BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260225T023240Z UID:82B64154-0C59-4CB7-AE4F-142706E398D4 DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260223T200000 DESCRIPTION:πŸš€ ACM/IEEE Austin – February Tech Talks Are Here!\nJoin us for an exciting evening of cutting-edge discussions on AI\, Cloud-Native Systems\, and Resilient Data Engineering with industry leaders and innovat ors.\n\nπŸ“… Date: Monday\, February 23\, 2026\nπŸ•• Time: 6:00 PM CST\n πŸ“ Location: The Center for Government and Civic Service\, 1218 West Ave \, Building 3000\, Austin\, TX 78701\n(Thank you\, CGCS\, for sponsoring t he venue!)\n\nπŸ• Pizza and soda will be provided\nπŸ‘‰ We are actively l ooking for food sponsors. If you or your company would like to support the community\, please reach out to us.\n\n🎀 Speakers & Sessions:\nβ€’ Pre -Flight Checklists for AI: Runtime Behavioral Assessment with Cryptographi c Verification\nGreg Spehar - Founder\, GiDanc AI\nβ€’ Sync or Sink: Build ing Resilient Real-Time Cloud-Native Systems\nAkhilesh Bollam - Software D evelopment Engineer II\, Amazon\nβ€’ Designing Self-Healing Data & AI Pipe lines: Autonomous Failure Recovery at Scale\nKumuda Sreenivasa - Senior Da ta Architect\nSandeep Bommisetti - Cybersecurity Leader\nβ€’ Responsible A I in Practice: Building Trustworthy GenAI Systems Beyond the Hype\nShravya Bussari - Senior Technical Manager\, HCL Tech\n\nThe meetup will feature community-driven tech talks exploring cloud-native systems and scalable in frastructure\, AI and GenAI platforms\, DevOps and platform engineering\, and security and identity trends shaping modern software and infrastructur e engineering. Talks will emphasize real-world implementations\, practical insights\, and forward-looking ideas that are redefining today’s techno logy landscape.\nWhether you’re an industry professional\, researcher\, student\, founder\, or technology enthusiast\, this event is a great oppor tunity to learn\, share knowledge\, and connect with peers across the ACM and IEEE communities. You’ll meet practitioners working on real systems at scale and have space for open discussion and community networking.\n\n πŸ“£ Call for Speakers\nWe’re accepting tech talk proposals for upcoming ACM Austin + IEEE meetups. If you’re interested in sharing your insight s or presenting your work\, submit your talk here:\nπŸ‘‰ https://sessioniz e.com/austin-acm-meetup/\n\nThank you\,\nAkshay Mittal\nChair & Organizer\ nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaymittal143/\n\nCo-sponsored by: IEEE Aus tin – February Tech Talks Are Here!\n\nAgenda: \n🎀 Speakers & Session s:\nβ€’ Pre-Flight Checklists for AI: Runtime Behavioral Assessment with C ryptographic Verification\nGreg Spehar - Founder\, GiDanc AI\nβ€’ Sync or Sink: Building Resilient Real-Time Cloud-Native Systems\nAkhilesh Bollam - Software Development Engineer II\, Amazon\nβ€’ Designing Self-Healing Dat a & AI Pipelines: Autonomous Failure Recovery at Scale\nKumuda Sreenivasa - Senior Data Architect\nSandeep Bommisetti - Cybersecurity Leader\nβ€’ Re sponsible AI in Practice: Building Trustworthy GenAI Systems Beyond the Hy pe\nShravya Bussari - Senior Technical Manager\, HCL Tech\n\nBldg: 3000\, CGCS\, ACC Rio Campus Build #3000 1218 West Ave Bldg #3000\, Austin\, Tex as\, United States\, 78701 LOCATION:Bldg: 3000\, CGCS\, ACC Rio Campus Build #3000 1218 West Ave Bldg #3000\, Austin\, Texas\, United States\, 78701 ORGANIZER:akshaycanodia@gmail.com SEQUENCE:5 SUMMARY:IEEE Austin – February Tech Talks Are Here! URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/540010 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="mb-ds2-10">πŸš€ ACM/IEEE Austin &nd ash\; February Tech Talks Are Here!<br>Join us for an exciting evening of cutting-edge discussions on AI\, Cloud-Native Systems\, and Resilient Data Engineering with industry leaders and innovators.</p>\n<p class="mb-ds2-1 0">πŸ“… Date: Monday\, February 23\, 2026<br>πŸ•• Time: 6:00 PM CST<br> πŸ“ Location: The Center for Government and Civic Service\, 1218 West Ave \, Building 3000\, Austin\, TX 78701<br>(Thank you\, CGCS\, for sponsoring the venue!)</p>\n<p class="mb-ds2-10">πŸ• Pizza and soda will be provide d<br>πŸ‘‰ We are actively looking for food sponsors. If you or your compan y would like to support the community\, please reach out to us.</p>\n<p cl ass="mb-ds2-10">🎀 Speakers &amp\; Sessions:<br>&bull\;&nbsp\;<strong>Pr e-Flight Checklists for AI: Runtime Behavioral Assessment with Cryptograph ic Verification</strong><br>Greg Spehar - Founder\, GiDanc AI<br>&bull\;&n bsp\;<strong>Sync or Sink: Building Resilient Real-Time Cloud-Native Syste ms</strong><br>Akhilesh Bollam - Software Development Engineer II\, Amazon <br>&bull\;&nbsp\;<strong>Designing Self-Healing Data &amp\; AI Pipelines: Autonomous Failure Recovery at Scale</strong><br>Kumuda Sreenivasa - Seni or Data Architect<br>Sandeep Bommisetti - Cybersecurity Leader<br>&bull\;& nbsp\;<strong>Responsible AI in Practice: Building Trustworthy GenAI Syste ms Beyond the Hype</strong><br>Shravya Bussari - Senior Technical Manager\ , HCL Tech</p>\n<p class="mb-ds2-10">The meetup will feature community-dri ven tech talks exploring cloud-native systems and scalable infrastructure\ , AI and GenAI platforms\, DevOps and platform engineering\, and security and identity trends shaping modern software and infrastructure engineering . Talks will emphasize real-world implementations\, practical insights\, a nd forward-looking ideas that are redefining today&rsquo\;s technology lan dscape.<br>Whether you&rsquo\;re an industry professional\, researcher\, s tudent\, founder\, or technology enthusiast\, this event is a great opport unity to learn\, share knowledge\, and connect with peers across the ACM a nd IEEE communities. You&rsquo\;ll meet practitioners working on real syst ems at scale and have space for open discussion and community networking.< /p>\n<p class="mb-ds2-10">πŸ“£ Call for Speakers<br>We&rsquo\;re accepting tech talk proposals for upcoming ACM Austin + IEEE meetups. If you&rsquo\ ;re interested in sharing your insights or presenting your work\, submit y our talk here:<br>πŸ‘‰&nbsp\;<a class="!text-ds2-text-fill-brand_primary-e nabled hover:!text-ds2-text-fill-brand_primary-hover" href="https://sessio nize.com/austin-acm-meetup/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener ugc">h ttps://sessionize.com/austin-acm-meetup/</a></p>\n<p class="mb-ds2-10">Tha nk you\,<br>Akshay Mittal<br>Chair &amp\; Organizer<br><a class="!text-ds2 -text-fill-brand_primary-enabled hover:!text-ds2-text-fill-brand_primary-h over" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaymittal143/" target="_blank" rel="noopener ugc">https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaymittal143/</a></p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>🎀 Speakers &amp\; Sessions:<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; <strong>Pre-Flight Checklists for AI: Runtime Behavioral Assessment with C ryptographic Verification</strong><br>Greg Spehar - Founder\, GiDanc AI<br >&bull\;&nbsp\;<strong>Sync or Sink: Building Resilient Real-Time Cloud-Na tive Systems</strong><br>Akhilesh Bollam - Software Development Engineer I I\, Amazon<br>&bull\;&nbsp\;<strong>Designing Self-Healing Data &amp\; AI Pipelines: Autonomous Failure Recovery at Scale</strong><br>Kumuda Sreeniv asa - Senior Data Architect<br>Sandeep Bommisetti - Cybersecurity Leader<b r>&bull\;&nbsp\;<strong>Responsible AI in Practice: Building Trustworthy G enAI Systems Beyond the Hype</strong><br>Shravya Bussari - Senior Technica l Manager\, HCL Tech</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR