Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
On October 12–13, AI founders, builders, and researchers will explore open weights, data, agents, infrastructure, and tooling, and how openness can drive more choice, better economics, faster innovation, and greater control.
Explore eventThe Open Intelligence Summit will explore how open, portable, and controllable AI can keep intelligence in builders’ hands, with deep dives, demos, and discussions from DigitalOcean, Nous Research, OpenHands, RadixArk, Inferact, and others. A hands-on Day 0 workshop with MLH will complement the Day 1 agenda.
Explore eventResearch leaders, principal investigators, and technologists will explore practical AI applications, get hands-on with foundation models, and examine how shared, open data can accelerate discovery.
Explore eventThis founder-focused fundraising event will pair candid insights from exited founders turned investors with live AI-and-investor feedback on five selected startup pitches. Panelists include PandaDoc founder Mikita Mikado and experienced early-stage investors backing companies from pre-seed through Series A.
Explore eventAI leaders and builders from Braintrust, Modal, Kernel, and TypeSafe will share relaxed conversations over food and cocktails, with no pitches or panels, just an informal evening for exchanging ideas.
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 eventA panel of experts will share practical instincts for managing advanced AI within enterprise technology, followed by breakfast and discussion.
Explore eventResearch leaders, principal investigators, and technologists will explore AI in research, foundation models, and open data through a hands-on technical workshop and focused discussion. The summit will also create opportunities to exchange ideas with peers.
Explore eventA cybersecurity panel moderated by Yahoo Finance’s Deirdre Bosa will examine AI-powered attacks, software supply-chain risks, and what defenders should do next. Snyk’s CTO Manoj Nair, OpenAI’s Technical Lead for Cyber Michael D’Angelo, Google Threat Intelligence Chief Analyst John Hultquist, and Boldstart Ventures founder Ed Sim will debate accountability and concrete steps CISOs can take by Q1 2027.
Explore eventFintech, banking, credit and AI leaders will explore how agentic AI could reshape financial operations, and where human judgment, trust and accountability will remain essential. The panel will feature senior product and technology leaders, a CEO and 5-time exit founder with 35+ years in financial services and payments, and a former Citi professional.
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 eventHUMANOID HUB will bring together robotics engineers, founders, researchers, and investors for two days of hands-on demos, technical talks, and panels on embodied AI, autonomy, hardware, and commercialization. Speakers will include experienced leaders from 1X Technologies, Google DeepMind, Skild AI, Dyna Robotics, and Physical Intelligence.
Explore eventHUMANOID HUB will bring robotics engineers, founders, researchers, and investors together for two days of live humanoid demos, hands-on showcases, technical talks, and panels on AI, hardware, autonomy, and commercialization. Speakers include leaders from 1X Technologies, Google DeepMind, Skild AI, Dyna Robotics, OpenMind, and Physical Intelligence.
Explore eventThe Industrial AI Summit will explore how AI is transforming manufacturing through robotics, computer vision, quality control, and supply chains, with a panel, startup demos, and networking. Investor Varad Mohod will moderate a conversation with founders Matt Puchalski of YC S24’s Bucket Robotics and Shan Mohta of YC S24’s Vendra, whose backgrounds include Argo AI, Skydio, Apple, and Microsoft.
Explore eventThe Fincantieri Maritime Dual-Use Hackathon will bring engineers, developers, founders, researchers, and designers together for 36 hours to prototype solutions in maritime cybersecurity, vessel design, and software-defined ships, using Qualcomm and Arduino hardware. Fincantieri experts and mentors will support teams, with a Qualcomm-powered laptop prize and possible follow-on development for promising concepts.
Explore eventDevelopers and AI researchers will compete in a two-day ExecuTorch hackathon across three hardware tracks—Snapdragon X Elite PCs, Samsung Galaxy devices, or Arduino boards—to build cutting-edge on-device AI applications using PyTorch's efficient edge deployment framework. Winning teams snag Meta AI glasses and premium hardware for each member.
Explore eventBuilder Odyssey will bring together 500+ AI founders, builders, creators, enterprise leaders, and investors to explore how AI tokens move from infrastructure into real-world products and production workflows. Keynotes and panels will feature leaders from Gen, Thorin, NewsBreak, Cresta, fal, DramaBox, Subotiz, and TinyFish, alongside hands-on demos and showcases.
Explore eventInclusionAI will bring together developers and researchers building open models and agent systems for drinks and food during Open Source AI Week 2026, diving into tough questions about benchmark reliability, agent capabilities beyond their base models, and how domain-specific AI can drive real-world impact in healthcare and finance. Backed by Ant Group's fintech expertise and featuring insights from the open-source community, it'll be a practical conversation on building trustworthy, accessible AI for high-stakes industries.
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