Events

At our club meeting on January 31st, we will give a sneak peek into our upcoming CrabFest and Auction being held at 5pm on February 4th at St. Andrew's Church in Saratoga. We will show you how to browse and bid on over 100 fabulous auction items on your phone! Fun prizes will be given to our most generous pre-event bidders. Come see what all the fuss is about.

Julia Anderson, a pastry chef and chocolatier, located in Silicon Valley, California is a seasoned chef, chocolatier and restaurateur with 20+ years of experience in the foodservice industry.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, she received her formal culinary education at Le Cordon Bleu. Over the course of her career, she has owned and operated two successful restaurants, which continue to thrive. Julia retired from restaurant ownership in December 2019. Since then she has been teaching cooking & pastry classes, catering, and as of 2022 is starting a new business, Blue Canary Sweets, an online chocolate subscription store. She expects to officially launch Blue Canary Sweets in January 2023. Chef Julia enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, and likes to travel when she's not working.

Tom Boyce, of Los Gatos Rotary, will update the club on International Projects supported by Rotary.

Sandeep will talk about very large language models which are artificial neural network trained on massive amount of text data to generate human-like text for various natural language tasks. These profoundly change the way humans communicate and interact with technology. We will explore the use of these language models as business analysis assistant.

Background
Sandeep Gopisetty is an IBM Researcher obsessed with impact in developing large scale software solutions.  He has been awarded over 75 patents and numerous corporate and outstanding technical accomplishment awards and manages a highly talented group of researchers 

In February the Los Gatos Town Council unanimously endorsed a Roadmap for older adult services in Los Gatos. This Roadmap is the culmination of a 15 month effort by community members, local leaders, two Town Mayors and a Council member, presenting exciting new directions for providing services to older adults in our Town— where the older population is anticipated to approach 1/3 of the residents over the next decade. The Roadmap grew out of an effort by the Council with support from the Community Health and Senior Services Commission to address issues laid bare by the pandemic and was jump-started by Council directing $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds for grants last year. A comprehensive official survey, 12 community workshops, and the benchmarking of seven similar cities provided the foundation for establishing seven goals and details for 1-3-10 year projects and milestones for each goal. The Roadmap is now moving from planning to implementation and we look forward to telling you about the Roadmap findings and plans for creating an age-friendly community where older adults are engaged, valued, and provided equitable opportunities to thrive.

Tom Picraux bio

Tom is a retired scientist. He served as chair of the recent Los Gatos Senior Service Committee. In addition to being a member of Rotary, he is co-chair of the Membership Committee of the Sourcewise Advisory Council, coordinator of the West Valley Service Providers network and is VP of the local League of Women Voters.

Dick Konrad bio

Dick Konrad is a member of Rotary, member and past chair of Los Gatos Community Health and Senior Services Commission, served as a member of the recent LG Senior Services Committee, a former member of the LG Parks Commission, and chair of the LG Beautification Committee 

Rotary Red Badge Bios will be presented.