Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
Dive into the latest in AI Engineering with industry experts including Daytona's DevRel team, featuring deep dives into agent runtime architecture and emerging AI innovations followed by networking with fellow builders and researchers. Oracle and Daytona will bring together AI enthusiasts and professionals for talks spanning practical agent infrastructure challenges and beyond, capped off with pizza and conversation.
Explore eventThe discussion will explore what can be built on your own hardware within company infrastructure, and how those efforts can address broader societal challenges.
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 eventBuilders, founders, and AI experts will gather for a full-day summit featuring keynotes from industry leaders, live product demos, and deep dives into AI agents, infrastructure, and emerging startups. You'll network with engineers, investors, and founders shaping the next generation of AI technology on October 21, 2026.
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 eventHardware startup founders and builders will get practical answers on patent filings and strategies for building early-stage patent portfolios in a fireside chat with Fearn’s former Big Law patent experts. The meetup will also feature time to connect with the hardware community and learn about Flux AI’s AI-powered PCB design platform.
Explore eventBaosen Zhang, an Associate Professor at University of Washington and NSF CAREER award recipient, will walk through how physics-driven AI models can make power grids smarter and more stable while keeping electricity costs down—all while actually guaranteeing the safety constraints that grid operators need. He'll break down how these models work across different grid setups and tackle some seriously tough optimization problems that current tools struggle with.
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 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 eventBuilders, researchers, founders, and investors will team up to create working products that reason across images, video, audio, documents, and real-world data. The build-first hackathon will feature application, agent, and infrastructure tracks, with technical credits, cash prizes, and Beta Fund Fellowship opportunities for standout teams.
Explore eventThe San Francisco Summit will bring together 300 senior women across AI, product, venture, fintech, and startups for a full day of keynotes, panels, and industry-seated networking. Speakers will include Cymbiotika co-founder Durana Elmi, Redpoint Ventures Partner Meera Clark, Headline VC Venture Partner Nandini Mullaji, and leaders from OpenAI, Block, Apollo, and lululemon.
Explore eventThe Patch the Conference Hackathon will bring builders together to create practical fixes for conference frustrations, with workshops, sponsor tools, free OpenAI credits, and a full day of prototyping and demos. Projects will be judged on stage, with iPhone Duos and other prizes up for grabs; featured tools include FalkorDB, an open-source graph database for AI agents.
Explore eventNewKid will bring families, researchers, educators, and startup founders together for conversations and hands-on experiences exploring AI, child development, and the future of education. Highlights will include product showcases, expert panels, a brain-development exhibition, and a philosophy workshop on whether a robot can be a friend.
Explore eventNebius and Voxel51 will host a hands-on Physical AI Workshop on October 28 where attendees will work with real robotics data, explore multimodal MCAP recordings in FiftyOne, and fine-tune a YOLO11n detector live using Nebius's serverless AI infrastructure. The session brings together engineers and practitioners interested in practical robotics AI workflows, featuring networking, lightning talks, and a deep dive into taking raw robot logs to trained detection models.
Explore eventEngineers, founders, and researchers will gather to tackle the real production challenges of voice agents—from latency and turn-taking to orchestration and human handoff—with practical insights from teams already shipping these systems across customer support, healthcare, and financial services. Expect hands-on workshops, keynotes from voices like Pete Warden (CEO, Moonshine AI) and Rissa Cao (CEO, Fish Audio), and direct conversations with 20+ companies actually building production-grade voice AI.
Explore eventTeams of 3–5 will spend 48 hours building AI research systems that can run experiments, improve themselves, and collaborate as agent swarms, using partner models, tools, and benchmarks. Participants will receive GPU and API credits, lab mentorship, and prizes, then pitch their work to judges, investors, and leading researchers.
Explore eventAfter Tokens will bring engineers building AI economy infrastructure together for technical talks and production-system breakdowns on metering, pricing, billing, entitlements, cost control, and moving beyond token-based models. Hosted by Stigg, the one-day conference will explore how AI usage connects to what customers actually buy.
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