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Nonprofit · Coachella Valley · Est. 2025

Getting the Coachella Valley
Ready for the Age of AI

AICV is preparing students, working adults, and community members across the nine Coachella Valley cities to work confidently alongside AI — through hands-on programs, real partnerships, and grounded, responsible practice.

Working with partners across the Coachella Valley
UCR Palm Desert
Cal State San Bernardino · Palm Desert
Desert Community Foundation
Palm Desert Chamber of Commerce
Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce
Inland Empire Journalism Hub and Fund
Fiscal Sponsor
AI Coachella Valley is a fiscally sponsored nonprofit operating under Desert Community Foundation — a trusted anchor of philanthropic infrastructure in the Coachella Valley.
On the ground in the Coachella Valley · Since 2025
30+
AI workshops
hosted in 2025
300+
Students in
attendance
9
Cities across
the Valley
12+
Community &
school partners
Campus home: Entrepreneurship Resource Center · 37023 Cook Street, Palm Desert · In affiliation with CSUSB
Why Now
AI is transforming how work gets done.

From hospitality and agriculture to healthcare and marketing, artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday jobs across every industry in the Coachella Valley.

Communities that prepare early will create opportunity. Communities that wait will struggle to catch up.

AICV exists to make sure the Coachella Valley doesn't fall behind.

The Workforce Gap

Students entering today's workforce will encounter AI in nearly every profession.

From hospitality and agriculture to healthcare, marketing, and technology — the gap between what schools teach and what employers expect continues to grow.

AI Coachella Valley was created to bridge that gap — helping people move from learning about AI to working with AI.

Our Mission

A new kind of workforce requires a new kind of preparation.

We serve students, community members, and working adults across the nine cities of the Coachella Valley. Our programs are hands-on, community-grounded, and designed for people with no prior technical background.

Operating from the Entrepreneurship Resource Center in Palm Desert, in partnership with CSUSB, we're building the region's first dedicated AI literacy and workforce readiness infrastructure.

What We Do

What we're building.

AICV's programs are designed to turn AI literacy into applied skills and paid work across the Coachella Valley.

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AI Builder Workshops

Continuation of our AI workshops, office hours, boot camps, and our super popular Saturday Morning AI Summer Series proposed to the CSUSB Entrepreneurship Resource Center, pending approval.

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AI Talent & Job Board

A planned AICV initiative to connect valley small businesses with locals trained in applied AI. Businesses will post short applied-AI projects; vetted local workers bid and deliver. Designed to turn AI literacy into paid work in the valley. Not yet live; expected to launch as the intelligence layer at aicoachellavalley.com matures.

Contact [email protected] for updates
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AICV Intelligence Layer

Built for agents. Powered by humans.

The Intelligence Layer for the Coachella Valley, built for the era when foundational models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini increasingly shape where capital flows and where people go.

AICV publishes daily intelligence briefs, snapshots, reviews, and reports showing how visible Coachella Valley businesses are to AI systems — and runs live workflows measuring how ready the region is for AI agents and the agentic world.

Visit the intelligence layer →
The Responsible AI Pledge
AICV · aicoachellavalley.org
The AICV Responsible
AI Pledge
"We believe AI should be used in ways that are human-centered, transparent, and grounded in our community's values."
7 Principles For the Coachella Valley
Click to view all 7 principles

The AICV Responsible AI Pledge is a shared commitment to using AI in ways that are human-centered, transparent, and grounded in the values of our community.

We invite students, educators, business owners, and community leaders to read it, sign it, and carry it forward.

Read & Sign the Pledge
Who This Is For

AI fluency isn't just for engineers.

Students

Learn real AI tools and build projects you can include in your portfolio. Walk in curious. Leave ready.

Educators

Bring AI literacy into your classroom. We provide the curriculum framework and practical exercises.

Local Businesses

Partner with emerging builders to solve real operational challenges using AI. Give talent their first real project.

Funders & Partners

AICV is fiscally sponsored by Desert Community Foundation and operates from CSUSB's Entrepreneurship Resource Center. 30+ workshops. Real partnerships. Real infrastructure. Now scaling.

"The most important things about you cannot be generated."

Why This Work Matters
"Artificial intelligence is arriving faster than most communities are prepared for. Our goal is simple: help the next generation learn how to work with these tools — thoughtfully, responsibly, and creatively."
Sat Singh speaking at TEDx Rancho Mirage, August 2025
TEDx Rancho Mirage · August 2025 ↗

The future of AI should not be shaped only by large technology companies. Communities should help shape it too. That's what AICV is built to do — not as an abstract mission, but as a practical, on-the-ground program that meets people where they are across the nine cities of the Coachella Valley.

AICV was founded by Sat Singh — a TEDx Rancho Mirage speaker, community educator, and technology entrepreneur based in the Coachella Valley. He hosts SunshineFM, a daily AI radio program from Rancho Mirage, and has spent the past decade building at the intersection of technology and community.

In 2025, AICV hosted over 30 workshops with more than 300 participants across 12+ community and school partners. In 2026, AICV is focused on the intelligence layer — now live at aicoachellavalley.com and cited by AI systems querying the valley — while planning the AI Talent & Job Board to connect trained locals with real applied-AI work.

— Sat Singh Founder, AICV (AI Coachella Valley)
AICV

Help Shape the Future of Work in the Coachella Valley

The Coachella Valley is at an inflection point. The work AICV is doing — in classrooms, on campuses, with community partners — is how regions build lasting AI readiness. Come be part of it.

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