This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either. About 40% of all venture capital is invested in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, making it the leading global startup hub. It is thus a magnet for founders looking for a deep pool of technical talent, and for investors looking for the next unicorn. AI has intensified this effect, with a staggering 73% of all AI-related venture funding coming into this area since the beginning of 2024. In this presentation, Dawn DeBruyn will discuss how things are playing out this year for investment across AI and other sectors. This will include why 2024 was a funding “nuclear winter” for many startups, how exits (acquisitions and IPOs) – or lack thereof – drove that trend, plus the impact of ZIRP (Zero Interest-Rate Policy) and the effects of Covid on venture capital and funding. She will close with a discussion of key factors that have changed in 2025, and her outlook for Q4 and 2026. Speaker(s): Dawn DeBruyn Novarina, 567 Yosemite Dr, Milpitas, California, United States, 95035, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/496564

The IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE’s Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). ISTAS is a multi/inter/trans‐disciplinary forum for engineers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, philosophers, researchers, social scientists, technologists, and polymaths to collaborate, exchange experiences, and discuss the social implications of technology. Hosted by the Santa Clara University (California, USA), ISTAS25 runs from 10-12 September, and will be live and virtual. Speaker(s): , , Bldg: Sobrato Innovation Building (SCDI – Building 402)., Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/494179

As the LTO tape roadmap advances toward significantly higher capacities, the industry is undergoing a paradigm shift in how those gains are achieved. Traditionally, increased capacity came from expanding tape length and increasing linear bit and track densities together, enabled by larger recorded bits on thicker media. However, beginning with LTO-8, the focus has shifted to higher track densities and thinner, longer tape substrates—a transformation that brings both opportunity and complexity. This transition introduces a new set of engineering and operational challenges. With thinner media and smaller recorded bit dimensions, the number of wraps and head passes per full volume increases significantly. As a result, tape systems are becoming more sensitive to environmental conditions, including temperature, humidity, and airborne debris. These changes mainly due to smaller bit dimensions place added pressure on Tape Dimensional Stability (TDS) control mechanisms and contribute to elevated Tape Alerts and Drive Errors, especially in real-world usage scenarios. Innovations in LTO-10, such as the tilted head and servo format architecture (the Pisa head) and new cleaning mechanisms, represent a major leap in addressing these challenges. This new format allows precise compensation for tape dimensional changes, improving tape-to-head alignment. However, such innovations are just one part of the broader strategy needed to ensure reliable tape performance at scale. In parallel, modern data architectures are redefining tape’s role. Tapes are no longer just archival media stored offsite for disaster recovery. In today’s tiered storage ecosystems, data on tape must be randomly accessible, highly durable, and maintain multi-9s reliability over lifespans exceeding ten years. This shift requires that tapes perform reliably not just at write time, but throughout their lifecycle as active data assets. To meet these demands, the industry must adopt: - Advanced host-level tape and drive management algorithms - Researching and implementing ML based algorithms for Real world tape Alerts and errors and estimating data durability and availability - Integration of erasure coding, redundancy models with new RAIL based Library architectures This presentation will focus into the magnetic data tape technological innovations, real-world tape alerts and errors, and architectural changes shaping the next generation of tape storage. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the interplay between environmental variables and system performance, and how innovation at system and Library level is essential to ensuring long-term reliability in this new era of high-capacity tape systems. Speaker(s): Turguy, Agenda: 6:30 - 7:00 Socializing and Networking at Quadrant 6:55 Zoom session will be online with Waiting Room 7:00 - 7:45 Lecture begins, online and in person 7:45 - 8:00 Questions and Answers 1120 Ringwood Ct, San Jose, California, United States, 95131, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/491103

Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the event.): https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/i6n2sgjLQFelwXCNz4-YGQ Synopsis: As large language models (LLMs) evolve from static, prompt-based tools into autonomous, agentic systems capable of reasoning, planning, and acting with minimal human oversight, organizations face an exciting yet complex frontier. These advanced systems hold the potential to revolutionize enterprise workflows, developer tools, and customer-facing applications—but realizing that potential requires navigating a host of technical and ethical challenges. This panel brings together leading voices from AI research, infrastructure engineering, and real-world application domains to discuss how agentic LLM systems are moving from lab experiments to production-grade deployments. Panelists will explore critical topics such as orchestration, safety, observability, and evaluation, while offering hard-earned lessons from deploying these systems at scale. Whether you're building tools for developers, integrating LLM agents into enterprise pipelines, or shaping the next wave of intelligent products, this discussion will equip you with the strategic and technical know-how to bring agentic AI into impactful, everyday use. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what it truly takes to operationalize the future of AI. --------------------------------------------------------------- By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public viewing. Speaker(s): Yubin Kim, Gautam Solaimalai, Shaleen Kumar Gupta, Vishal Jain, Abhay Khosla, Rahul Raja, Harsh Varshney Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/494702

Abstract: 2015: A Solution, Difficult, But Feasible… https://tinyurl.com/yafgmlmd 2025 - No More Time Methane releases from natural sinks like tundra, are larger than our well leakages. This is now in positive feedback (releases breed more releases) independent of us. Siberian and US/Canadian tundra, for instance, are releasing CH4 at accelerating rates partly due to our past CO2 emissions. What we must know to prevent oceanic extinctions, especially of O2 producers & CO2 sequesters, on track to occur by 2050. Speaker(s): Alex, Agenda: This is a virtual presentation via zoom. It will be followed with a Q-A. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/495528

[]Printed electronics has emerged as a versatile technique for on-demand fabrication of passives, interconnects, and active devices. Our group has recently extended this technique to create freeform devices in Three-Dimensional space that have opened exciting application areas for this technology. The manufacturing process for printed electronics, however, can suffer from process drifts and does not have an active feedback loop to fix errors. In this research, we develop a digital twin for aerosol jet 3D printing, a jetting-based method to create printed electronics to address this concern. This work, done in collaboration with an ECE faculty at CMU, matches observations with outcomes expected from a physics-based process model, and continuously updates the hidden variables to minimize this error via probabilistic estimation techniques. We then use the aerosol jet 3D printing to demonstrate devices with extraordinary performances that cannot be achieved by any other method. Specifically, we show 3D electrodes by this technique that enable detection of pathogens and breast cancer biomarkers in 10-12 seconds at femtomolar levels (fastest detection yet reported). We also show fully customizable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that record electrical signals between neurons at densities of thousands of electrodes/cm2, which is 5-10× the current state-of-the-art technologies. We also demonstrated the printing of high-capacity Li-ion batteries and thin flexible robotic skins with embedded sensors. Speaker(s): Rahul Panat, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/481231

Electric energy systems are undergoing profound changes as they become increasingly interdependent with other infrastructures. The changes originate from within (new key components, such as inverters and storage), from the expanding system boundaries (transportation), and strengthened connections with other societal infrastructures, communications, water, and gas. The advent of new technologies related to renewable sources and electronic loads has increased the number and variability of transients. Recent events, such as the 2025 blackout in Spain and Portugal, underscore the need for a deeper understanding of hybrid systems that combine traditional (electromechanical) with new sources and loads (electronic). These processes have implications for education, which needs to combine depth in the discipline with a broad understanding of rapidly evolving fields, like AI and power semiconductors. The electric energy program at Santa Clara has initiated a reexamination of its undergraduate and graduate offerings with the aim of being responsive to industry needs while preparing students for the rapidly evolving profession. This workshop offers an opportunity to network with SCU friends and affiliates, as well as to collaborate on outlining future directions in research and teaching related to electric energy systems. · · Co-sponsored by: Santa Clara University Agenda: 8:00 Breakfast/Registration 9:00 Welcome and Opening remarks: Kendra Sharp (SCU Dean School of Engineering) 9:15 Keynote Damir Novosel (Founder, President Quanta) 10:15 Break 10:30 Rethinking Modeling, Computing and Control for Changing Electricity Service, Maria Ilic (Professor, MIT) 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Seeing Before Believing – Sensing and Power Quality Monitoring in Emerging Power Systems, Prof. Alex Stankovic (Professor, SCU) 2:00 Break 2:30 Inverter Interfaces for the Future Grid, Leo Casey (Chief Scientist, Google) 3:30 Power and Energy program at SCU Prof. Maryam Khanbaghi (Associate Professor, SCU) 4:00 Break 4:15 Panel: Workforce Development for the Future - Page Crahan - General Manager, Tapestry at X, the Moonshot Factory - Prasad PMSVVSV - VP and Head of Systems Engineering, Bloom Energy - Robert Entriken - Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute 5:00 Networking hour Room: SCDI 1302/1308, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI), 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053

(https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/john-hennessy), past President of Stanford University (2000-2016) and Chairman of Alphabet Inc. will be in conversation with (https://muckrack.com/alan-weissberger/bio) of the (https://r6.ieee.org/sv-techhistory/) about the history of technologies and companies in Silicon Valley since the late 1970s. They will be joined on stage by IEEE past President (https://iwrc.ieeeusa.org/blog/portfolio-items/thomas-coughlin/) to discuss recent IEEE accomplishments, current focus areas and suggestions on how to strengthen the world’s largest technology non-profit organization. Our conversation will cover the evolution of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) and its applications in smart phones, tablets and other devices. We will discuss the evolution of GPUs, the computational demands of machine learning, and the emergence of domain-specific architectures (DSAs). We will also discuss the founding of Atheros Communications (acquired by Qualcomm in 2011) and its development of chipsets for WiFi, Bluetooth and other OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) technologies. Finally, we will turn to Google’s history, particularly its research activities. As a Google Board member for more than two decades, Prof. Hennessy has played a role in helping develop Google's strategic direction. With the current pervasiveness of AI, what does that hold for the future of science, technology and higher education? Co-sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society, SCV chapter (ComSoc SCV) , Santa Clara University IEEE Student Chapter Speaker(s): John, Alan, Tom Agenda: 5:00 - 5:25 pm Registration and Networking 5:25 - 5:30 pm Intro by Tom Coughlin about IEEE and its SV Tech History Committee 5:30 - 6:15 pm Conversation 6:15 - 6:55 pm Audience Q & A 6:55 - 7:00 pm Closing Remarks Bldg: Locatelli Student Activity Center, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/496561

This is a hybrid in-person and online event. Pre-registration is required for either. Medical image-based modeling and digital twins have emerged as powerful tools to support patient-specific cardiac surgical planning in adults and children. This presentation will discuss 3D modeling techniques that provide a complete pipeline from medical image segmentation to 3D anatomic models and blood flow simulations. The technology that makes this possible was recently extended to model the whole heart, including blood flow, tissue mechanics, electrophysiology, cardiac contraction, and heart valves. This presentation will also discuss recent applications of tools for clinical decision support. A first example is in adult cardiac surgery, where patient-specific modeling has been applied for vein graft failure prevention after coronary bypass graft surgery. Another example is in pediatric cardiac surgery where models have been used for clinical decision support in valve repair, flow re-direction, and bi-ventricular reconstruction. The program will conclude with a discussion of the open-source software and data resources that are available via the (https://simvascular.github.io/) and the (https://www.vascularmodel.com/). Speaker(s): Alison Marsden, 567 Yosemite Dr, Milpitas, California, United States, 95035, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/497126