Silicon Valley Startup Incubation And Acceleration

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Santa Clara, CA, US

21,289 members · Public group

What we’re about

The Silicon Valley Startup Incubation And Acceleration is a non-profit organization for startup entrepreneurs to attend networking sessions, seminars, workshops, coaching and mentoring programs organized by incubators and investors.

Entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, executives, startup founders and business owners, please join us if you want to get help with business basics, participate in networking activities and cofounder mixers, find marketing resources and strategic partners, seek investors and venture capital, get access to advisory boards and mentors, as well as improve entrepreneurship skills in various training programs.

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Tue, Oct 21 · 12:00 PM PDT
Edge AI Workshop with PyTorch and Amazon SageMaker
InterContinental San Francisco, 888 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, US
Important: register on the external event website is REQUIRED for admission.

Description:
Curious how to get AI models onto real-world devices with performance to match your customers' needs? This workshop reveals how you can fine-tune PyTorch models in Amazon SageMaker, then optimize and test them directly on Qualcomm-powered hardware.

Explore hands-on workflows for preparing your own data and models, validate performance on actual devices hosted in the cloud, and learn how to spot latency and reliability issues before launch. Discover new ways to accelerate your edge AI projects and network with peers during social hour after the workshop.

Learning Objectives:
- Fine tune popular PyTorch models in Amazon SageMaker
- Use Qualcomm AI Hub to compile, profile, and optimize models for on-device deployment
- Rapidly scale testing using cloud hosted devices

Who should attend?
ML Engineers, AI or Computer Vision Engineers, Data Scientists, Edge or Embedded Engineers, MLOps Engineers, Solutions Architects, and Product Managers for AI or ML

Speakers:
- Karan Jain, Sr. WW Gen AI/ML Specialist, AWS
- Miron Perel, Principal Gen AI/ML Specialist, AWS
- Vinay Arora, Senior Gen AI Specialist Solution Architect, AWS
- Bastiaan Aarts, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
- Bhushan Sonawane, Staff Engineer Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
- Shubham Patel, Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
- Neel Kishan, Director, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Agenda:
* 12:00 - 12:30 PM Welcome and agenda
* 12:30 - 12:45 PM Qualcomm AI Hub introduction
* 12:45 - 1:00 PM Amazon SageMaker introduction
* 1:00 - 2:00 PM Finetune a model in SageMaker
* 2:00 - 2:30 PM Break
* 2:30 - 5:00 PM Optimize and test model on Qualcomm AI Hub
* 5:00 - 7:00 PM Social hour and meet the AWS and Qualcomm experts

Pre-registration is required for admission: Request to join.
1 attendee
Tue, Oct 21 · 6:00 PM PDT
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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Toastmasters Career Session
Online
Career Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Job Seekers:
Career Sessions: Tuesdays 6:00-7:30 PM Pacific Time
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98937546543
-Improve Communications and Presentation Skills to Colleagues, Stakeholders and Management.
-Become "Interview-Ready" by responding to practice Interview questions with constructive feedback from the attendees in a safe and non-judgmental environment.
- Career-focused speeches/presentations
- Weekly Interview Practice with instant feedback
- Guest Speakers, Career Coaches, Human Resource Professionals, Hiring Managers and other Subject Matter Experts
-Tips and Tricks on maximizing your job search
-Monthly Pitch Practice-How to and when to pitch during a job interview or management, investors or others (coming soon)
- Guests are always welcome (FREE)
If you want any more information about this club and/or
Toastmasters, please send me an e-mail to svetcareer@gmail.com
Guests welcome! Interview Practice open to all.
1 attendee
Thu, Oct 23 · 12:30 PM PDT
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Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Toastmasters Entrepreneur Session
Online
https://zoom.us/j/94768340926
Agenda:
12:20 pm: Virtual Door opens and informal networking
12:30 pm: Toastmasters Meeting
-Guest Introductions
- Member Scheduled Speeches
-Special Presentations (once a month)
-Pitch Practice (once a month, coming soon)
-Table Topics (Ad-Hoc speaking)
1:45 pm: Adjourn

- Entrepreneurial-focused speeches/presentations

Impromptu Questions session to learn to think on your feet
- Monthly Pitch Practice-How to pitch to potential investors, co-founders (coming soon)
- Monthly Special Presenters and Special Guest Speakers

Guests are always welcome (FREE)

This is a Free WEEKLY VIRTUAL EVENT.

Objectives:
Whether you are just at the ideas stage or have a fully-fledged start-up, getting your ideas and business across to investors, partners, potential co-founders and the general public is essential. Our group welcomes both those who need help getting over their public speaking jitters and seasoned speakers looking to perfect their presentation.
Benefits of joining this group:

This group is especially designed for entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors and anyone who wishes to become one.

Group that provides supportive opportunity to practice public speaking, Interpersonal communications, spontaneous speaking practice sessions, pitch practice and learn leadership skills.

Learn from the Special Events speakers such as Serial Entrepreneurs, Authors, Career Coaches, Motivational speakers and other Subject Matter Experts.

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Toastmasters Club http://svetc.org (http://svetc.org/)
For more information about this club and /or Toastmasters International, send an inquiry to svetcareer@gmail.com
2 attendees
Thu, Oct 23 · 5:30 PM PDT
AI meetup for GenAI, LLMs and Agentic AI
Amazon AWS 525 market street, San Francisco , Amazon AWS, 525 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, US
Important: register on the external event website is REQUIRED for admission.

Description:
Welcome to the AI meetup in San Francisco, in collaboration with AWS and Vespa ai. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agentic AI, hands-on experiences with code labs and workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow AI developers, builders, startup founders.

Tech Talk: Data and model interaction - how GenAI apps are built
Speaker: Kristian Aune (Vespa ai)
Abstract: Models need up-to-date facts (data) to solve tasks. But data (retrieval) needs models, too: for semantic search and for ranking top candidates. At this meetup, we will go through the data/model interplay: you will learn how to transform problems into the numeric domain using tensors, and with this, work with text, image, and videos.
We’ll do live demos from e-commerce and life sciences. Whether it’s surfacing adverse event patterns in clinical trials or retrieving hidden risk signals from financial disclosures, this session will help you think beyond LLMs—and design retrieval-first GenAI systems that deliver real-world impact.

Tech Talk: AI maturity honesty: tools to influence AI adoption
Speaker: Melania Calinescu (AI4ALL)
Abstract: Beyond claiming "AI-first" status, how do you actually advance meaningful AI adoption? This talk provides practical frameworks for evaluating AI opportunities, influencing leadership decisions, and connecting technical work to business impact. Whether you're a junior developer or seasoned leader, learn tools to think strategically and drive purposeful AI implementation.

Speakers/Topics:
Check the event website for speakers and topics.

If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 50,000+ AI developers in San Francisco and 500K+ in global.
3 attendees