The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family Esther Wojcicki. shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Curiosity, and Kindness: TRICK.

When:

6:30 PM October 3, 2019

Register:

https://estherwojcicki.eventbrite.com

Our amazing members are participating IRONMAN 70.3 SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz, California.

Come to support us!

Questions? Contact tatiana.fedorova@ambarclub.org

Register: https://ambarai.eventbrite.com (FREE for AmBAR members)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing at an incredible rate. It's no secret that artificial intelligence is radically changing the world. Some experts have predicted that up to 40% of current jobs will be replaced by new innovations within the next few years. Should Americans embrace this? If so, how?

Artificial Intelligence AmBAR/JHTC event - learning, inspiration, and networking. Don't miss the opportunity to learn from AI experts, business leaders, and politicians about AI's impact on modern workers.

Our Speakers:

Barak Turovsky, Director of Product, Google AI Google, Inc.
Barak is responsible for product management and user experience for Google Translate and Natural Language Understanding within Google AI team. Barak focuses on applying cutting edge Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies to deliver magical experiences across Google Search, Assistant, Cloud, Chrome, Ads and other products. Previously, Barak spent 2 years as a product leader within Google Wallet team.
Prior to joining Google in 2011, Barak was Director of Product in Microsoft’s Mobile Advertising, Head of Mobile Commerce at PayPal and Chief Technical Officer in an Israeli start up. He lived more than 10 years in 3 different countries (Russia, Israel and the US) and fluently speaks three languages.
Barak earned a Bachelor’s of Laws degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas Kehler, Technology pioneer in AI, eCommerce, and social marketing. Serial Entrepreneur.
Tom was the CEO of the first AI company to go public in the US, he has taken another AI company public, and is current the chief scientist of CrowdSmart - a startup itself that uses AI augmented by human intelligence to predict which startups will scale and grow. He has vast institutional knowledge of AI.

Ge Wang, Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Ge Wang specializes in the art of computer music design — researching programming languages and interactive software design for music, interaction design, expressive mobile music, new performance ensembles (laptop orchestra and mobile phone orchestra), human-computer interaction, visualization (sndpeek), music game design, aesthetics of technology-mediated design, and methodologies for education at the intersection of art, engineering, and design.

Ge is the author and chief architect of the ChucK music programming language, and the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), and co-founder director of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO). Ge is also the Co-founder of Smule, a startup company exploring music-making via mobile devices (reaching over 200 million users). Ge is the designer of Ocarina, and Magic Piano for the iPhone and iPad. These expressive musical things (are they toys? instruments?) enable people to play and share music with one another around the world. Overall, Ge aims to explore the art of design with technology for music.

Ge is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship; he is the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (a MusiComic Manifesto) — published by Stanford University Press (coming September 2018).

Lunch with Yossi Vardi, the legendary Israeli entrepreneur, and investor

Bio:
Doctorate in Operation Research, Technion. Over 49 years' experience co-founding, leading and helping build over 60 high-tech companies. Formerly: Director-General, ministries of Development and Energy; Chairman, Israel National Oil Co.; Jerusalem Foundation; participated in peace talks with Egypt, Palestinians, Jordan, Syria; advised World Bank, UNDP, Mexico Gov't; early entrepreneur in Israel; co-pioneered instant messaging as founding investor and chairman, Mirabilis; creator, ICQ, sold to AOL; numerous IPOs and acquisitions by Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, Cisco, IAC, others; member, boards, state and private corporations.

So, what's up with Bitcoin? - Is it a "bubble'', a mania of irrational crowds, the first ever distributed planetary scale Ponzi scheme, or our inevitable future?

Register: https://bitcoin-bubbles.eventbrite.com/
FREE for AmBAR members.

Learn all about bitcoin from a true expert! Meet our engaging speaker - Stanford University Professor, John H. Cochrane - one of the most influential experts on economics and business models of cryptocurrencies and blockchains, who kindly agreed to share his views and findings with us.

John is one of the most famous and prolific economists of his generation, with his poignant and often provocative commentaries shaping the market and regulatory decisions. His economic blog is a must-read for the economic and business elite.

At the event, John will reveal the economic secrets behind cryptocurrencies and provide his forecast for the bitcoin future.

About speaker:

John H. Cochrane is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct scholar of the CATO Institute.

Before joining Hoover, Cochrane was a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and earlier at its Economics Department. Cochrane earned a bachelor’s degree in physics at MIT and his PhD in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a junior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (1982–83).

Cochrane’s recent publications include the book Asset Pricing and articles on dynamics in stock and bond markets, the volatility of exchange rates, the term structure of interest rates, the returns to venture capital, liquidity premiums in stock prices, the relation between stock prices and business cycles, and option pricing when investors can’t perfectly hedge. His monetary economics publications include articles on the relationship between deficits and inflation, the effects of monetary policy, and the fiscal theory of the price level. He has also written articles on macroeconomics, health insurance, time-series econometrics, financial regulation, and other topics. He was a coauthor of The Squam Lake Report. His Asset Pricing PhD class is available online via Coursera.

Cochrane frequently contributes editorial opinion essays to the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg.com, and other publications. He maintains the Grumpy Economist blog.

Register: https://ARbattle.eventbrite.com/

Interested how AR future looks like and why the shortest way to get there goes through China? 

Meet Robert Scoble, the most famous American futurist blogger, and Vitaly Ponomarev, a global entrepreneur who’s holographic AR technology company WayRay recently got funded by Alibaba. 

On Sept. 27, 6:30 PM they will be ready to share their experience with you.

Great networking! Light food and drinks will be provided. 

FREE for AmBAR members: http://www.ambarclub.org/join/

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Robert Scoble, famous American blogger-futurist blogger, technical evangelist, and author. 
Robert Scoble predicts how technological innovations affect the strategies of global companies, creating new trends in the market. He was a tech evangelist at Microsoft and co-founded the first corporate blog Channel 9. Now he works at the company Rackspace for six years he interviewed the leading developers and businessmen in the field of future technologies, including Mark Zuckerberg and Tony Shay, the founder of Zappos.His blog Scobleizer can be considered a full-fledged media about new technologies. Scoble collaborated with Upload VR – the world's largest publication on virtual and augmented reality.
http://scobleizer.com

Vitaly Ponomarev, CEO and founder at WayRay, a developer of holographic augmented reality technologies for advanced connected cars. He was called “the Russian Elon Musk”, mentioned among wealthiest people below 40 in Switzerland and one of 20 ‘young and promising’ entrepreneurs in Russia.   He is known for expertise in AR applications and car navigation systems. 

Vitaly founded WayRay in 2012, inspired by the concept of Web 3.0 and the idea of overlaying the physical world with real-time data. After he nearly got in a car accident, Vitaly came up with an idea of a navigation system displaying a route without distracting a driver from the road. Over the next four years under his leadership WayRay became the first in the world to develop a patented technology for transparent holographic displays. Based on this technology, the company created Navion – the first AR navigation system – and a prototype of AR infotainment system for driverless vehicles. WayRay is also developing Element, a smart car tracker. 

In 2014 after a successful TechCrunch presentation Vitaly got the invitation from Swiss authorities to develop WayRay in Switzerland.In 2015 he was named in top 100 outstanding innovators of Switzerland according to L’Hebdo newspaper.

About WayRay
WayRay is a global company based in Lausanne (Switzerland) which develops holographic augmented reality technologies for advanced connected cars. With its own R&D center, prototyping factory, and a team of 130+ engineers, WayRay has the expertise in developing optical systems, holographic materials and optical systems with diffraction elements as well as complex mechanics and electronics.

WayRay develops innovative hi-tech products for both consumer and b2b markets. Those include: Navion, the world’s first AR navigation system; Element, a smart car tracker, and a prototype of AR infotainment system for driverless vehicles demonstrated at CES-2017 (Las Vegas, NV, USA) as a part of Rinspeed concept car.

In 2017, WayRay has announced a partnership with Harman International (USA) to integrate a prototype in their own system, and a partnership with Banma Technologies Co., a Chinese joint venture of Alibaba Group and China's largest automaker SAIC Motor, aimed to develop internet-connected cars.

The most recent round B from Alibaba and existing investors brings WayRay’s total capital raised to $30M. For more information, please visit: https://wayray.com/

SVOD is happy to announce a special networking event to welcome early arriving international SVOD attendees to mingle before the main Conference days.

We kindly invite all our friends and partners to attend and take the most of this unique networking opportunity.

Register: https://pre-svod.eventbrite.com/

Technologies of The Future:  Where VCs are investing money and entrepreneurs should invest their time

It is safe to say that the days of app billionaires are behind us. So what trends promise future opportunities and tomorrow’s billion dollar startups? Vitaly M. Golomb travels the world in search of outstanding entrepreneurs to invest in while tracking technology trends. In this highly interactive talk, you will learn about future technologies that will converge the physical and digital worlds to create “blended reality.” It takes a long time to go from idea to product to company. Learn where you should be investing your non-refundable lifetime today, to find success tomorrow. 

The price of the ticket includes a signed hard cover copy of Vitaly’s new book, Accelerated Startup with foreword by Dave McClure. 

Vitaly M. Golomb is a venture capitalist, serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author of Accelerated Startup who has been involved with startups since his teenage years. He is a Global Corporate Venturing 2017 Rising Star and leads global investments at HP Tech Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Silicon Valley’s original startup. He is a contributing writer to TechCrunch and a consistently top-ranked mentor at a number of startup accelerator programs in the US, Europe, and Asia. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and travels to over 20 countries annually to consult and guest lecture to corporations, associations and universities on entrepreneurship, innovation and design.

Wine and food will be provided.

Register: https://acceleratedstartup.eventbrite.com

“Dissernet” is a networking community of experts, researchers, and reporters seeking to unmask swindlers and forgers. With the joint efforts based on the use of modern computer technologies, AI, and principles of networking division of labor, the community members oppose abusive practices, machinations, and falsifications in the fields of scientific research and education, in particular in the process of defending theses and awarding academic degrees.

About speaker:
Sergey Parkhomenko is a former reporter, commentator, and editorialist at popular daily newspapers; editor-in-chief of several publishing houses producing translated fiction and non-fiction literature; Visiting Scholar at The Europe Center of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Former reporter, commentator and editorialist at popular daily newspapers; founder and first editor-in-chief (1995-2001) of 'Itogi', Russia's first current affairs weekly, published in cooperation with Newsweek; editor-in-chief of several publishing houses producing translated fiction and non-fiction literature; editor-in-chief of 'Vokrug Sveta', Russia's oldest monthly magazine.

Since August 2003 Parkhomenko has been presenting on Radio Echo of Moscow, a weekly program making sense of the events of the past week. Parkhomenko was instrumental in organizing mass rallies in Moscow in Winter 2011 – Spring 2012.

One of the founders of 'Dissernet' ('DissertationWeb'), a network community dedicated to exposure of dissertation plagiarism, and 'Posledny Adres' civil campaign helping people to create a collective memorial dedicated to the victims of political repression in the Soviet Union and Russia. One of the founders of 'Redkollegia' program, an independent award supporting free professional journalism in Russia.

Public Policy fellow in Kennan Institute at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC), since September 2016.

Visiting Scholar at The Europe Center of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, since March 2017.

Where: Google Launchpad, 4th floor, 301 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105
When you arrive, come directly to the 4th floor through the lobby.

Subscribe here to receive biweekly event updates from Launchpad Space, Google's new event Space in SF where developers and startups can receive free technical training, one-on-one mentoring and more!

https://parkhomenko.eventbrite.com - Register for FREE (for AmBAR members).

Register: https://futureliving.eventbrite.com/

Technology and engineering are evolving at a faster rate than at any other time in history. The world today is unrecognizable from 100 years ago, and not just in an aesthetic capacity, but in the way that we, as humans, function within it. 
The next 2-3 billion people coming to the planet. What can we expect to see in 100 years’ time? How will we live? how will we work? how will we relax?

Learn new trends in sustainable lifestyle/ clean tech/ renewable energy!

Our speaker: James Ehrlich, a Founder of ReGen Villages, a Stanford University spin-off company implementing the “Tesla of Ecovillages”

Register

Join TEC Club pitch presentations by members of Navigator acceleration program powered by Cockpit Innovation (EL AL’s venture arm) and JetBlue Technology Ventures.
 

Presenting Companies:
- 30SecondsToFly’s technology Claire is an A.I assistant that manages corporate travel for organizations. Claire books policy compliant business trips for employees within seconds. At the same time, she tracks compliance and reports travel expenses to management.
- SeatAssignMate(SAM) specialize in interactive email marketing. We are helping airlines increase ancillary revenue by building a check-in app into traveler’s Email inbox. Travelers will be able to review real time seat maps, assign seats, check-in bags, purchase meals, WiFi etc. in their inbox.
- Cambiu creates the world’s first Currency Marketplace. Optimizing demand and supply, Cambiu generates money for people and currency providers, Cambiu will be offered to enterprises as a service, allowing them to increase their revenue.

Confirmed Investors:

Guy Resheff, Grove Ventures
Eyal Bilgrai, Sonen Capital LLC
Sergey Patsko, Projector Ventures Ltd.
Shuonan Chen, Agile VC
Ronald Weissman, Band of Angels
Artem Burachenok, Flint Capital
Jennifer Cooper, Adobe
Bennet Goldberg, Angel Investor
Monali Jain, Kieretsu Forum
Peter Loukianoff, Agia Capital
Rodrigo Sanchez Servitje, Bridge 37 Ventures
Diane Ding, Shenzhen Valley Ventures
Phin Upham, Thiel Capital
Michael Ting, Merrill Lynch
Jinlin Wang, TEEC Angel Fund
Michael Minkevich, Maxfield Capital
Daniel Hoffer, Tandem Capital
Sherry Chuang, Sand Hill Angels
Harry Feng, NewGen Venture Partners
Ryan Han Liu, IPV Capital
Ivy Nguyen, NewGen Capital

About JetBlue Technology Ventures (JTV)
Located halfway between San Francisco and San Jose in Silicon Valley, JetBlue Technology Ventures invests in, incubates and partners with early stage startups at the intersection of technology, travel, and hospitality. We scan the worldwide startup ecosystem to keep informed of innovations in travel and hospitality. For more information, please visit Jetblueventures.com
About Cockpit Innovation
Cockpit Innovation is a venture arm with the mission to invest in inspiring entrepreneurs with ground breaking technology. As part of the EL AL Group, Cockpit recognizes exceptional technologies and teams and helps them take the first steps towards revolutionizing the worlds of aviation, travel, and aerospace. 

Register: http://uvca.eventbrite.com/
Join AmBAR/JHTC pitch presentations by a visiting group of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs, Investors - members of UVCA!

Confirmed investors:
Ajoy Mallik, Follow[the]Seed
Andrey Kolodyuk, AVentures
Anna Dvornikova, TEC Ventures
Artem Burachenok, Flint Capital
Daniil Stolyarov, Almaz Capital
George Arabian, Steelhead Ventures
Itzik Lerner, Angel Investor
Stas Khirman, TEC Ventures
Mark Glukhovsky, Kernel Capital
Michael Minkevich, Maxfield Capital
Nancy Hayes, Angel Investor
Jennifer Cooper, Angel/Adobe Systems
Lu Zhang, NewGen Capital
Ryan Han Liu, IPV Capital
Sherry Chuang, Sand Hill Angels
Victor Orlovski, SBT Venture Fund
Vitaly Golomb, HP Tech Venture

Presenting startups:
1) Hideez - Personal Information and Cyber Security- Your Only Digital Key. Hideez Technology was established in 2014 and specializes in researching, designing, developing and producing wearable cyber security devices
2) Wider is a laser projection high definition monoblock with panoramic 130 inch screen for entertainment and business needing in B2C and B2B.
3) Raccoon Technologies Inc. is working on the development of complex and functional devices for interaction with digital reality. The most simple variant - clip (allows you to orientate in space), the most difficult - VR glove, which allows you to feel virtual objects in a tactile way.
4) Ecoisme is a monitoring system that lets users take active roles in managing their bills. Detecting major home appliances, solar, and grid energy, Ecoisme helps owners keep track on their resources and save up to 15% of energy.
5) TechNovator develops a technology that sets the world free from wired wall charging and gives you peace of mind. The XE is a wirelessly charging system that works over the distance of up to 17 feet from the charge base.
6) SolarGaps is the sunblind for the window at your home or office which can provide you with solar energy to power your appliances.

About UVCA:
Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) was established in mid-2014 and unites more than 40 members - private equity and venture funds, accelerators, incubators, educational institutions, and non-government organizations that make significant impact on the development of Ukrainian investment market. Association promotes investment opportunities in Ukraine for foreign investment funds, conducts market research, lobbies laws for improving investment and business climate, implements Invest in Ukraine activity. UVCA aims to remove the gap, by channeling the power of its network into better awareness and investment climate by proving that it is worthwhile to INVEST IN UKRAINE.

Join TEC Club pitch presentations by a visiting group of Israel's Women Entrepreneurs!

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tec-club-pitch-meet-israels-women-entrepreneurs-tickets-2928263916

Confirmed Investors:

Anna Dvornikova, TEC Ventures
Cheryl Cheng, BlueRun Ventures
Ammar Hanafi, Moment Ventures
David Wagonfeld, Tandem Capital
Reza Malekzadeh, Partech Ventures
Sergey Patsko, Projector Ventures
David Wagonfeld, Tandem Capital
Michael Porat, Cisco Investments
Andrew Bolwell, HP Tech Ventures
Lu Zhang, NewGen Capital
Artem Burachenok, Flint Capital
Kathryn Salmanowitz, Golden Seeds
Julia Schottenstein, NEA (New Enterprise Associates)
Ajoy Mallik, Follow[the]Seed
David Roebuck, DFJ DragonFund
Elizabeth Fullerton, Fullerton Venture Partners
Ye Yuan, Oriza Ventures
Gaurav Bhasin, Pagemill Partners
Phil Boyer, Crosslink Capital
Guy Resheff, Grove Ventures
Carl Wu, F50

Presenting Entrepreneurs:

Eynat Guez, Co-Founder and CEO, Papaya Global
Tali Av-Zuk, Co-Founder and CEO, Vala
Tsafra Perlmutter, CEO and Cheif Designer, CO.CO Collective
Karen Shlimovich, COO, CrossBorder
Adi Zamir, CEO, Emerald Medical Applications
Orly Shoavi, Co-Founder and CEO, SafeDK
Ornit Maizel, Co-Founder, VP-E&D and GM Israel, Sunbit
Nira Sheleg, CEO, Wizer

Fundraising event: AmBAR Family Walk/Run 5K. This family-friendly costume run/walk will take you around the beautiful Coyote Point Recreattion Area. ALL AGES! 

Register: https://ambarrun.eventbrite.com/

WHEN
Sunday, October 30, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (PDT)

As a part of our AmBAR philanthropy initiative we would like to invite you to join us for AmBAR family Walk/Run 5K fundraising event to support GOODdler Foundation, a local non-profit organization with a mission to inspire youth to become a solution to the most pressing global issues. The money will be used to organize Kids Social Hackathons - a series of free creative tech events for kids and youth, to give kids tools to express their creativity, and be empathetic towards each other and the world around them.
All donations are tax-deductible: Gooddler Foundation - 501(c)(3) #81-0833072
Donate: https://ambarrun.eventbrite.com/

We are pleased to welcome AmBAR to the San Francisco Symphony! To receive our group discount, you must use the button below to purchase tickets for the concert shown.

Ashkenazy conducts Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky

Saturday, June 4, 2016 at 8:00 PM
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA

15-16 Season
“My Symphony is definitely the best work I have written so far,” Tchaikovsky wrote to his brother Modest in 1877. The Fourth Symphony strikes a perfect balance of warm lyricism and dramatic and fantastic elements, opposite Shostakovich’s brooding Cello Concerto.

25% discount for AmBAR members: http://www.sfsymphony.org/group/ambar