Silicon Valley Engineering Leadership Community

 
 
 

!!! WE'RE PLANNING TO BE IN PERSON AGAIN THIS MONTH !!!
HYBRID . . . LOCATION: * Meet in person at Varian Medical Cafeteria
3130 Hansen Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States

HOW TO FIND US: Park in the Varian Medical campus parking lot. Walk to building 3130, which is where the cafeteria is. Get our attention through the glass doors and we will come unlock them for you!

. . . Zoom to be sent out to registered attendees the day of the event.

TOPIC: Exploring ChatGPT Together - "5 min Sharing" - Who Wants to Contribute?

AGENDA:
5:30 - 6:00 Networking - Arrive early and hang out with us!
6:00 - 6:10 Intro & Community announcements
6:10 - 7:10 Presentation
7:10 - 7:20 Breakout Groups: Discuss the event, ID your group's question
7:20 - 7:30 Q&A
7:30 - 7:45 Closing
8:00 - Clean up, clear out and go home!

DESCRIPTION: As Engineering Leaders, we need to understand how newly released tools can help or hurt our teams. Recent news stories have reported that some engineers are finding success at asking ChatGPT for coding help in their tasks. Other stories have reported grievous misrepresentations of fact. For this June SVELC meeting, I'd like us to share our experience in applying ChatGPT to the kinds of engineering design and leadership challenges that we & our teams face.
To prepare for this June 15 SVELC meeting, it would be great if you or some of your team members created accounts at openai.com and experimented with asking ChatGPT questions pertinent to the kinds of engineering design & leadership issues that you face.
It would help if you then sent to me (John at vanheteren.org) a message describing the topics that you covered so that I could then plan a more detailed agenda for the SVELC meeting. I look forward to hearing some engaging discussions and descriptions of what you discovered!

SPEAKER BIOS: YOU! John van Heteren will moderate this sharing of experiences and perspectives on ChatGPT.

MORE ABOUT JOHN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-g-van-heteren/

SPONSORS:

CTO Connection: The answers are already out there — they’re just not evenly distributed! Free online CTO Summits with presentations from the VPEs, CTOs or technical founders of some great companies! Whether you want advice on building your dream team, improving resilience, creating a compelling culture or trends for technologists, we have a relevant series of concise, events to support your needs. https://www.ctoconnection.com/

ASVPM and Silicon Valley Project Management (www.SVProjectManagement.com) is the only global Project & Program Management community helping volunteer members learn and employ Agile mindset within their daily practices. A free for volunteers, ASVPM helps technical and professional managers to bring trust and transparency to the engineering leadership arena. We are proud of our over 70% success rate in helping our members land Agile leadership positions.
Please look at our websites, write your blogs and share your experience and leadership insights with our community. Engage with us and help our community to spread Agile mindset within Engineering disciplines.
About us: https://webvertisers.net/home-page
Our volunteers: https://webvertisers.net/our-volunteers
Donate to spread Agile mindset: https://webvertisers.net/donations/donate

The Mentoring Club - Mentoring solutions for SVELC members who want to BE a mentor or who want to BE MENTORED. https://thementoringclub.org/

SheTO . . . DivHERsity - Are you a female or non-binary technologist? Then you’ve come to the right place! Whether you are looking for a mentor, want to improve your network, meet some amazing tech leaders, want to lean on others like you for help and support, or simply just want to give back to others and join our community, apply below. We are a mission driven not-for-profit company. Everything we do is free!
https://www.sheto.org/joinus

 
 
 

!!! IN PERSON @Kimberly's Home!!!

POT LUCK BBQ PICNIC - We will provide appetizers & main dishes for both meatarians and vegetarians, and you can bring side dishes, desserts, drinks.

HOW TO FIND US: 2332 Harding Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94062

PARKING: Please park on the street, being respectful of our neighbors, and walk up the cement drive to the parking pad, then up the stairs to the rear of the house.

VIRTUAL VISITORS: We may set up a Zoom to let you drop in and visit.

AGENDA - California time:
11:00 AM - Networking, appetizers & drinks
11:45 AM - Intro, community announcements, discuss the future of SVELC
12:00 - Lunch & continue networking & discussions about future of SVELC
2:00 - Closing
2:30 - Clean up, clear out and go home!

SPONSORS:

WIEFLING CONSULTING & SILICON VALLEY ALLIANCES:
https://wiefling.com/
https://kimberlywiefling.com/
https://siliconvalleyalliances.com/

CTO Connection: The answers are already out there — they’re just not evenly distributed! Free online CTO Summits with presentations from the VPEs, CTOs or technical founders of some great companies! Whether you want advice on building your dream team, improving resilience, creating a compelling culture or trends for technologists, we have a relevant series of concise, events to support your needs. https://www.ctoconnection.com/

ASVPM and Silicon Valley Project Management (www.SVProjectManagement.com) is the only global Project & Program Management community helping volunteer members learn and employ Agile mindset within their daily practices. A free for volunteers, ASVPM helps technical and professional managers to bring trust and transparency to the engineering leadership arena. We are proud of our over 70% success rate in helping our members land Agile leadership positions.
Please look at our websites, write your blogs and share your experience and leadership insights with our community. Engage with us and help our community to spread Agile mindset within Engineering disciplines.
About us: https://webvertisers.net/home-page
Our volunteers: https://webvertisers.net/our-volunteers
Donate to spread Agile mindset: https://webvertisers.net/donations/donate

The Mentoring Club - Mentoring solutions for SVELC members who want to BE a mentor or who want to BE MENTORED. https://thementoringclub.org/

SheTO . . . DivHERsity - Are you a female or non-binary technologist? Then you’ve come to the right place! Whether you are looking for a mentor, want to improve your network, meet some amazing tech leaders, want to lean on others like you for help and support, or simply just want to give back to others and join our community, apply below. We are a mission driven not-for-profit company. Everything we do is free!
https://www.sheto.org/joinus

 
 
 

!!! HIGHLY INTERACTIVE, ENGAGING, IN PERSON @Kimberly's Home!!!

HOW TO FIND US: 2332 Harding Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94062

PARKING: Please park on the street, being respectful of our neighbors, and walk up the cement drive to the parking pad, then up the stairs to the rear of the house.

VIRTUAL VISITORS: We may set up a Zoom to let you drop in and visit, but the focus will be on interactive, engaging, in person.

TOPIC: Open Space Technology

SPEAKER: Christopher Lee, Product Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmchrislee/

??? CONFIRM . . . .DATE?? TIMES?? AGENDA??:
5:30 - 6:00 Networking - Arrive early and hang out with us!
6:00 - 6:10 Intro & Community announcements
6:10 - 7:10 Presentation
7:10 - 7:20 Breakout Groups: Discuss the event, ID your group's question
7:20 - 7:30 Q&A
7:30 - 7:45 Closing
8:00 - Clean up, clear out and go home!

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS SESSION:

• Open Space Technology (OST) is a methodology of running large group meetings or events around a central topic, where participants create the agenda themselves. The process is designed to be highly participatory, inclusive, and collaborative. Open Space Technology (OST) is a method for organizing and running a meeting or multi-day conference, where participants have been invited in order to focus on a specific, important task or purpose.

In contrast with pre-planned conferences where who will speak at which time will often be scheduled months in advance, and therefore subject to many changes, OST sources participants once they are physically present at the live event venue. In this sense, OST is participant-driven and less organizer-driven. Pre-planning remains essential; you simply need much less pre-planning.
The agenda and schedule of presentations are partly or mostly unknown until people begin arriving. The scheduling of speakers, topics, and locations is created by people attending, once they arrive. At the end of each OST meeting, a debriefing doc is created summarizing what worked and what did not work.
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• Every day, I wake up with a passion to cultivate curiosity so that the world is a safe space to collaborate. By living my purpose every day, I actively build the world I imagine - a world in which: People have psychological safety in an inclusive environment to realize their best potential, people are open to exploring with intellectual honesty, people support expressions of courage, vulnerability, and a sense of serious play. Product Manager - Digital & Emerging Technologies, Agile Coach with Agile, DevOps transformation, product management, product owner, and line management experience at Fortune 500s and venture-backed startups. Experienced hire with technology consulting and industry experience. Care deeply about user experience and interface aesthetics, and love building great products that provide exceptional experience and value to their users. An aptitude for quickly learning systems and a passion for products. Combining qualitative insight, data-informed analysis, and creativity with hands-on execution to deliver innovative products in collaboration with great teams and partners. Experience working across business, design, engineering, marketing, and external partners to develop beautiful, usable, and useful products and take them to market.

MORE DETAILS about OPEN SPACE METHODOLOGY: https://futureleadersglobal.gitbook.io/program/toolbox/processes/open-space

SPONSORS:

WIEFLING CONSULTING & SILICON VALLEY ALLIANCES:
https://wiefling.com/
https://kimberlywiefling.com/
https://siliconvalleyalliances.com/

CTO Connection: The answers are already out there — they’re just not evenly distributed! Free online CTO Summits with presentations from the VPEs, CTOs or technical founders of some great companies! Whether you want advice on building your dream team, improving resilience, creating a compelling culture or trends for technologists, we have a relevant series of concise, events to support your needs. https://www.ctoconnection.com/

ASVPM and Silicon Valley Project Management (www.SVProjectManagement.com)
About us: https://webvertisers.net/home-page
Our volunteers: https://webvertisers.net/our-volunteers
Donate to spread Agile mindset: https://webvertisers.net/donations/donate

The Mentoring Club - Mentoring solutions for SVELC members who want to BE a mentor or who want to BE MENTORED. https://thementoringclub.org/