Cloud Meetup Entry

These are entries for upcoming and past UC Berkeley Cloud Meetups

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 039: Optimizing Qualitative Research in Public Health (01/26/2023)

This month's meetup discusses using AWS for qualitative research in public health.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 038: Berkeley's Own Computing Infrastructure & Cloud Strategy (10/27/2022)

October's meetup features a fireside chat covering Berkeley's overall infrastructure and cloud strategies.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 037: UCOP's Digital Transformation (09/29/2022)

September's meetup features Kari Robertson, the Executive Director of Infrastructure at the UC Office of the President, where she is responsible for leading their successful cloud transition.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 036: HPC & the Cloud (08/25/2022)

August's meetup features a research IT presentation featuring Gary Jung's work on costs for high performance computing in the cloud.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 035: Berkeley Skydeck (07/14/2022)

This month features presentations by a couple UC Berkeley SkyDeck startups who will share their experiences building products that are delivered and built via cloud technologies.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 034: Google Cloud Platform and Research at UC Berkeley (05/26/2022)

This month's meetup is the third in a series of vendor showcase meetups in which the UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup asks one of our cloud vendors to demo research oriented applications using their cloud stack. This month features presentations by two UC researchers who will share their experiences working with Google Cloud Platform and how it has accelerated their research.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 033: Yoga and Machine Learning (04/28/2022)

This month, the Cloud Meetup hosted Dr. Alexandra Savelieva and Linda Yang who discussed “Stay Fit, Stay Safe,” a deep learning solution employing AI to analyze and structure video content . It enables easier discovery and understanding of online yoga classes to help people efficiently practice in the comfort and safety of their homes, while reducing cost. The solution is hosted on Azure cloud platform and includes a user-friendly UI, a highly accurate ML classifier that has been trained to detect over 70 main poses, as well as a recommendation engine, allowing yoga practitioners to specify...

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 032: LBL Advanced Light Source + Google Cloud Platform (03/31/2022)

This month the Cloud Meetup will host a presentation by Dr. Scott Classen (Scott is a Biophysicist Research Scientist in the Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab) who supports the Advanced Light Source. The meetup will cover his use of GCP for the Advanced Light Source.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 031: COVID-19 research using data science & Azure (01/27/2022)

Using data science and the cloud to better understand coronaviruses and COVID-19 This month's meetup showcases two UC Berkeley research groups’ use of Azure cloud services to meet research challenges of their award as part of the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute’s Mitigation of COVID-19 and Future Pandemics call for proposals. In one case a researcher “took ownership” of the group’s cloud deployment, and in another case Institute staff deployed cloud infrastructure behind “one-button access” for researchers.

UC Berkeley Cloud Meetup 030: Berkeley Startups and the Cloud (12/09/2021)

This month's meetup focuses on Cloud Meetup partner Berkeley SkyDeck and explores why startups are important to Berkeley, how startups should think about selecting their cloud based tech stacks, and features a lightning talk from Mithril, a current cohort company from Berkeley SkyDeck, on how they enable secure AI on Azure.