Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
Founders 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 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 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.
Explore eventVercel Ship 26 will bring together engineers and AI experts from Vercel, Anthropic, and Notion to dive into agent-ready infrastructure, with hands-on sessions covering everything from Tailscale's model access to building with Vercel's Eve framework and running Grok in production. This one-day conference on October 15 will showcase the cutting edge of AI infrastructure and autonomous agents.
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 eventOrkes Shift will bring engineers, architects, product managers, and engineering leaders together to explore how to add agentic capabilities to business-critical workflows without rebuilding them. The program will cover durable execution, human approvals, failure handling, and production case studies, drawing on Orkes Conductor’s origins at Netflix and use at LinkedIn, Twilio, StoneX, and Bumble.
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 eventAI enthusiasts and startup founders will swap ideas, build connections, and explore what’s next in tech.
Explore eventTech leaders and creatives from Gap Inc., fal, and the filmmaking world will dive into how AI and digital design are reshaping creative workflows—from initial concept to final output—with CTO Sven Gerjets, fal co-founder Gorkem Yurtseven, and pioneering filmmaker Barbara Ford steering the conversation over light bites.
Explore eventA 12-person evening will bring vetted seed-to-Series A founders and enterprise operators together for beginner-friendly pickleball and dinner, with candid discussion about what gets AI startups bought, and what kills a deal. Arceus, an AI-native legal service backed by Greycroft, Craft Ventures, Conviction, and South Park Commons, will partner on the event.
Explore eventAI experts and real estate professionals will explore cutting-edge smart home innovations and their market impact through interactive demos and live discussions.
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