How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP

Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

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 […]

Free

Dismantling the Deportation Machine…

Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Dismantling the Deportation Machine: A Conversation on Migration, Expulsion, and Xenophobia Join Carlos Martinez as he moderates a powerful discussion with Megan Carney, Heide Castañeda, and Gilberto Rosas on the […]

Free

Environmental Health and Justice: Successes and Future Challenges

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Please join us for this collaborative, interdisciplinary symposium to highlight and celebrate the important work being done in Global and Community Health at UC Santa Cruz. The symposium will feature talks on environmental determinants of health by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates,speakers from the community,and will be headlined by environmental health luminary keynote speaker Brenda Eskenazi from UC Berkeley.

Envisioning HSI: Nurturing Sustainable Institutional Change

Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Join the HSI Initiatives Team for an afternoon of reflection, collaboration, and community at UC Santa Cruz’s Fall 2025 Envisioning HSI Session. As a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution, UCSC is committed […]

Free

The NEXTies: Earth & Sea

Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

Get ready for an unforgettable evening at our NEXTies spin off event: The NEXTies Earth: & Sea! Join us for a night of celebration, featuring delicious drinks, captivating performances, and […]

$55 – $200

Movie on the Lawn

Oakes Lower Lawn 498-898 Oakes Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

As Slug Start continues, join us for a cozy evening under the stars on Oakes Lawn at 8 PM with a screening of Us. Kick back with free popcorn, candy, […]

Campo-Sano Climate Action Conference

Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Join us October 4th for a regional conference on California Farmworkers and the Environment! The conference will address the challenges of resilience amid the impacts of climate changes and the many other compounding risks farmworkers face. Free and open to the public.

Free

Fall is for Planting!

Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Join us on the patio at Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden. The UC Master Gardeners will host a pop-up booth to give information and […]

Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day

This school year, PoCSC is implementing a new quarterly field day program where each quarter we come together for a fun, community-bonding day of activities, food, and conversation. This series […]

Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day

Social Sciences Lawn 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Celebrate sustainably at PoCSC’s Fall Field Day with food, music, and eco-friendly activities for the UCSC community.

Opening Celebration—Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

2025 marks Céline Grenier’s 50th graduation anniversary from the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. This retrospective celebrates the Santa Cruz-based alumna’s vast body of work in a diverse range […]

FREE and open to UCSC affiliates

Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while […]

ECE 290 Seminar: Operational Cybersecurity of Modern Power Systems

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Dr. Daniel Arnold, Lead Power Systems Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Description: The adoption of new types of generation and loads, such as data centers, small modular reactors, and […]

AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF

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 […]

free

Printing Party in McHenry Library

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

On Monday, 10/6, Special Collections and Archives is bringing our BookBeetle (a mini replica Gutenberg-era common press) into the 3rd floor hallway of McHenry Library for a printing party! Participants […]

CM Seminar – Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Presenter: Max Kreminski   About: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how […]

Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Presented by Max Kreminski Description: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how these […]

Last modified: Oct 22, 2025