From Hangar Deck to AI Lab: How the USS Hornet Built Its Own Private LLM

Join Us on July 14 6PM-7:30PM | IEEE SCV-OEB SSIT Chapter Meeting

Co-Sponsored by the OEB/SCV SSIT, SCV WIE and the SCV AESS chapters.

The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum built a private large language model event using Google’s NotebookLM and 165 curated content sources.

Speakers Mark Rowell, CIO of the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum, and Chuck Myers, Docent and Board Member, will discuss the project’s design, content curation, testing, real-world use cases, and implications for museums, education, and historical preservation.

The program will include live demos, a deep dive into Apollo 11 and 12 mission content, and fresh material being loaded in real time. IEEE members and guests are welcome at 6PM Tuesday night at both the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda and virtually.

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AI Infra Summit 2026

Tuesday, September 15-17, 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Center

AI Infra Summit is the only place in the industry where every layer of the stack is in the same room.

Now in its ninth year, the summit brings together 8,000 people who are already building the infrastructure AI runs on: the chips, the interconnects, the data centres, the networking layers, the storage. Three days in Santa Clara to calibrate against peers working at the same scale, see what is actually launching, and understand where the industry is heading.

The event runs September 15-17, 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Joining IEEE SCV-WIE

IEEE Women in Engineering affinity group is an active chapter in Santa Clara Valley. We do not require you to be a SCV WIE member to participate in the activities that we organize. However, we do encourage you to become IEEE members and actively volunteer in planning events for WIE, support women at both the professional and student level and share your enthusiasm in science and engineering. WIE membership is available for $25 to IEEE members, and free to IEEE student members.

SCV WIE meets on the third Thursday of the month. Contact Shweta Behere, SCV WIE Chair (sbehere@ieee.org) to join us in these recurring meetings.

We welcome non-IEEE members at our events. Feel free to attend our events and bring your, friends, family and co-workers.

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Corporate Partners

Starting from 2014 onwards one of the focus area of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Women in Engineering group was to increase the collaboration with corporate companies, universities with IEEE chapters and non-profit organizations in the Bay Area which are supporting our mission.

We have created IEEE-WIE-Corporate member partnership which supports corporate investment in women pursuing their STEM education. As part of this initiative we started organizing joint events promoting women engineer active in the area of expertise. lMany of these events are sponsored by the IEEE-WIE-Corporate companies.

Since 2015 we have started a collaboration with the Center for Creative Leadership to support develop training for WIE wishing to enter the managerial path.

If you are interested in becoming a corporate sponsor, or want to organize an event with us please contact us

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