Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into Boston.
This informal, growth-focused meetup will explore infrastructure-backed “Alt Clouds,” including GPU, AI, data, developer, connectivity, and sovereign clouds. Subconscious CEO and co-founder Jack O’Brien will discuss long-horizon inference, while Shopify Lead Solutions Engineer Sebastian Bryers will share lessons from Shopify’s agentic coding setup.
Explore eventStudents will tour WHOOP’s headquarters and hear directly from the founders, operators, and recruiters building AI and performance technology at a fast-growing company. The visit will offer an inside look at how WHOOP works and a chance to ask its team questions.
Explore eventFounders, researchers, and operators will explore what’s changed in physical AI, how robots move from lab demos to customer floors, and what it takes to scale hard-tech companies. The panel features Rob Playter, former Boston Dynamics CEO, and David Johnson, Walden Robotics’ Chief Product Officer and a Stanford PhD, moderated by Root Ventures founding partner Avidan Ross.
Explore eventUrvashi Mohnani of Red Hat will explore how AI is reshaping everyday Git and GitHub workflows, with practical insights into what’s changing for developers.
Explore eventProfessor Thibaut Vidal from École Polytechnique de Montréal will dig into how operations research techniques can expose and fix privacy vulnerabilities in machine learning models used in finance and medicine, revealing everything from data reconstruction attacks on random forests to how counterfactual explanations can be exploited—and why differential privacy alone isn't the silver bullet everyone thinks it is.
Explore eventEntrepreneur and venture capitalist Modar Alaoui, author of *The Humanoid Economy* and founder of ALM Ventures and the Humanoids Summit, will discuss the future of humanoid robotics. The event will also feature networking with robotics leaders, investors, and startups, plus a signed copy of his book for attendees.
Explore eventA conversation on leveraging Large Language Models to push brain imaging research forward while maintaining ethical standards and reproducible methodologies will unfold.
Explore eventMIT's Center for International Studies will host a Global Research & Policy Seminar featuring lunch and opportunities to engage with leading scholars and policymakers on pressing international issues.
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