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The theme of the upcoming 24th Annual Women in Technology Summit is Visionaries Designing Tomorrow’s Tech Markets & Cultures Today, to be held June 10-12, 2018 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose.

Covering the hottest technologies
Autonomous vehicles                    Coaching Track 
AI, AR/VR                                     One hour coaching circles
Robotics                                        One-on-one mentoring sessions
Space/Mars exploration               Tech tables
SmartX                                          Skill Building
Blockchain                                    Build. Empower. Inspire. 
Inviting both women and men who want to expand their horizonswiti.com/conferences/2018/summit/

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 
SCV Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) 
Subject: Low Complexity Real-Time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Velodyne LiDAR Sensor
– new perception technologies, self-driving cars, accurate distance and reflectivity measurements at highway speeds as well as very complex urban environments… 
Speaker: Kiran Gunnam
Time: 7:00 pm: Registration, refreshments, and networking; 7:00 pm: Presentation and Q&A; 8:0 pm: Panel Session; 8:30 – 8:45 pm: Speaker Appreciation & Adjournment
Cost: Free
Location: Hacker Dojo, 3350 Thomas, Santa Clara 
Event Details: meetup.com/IEEE-Robotics-and-Automation-Society/events/248912557/ 

Tuesday, February 13, 2017
SCV Consultant’s Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV), Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), and Consumer Electronics Society (CES)
Subject: Insider Secrets of a Robotics & Consumer Electronics Design Consultancy
– Business and technology behind over 100 robotics projects in the toys, education and consumer electronics industries…
Speaker: Ted Larson, OLogic, Inc.
Time: 7:00 pm: Networking, registration, and refreshments; 7:30 pm to 9 pm: Presentation
Cost: Free
Location: SEMI, 673 S Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas
Event Details: https://californiaconsultants.org/event/insider-secrets-of-a-robotics-consumer-electronics-design-consultancy/

Thursday, January 11, 2017 
SCV Robotics Automation Society (RAS) 
Subject: $200 Self-Driving Cars With RasPi and Tensorflow
– $200 open source self driving Donkey Car, hardware components and software(python) that let it drive, capture data, and create autopilots…
Speakers: William Roscoe, Lead Engineer, Ceres Imaging; Adam Conway, Product Management and Marketing, Datacoral
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Cost: Free
Location: Hacker Dojo, 3350 Thomas Road, Santa Clara 
Event Details: https://www.meetup.com/IEEE-Robotics-and-Automation-Society/events/246512903/ 

Tuesday, August 8, 2017 
OEB-SF-SCV Robitics and Automation Society (RAS) and the Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
Subject: The SPARTAN Superway Solar-Powered Automated Transportation System 
– A presentation and tour at the Spartan Superway Design Center, long-range research initiative, solar powered automated rapid transit ascendant network (“SPARTAN”) systems for urban environments…
Speaker: Burford (Buff) Furman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, SJSU; Ron Swenson, President, INIST; and Eric Hagstrom, Instructor of SSRIP, SJSU 
Time: 6:30 pm: Networking, food, & drinks; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm: Presentation and tour  
Cost: $3 donation
Location: Spartan Superway Design Center, 128 East St. John Street, San Jose
Event Details: https://www.meetup.com/IEEE-Robotics-and-Automation-Society/events/241982771/ 

Thursday, May 18, 2017 
SCV Control Systems Society (CSS) and Robotics and Automation (RAS)
Subject: Two Robot Assembly Processes: Mathematical and Manufacturing
– Data generated during assembly and testing is used to develop a failure prediction model for the population … 
Speaker: Dr. Ghulam Mustafa, Santa Clara University 
Time: 6:45 pm: Registration and networking; pm: 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm: Presentation
Cost: Free 
Location: Qualcomm, Inc., Building B – Cafe, 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara
Event Details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/two-robot-assembly-processes-mathematical-and-manufacturing-tickets-34540108394 

SME Silicon Valley invites you to attend a one-day conference on 21st Century Manufacturing – Advanced Technology Trends in Silicon Valley. Exploremanufacturing trends in the Bay Area throughout a wide range of industries. The conference includes speakers, technology demonstrations, and sponsor interactions. Highlights:

* City Programs promoting manufacturing 
* IoT in the Industrial Environment
* BioMedical Disruption in the Valley
* Robotics/Automation in manufacturing

The conference includes a Career Fair event at the end of the conference, and is free to conference attendees and job seekers.
At the Santa Clara Convention Center on May 25th. See SME for more information.

http://connect.sme.org/smesiliconvalley/conference

Tuesday, May 30, and Wednesday, May 31, 2017
SCV Signal Processing Society (SPS), Communications Society (ComSoc), Information Theory Society (IT), Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), Solid State Circuits Society(SSCS), and Circuits and System Society(CAS)
Subject: IEEE Workshops on Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks
– Tues: Intuitive treatment of the important machine learning approaches; Wed: In-depth treatment of Convolutional neural networks (CNN) …
Instructor: Dr. Kiran Gunnam, Technical Director of Algorithms and DSP, Velodyne LiDAR, Inc.
Time: 4:30 to 5:00 pm: Check In, Networking, Refreshments; 5:00 to 9:00 pm: Workshop
Cost: $40 to $90; discounts to IEEE members, sponsoring chapter members, and TI employees
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr, Santa Clara
Event Details: https://ml_cnn.eventbrite.com

SEMICON West comes to San Francisco on July 11-13, offering all-new programming focused on the applications and technologies that are driving the microelectronics industry forward. Smart Automotive, Smart Manufacturing, MedTech, IoT and more. It’s here that the industry gets a glimpse at what’s next.

NEW IEEE programs organized by SEMI, IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section, and the IEEE Computer Society, include theWorld of IoT: Understanding Risks and Opportunities in Transformative Technologies (Session1: IoT Devices & Data and Session 2: Applications for Business Solutions). These sessions, free for IEEE members, will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis on Tuesday, July 11.

IoT devices collect data from or send data to the physical world. Microcontrollers, MEMS and sensors, and actuators form the building blocks of IoT device architecture. To learn more about each session, visit:

Session I: IoT Devices & Data from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm 
Session II: Applications for Business Solutions from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Register by May 12 for SEMICON West and receive a complimentary Expo Only pass with access to the IEEE World of IoT sessions listed above.

http://bit.ly/IEEEATWEST

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 
SCV MEMS and Sensors and Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
Subject: Human-Robot Interaction and Whole-Body Robot Sensing
– ability to sense surrounding objects at the robot’s whole body and utilize these data in real time, large-area flexible sensing arrays – sensitive skin covering the whole robot body … 
Speaker: Vladimir Lumelsky, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm 
Cost: Free 
Location: Qualcomm, Inc. (Building-B Cafeteria), 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara
Event Details: hhttp://sites.ieee.org/scv-mems/  Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara

Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 
SCV Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV) 
Subject: The Technical Impossibilities of Autonomous Driving 
– engineering overview of autonomous driving, and will describe its greatest technical challenges, companies in this field, skill areas that these companies are searching for … 
Speaker: Dr. Mark J. Nitzberg of Caruma Technologies, Inc.
Time: 7:00 pm: Registration, networking, pizza and drinks; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm: Presentation 
Cost: Free 
Location: NVIDIA, 2800 Scott Blvd., Building E, Santa Clara 
Event Details: https://californiaconsultants.org/event/the-technical-impossibilities-of-autonomous-driving/ 

Wednesday, February 15th 2016 
SF Power and Energy Society (PES) 
Subject: Using Drones in Advanced Technology 
– ground based robots that have been used for energized transmission line work and maintenance, A summary of a past construction project, quantified economic benefits, key characteristics of new transmission line … 
Speaker: David Elizondo, Quanta, LLC 
Time: 11:45 am: Registration, networking, and luncheon; 12:00 pm noon to 1:00 pm: Presentation
Cost: Lunch will be provided (includes vegetarian). IEEE Members:$5; Non IEEE Members: $10 Payments to be made in person (cash or check) at the event. 
Location: 505 Van Ness Avenue, Golden Gate Room, San Francisco 
Event Details and Reservations: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/35187 
The SF PES Chapter AdCom is mindful of our environment and food waste.  As a courtesy, please email our Secretary, Rahul Anilkumar (ranilkumar@quanta-technology.com) no later than the day before the event if you absolutely need to cancel your reservation.

Thursday, December 1, 2016 
SCV Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) 
Subject: The Robotics Pipeline: An Open Forum 
– From self-driving cars to thermostats and drones, What is our vision as leaders, key problems we should focus on, Intel will start the conversation with RealSense and Intel Joule .. 
Speaker: Carlos Montesinos, Startup Initiatives Manager, Makers & Innovators Group, Intel 
Time: 7:00 pm: Presentation 
Cost: Free 
Location: SRI International, Building G, Corner of Laurel Street and Mielke Drive, Across the street from City Hall, Menlo Park
Event Details: http://meetu.ps/e/Cdymn/184q1/a 

Wednesday, November 30, 2016 
SCV Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES)
Subject: Self-Driving Cars: Overview of NHTSA’s Federal Automated Vehicles Policy
– overview of the Automated Vehicle Guidelines recently released by NHTSA, automation and how the guidelines would apply to them will be given and discussed … Speaker: Jon Derickson PE, CSP, Professional Safety Engineer, Google, Self-Driving-Car Program Time: 6:30 pm: Registration, networking, and pizza; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm: Presentation 
Cost: Free 
Location: Google, 250 Mayfield Avenue, Mountain View 
Event Details: http://www.eventbrite.com/o/ieee-product-safety-engineering-society-santa-clara-valley-chapter-9388119013 

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 
SCV Consultants Network of Silicon Valley (CNSV) 
Subject: How Artificial Intelligence is Accelerating the Race to Self-Driving Cars 
– With deep learning, the vehicle can be trained to have super-human levels of perception in order to navigate more safely, deep learning supercomputer will enable the dream of an autonomous vehicle … 
Speaker: Danny Shapiro, NVIDIA 
Time: 7:00 pm: Registration, networking, pizza and drinks; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm: Presentation 
Cost: Free 
Location: NVIDIA, 2800 Scott Blvd., Building E, Santa Clara 
Event Details: https://californiaconsultants.org/event/how-artificial-intelligence-is-accelerating-the-race-to-self-driving-cars/