FASTER FAHM Post #3 - FAHM Events + Filipinx American Innovators and Authors 📚📚📚
Join FASTER (Membership Form). RSVP to Events: 2nd Annual UCSF de Leon Symposium I PHTimeisNow I Buy Startup Mindsets Book + Listen to Podcast I Buy Lilo & Stitch
Happy FAHM!
This is our last Substack for October.
You will find additional posts featuring Filipinx American leaders in STEAM on our various official social media channels during the rest of the month.
Have a great rest of your October! 🇵🇭🇺🇸🎉
-FASTER Leadership Team
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Since our last FASTERCON (in-person and online), we have focused on internal operations and strategic support for community partners. We are building long-term cultural preservation initiatives and launching a Filipinx American Community Directory for speakers, small businesses, and content creators.
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💻 FASTER Tech Committee (led by Christopher de Leon and Erin Pangilinan),
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💼💻 Coordinator Roles - Roles range from convening our coalition of Business Affinity Employee (B/A/E) Groups to support professional development of our members, addressing the dynamic needs of our community, organizing professional development events throughout the year and at FASTERCON for working professionals in the industry, and representing our community in the broader Filipinx American community, Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander, and underrepresented people of color communities.
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🤝🏼 FASTER FRESH Membership Matching Program - Fill out this updated form if you are interested in getting support as a high tech startup founder/entrepreneur or investor. Upon submission and match, we will contact you to join our internal Slack channel and recommend resources (accelerator programs, intros, and other information) to be of the most help catered to your needs.
EVENT: RSVP to UCSF 2nd Annual: de Leon Lab Symposium
RSVP on Luma here.
2nd Annual de Leon Lab Symposium on October 12, 2024. It will be taking place at the Sandler Neurosciences Center (NSCC).
This year’s event we will present on brain health, CATS Battery, and more.
If you have any dietary restrictions or allergies please kindly fill out this form: https://forms.gle/ZuusRrCFdAcS929U6
We are looking forward to seeing you all soon! If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment or email Migel (migel.dio@ucsf.edu) and/or RJ (rochelle.reyes@ucsf.edu)! :)
Other upcoming events:
Thursday, October 24th
Banatao Auditorium - CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley.
Our FASTER Board Member and Program Director, Charity Nicolas is representing us at #PHTimeisNow this upcoming week. Details and RSVP.
Buy the Startup Mindsets Book
It is rare that many Filipinx Americans get picked up by a major publisher, and let’s keep getting more folks there so it will no longer be rare!
We are so excited to support our past FASTER Adviser, Earl Martin Sawit Valencia and Dan Gonzales (both previous FASTERCON speakers) with the release of their book, based on their podcast, Startup Mindsets.
Buy to read Startup Mindsets.
Listen to Startup Mindsets Podcast.
Learn more at their website here: startupmindsets.com
Earl Martin Valencia, Founder, Investor, Author
Earl Valencia is a venture-backed startup founder, investor and corporate innovation executive that has worked in Silicon Valley, New York and Southeast Asia. In 2023, he was appointed by the President of the Philippines as an Executive Member of the National Innovation Council representing the Business Sector. He spent his time in Wall Street in the data team of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, and a Managing Director of Digital at Charles Schwab. He also spent several years in enterprise tech working at the Emerging Technology and Innovation teams at Cisco, VMWare and Dell EMC. He was the VP of Corporate Development and Innovation at Smart-PLDT at 29, and became one of the youngest executives in the entire Philippines during his time. He also co-founded IdeaSpace, the leading incubator and accelerator based in Manila and QBO, the public-private innovation center of the Philippines, both with a combined 100+ incubated companies. For his contributions to emerging market innovation, he was honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, and awarded by the President of the Philippines as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women of the country. He was also featured in the NASDAQ Times Square Billboard for being selected in NASDAQ Centers Milestone Makers program. Earl started at the University of the Philippines and completed his degree in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from Boston University. He also has a Masters in Systems Engineering from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is currently an adjunct faculty for global leadership at the Jack Welch College of Business and Technology at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut and the Asian Institute of Management.
Dan Gonzales, Investor, Author
Dan Gonzales is a writer by nature with venture capital and startup experience. Fascinated by how entrepreneurs think and what gets them to perform, Dan developed close ties with the Silicon Valley founders and venture capitalists at VU Venture Partners. He holds a BA in English from University of California, Riverside. He hosts The Startup Mindsets Podcast, a platform that dives deep into how entrepreneurs make decisions and can run successful businesses. Dan has invested in several early stage startups including Akash Systems, Contraline, Fan Controlled Sports & Entertainment.
Moana McAdams is at it again!
Moana McAdams - We previously featured Moana for her amazing work on her podcast.
Most recently, she became the Lilo & Stitch Developmental Editor and Cultural Consultant for the ongoing series for Disney Press, and is an Author/Writer for Stitch 626 anthology. Buy Here Issue 1, Issue 3 , Issue 4
Established in 2015 by Erin Jerri Malonzo Pañgilinan, FASTER serves a multigenerational movement of Filipinx Americans in Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) and seeks to preserve the historical contributions of our community to the industry and society. We create, connect, and cultivate Filipinx American STEAM professionals primarily within the tech ecosystem of the United States with global reach. Through our various initiatives, we promote education, professional development, and innovation. We are dedicated to justice, equality, and excellence and work in coalition and in allyship to the broader Filipinx American, Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) and underrepresented communities of color.