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On a SVBBDev Meetup group, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud, cross platform BlackBerry Developers hack and have fun together. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up. Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.
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How to Build a Side Hustle with AI in One Weekend
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-build-a-side-hustle-with-ai-in-one-weekend-tickets-1989632276699?aff=ideatoipoThe job market has never been more uncertain. Layoffs, reorganizations, and a looming recession mean you can no longer rely solely on traditional employment for your livelihood. Moreover, artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived and threatens many traditional roles, including marketing, finance/accounting, law, operations, HR, and recruiting.
It's long been known in entrepreneurial circles that having your own business is the path to freedom from economic uncertainty. While the arrival of the internet birthed many new ventures, the arrival of AI has created new freedom, allowing you to start your own business in as little as a weekend.
If you're looking to start a new side hustle and want to set the foundation to breaking out on your own, this webinar can help you understand how combining your expertise with traditional business approaches and infusing AI can get you to revenue faster than ever, all with lower operating costs.
You'll learn:
- Why Side Hustles are the Key to Future-Proofing Your Career: Gain valuable entrepreneurial skills while hedging against economic uncertainty.
- How AI Provides the Launchpad for Your Business: See how AI tools can accelerate everything from branding and marketing to automation and networking.
- The Quickest Path from Expertise to Revenue: Leverage what you already know to provide valuable services and products in demand.
- Real-World Examples of Expertise-Driven Businesses: Get inspired by success stories across industries.
- And much, much more!
ABOUT MOHIT ASTHANA
Mohit Asthana is a sales consultant, real estate investor, and entrepreneur born and raised in Silicon Valley. In his work, he uses a wide variety of AI solutions to streamline communications, drive engagement, and build revenue streams. He’s helped notable companies including SurveyMonkey, SocialCycle.io, and CompStak build significant revenue through his processes, and does the same today through his venture at CampusCareerConcierge and in his commercial real estate investment business. Connect with him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohitasthana/2 attendees
How to Use AI to Turbocharge Your Personal Brand in 2026
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Most professionals already have the raw material for a strong personal brand. It is sitting inside their resume, LinkedIn profile, portfolio, past projects, presentations, client work, and career stories. The challenge is knowing what to extract, how to package it, and how to share it consistently.
In this Albert’s List webinar, we’ll explore how AI workflows can help professionals build visibility online without starting from scratch every week. Whether you are employed, between roles, freelancing, consulting, building a side hustle, or exploring your next move, a stronger personal brand can help others understand your expertise before they ever meet you.
We will demonstrate how tools like n8n and ComfyUI can help transform existing career assets into LinkedIn posts, short-form video scripts, content ideas, visual assets, audio concepts, and repeatable workflows.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how AI can support personal branding, career visibility, and opportunity creation in 2026.3 attendees
Be an Interview STAR!: Using AI and the STAR method to Shine
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Job expert Albert Qian helps you master the STAR method, using AI to prepare smarter and tell a compelling story.
Interviews are won by candidates who can tell compelling stories, demonstrate impact, and communicate their value with confidence.
Join Albert Qian and Garrett Rice for a practical session on how to use the STAR method and AI-powered tools to prepare stronger interview answers, build confidence, and stand out in today’s competitive job market.### What We’ll Cover
Why storytelling matters
- Why hiring managers remember stories, not bullet points
- Turning experience into compelling interview narratives
- Common mistakes candidates make when answering behavioral questions
Mastering the STAR Method
- Situation, Task, Action, Result
- Structuring clear and memorable answers
- Examples of strong STAR responses
Using AI to prepare smarter
- Turning career experiences into polished STAR stories
- Practicing interview questions with AI
- Identifying gaps and strengthening responses before the interview
How to talk about your AI experience
- Why employers increasingly care about AI fluency
- Discussing AI-assisted work authentically and credibly
- Demonstrating adaptability without sounding scripted
Live Callings.ai demonstration
- Building STAR stories from your experience
- Using AI to prepare for interviews
- Practicing responses and refining answers
- Tools and workflows that help candidates prepare more efficiently
Q&A with Albert and Garrett
- Bring your toughest interview questions
- Get practical advice you can apply immediately
### Who Should Attend?
- Job seekers
- Career changers
- Professionals preparing for interviews
- Anyone looking to improve their interview performance and confidence
Leave with a proven framework for answering behavioral interview questions, practical AI techniques for preparation, and a repeatable process for telling your professional story effectively.
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How to Strategize and Execute Your Job Search with AI in One Hour
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-strategize-and-execute-your-job-search-with-ai-in-one-hour-tickets-1991019240144?aff=ideatoipo\Most people take weeks or even months to organize their job search. In the AI era, the market moves so fast that by the time you’ve figured out your plan, everything has changed—and you’re stuck pivoting again. The result? Job seekers are always chasing the market instead of leading it.
It doesn’t have to be this way.AI isn’t just for recruiters and hiring managers—it’s for you too. If you’re stuck figuring out where to start, how to build a strategy, or just want to get back into the market faster, this one-hour webinar is your solution.
Using AI, you’ll learn how to plan, organize, and execute your job search with clarity and speed—without the burnout—with a real resume and LinkedIn profile from a peer.This isn’t about quick answers from AI. It’s about using AI as a thinking partner to help you take control and move forward confidently.
### We'll cover how you can use AI to:
- Serve as your personalized career advisor with your existing resume and LinkedIn profile.
- Act as an accountability partner for your job search, including with daily tasks.
- Edit your resume and LinkedIn so it can be more visible, including tailored for individual job listings.
- Identify where you need more experience or education so you can become a better candidate.
- Develop a company application strategy, including reading the trends and seeing what's hot and what's not.
- Improve your interviewing, including creating interview answers and as a mock interviewer.
- Build your personal brand in your voice.
- And much more!
### What you’ll walk away with:
- A repeatable system for job searching in 2026
- Custom AI prompts you can use immediately to: Organize your thoughts into a clear strategy, create compelling, tailored content for every stage of the process, prepare with confidence for networking and interviews
Finally, this session will be recorded. If you sign up and cannot make it, a recording will be sent to you.
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