StarStream Labs
StarStream Labs empowers companies and governments through hands-on immersion of the latest technologies, learning how to distinguish hype and opportunities in emerging trends, and direct exposure to the innovation and economics of Silicon Valley.
Innovation Immersion Program
StarStream Labs's Innovation Immersion program educates your executive team, improve their comprehension of the latest in innovation and technology (as well as the potential opportunities and threats).
We combine on-site visits of Silicon Valley companies, startups, and universities with expert presentations, and serious hands on demos of cutting edge consumer technology.
Our programs are tailored for each client based on your needs: ranging from a single day to multiple days, and hosted either in person at Silicon Valley, or virtually.
On-site Tours
Our Innovation Immersion program includes luxury transport and guided visits of key Silicon Valley locations including:
World Class Universities
Quite a few of Silicon Valley's Entrepreneurs and Employees graduate (and sometimes drop out of) the surrounding Universities. These schools (Stanford, Berkley, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, etc.) are amongst the most prestigious and competitive on the planet. You'll visit them, walk around the campus, hear insider stories about their culture and mentality which consistently produces top tier graduates.
Top Companies
Visit Silicon Valley's top tech companies. StarSteam Labs will guide you through their public campuses and provide insights on both the differences of their corporate cultures, as well as how these different companies have used their different cultures to conquer their respective parts of the industry.
Groundbreaking Startups
StarStream Labs will use our vast network of connections in order to find startups in the industries that you are concerned with. You'll visit or meet with these startups and hear from them directly as to how they innovate and lay new ground.
* On-Site tours are only available in the in person program, obviously.
Expert Presentations
Our team of expert presenters will give you deeper and more intimate understanding of how bleeding-edge technology and the tech industry actually works (as opposed to what is reported in the media), while still explaining it in a way that is straight-forward for a "non-technical" person to understand.
Some of our presentations include:
Talks by Engineers at top tech companies and startups
How they got their jobs, how working in Silicon Valley has boosted their careers, and how their company's culture pushes them forward to stay ahead of the competition
Distinguishing Hype from Reality
Finding truth in the age of engagement driven hyper-reality
Practical uses of ChatGPT to write computer code
How I used AI in 5 minutes to replace 3 months of programming
The Silicon Valley Business Model
Pump the stock price to the moon and then DUMP on retail at the IPO
"Dark Patterns" in User Design
How modern design purposely confuses users, maximizes engagement, and pushes them to spend more money
Dying Hype, Increased Interests Rates, and AI
How the Tech Industry uses Hype and low interest rates to fuel massive growth, and how the new economic situation (and AI) is leading to job cuts across the board
Millionaires living next to Homeless people
Exposing the contradictory reality and economics of living of Silicon Valley
Congratulations on your PhD, You better raise 5 million soon
Understanding the Economics of STEM Higher Education at Top Universities
Hands on Demos
Our hands on tech demos start with an short explanation of the technology, including how it works under the hood, as well as the true challenges and opportunities that insiders are aware of.
Some of our tech demos include:
Virtual Reality/ Mixed Reality
Strap on our custom modified Meta Quest 3 helmet and try some of the latest Virtual and Mixed Reality games and experiences. Your group will then create your own virtual reality world and you'll finish the demo by exploring your beautiful work of art in Virtual Reality.
Conversational AI
We'll explain how ChatGPT (and Generate Language Models) are basically just giant math problems. We programmed an AI that you can talk to like Siri or Amazon Echo. It will order a Pizza for you by phoning a local pizza place. And then you get to eat the pizza.
Tesla Self Driving Car
Learn how the Computer Vision challenges of Object Detection and Recognition are the major challenge behind full Self Driving cars. After the lecture, we'll take your group out for a self-driven ride on the latest Tesla car.
Also: Drones, 3D Printing
FAQs
What is included in the Innovation Immersion Program?
- - Private luxury van with driver to pickup your group from your hotel, drive you to all locations, and return you to your hotel at the end of the day.
- - Lunch and Happy Hour at the end of the day.
What is not included in the Innovation Immersion Program?
- - Hotel accommodations (But we can recommend some for you if you aren't certain where you would like to stay).
