Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
Women in tech, fintech, AI, healthtech, and education will connect with founders, investors, researchers, and other professionals for peer learning, collaboration, and one-minute elevator pitches. The event will bring together experienced innovators and aspiring entrepreneurs to exchange insights and explore new opportunities.
Explore eventWomen founders, entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals will connect across tech, fintech, AI, and startups, with knowledge-sharing and one-minute pitches creating opportunities for mentorship, collaboration, and funding. The event will bring together aspiring and established business leaders, innovators, and service providers.
Explore eventEncord’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 eventDive 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 eventEncord will host a capped, 200-person Long Horizon afterparty, bringing summit attendees and robotics and Physical AI builders together for drinks, canapés, and conversation. The event will be sponsored by CoreWeave, an AI cloud provider trusted by leading labs and enterprises, and LanceDB, a multimodal AI data platform.
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 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 eventAI operations professionals will turn workflow ideas into practical pilots, focusing on actionable experiments with real-world potential.
Explore eventEngineers will test emerging AI-agent infrastructure in four hands-on workshops, building real workflows for live-web research and reliable, observable agent loops, with more sessions to be announced. Workshops will be led by practitioners including Nimble’s Head of FDE and Director of Solution Consulting and Comet’s AI Research Engineer and Developer Advocate.
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 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.
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