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Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley - the innovation capital of the world.
The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship.
Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere, with a great idea and a burning desire to succeed, to make it big, and in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time.
HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just an idea.
Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley and beyond. Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing".
We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, engineers, venture capitalists, angel investors, educators, financial professionals, corporate executives, attorneys, academics, bloggers, writers, content creators, and social activists.
Our mission is to provide entrepreneurs with the knowledge, guidance, tools, and connections they need to succeed. Our goal is to build a strong, vibrant, collaborative entrepreneurial community with deep, lasting business and social relationships throughout Silicon Valley and beyond.
One of the compelling features of our organization is our packed, busy calendar of informative programs and practical activities designed to help our entrepreneurial members achieve their objectives and realize their aspirations. Taking advantage of this vast array of relevant content will make you a better entrepreneur.
We believe in working together. We share resources, exchange ideas, and actively engage with each other -- on a personal level as well as on a business level. We participate in on-line as well as off-line events.
Our events feature expert speakers, networking opportunities, collaboration, community, and fellowship.
Many events on our calendar are in held in collaboration with other like-minded Silicon Valley organizations and institutions.
Our popular business and social networking mixers are festive occasions that allow you to meet new people from many different groups. We hold many social events to help members connect on a personal level and make friends.
Our network is expansive and global. We have members throughout the U.S. and around the world. We welcome international entrepreneurs from everywhere in the world to become part of our global community.
We are inclusive, not exclusive. : - )
We believe entrepreneurial educational opportunities should be accessible to anyone with a dream and ambition.
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Tech Ex North America 2026
San Jose Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA, USThis event is organized by Tech Ex.
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TechEx North America is where today’s technology leaders come for strategic clarity. Designed for CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors and enterprise architects, TechEx delivers a high-level intelligence briefing across AI, Cyber Security, IoT, Data Infrastructure, and Digital Transformation, helping leaders understand what’s changing, what matters and what to prioritise.
In a single, high-value environment, you will gain the insight needed to refine your roadmap, strengthen decision-making, de-risk transformation and align your organisation around the technologies shaping the next phase of digital evolution.Attend to gain clarity, prioritise what matters, and learn from leaders solving key challenges across global enterprises.
Startups:
Get a booth in the startup zone!
TechEx is where CTOs, CIOs, investors and IT decision-makers come to discover cutting-edge enterprise solutions and build strategic partnerships.
This dedicated startup zone is designed for emerging tech companies looking to showcase their innovations to industry leaders and investors.
Position your startup alongside the most influential names in the industry. Gain exposure to a highly targeted audience of potential clients, partners, and investors while being part of an exclusive space designed to foster collaboration and growth.Visit:
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Silicon Valley Business Networking (Online)
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Startup House
Need a place to stay short term in Silicon Valley?
Stay at Startup House in Palo Alto - the heart of Silicon Valley - for as low as $50 a night!
-Network, socialize and connect with entrepreneurs all over the world!
-Enjoy social events and startup and venture capital-related programming!
- Have access to world class amenities, iconic tech companies, top tier venture capital firms, Stanford University, etc. - all within walking or biking distance!
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This event is 100% online.
Participants can be located anywhere in the world!
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There's no content or speaker at this event -- just business networking.
Build your business network - face to face (online)!
Join a virtual gathering of professionals from all walks of life from all over the world!
You may meet your next business collaborator, client, employer, employee or friend!
Meet Silicon Valley movers and shakers and influencers from all over the world - tech entrepreneurs, developers, engineers, attorneys, bloggers, academics, thought leaders, community organizers, artists, financiers, and investors!
Network, socialize and connect!
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3 attendees10 AI Automations You Can Deploy in 30 Days (No Engineering Required)
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Most companies are experimenting with AI, but very few are seeing real results.
In this tactical session, you’ll learn 10 high-impact AI automations you can deploy in the next 30 days across marketing, customer experience, and operations. From AI-powered campaign execution to customer support augmentation and internal workflow automation, this session focuses on what’s working right now.
You’ll also get a simple framework to prioritize the right opportunities, so you can move from scattered tools to real business outcomes, fast.
Key Takeaways:
- Cut through AI noise and move from tool overload to real execution that drives results
- See high-impact AI automations and agents across marketing, customer experience, and operations that eliminate repetitive work
- Walk away with practical ideas and use cases you can immediately apply in your business
About the Speaker
With more than 20 years experience leading companies to technical excellence, Nelly is a highly sought-after fractional CTO and startup tech advisor. She is the creator of TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs, a self-paced bootcamp, and an expert-guided 12-week tech accelerator designed to help non-tech start-up founders. She is also the creator of Automate Your Business with AI Agents 6-Week Live Training for Non-Techies.
In addition, Nelly is a mentor for Techstars, Founder Institute, StartOut, WEVE Acceleration, and DigitalUndivided, and more. She has been included on many lists of transformative women in tech, including Fast Company’s “League of Extraordinary Women'' and Wall Street Journal’s “Women on the IT Fast Track.” Nelly has been at the forefront of the women’s movement online since 1997.
Nelly is a speaker and presenter for many organizations and major industries events including: HBS Women’s Association, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, Columbia Business School, Sloss.Tech, Women’s Enterprise Center, Founder Institute, Saas Academy, Black is Tech, Roadmap For Billions, GSV Bootcamp, WeWork Labs, TechDay, Unvalley, FastTrac NewVentures, Womens’ Venture Summit, Small Business Summit and has been featured in INC Magazine, NBC Today Show, Fast Company Magazine, NewsDay.com, O’Reilly, SmartMoney, SmallBiz, TechRepublic, Women’s Radio.17 attendeesThe AI Imprint
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Create an AI That Knows You — Free Live Event with Rich Schefren
Let me ask you something.
How many times this week did you open ChatGPT… and explain your business from scratch? Again?
How many times did the AI spit out something that sounded like a college intern wrote it — and you thought, “This doesn't sound like me at all”?
How many hours did you spend fixing, tweaking, re-prompting… doing the very work AI was supposed to do FOR you?
Yeah. I know the feeling. Because that was me 18 months ago.
I was using AI every single day. And every single day, I felt like I was training a new employee who had amnesia. Smart employee. Great potential. But the next morning? Blank slate. Start over.
And then I figured out what was missing.Iit changed everything.
Here's what I discovered: There's a massive gap between “AI that remembers what you typed” and “AI that actually knows you — your thinking, your voice, your frameworks, your blind spots, your business.”
And that gap? That's where all the money is.
Once I closed it — once my AI actually KNEW me — everything shifted. It wrote copy in my voice. First draft. Ready to send. It spotted holes in my strategy I'd been blind to for months. It challenged my thinking with insight that actually mattered.
That's the stuff that took me a year of trial and error to know. And now I'm going to hand it to you in one evening.
But here's why you need to move now…### The 12-Month Window That's About To Slam Shut
Sam Altman called AI memory his “favorite feature” and said GPT-6 will make it standard. Microsoft already flipped the switch on Copilot Memory — on by default for 90% of the Fortune 500. Google’s Gemini now auto-learns from every conversation.
Translation: In 12 months, everyone will have AI that knows them. The advantage disappears.
But right now? Almost nobody has it. Which means there's a window. A head start you can lock in before it's gone forever.
Close it first? You get an advantage nobody in your market can touch. For 12 months.
Miss it? You spend the next year watching competitors who moved now compound their lead — while you're still starting every conversation from scratch.
One is the worst number in business, period. And right now, you've got one shot at this window.## What The Next 12 Months Look Like (If You're Inside The Window)
What You'll Discover During This FREE One Night Event:
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The “Voice Imprint” method — the specific 4-step sequence that lets your AI write emails, sales pages, and launch copy that sounds EXACTLY like you. (One member's team couldn't tell the difference. She didn't correct them.)
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The “Blind Spot Audit” — a 3-question protocol that forces your AI to stress-test your funnel, your offers, and your positioning… then surface the specific leaks you've been walking past every day. (This is the one that saved a $6 million deal that was already on the scrap heap.)
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The insanely simple reason why most people's AI stays dumb — even after hundreds of conversations. (Hint: it's not about prompts. It's about something most people have never even considered.)
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The “Context Compound” framework — the 5-level translation system that makes your AI smarter about YOUR business every single week, automatically. (You never skip a level. That's the rule.)
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Why Sam Altman called AI memory his “favorite feature” — and the narrow window you have to lock in your advantage BEFORE GPT-6 makes it standard and the playing field levels out forever
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The “guard fired” phenomenon — how one member went from 3 years of procrastination to finishing a 47,000-word book in 10 days. (And what specifically triggered the shift.)
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PLUS: The moment you register, you get instant access to never-before-seen footage of this personalized AI system in action — so you can see exactly what you're walking into
That's not a small edge. That's 12 months of faster launches, higher conversions, sharper strategy, and more revenue – compounding every single week while the playing field is still tilted in your favor.## How I Went From “AI Is Overhyped” To “I Can't Work Without This”
Look, I know how this sounds. Another guru telling you AI is the answer to everything. I get it.
But take this as something to marinate in your head…
There have only been three times in my career where I have been so certain about an opportunity that I'm urging friends to come spend a day with me. The first: after I wrote the manifesto — the least a report made was $2.5 million and two made over $10 million. The second: automated webinars, where we got 80% show-up rates.
This is the third.
When I started with AI, I was always in a hurry to get the job done. I was always pushing it to go. Now? Now it's always pushing ME to go and I'm saying, “slow down, slow down. You do not know enough.”
That shift — from me pushing AI to AI pushing me — that's the moment everything changed.
The number one reason why I do more with AI than most people is 'cause I don't feel like I need to pre-think something to engage AI. My brain is thinking about it out loud with the AI. It doesn't need to sound good. It doesn't need to even make sense. AI is gonna figure it out.
But here's the thing — it only works like that when your AI actually knows you.### And Once I Cracked It… Everything Changed.
My AI writes copy in my voice — first draft, ready to send. It spots holes in my strategy I'd been blind to for months. It challenges my thinking with insight that actually matters.
If I walk through a forest, I have no distinctions about trees, so I just see a forest. But if I walk through the forest with a forester and they start pointing out like, “that's a good tree for this…” then every walk through a forest from that point forward is gonna be different. I'm gonna see things that I didn't see before. And because I can see things that I didn't see before, I can do things that I couldn't do before.
That's what a properly calibrated AI does for your business. It's the forester. It shows you what you've been walking past every single day.
One example: I asked it to review a partnership opportunity I was about to say yes to. In 45 minutes, it surfaced three red flags my own analysis had missed. My partnership close rate went from 77% to 94%. My weekly CEO hours dropped from 60+ to 32.
It's like having a strategic partner who knows me better than I know myself — available 24/7. And I took everything I learned and turned it into a system I can teach you in one evening.### Ready To Get Inside The Window?
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I'll show you exactly how to calibrate AI to YOUR thinking, YOUR voice, YOUR frameworks, YOUR business — so every output matches your standards, every insight hits deeper, and every conversation picks up right where you left off.
The goal is to get you as comfortable and as skilled with AI as I am in the shortest, fastest way possible. So that you don't only have YOU working on the business — you have an insanely sharp partner working on it with you. 24/7.
Because here's what happens if you don't…
…you watch someone in your mastermind quietly get an AI advantage that writes their launch emails in 20 minutes — while you're still staring at a blank screen at midnight, wondering what happened.
…a competitor closes the deal you SHOULD have closed — because their AI caught the positioning angle you missed.
…you wake up in 12 months and realize the people who moved NOW spent the last year compounding. And you? You're starting from scratch.
.### And The Best Part? It Compounds.
Every conversation makes your AI smarter. Every interaction deepens the calibration. Every week it knows you better than the week before.
You don't start over. You compound on top of it. We sell a shitload more on replay than we do on live — like, almost 10 times as much — because people need time to see it. Same thing here. The longer you use this system, the more insanely valuable it becomes.10 attendees
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