| | Greg Weinstein |
| | Keith Curry |
| Past Chair | Ronald Petty |Followed by an insightful discussion on:
Abstract
A group of experts recently completed a roadmap for all types of digital storage technology out 15 years into the future. This includes NAND flash and new non-volatile memories, hard disk drives, magnetic tape, optical storage and DNA storage. Come to this talk to get a glimpse of the future of something that people can’t get enough of, digital storage technology.Speaker Bio:
Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business/ technology consultant. He has over 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions. Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports and puts on digital storage and memory-oriented events. He is a regular contributor for forbes.com and M&E organization websites. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Senior Member, 2024 IEEE President, Past-President IEEE-USA, Past Director IEEE Region 6 and Past Chair Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section, and is also active with SNIA, SMPTE and CNSV. For more information on Tom Coughlin go to www.tomcoughlin.com.---
Valley 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.
As 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.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/61 attendees
Startup: Personal Data Sovereignty in Building a Native Trustable Cloud
Intuit Bldg 6, 2750 Coast Ave, 2750 Coast Ave, Mountain View, CA, USThis talk has joined with Event Platform Engineering & AI @ Intuit"
https://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-acm/events/315089681The LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
has been canceled to in person @ Intuit
Bldg 6, 2750 Coast Ave
2750 Coast Ave · Mountain View, CAIf you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
Zoom (updated 6:55 pm)
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO72Hb30fKwAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 Speaker Presentation
8:30 - 8:45 finish, Volunteer recruiting Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
### Abstract
Current cloud storage infrastructure is owned and controlled by corporations that set terms, hold data, and define access. This talk presents an alternative architectural pattern: a distributed, community-contributed cloud where individuals own their data, stored across volunteer-contributed nodes with no single point of corporate control.
We present a working implementation built on Python Flask microservices, Docker containerization, and MySQL, demonstrating four core capabilities:
1. Visual Personal Data Organization: A 5×5 grid interface that maps personal data across five dimensions of life, featuring a built-in public/private boundary and bilingual (English/Chinese) support. Gmail label integration allows existing personal taxonomies to be imported automatically as data tags.
2. Microservices Architecture: Defined service boundaries—including identity/authentication, personal archive storage, and an ontology service for tag mapping—designed for independent deployment across distributed volunteer hardware.
3. Volunteer Node Lifecycle Protocol: Unlike traditional distributed systems, this architecture is designed for planned voluntary participation. Volunteers agree to an SLA before joining. If a volunteer leaves, a grace period ensures all primary data is migrated before release. The system also handles unexpected failures via automatic replica promotion and manages growth through automatic rebalancing.
4. Personal Archive Management: Activation of a personal agent to serve as the Archive Manager.We will demonstrate the use of Kubernetes orchestration for real volunteer nodes across public cloud and community hardware. This includes email routing, family heritage storage, and social group management, providing a complete personal data sovereignty stack owned entirely by its community.
### Keynote Takeaways
- Observe the usability of such a wall between authorship data, private data and archived data .
- Explore hardware and software backdoor tolerance on cloud implementation.
- Understand volunteer node ownership duty and rights
- Prominence of joining the development team with comments, labor, or financial support
Why This Talk Is Different
Most ACM Bay Area talks focus on published open technologies and experiences. This session goes into native cloud owned and operated by geographically closed in-person friends and relatives.Speaker Bios:
Venkata Gopi Kolla - Software Engineer with 10 years of experience in distributed systems, and large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure, global CDN and edge platforms, where he has led traffic routing, security enforcement, caching, and performance optimization across Akamai, Cloudflare, and CloudFront to deliver reliable, high-throughput enterprise SaaS at internet scale. He is currently focused on edge-optimized delivery and security for generative and agentic AI workloads. He has been a committed volunteer at ACM San Francisco Bay Professional Chapter since 2025.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkata-gopi-kolla-8265a427/
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Valley 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.As 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.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/21 attendees
Platform Engineering & AI @ Intuit
Intuit Bldg 6, 2750 Coast Ave, 2750 Coast Ave, Mountain View, CA, USIntuit is committed to open source. We maintain and contribute to many tools and actively participate in communities including CNCF, Istio, GraphQL, Web, and Mobile ecosystems. Let's meetup, devs!
Join us for an evening focused on the tools and cultural shifts driving the industry forward. We’ll dive into AI, Platform Engineering, and Open Source. With practical demos, talks, and time to connect with other builders.
This is an in-person only event, you must register here.
https://luma.com/intuitossmtvjun2026
- Kevin Niparko | Product Lead @ Cursor
- Amber Bennoui | Principal Product Manager for DevRel @ DataRobot
- Ronald Petty | Principal Consultant @ RX-M (SF Bay ACM!!!)
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