Past Events
CHM Live is our premier event series. It offers original productions exploring historical and current issues in technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as the ongoing transformation of computing and its impact on society.
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build Father’s Day Edition featuring Carbon’s Greg Robbins & O-Watch CEO Omkar Govil-Nair
Sunday, June 10, 2018 9:30 PM
This special event welcomes middle school students and their fathers to take part in an exploration of computer programming concepts. Families will work hands-on with Raspberry Pi technology, write detailed instruction sets to “program” each other through a life-size maze, and learn about the relevance and impact of c
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Speaker Series
Medicine in the Digital Age
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 6:00 PM
Healthcare has entered the digital age. You can track your heart rate with wearable devices like Fitbit or Motiv. Smartphones send patients reminders to take their medication. And according to the CDC, 86.9 percent of office-based physicians are using electronic health records. However...
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Speaker Series
Fire and Fuel: Founders and Funders
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 6:00 PM
How do a founder and a funder take an idea and build a pioneering company? Before there was Uber or Airbnb, TaskRabbit helped birth the sharing economy. Leah Busque’s entrepreneurial fire has taken her from IBM software engineer to founder of TaskRabbit to venture capitalist. Ann Miura-Ko is a star early-stage funder,
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build Mother’s Day Edition Featuring Genentech’s Jennifer Turcotte
Saturday, May 12, 2018 7:00 PM
This special event welcomes middle school students and their mothers to take part in an exploration of computer programming concepts. Families will work hands-on with Raspberry Pi technology, write detailed instruction sets to “program” each other through a life-size maze, and learn about the relevance and impact of c
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Speaker Series
California Typewriter
Friday, May 11, 2018 6:30 PM
California Typewriter is a documentary portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others. Join us for this special screening followed by a Q&A with Doug Nichol, the film’s director an
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Education Event
Design The Future Family Workshop 2018-05-06
Sunday, May 6, 2018 10:00 AM
A computer pioneer once told Steve Jobs, “You can’t really understand what’s going on now unless you understand what came before.” In this workshop, participants will explore important innovations in computer history to help them imagine and design technologies for the future. Their future innovations may someday be pa
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Education Event
Design_Code_Build in partnership with Girl Scouts of Northern California featuring Simplexity Founder Aisha Sheikh
Sunday, April 22, 2018 9:30 AM
This Special Intermediate Edition of Design_Code_Build is open to all Girl Scouts currently enrolled in grades 6 through 8. Level 2 builds on the introductory program, exploring the engineering design process as students work in small teams to solve a tech challenge using Raspberry Pi technology. Throughout the day,
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Education Event
Make Software Family Workshop 2018-04-21
Saturday, April 21, 2018 10:30 AM
Software allows computers to touch nearly every aspect of our daily lives. In this workshop, participants will explore the history and impact of software, use Raspberry Pi technology to complete a project, and learn how the instructions they give computers can make things happen in the real world.
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Speaker Series
AI Download with SVAI
Friday, April 20, 2018 5:30 PM
We’re teaming up with Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence (SVAI) for their second annual AI Download. Learn more about AI from the perspectives of engineers, researchers, scientists, startup founders, and many others. Intended to be a broad survey of AI activity happening across the Bay Area, this event will highlig
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Speaker Series
SpaceToday NightLife
Thursday, April 12, 2018 6:00 PM
We are taking CHM Live on the road! Join us at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco for their weekly NightLife program. We are discussing how scientists, entrepreneurs and technologists are teaming up to take us further into space than ever before.