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SUMMARY:Bi-weekly GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to the second session of the GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz\, which will be held on Wednesday\, May 20\, 2026\, at 3:15 PM in E2-506. \nThis session will feature a student talk and demo by Akhilesh Thite\, a Master’s student\, on local LLMs in the PeerSky Browser. \nTo describe the session in the speaker’s own words: \n“”” Local LLMs in PeerSky Browser: AI That Runs on Your Machine\, Not in the Cloud \nYou have probably used ChatGPT\, Claude\, or Copilot. They are powerful\, but every prompt you type goes to a server owned by someone else. Your ideas\, your code\, your research questions; all passing through a company’s cloud. \nWhat if AI ran entirely on your own laptop? No sign up. No surveillance. No sending your data anywhere. No internet connection! \nI have been building exactly that inside the PeerSky Browser. PeerSky is a local-first\, peer-to-peer web browser. It lets you publish content\, chat\, and collaborate without any cloud servers. Now it also runs local LLMs directly on your machine. You can generate text\, summarize papers\, or write code completely offline. AI becomes a tool you own\, not a service that owns you. \nIn this talk\, I will show you how it works. Come if you care about AI\, privacy\, or just want to see a browser do something cool.“”” \nWe are also happy to share that the meetup is now moving to a hybrid format. This session will be held in person and broadcast on Zoom. A calendar invite is attached to this email so you can add the event to your calendar directly. You can also join the session on Zoom using this link. \nAs always\, the GenAI Meetup is intended to be a student-driven\, open-ended space for learning\, discussion\, and community building around generative AI tools and research. Whether you are already working with these tools or just curious to learn more\, you are very welcome to join us. \nPlease feel free to come by\, meet fellow researchers and students\, ask questions\, and take part in the discussion while enjoying coffee and light snacks.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/bi-weekly-genai-meetup-at-uc-santa-cruz/2026-06-03/
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SUMMARY:AI Frontier: Data\, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an immersive SF Tech Week experience hosted by the Silicon Valley AI Pioneer Club and UC Santa Cruz GenAI Center — where AI builders\, investors\, innovators and top researchers converge to explore the technologies shaping tomorrow. Details and reservations are available at  https://partiful.com/e/OtqKL1z4hvYDLMk0uP8w
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SUMMARY:How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP
DESCRIPTION:93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed\, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson\, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps\, each a mindset shift or critical decision point\, to validate AI product ideas and build towards defensible MVP. In this invited talk\, you will learn: \nThe “AI Product Opportunity Canvas” \nA proprietary framework to assess AI product ideas\, inspired by proven processes from Google and successful AI labs \n5-Step Playbook to Land an AI-Native MVP \nHow to evaluate user problems\, craft a compelling AI-native value proposition\, design for data and defensibility \nReal AI-Native Product Success Cases \nHow AI product leaders and founders are finding the market niche in industries such as healthcare\, legal and finance \nHow to Build Fast Feedback Loops with User and Human Evals \nHow to set up tight user feedback loops and leverage Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) as your secret validation weapon \nInvited Speaker: Roger Jin \nex-Product Lead @Google DeepMind\, 2x Founder\, AI Strategy Coach \nRoger is an ICF-certified coach and a seasoned product leader who has operated at the frontier of AI development and in the trenches of building venture-backed companies. \nAs Head of Product at Google DeepMind\, Roger was a founding member of the product team that launched Gemini\, Google’s flagship generative AI product. Before that\, Roger led product teams at Amazon Alexa\, pushing the boundaries of customer experience for millions of users. \nRoger has also co-founded two AI startups\, raising over $20M in venture capital and scaling them to a combined $80M+ in annual revenue. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. \nLocation: Social Science\, Room 110
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