Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
Attendees will build a LangGraph-powered ML engineer agent that evaluates, fine-tunes, deploys, and retrains open models on their own AWS infrastructure, using Union.ai’s durable workflow runtime. The hands-on session will cover model ownership and sovereign AI, followed by time to experiment with models, datasets, and evaluation workflows.
Explore eventEngineers, designers, creative technologists, and people with firsthand knowledge of San Francisco’s everyday challenges will build and demo prototypes to make life better for residents, using Mistral AI and Elasticsearch. Projects may tackle transit, neighborhood businesses, public spaces, community connections, or city services, with SF open data available as a starting point.
Explore eventThis hands-on session will show how to build a LangGraph-powered ML engineer agent that evaluates, fine-tunes, deploys, and retrains open models using Union.ai on AWS, keeping models, data, and infrastructure under your control. Attendees will then experiment with their own models and datasets, exploring practical approaches to sovereign AI and end-to-end model ownership.
Explore eventBrooke Hopkins, Coval founder and CEO who previously led evaluation infrastructure at Waymo, and Korinne Alpers, Cloudflare’s Voice AI product manager and co-author of its experimental Agents SDK voice pipeline, will discuss building, testing, and operating reliable voice agents at production scale. The fireside chat will cover latency, conversation state, regression testing, and human review, followed by audience Q&A.
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Explore eventLiquid AI will spotlight decision models, fast, structured systems that return calibrated probabilities for tasks across text, vision, and audio, with a technical talk and developer showcase. Presenters will include Maxime Labonne, Liquid AI’s Head of Post-Training and creator of the open-source LLM Course, and Viviana Márquez, an AI engineer and instructor who has taught more than 4,000 learners.
Explore eventPress Club’s workshop will break down how founders can build targeted journalist lists, achieve higher email response rates, and secure coverage for launches and funding announcements. Host Press Club brings hands-on experience landing clients in Forbes, TechCrunch, and Axios.
Explore eventExperts will assess the likelihood and severity of 24 AI-related risks through 2030, highlighting which potential harms researchers consider most pressing. The findings will offer a concise, evidence-informed view of the risks ahead.
Explore eventElastic{ON} AI will deliver a free, one-day technical conference for developers, SREs, security analysts, and technical leaders, featuring expert-led demos and real-world sessions on Search, Security, Observability, and AI. Highlights will include the Elasticsearch Platform, ES|QL, AI integrations for real-time agents, and a three-month Elastic Certification extension for in-person attendees.
Explore eventForum Ventures team members Deirdre Clute and Sruthi Sivanandan will host a relaxed coffee meetup for pre-Series A B2B and AI founders and investors, with a focus on fostering connections for underrepresented voices in tech. The gathering will draw on Forum Ventures’ experience as an early-stage fund, accelerator, and AI venture studio.
Explore eventStanford computer science PhD researchers Jon Saad-Falcon and Avanika Narayan will present Intelligence per Watt, a study measuring how effectively local AI models deliver capability relative to energy use across 20+ models, 8 accelerators, and 1 million real-world queries. Recently accepted to NeurIPS 2026 and covered by outlets including the Financial Times and Reuters, the research will explore how efficiency metrics can guide where AI workloads run.
Explore eventNotion and Clover will host security leaders for a practical look at AI-powered vulnerability discovery and how security organizations may evolve in the AI era. Speakers will include Notion’s Head of Application & Infrastructure Security and CISOs and security executives from Notion, Vercel, and Amazon, with Clover co-founder Or Chen moderating the panel.
Explore eventSouth Park Commons will host a Design Chat with Ian Silber, former Head of Product Design at OpenAI, where he led design for ChatGPT and Codex. Silber will share perspectives shaped by his work at OpenAI, Instagram, including Reels, and Artifact.
Explore eventAuthor and Pragmatic Engineer host Gergely Orosz will speak live with software engineering leaders Bryan Cantrill and Diogo Almeida about how software is built today, AI’s impact on engineering, and what it means for teams. The conversation will draw on the speakers’ professional experience and WorkOS’s enterprise infrastructure used by more than 2,000 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Replit.
Explore eventAlbert’s List will organize an upcoming event that our meetup group will help promote; the description does not include the cost or other event details.
Explore eventKorean AI startup founders will exchange ideas and build connections with San Francisco-area founders, investors, and business leaders, exploring AI and international growth. The event is part of AICA’s U.S. expansion program, operated by PEN Ventures, a global accelerator and investment firm.
Explore eventProduct leader and Behind the Craft founder Peter Yang will co-host a Codex community meetup featuring live demos, practical AI workflows with Codex and Amplitude, and audience Q&A on building self-improving products. Product leaders, engineers, founders, and builders will exchange ideas and explore Amplitude’s AI capabilities.
Explore eventFrontier Research Club will examine whether generated world models can provide stable, useful training grounds for agents, and whether learned skills transfer to reality. OpenAI Research Scientist Bonnie Li, whose work at Google DeepMind included Gemini, Genie and SIMA 2, will lead a technical discussion of methods and failure modes.
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