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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
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/how-to-validate-ai-product-ideas-and-build-a-defensible-mvp/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Social Sciences 1\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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