Silicon Valley Startup Incubation And Acceleration

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This is virtual event for our global community, please double check your local time. Can't make it live? Register anyway! We'll send you a recording of the webinar after the event.

Description:
Join us for the AI DevTalks Live - Learn Build and Innovate, a virtual event series presented in collaboration with Google Cloud.

Happening every week, this series brings you leading experts from Google Cloud to share the latest insights and practical knowledge on AI, LLMs, and AI Agents. This is virtual event for our AI global community, please double-check your local time. Can't make it live? Register anyway to receive the webinar recording.

Each session includes ▶️ a deep-dive talk, live demo, 🧑‍💻 hands-on code labs, and 🤝 networking with speakers and a global tech community (developers, engineers, startup founders and tech leaders).

Tech Talk: Putting AI Agent Protocols into Practice with ADK
Speaker: Kristopher Overholt (Google)
Abstract: MCP, A2A, UCP, AP2, A2UI, AG-UI: the agent protocol ecosystem is growing fast, each protocol solves a different problem, and it's hard to know what each one does or when to use it. In this session, we'll make sense of the landscape by starting with a simple agent and giving it new capabilities one protocol at a time with Agent Development Kit (ADK) from Google: tools and data with MCP, agent collaboration with A2A, structured commerce with UCP, payment authorization with AP2, rich interactive UIs with A2UI, and real-time streaming with AG-UI. Every protocol gets working code and a clear explanation of when and why you'd use it to build production-ready agents.

Upcoming and Past Sessions

• Recordings for all past episodes: Link

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:

• Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
• Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
• Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
• Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers.

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.

REGISTER HERE!

Unlock Your Startup’s Potential: Join Our Essential Workshop!
Are you an entrepreneur ready to transform your vision into a successful, fundable startup? Access Silicon Valley invites you to join us for an invaluable 3-hour workshop designed to equip you with the legal and business tools and insights necessary to build a fundable and scalable startup and thrive in the startup ecosystem!

This is the second of three workshops in the Access Silicon Valley Startup Fundamental Series for startup founders, startup executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, and developers. While advantageous to have attended all 3 workshops, this is stand-alone content. You can still attend this program if you missed the first.

Thank you to our event sponsor, Snell & Wilmer.

In this second workshop of the Startup Fundamentals series, Roger Rappoport, a former entrepreneur, founder of Access Silicon Valley, a partner at Snell & Wilmer and co-leader of its Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice group, will conduct an interactive, informative session with in depth content on how successful Silicon Valley startups develop and implement successful funding strategies, securing funding from angel, seed and VC investors. Learn the best way to raise the money you need to successfully launch and scale your startup!

This session will cover:

• How to develop a funding strategy appropriate for your startup
• When to raise funds, how much to raise, and from who
• The danger of taking too much or too little from investors
• Identifying the valuation inflection points of your company
• The differences between seed, angel and venture capital funding
• Alternative funding sources
• Appropriate funding instruments for each round of funding, including convertible notes, SAFE's, common stock and preferred stock
• The pros and cons of selling equity, convertible instruments, and venture debt
• Selecting and gaining access to the right investor
• What to do to increase the pre-money valuation of your company

Materials:
A comprehensive 50-page digital workbook with an actionable step-by-step guide will be distributed to all registered event attendees on the day of the event.

Agenda:
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Dinner and networking
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Speaker and sponsor introductions
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM - Startup workshop Part A
7:30 PM - 7:45 PM - Intermission
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM - Startup workshop Part B
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM - Q & A

Seating is extremely limited, so reserve your seat now.

About the Speaker:
Snell & Wilmer Partner Roger Rappoport, Co-Leader of the Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group, is a seasoned advisor to startups and emerging growth companies and the investors who finance them, guiding clients from inception through exit. With over two decades of experience in the startup ecosystem, Roger focuses on venture capital and angel investor financings, including convertible notes, SAFEs, and other debt financings. His knowledge extends to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution, development, manufacturing, and licensing transactions, as well as executive compensation and the establishment of equity incentive plans.

Roger is a frequent speaker and panelist on topics and issues related to the development and implementation of a company's formation and funding strategy.

Before attending law school, he was the founder of a technology company with $10 million in revenue.

Roger is very connected with investors in Silicon Valley and beyond and is an active angel investor. As an attorney, he has been involved in hundreds of transactions such as merger and acquisition transactions, private equity and venture capital financing transactions, and complex restructuring transactions.

Questions? Email Alex Levine at alevine@swlaw.com

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Part 3: Understanding the "Terms" In Term Sheets | Thursday, April 16

Register on AICamp website is REQUIRED for admission.

Description:
Welcome to the AI meetup in San Francisco. 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 Talks:

• Multi-Agent Architecture is Now, by Chris Miller (Workato)
• Building Trustworthy, High-Quality AI Agents with MLflow, by Jules S. Damji (Databricks)
• Agent Adoption Playbook, by Benazir Fateh (Google)

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.