Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
Encord’s two-day Long Horizon Physical AI Summit will bring together 1,000+ senior leaders from leading robotics, autonomous systems, and frontier AI companies for 60+ speakers, 30 sessions, hands-on workshops, and an expo. Day one will spotlight robotics and embodied AI, followed by autonomy across AV, ADAS, and defense.
Explore eventLaravel, PlanetScale, and WorkOS leaders will discuss where AI agents are helping, the risks they’re encountering, and what’s working as teams build and scale. The panel will feature Laravel founder and CEO Taylor Otwell, PlanetScale CEO Sam Lambert, WorkOS founder and CEO Michael Grinich, and host Aaron Francis, Laravel’s VP of Marketing & Community.
Explore eventAI developers and founders from the PyTorch and AGNTCon + MCPCon communities will gather for an evening of food, drinks, and networking before legendary hip-hop group DE LA SOUL delivers a live performance. It's a rare convergence of the AI ecosystem's top contributors and maintainers capping off with an unforgettable show.
Explore eventEngineering leaders will gather for an intimate dinner to dig into the messy reality of moving AI agents from demo to production—where you'll swap war stories with peers tackling identical scaling challenges and learn about the gotchas you haven't encountered yet.
Explore eventAI operations professionals will turn workflow ideas into practical pilots, focusing on actionable experiments with real-world potential.
Explore eventOn October 22, a curated group of 8–12 founders and investors will meet for pickleball, followed by a light dinner. The event is geared toward Seed-to-Series A+ founders, founders with $1M+ ARR, and investors focused on Seed-to-Series A.
Explore eventStrukto.AI, Infron.AI, and XTrace will spotlight open-source infrastructure for AI agents and models, covering virtual filesystems, agent tools, sandboxed runtimes, and inference. Founder and CEO Zecheng Zhang, NVIDIA tech lead Dewey Fang, and other AI infrastructure leaders will give lightning talks and take part in a panel and Q&A.
Explore eventTeqfocus’s initiative will bring professionals together to connect, exchange ideas, and elevate their expertise.
Explore eventGitHub and Hugging Face will bring together ML practitioners and RL researchers for an evening diving into how AI agents are trained and evaluated—covering everything from reward design and multi-step training to the real-world gaps that matter. Expect rapid-fire talks from industry builders at Microsoft, Hugging Face, and emerging agent startups, plus a panel unpacking what actually works in agent RL and where the ecosystem needs to go next.
Explore eventStepFun and Together AI will unveil Step 5 Preview and host a panel on what’s next in AI, with founders, developers, and AI builders networking over food and drinks.
Explore eventSeries A+ AI founders and Seed-stage founders with at least $2M ARR will share candid, practical insights on fundraising, go-to-market strategy, and scaling over a three-course dinner. The curated gathering will be hosted by Brderless, a founder community, with Keka, an integrated HR and workforce management platform.
Explore eventOpen-source AI leaders and maintainers will gather to celebrate the projects and contributors pushing the field forward, complete with drinks and live music to cap off the night.
Explore eventEnterprise AI leaders—CDOs, Chief AI Officers, and VP-level practitioners—will converge to tackle governance, agentic automation, and AI ROI strategy alongside speakers like Michael I. Jordan, Peter Norvig, and Chip Huyen in an exclusive 250-person summit. The three-day event will dig into AI adoption, ethics, workforce transformation, and agent systems through intimate peer validation and strategy alignment with your core team.
Explore eventLeading AI companies Nebius and Voxel51 will host a Physical AI Workshop where engineers and developers will explore cutting-edge applications of embodied AI systems. Attendees can expect hands-on discussions and networking with industry practitioners shaping the future of robotics and physical AI technology.
Explore eventInfrastructure leaders, SREs, MLOps and platform engineers will explore how to keep AI systems dependable under heavy load, GPU failures, and degraded dependencies. The session will cover resilient architectures, incident automation, AI-specific SLOs, and practical lessons from major outages, with insights grounded in Rootly AI’s work supporting reliability teams at companies including NVIDIA and LinkedIn.
Explore eventEngineers building coding agents, harnesses, verification systems, and software factories will explore how to turn increasingly capable agents into reliable systems across the software lifecycle. Prime Intellect researcher Seth Karten, who leads Prime Agent and the Continual Harness, will present a self-improving harness with swarm communication.
Explore eventWomen in AI will bring together female founders building the next generation of AI and tech for a hands-on ceramics workshop that ditches the typical networking format—think creative collaboration over clay instead of another coffee chat. No experience necessary, just bring your curiosity and expect to connect with some seriously innovative women reshaping the AI landscape.
Explore eventEnterprise IT leaders and infrastructure architects will dive into the real challenges of scaling agentic AI systems—from taming compute costs to managing complex multi-agent orchestration—while getting unfiltered insights from peers who are actively building these systems at scale. The event will feature proprietary research on agentic AI strategies and create space for meaningful conversations with a curated community of technical decision-makers working through the same infrastructure headaches.
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