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SUMMARY:Start Peninsula Meet the Resources
DESCRIPTION:Attendees will have the opportunity to learn how Start Peninsula business and organization sponsors can best help them!\nLearn about the services that exist in Hampton Roads to help small businesses and startups. This is an opportunity to connect\, collaborate\, and work together to further strengthen the Hampton Roads entrepreneurial community. Instead of founders and entrepreneurs pitching to judges\, our entrepreneur service organizations will pitch their services to the entrepreneurial community and explain how their organization can best help them. \nShare this location:
URL:https://newportnewsva.com/event/start-peninsula-meet-the-resources-2/
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CATEGORIES:Angel Investing,Business,Entrepreneurship,Home Based Business,Pitch Event,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Claude + Sales & Marketing Automation: Pipeline on Autopilot | AICHR
DESCRIPTION:Notice: This meeting will be recorded. By joining and remaining in this meeting\, you consent to being recorded. If you do not consent\, please do not join.\nThis event is capped at 500 attendees. Register now to secure your spot.\nClaude + Sales & Marketing Automation: Pipeline on Autopilot —\nYour sales pipeline shouldn’t depend on you remembering to follow up. Claude connects to your CRM\, scores your leads\, writes personalized outreach\, generates proposals\, and tracks your pipeline — all without you touching a spreadsheet or drafting another cold email from scratch.\nThis isn’t generic AI marketing advice. This is a structured system: lead comes in → gets scored → gets personalized outreach → gets nurtured → gets a proposal → closes. The tools are your existing CRM + Claude. The output is a pipeline that runs while you sleep.\nThis is a live demo workshop. We’ll build a complete sales and marketing automation system from scratch — starting with CRM integration and ending with a full pipeline that handles outreach\, follow-up\, proposals\, and reporting automatically.\nWhat we’ll cover:\n🔗 The Sales & Marketing Stack Inside Claude How CRM MCP connectors (Salesforce\, HubSpot\, GoHighLevel)\, Skills\, Routines\, and email automation combine into a single revenue engine — and why this stack replaces $500-2\,000/mo in sales tools and hours of manual pipeline management.\n📱 Demos We’ll Build Live:\nCRM Integration via MCP — connect Claude directly to your CRM (Salesforce\, HubSpot\, or GoHighLevel) and manage contacts\, deals\, and pipeline stages from a single conversation\nLead Scoring & Qualification Engine — build an automated system that scores inbound leads based on your ideal customer profile and routes them to the right workflow\nEmail Sequence Automation — create personalized outreach\, follow-up\, and nurture sequences that sound like you wrote each one individually\nProposal & SOW Generator — use Skills with templates to generate custom proposals and statements of work in minutes\, not hours\nCold Outreach Personalization at Scale — research prospects automatically and craft hyper-personalized messages that reference their company\, role\, and recent activity\nPipeline Reporting & Forecasting — automated weekly pipeline reports with deal velocity\, conversion rates\, and revenue forecasting\nLinkedIn Automation Integration — connect your LinkedIn outreach to your CRM pipeline for seamless prospecting and tracking\n📊 The Numbers Companies using AI for sales report 50%+ increases in leads and appointments\, 60-70% reduction in call time\, and 40-60% cost reductions in outreach. The average sales rep spends only 28% of their time actually selling — the rest is admin\, data entry\, and manual follow-up. This event automates the 72% so you can focus on closing.\nWho this is for: Business leaders\, founders\, sales teams\, and marketers who want to automate their pipeline without losing the personal touch. If you’re manually managing leads in spreadsheets\, writing the same follow-up emails over and over\, or spending hours on proposals that should take minutes — this is the session. Prior experience with Claude is helpful but not required.\nWho this is NOT for: People looking for theory. This is a hands-on workshop. Every demo involves connecting real CRM data and building real automation workflows. If you’re looking for a high-level overview of AI in sales\, this isn’t it.\nWhat you’ll leave with: ✅ A working sales pipeline automation connected to your CRM ✅ A free setup guide with every demo walkthrough\, step by step ✅ Email sequence templates you can deploy immediately ✅ A homework doc with bonus automations\, advanced workflows\, and exercises ✅ Understanding of CRM MCP connectors\, Skills templates\, and Routines for sales\nPrerequisites: — A Claude Pro\, Max\, or Team subscription (Cowork or Claude Code) — A CRM you actively use (Salesforce\, HubSpot\, GoHighLevel\, or similar) — A list of prospects or leads you want to reach (even a small one works) — Willingness to connect your real tools during the session\n🎙️ Your Speaker Andrew Stafford Co-Lead of The AI Collective Hampton Roads. 25+ years across technology\, cloud architecture\, and AI — including work with Amazon\, NASA\, healthcare platforms\, and enterprise systems. Author of AI for Business. Currently building at the intersection of AI tooling\, agentic workflows\, and practical business automation.\n🏢 For Businesses Want to bring AI automation training to your team? We offer private workshops (lunch and learn\, half-day\, full-day bootcamp)\, conference speaking\, and technical consulting. Book a discovery call\n🤝 Organizers & partners\nOrganizers The AI Collective Hampton Roads\nPlatinum partners TechArk Regent University ECPI University Hampton Roads Chamber Foundation Retail Alliance & Retail Alliance Foundation\nBronze partners Assembly 757 Collab\n🌍 Our parent org\nThe AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 240\,000+ pioneers – founders\, researchers\, operators\, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events\, workshops\, and community-led research\, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust\, openness\, and human flourishing.\nAll attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective agree to our privacy policy and are subject to our code of conduct. Additionally\, by registering for this event\, you agree to The AI Collective Hampton Roads chapter photo & video policy. \nShare this location:
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SUMMARY:Claude as Your One-Person Business: The Capstone | AICHR
DESCRIPTION:Notice: This meeting will be recorded. By joining and remaining in this meeting\, you consent to being recorded. If you do not consent\, please do not join.\nThis event is capped at 500 attendees. Register now to secure your spot.\nClaude as Your One-Person Business: The Capstone —\nYou’ve learned the tools. Now it’s time to wire them together. This capstone event takes everything from our 9-session series — Cowork\, Skills\, MCP\, Routines\, Agent SDK\, Social Media Pipelines\, and Browser Automation — and combines them into a complete “run your business with Claude” framework.\nThis isn’t a recap. It’s the blueprint for replacing an entire team’s worth of daily operations with a single Claude subscription. Morning briefing\, email triage\, meeting prep\, content creation\, project management\, end-of-day review — all orchestrated\, all automated\, all in your voice.\nThis is a live demo workshop. We’ll build a complete day-in-the-life business operating system from scratch — starting with your first morning briefing and ending with an automated end-of-day summary that writes itself.\nWhat we’ll cover:\n🧰 The Solo Founder Stack How Cowork\, Skills\, MCP\, Routines\, and Agent SDK combine into a single business operating system — and why this stack replaces the need for 3-5 employees or contractors.\n📱 Demos We’ll Build Live:\nMorning Briefing System — wake up to a Claude-generated summary of your calendar\, emails\, tasks\, and metrics for the day\nEmail Triage & Response Engine — automatically sort\, prioritize\, and draft responses to your inbox using your voice and business rules\nMeeting Prep Automation — Claude pulls attendee info\, past conversations\, and relevant docs before every meeting\nContent Creation Pipeline — repurpose one idea into blog posts\, social media\, newsletters\, and video scripts across every platform\nProject Management Dashboard — track tasks\, deadlines\, and deliverables across all your projects from a single conversation\nEnd-of-Day Review Routine — automated summary of what got done\, what didn’t\, and what’s queued for tomorrow\n📊 The Numbers A Microsoft 2026 study found that only 16% of AI users actually orchestrate agents — meaning 84% are leaving the biggest productivity gains on the table. A WRITER survey found that 60% of executives plan to lay off workers who don’t adopt AI. This event puts you in the 16% who are building the future\, not being replaced by it.\n💰 The Cost Analysis We’ll break down exactly what this operating system would cost in human hours vs. a Claude subscription. Spoiler: the math isn’t close.\nWho this is for: Founders\, solo operators\, freelancers\, and small business owners who want to run a lean operation without sacrificing output. If you’ve attended any of our previous sessions (or want the condensed version of all 9)\, this is the event. Prior experience with Claude is helpful but not required — we’ll reference previous workshops but explain everything as we go.\nWho this is NOT for: People looking for theory. This is a hands-on capstone workshop. Every demo involves setting up real automations for real business workflows. If you’re looking for a high-level overview of AI in business\, this isn’t it.\nWhat you’ll leave with: ✅ A working “day in the life” business automation system ✅ A free setup guide with every demo walkthrough\, step by step ✅ A homework doc with bonus workflows\, advanced automations\, and exercises ✅ The complete framework for running a one-person business with Claude ✅ Understanding of how Cowork\, Skills\, MCP\, Routines\, and Agent SDK work together\nPrerequisites: — A Claude Pro\, Max\, or Team subscription (Cowork or Claude Code) — Access to the tools and services you use daily (email\, calendar\, project management) — Willingness to set up real automations during the session\n🎙️ Your Speaker Andrew Stafford Co-Lead of The AI Collective Hampton Roads. 25+ years across technology\, cloud architecture\, and AI — including work with Amazon\, NASA\, healthcare platforms\, and enterprise systems. Author of AI for Business. Currently building at the intersection of AI tooling\, agentic workflows\, and practical business automation.\n🏢 For Businesses Want to bring AI automation training to your team? We offer private workshops (lunch and learn\, half-day\, full-day bootcamp)\, conference speaking\, and technical consulting. Book a discovery call\n🤝 Organizers & partners\nOrganizers The AI Collective Hampton Roads\nPlatinum partners TechArk Regent University ECPI University Hampton Roads Chamber Foundation Retail Alliance & Retail Alliance Foundation\nBronze partners Assembly 757 Collab\n🌍 Our parent org\nThe AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 240\,000+ pioneers – founders\, researchers\, operators\, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events\, workshops\, and community-led research\, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust\, openness\, and human flourishing.\nAll attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective agree to our privacy policy and are subject to our code of conduct. Additionally\, by registering for this event\, you agree to The AI Collective Hampton Roads chapter photo & video policy. \nShare this location:
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SUMMARY:Claude + Browser Automation: Your AI Sees Your Screen | AICHR
DESCRIPTION:Notice: This meeting will be recorded. By joining and remaining in this meeting\, you consent to being recorded. If you do not consent\, please do not join.\nThis event is capped at 500 attendees. Register now to secure your spot.\nClaude + Browser Automation: Your AI Sees Your Screen — Claude can now see your browser. It reads pages\, clicks buttons\, fills forms\, takes screenshots\, and navigates sites — all from a conversation or a script. This isn’t a future feature. It’s live right now.\nThree tools make this work: Claude Computer Use (full desktop control — screenshot\, mouse\, keyboard)\, Claude in Chrome MCP (browser-native tools — navigate\, read pages\, click\, type)\, and Puppeteer MCP (headless automation for scripts and pipelines). Each solves different problems. This event shows you when to use which.\nThis is a live demo workshop. We’ll automate real browser tasks from scratch — starting with simple page reads and ending with multi-step workflows that run unattended.\nWhat we’ll cover:\n🖥️ The Browser Automation Stack Inside Claude\nHow Computer Use\, Chrome MCP\, and Puppeteer MCP work together — and when to use browser automation vs direct MCP integrations vs APIs.\n🔧 Demos We’ll Build Live:\nPage Reader & Data Extractor — point Claude at any webpage\, extract structured data into a spreadsheet. No scraping code required.\nForm Filler & Submission Bot — automate repetitive form submissions across multiple sites using Claude in Chrome\nResearch Automator — give Claude a research question\, watch it open tabs\, read pages\, take notes\, and compile a summary\nVisual Testing Agent — screenshot pages\, compare layouts\, flag visual regressions automatically\nWebsite Poster — post content to platforms that don’t have API connectors using Puppeteer browser automation\nMulti-Step Workflow — chain browser actions: log into a site → navigate to dashboard → extract report → save to Google Drive → send summary via email\n🔒 Security & Permission Models\nWhat Claude can and can’t see in your browser. Permission scoping\, supervision best practices\, and why browser agents need guardrails. Computer Use is still a research preview — we’ll be honest about the limitations.\n⚠️ Key Caveat: Claude Computer Use requires macOS. Chrome MCP and Puppeteer MCP work on all platforms. We’ll cover all three so everyone leaves with something they can use immediately.\nWho this is for: Anyone who spends time on repetitive browser tasks — filling forms\, extracting data\, posting content\, running reports. Business owners\, marketers\, researchers\, and developers alike. If you copy-paste between browser tabs\, this event automates that. Prior experience with Claude is helpful but not required.\nWho this is NOT for: People looking for a general AI overview. This is a hands-on workshop. Every demo involves real browser automation. If you want theory\, see our earlier events in the series.\n📚 Free resources at the event:\nSetup guide — follow along with every demo live\nHomework doc — extended exercises to keep building after the event\nSlide deck — full reference for everything we cover\n🎯 Want to go deeper?\nAI for Business — Andrew’s book on practical AI implementation\nBook a discovery call — 1-on-1 help implementing Claude in your business\n🤝 Organizers & partners\nOrganizers\nThe AI Collective Hampton Roads\nPlatinum partners\nTechArk\nRegent University\nECPI University\nHampton Roads Chamber Foundation\nRetail Alliance & Retail Alliance Foundation\nBronze partners\nAssembly\n757 Collab\n🌍 Our parent org\nThe AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 225\,000+ pioneers — founders\, researchers\, operators\, and investors — exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events\, workshops\, and community-led research\, we steer AI’s future together.\nAll attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective agree to our privacy policy and are subject to our code of conduct. Additionally\, by registering for this event\, you agree to The AI Collective Hampton Roads chapter photo & video policy. \nShare this location:
URL:https://newportnewsva.com/event/claude-browser-automation-your-ai-sees-your-screen-aichr/
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: AI\, Semantic Operations\, and Decision Advantage in Defense
DESCRIPTION:Building the Future Fight: AI\, Semantic Operations\, and Decision Advantage in Defense\nNOTE: This is a collaborative exchange focused on lessons learned\, future requirements\, and practical implementation \,not product marketing or business development event.  \nONLINE details: Microsoft Teams meeting\nJoin: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/237378663016483?p=7G5C3WYwJZMr4wNOhJ  \nIn-person event in separate link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-semantic-operations-and-decision-advantage-in-defense-tickets-1989605140534?aff=oddtdtcreator\nContact info: Events@NeptuneSHIELD.com\nEvent Overview:\nThis event brings together operators\, technologists\, and innovators from defense\, industry and academia to focus on one mission: accelerating real-world decision advantage through next-generation semantic technologies and operational AI.\nThe conversation will move past abstract concepts and into practice\, examining knowledge graph architectures\, digital engineering\, logistics modernization\, rapid acquisition pathways\, and the infusion of AI/ML into operational workflows that matter on the battlefield and in contested environments. This session is focused on shaping faster\, smarter\, more connected defense systems that deliver trustworthy information and decision advantage. The future belongs to organizations that can continuously process\, adapt\, and execute faster than their adversaries.\nEvent Moderator – Lucien Niemeyer\nOpening Remarks: 1100 – 1120\nDr. John Matyjas\, Dr. Don Pellegrino\nFraming the technical and operational imperatives for semantic decision advantage.\n· Knowledge graph architectures in ISR and logistics\n· Digital engineering and MBSE in defense acquisition successes and lessons learned.  \nPanel Discussion: 1125 – 1220 – Denise Ferniza (Moderator)\nOvercoming Data and Interoperability Barriers\n· Siloed systems\, standards of adoption\, and bridging commercial and government solutions.\nPanelists\nDr. John Matyjas\, Dr. Don Pellegrino\, Mr. John Sayoun  \nBREAK – LUNCH: 1225-1240\nSolution Focused Discussion: 1245 –1345\n· Logistics Modernization & Data-Driven Decision Support\n· Open discussion of current requirements and how they’re being piloted  \nSolution Focused Discussion: 13:50 – 14:20\n· Best practices for leveraging OTAs and accelerating tech transfer  \nAction Planning: 14:25 –1500 – Lucien Niemeyer (Moderator)\nFrom Insights to Action – Operator Next Steps\n· Wrap up and distilling days discussions into actionable next steps\n· Identify projects\, technical working groups\, and next steps for cross-organizational collaboration.  \nTechnical Focus Areas to be covered during the event:\n1. Semantic Decision Advantage Architectures\n· Exploring how semantic technologies like knowledge graphs and ontologies give commanders faster\, more accurate decision advantage across operations and logistics.\n2. Digital Engineering & Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)\n· Discussions on how digital twins and MBSE accelerate requirement validation\, de-risk acquisition\, and speed MVPs into operational use.\n3. Logistics Modernization & Data-Driven Decision Support\n· How data-driven logistics\, 5G-enabled warehouses\, and AI tools cut friction\, break silos\, and keep forces supplied at the edge.\n4. Rapid Acquisition & Tech Transfer\n· Practical playbooks for using OTAs and rapid pathways to field new capabilities faster and avoid duplicate efforts across services.\n5. Operator and Stakeholder Engagement\n· What’s working\, what’s not\, and where semantic\, AI\, and digital engineering must go next. \nShare this location:
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