Upcoming and past events of the IEEE Signal Processing Society San Diego Chapter. Dates for later sessions will be announced here.
Confirmed · October 25, 2026
AI Workshop: Put AI to Work in Your Business
October 25 · Two events in one eveningThe six-month AI workshop series kicks off from 4 to 6 PM, followed by another informal AI networking event from 6 to 7 PM. Free for IEEE SPS members.
Organized by the IEEE SPS San Diego Chapter as the opening session of its AI systems pilot. Program lead: Chhavi Jain. All coursework, instructional materials, AI tools, the learning platform, and the supporting course website are provided by Live AI Dream.
A hands-on workshop for business owners, founders, students, and engineers. Bring one task that takes too much time, and learn where AI can help, what it needs, and when a person should approve its actions.
Details
- Date: October 25, 2026
- Workshop: 4–6 PM
- Free networking hour: 6–7 PM, a chance to meet the San Diego community
- Venue: Leucadia Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant, 7748 Regents Road, San Diego, CA 92122
- Food: Pizza included with in-person admission
Registration
- Current IEEE SPS members: free, membership verified.
- Other attendees: admission information and registration are on the workshop page.
- The 6–7 PM networking hour is free and open to everyone, subject to capacity.
Planned speakers: Pragathi, Chhavi Jain, and Mehmat. Founders from the UC San Diego startup community are invited to share their stories. Speaker biographies will be published after confirmation with each speaker.
The six-month schedule
| Month | Theme | Status |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | Put AI to Work in Your Business | Confirmed: workshop on October 25 |
| November 2026 | Ground Your Assistant in Business Information | Optional self-paced module; no live event |
| December 2026 | Connect Tools and Human Approval | Optional self-paced module; no live event |
| January 2027 | Make Your AI Agent Reliable | Proposed workshop; date to be announced |
| February 2027 | Take Your AI Agent Into a Real Workflow | Proposed workshop; date to be announced |
| March 2027 | Show What Your AI Agent Delivers | Proposed showcase; date to be announced |
IEEE SPS members attend the chapter workshops free. Pricing for the other workshops will be announced.
Past events
September 11, 2026 · from 6:30 PM · San Diego
AI Adoption Exchange (informal networking)
A small, peer-level discussion for engineers, researchers, and industry practitioners about how companies are actually adopting AI: where teams are in the journey from experiment to production, what is working, and where they are stuck. No slides, no presentations, and no sales pitches.
Where: Leucadia Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant, 7748 Regents Road, San Diego, CA 92122.
Organizer: Chhavi Jain, Vice Chair. Part of an ongoing IEEE initiative to connect practitioners working on real-world AI systems and deployment challenges.
Community participationThe organizers reported approximately 30 attendees at this first peer discussion on real-world AI adoption.
Participant affiliations recorded in the meetup sheet included Qualcomm, ASML, Deloitte, CheckIt, Extreme-Waves, Stackitgroup.com, Andare Consulting, Aspired Future, and Live AI Dream, as well as UC San Diego, San Diego State University, and California State University San Marcos. Participants also expressed interest in joining follow-up workshops on AI adoption.
Event listings and related coverage: IEEE Region 6 event page · IEEE vTools event listing
May 6, 2026 · 5:00–6:00 PM PDT · Online
Lecture: “Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Quantum Computing”
Speaker: Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow), Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Quantum Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (qCLOUDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Buyya was named an ACM Fellow in the 2025 class for research advancing cost- and energy-efficient cloud resource management and scheduling. His honors also include the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Cloud Computing Research Impact Award and the IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing Research Innovation Award.
The University of Melbourne reports that software arising from his research, including Aneka and CloudSim, has been used by academic institutions and businesses in more than 50 countries. Read the university’s research impact profile.
The lecture connected the San Diego community with research from Australia, giving U.S.-based researchers and industry practitioners an opportunity to learn about ongoing work at Dr. Buyya’s laboratory and discuss emerging directions in cloud and quantum computing.
The talk looked at next-generation cloud and quantum computing, including AI-driven infrastructure, edge-cloud integration, and emerging quantum frameworks, followed by a live Q&A.
Hosted by the IEEE Signal Processing Society San Diego Chapter, as part of the IEEE San Diego Section technical program. Free to attend. Event host and contact: Chhavi Jain, Vice Chair.
Community participationThe lecture drew participation from professionals working at Qualcomm, Apple, Meta, AMD, and other San Diego technology companies. Participants were very inspired by Dr. Buyya’s presentation. The talk covered a range of open-source tools and techniques from his laboratory in Australia, prompting further discussions among participants beyond the live session. During the presentation, attendees expressed interest in trying the open-source tools discussed and requested reference materials afterward.
Event listings and related coverage: IEEE vTools event listing
April 22, 2026 · 4:00 PM · Del Mar, California
Talk: “Agentic AI for Real-Time Decision Making”
Speaker: Prof. Rose Yu, Associate Professor, UC San Diego.
Prof. Yu discussed efforts to build agentic AI models for the physical sciences that respect physical laws and scientific simulation, with example applications in earth science, epidemiology modeling, mathematics, and physics.
Where: A seminar at the Del Mar Electronics & Manufacturing Show (DMEMS), Mexican Plaza, 17 Hands Room.
Organized by the IEEE Signal Processing Society San Diego Chapter. Organizer and moderator: Chhavi Jain, Vice Chair.
Community participationThe organizers reported close to 60 attendees, including several UC San Diego students and industry experts from San Diego’s biotechnology, semiconductor, and technology communities. Attendees expressed appreciation for the talk.
Event listings and related coverage: IEEE vTools event listing · San Diego Tech Scene listing · DMEMS seminar listing · IEEE SPS acknowledgment of DMEMS support (LinkedIn)
Attendance estimates are reported by the event organizers. Photos, speaker acknowledgments, and links to public listings accompany each recap where available.