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 eventAWS 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 eventWikiSalon brings together open knowledge enthusiasts for a monthly evening of pizza, drinks, and hands-on collaboration—whether you're making your first wiki edit, mapping with OpenStreetMaps, exploring AI and tech projects, or advancing your own work. Expert editors and contributors will be on hand to guide newcomers and help seasoned collaborators level up their skills.
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.
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