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.
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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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System Engineering: The Role of AI and Software in Emissions Reduction
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USSystem Engineering Our Way to a Sustainable Future: The Role of AI and Software in Emissions Reduction
Hybrid event, in person, Zoom, and YouTube,
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The Zoom link:
https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/96718322160?pwd=8DaCbZgRfEoacGNmbH4GnAWKKa6Ghz.1
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Talk Description:
Tackling 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.
Software 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.Speaker Bio:
Johanna 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.A 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.
envire.ai---
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/25 attendees
Beyond the Buzzwords: The Real Engineering Challenges of Augmented Reality
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USHybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The Zoom link:
To be announced
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Talk Description:
Talk 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.Reading material/blogs:
https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-ar-glasses-augmented-reality/
https://www.meta.com/blog/boz-to-the-future-episode-22-wearables-orion-ray-ban-meta-alex-himel/
https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-compute-puck-reality-labs-next-computing-platform/
https://www.meta.com/blog/orion-custom-silicon-chips-ip-blocks-accelerators-ar-algorithms-energy-efficiency-reality-labs/Speaker Bio:
Shanmathi Natarajan is a Silicon Power Architect with experience at Meta Reality Labs, where she led end-to-end power architecture for AR wearables. 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.
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.
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.https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanmathi-natarajan
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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/14 attendees
Practical Lessons from Building AI Infrastructure for Billion User Products
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USPractical Lessons from Building AI Infrastructure for Billion-User Products with ML Systems
Hybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
To be announced
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, SFBAY ACM 68 anniversary Cake and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 Upcoming events, introduction of the speaker
7:15 Speaker presentation
8:15- 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Abstract
This 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.Speaker bio:
Silu 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..https://www.linkedin.com/in/silupanda/
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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/13 attendees
Agentic AI doesnt have an Intelligence problem, it has a Governance problem !!
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USHybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The Zoom link:
To be announced
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streamsAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Talk Description:
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents, much of the industry conversation remains focused on model capabilities: reasoning, planning, tool use, and autonomy. Yet the greatest barrier to successful adoption may not be intelligence at all. It is governance. Unlike traditional AI systems that primarily generate recommendations, agentic systems execute actions across interconnected business processes, data platforms, and operational workflows. In such environments, failures rarely originate from model limitations alone. They emerge from hidden dependencies, inconsistent data, unclear ownership, inadequate observability, and the absence of effective operational controls.Speaker bio:
Sayantan Ghosh is a Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, where he runs the feed data platform serving billion+ members on LinkedIn Feed. He has previously built data and AI platforms at Meta, Uber, and eBay. He is an IEEE Senior Member, holds a granted U.S. patent (US 9,870,355 B2), and is an invited speaker at various international venues like Big Data Europe, Big Data Canada, DataCon LA. He is a manuscript reviewer in leading Q1 journals IEEE TNNLS, ACM TKDD, IEEE TCDS, Elsevier Neural Networks, etc. Sayantan has mentored and grown several tech professionals across his decade long career at the most cutting edge companies in Silicon valley.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayantanghosh/---
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/5 attendees
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