Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
AWS Community Day will feature expert-led sessions on Generative and Agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Strands Agents SDK, plus live demos from the top eight AWS hackathon teams. Cloud builders and industry professionals will explore practical AI applications, responsible agent design, and the latest developments shaping cloud technology.
Explore eventAWS Community Day will bring together Bay Area builders for a day diving into generative AI and agentic workflows, featuring live hackathon finals where the top 8 teams demo their AI projects built on AWS alongside technical sessions led by industry experts. Whether you're an experienced architect or starting your cloud journey, you'll connect with fellow builders exploring how autonomous agents and tools like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker are transforming real-world applications.
Explore eventSoftware engineers and AI builders will dig into debugging, optimizing, and scaling agentic systems with talks from Databricks and OpenAI engineers covering how to extract actionable insights from production traces and automatically improve agent behavior. The evening will feature hands-on discussion of multi-step agent architectures, real-world failure patterns, and practical evaluation frameworks for keeping AI systems healthy in production.
Explore eventThe AI Community Mahjong Night Series will pair Mahjong tutorials and open play for all skill levels with conversation about AI ideas and industry trends. Hosted by Workato, an Enterprise MCP company with a decade of integration expertise and connections to more than 14,000 applications, the evening will bring AI builders together over games and bites.
Explore eventLocal startups will showcase practical agentic AI applications, with demos running from 6–7 p.m. and time for networking before and after. The evening will highlight emerging tools and uses shaping the next phase of generative AI.
Explore eventTrotta will host a happy hour on October 13 where founders, operators, and CISOs can unwind with views of the San Francisco skyline while learning about their pre-delivery security platform that blocks phishing, BEC, deepfakes, and prompt injection across email, messaging, voice, and video in under 100ms.
Explore eventTaiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industrial Development Administration, and Taiwan Corporate Venture Capital Forum will host a TechCrunch side event connecting corporate VC teams, strategic and venture investors, and innovation leaders with Taiwanese founders. The event will spotlight emerging real-world AI technologies and opportunities for investment and partnership.
Explore eventMetronome Co-Founder and CEO Scott Woody will share how his firsthand experience as Dropbox’s Director of Engineering inspired a usage-based billing platform trusted by leading SaaS companies and later acquired by Stripe. The evening will feature a fireside chat and Q&A on building billing infrastructure for the AI era, with startup and venture perspectives from Pilot, Singapore Global Network, and Hustle Fund.
Explore eventThis upcoming event will explore AI alignment as a foundation for building safer, more capable systems, and why it may offer a stronger framework than Asimov’s Three Laws.
Explore eventAperture Nexus founder Vishakha Gupta will demo her open source memory layer that solves AI agents' session amnesia problem, with real practitioners like Sonam Gupta (Sr. Developer Advocate at Telnyx) showing production use cases and a panel discussion to follow. Bring your questions for this hands-on working session diving into actual architecture and how teams are already building with it.
Explore eventFounders Bay’s AI breakfast will bring founders, operators, and builders together for practical conversations on deploying AI systems, with a panel featuring NVIDIA Senior Product Manager Aditya Mahajan, Glean Product Designer Neel Saswade, and Clario Co-Founder and CTO Madhu Vohra. The morning will also feature Tesla’s supervised Full Self-Driving experience, showroom exploration, and networking.
Explore eventBuilders will race against the clock at FAST FORWARD to create AI apps, agents, and VR experiences with backing from Vercel and Meta, with Neon Postgres supporting the technical infrastructure across three competitive tracks. From breakfast through live demos, participants will ship innovations while mentors provide real-time support and judges evaluate the next generation of intelligent, adaptive tools.
Explore eventVinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures founder and Sun Microsystems co-founder and first CEO, will discuss hiring against a startup’s specific risks, building founding teams, and how AI may reshape talent strategy. Drawing on decades of investing in companies including OpenAI, Stripe, and DoorDash, he’ll share lessons with Outcast Ventures, an early-stage firm founded by alumni of Coatue, Kleiner Perkins, NFX, and YC.
Explore eventEngineering leaders, founders, and speakers will trade insights on scaling teams, navigating AI, and leading through high-pressure challenges during an informal networking evening. Hosted by Rootly AI, the AI-native incident response platform trusted by companies including LinkedIn, NVIDIA, and Canva, the gathering will feature craft cocktails and panoramic views.
Explore eventSpeakers from Amplitude x Statsig, Notion, Hex, and Unify will share how AI and agentic workflows are transforming growth strategy into production-ready marketing systems. The lineup includes experienced leaders in product marketing, marketing AI strategy, GTM engineering, and growth.
Explore eventThe Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will host a Dutch–U.S. panel and networking session on AI hardware bottlenecks, spanning chip design, architecture, packaging, and manufacturing. Food and drinks will be included.
Explore eventAI and tech founders, investors, and builders will connect and exchange ideas, bringing together people actively shaping the industry.
Explore eventThe Living Room: A TV of Tomorrow Salon “After Hours” will pair the prescient AI thriller *Colossus: The Forbin Project* with rare clips and conversation on science fiction, technology, and humanity’s place in an AI-driven world. Creators’ short films may also be screened, spanning experimental, animated, narrative, and AI-generated work.
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