Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
StepFun 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 eventTen agents will go live in rapid-fire 5-minute demos, each showing exactly what happens when the button gets pressed—no fluff, just pure execution.
Explore eventSeries A+ AI founders and Seed-stage founders with at least $2M ARR will share candid, practical insights on fundraising, go-to-market strategy, and scaling over a three-course dinner. The curated gathering will be hosted by Brderless, a founder community, with Keka, an integrated HR and workforce management platform.
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 eventOpen-source AI leaders and maintainers will gather to celebrate the projects and contributors pushing the field forward, complete with drinks and live music to cap off the night.
Explore eventOn Oct 24–25, 175 hand-picked founders and professionals with 2+ years of experience will use AI and Emergent’s tools to turn ambitious ideas into working products, with YC judges awarding up to $10,000 and a direct interview for an upcoming YC batch. The weekend will welcome pre-seed and pre-company builders across engineering, product, design, operations, sales, and finance, even those new to coding.
Explore eventThe third annual Hack for Social Impact will bring technical and non-technical innovators together for a weekend of building solutions in climate, mental health, justice reform, and art and design, with nonprofit partners including the UNCCD. Winners will share $5,000 in prizes, and the event will offer sponsor credits, building on alumni successes that include UN Climate Conference presentations and YC-backed startups.
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 eventEnterprise AI leaders—CDOs, Chief AI Officers, and VP-level practitioners—will converge to tackle governance, agentic automation, and AI ROI strategy alongside speakers like Michael I. Jordan, Peter Norvig, and Chip Huyen in an exclusive 250-person summit. The three-day event will dig into AI adoption, ethics, workforce transformation, and agent systems through intimate peer validation and strategy alignment with your core team.
Explore eventPractitioners, business leaders, and AI enthusiasts will gather to explore reskilling opportunities and connect with others navigating the AI landscape. The event brings together professionals at various stages of their AI journey to share insights and build their expertise.
Explore eventData and AI professionals will dive into cutting-edge workshops and hands-on training led by industry experts, while business leaders and career switchers gain strategic insights on navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape. The three-day event will feature thought leaders sharing the latest breakthroughs and practical applications shaping the future of data science and AI.
Explore eventData and ML engineers will build an end-to-end agentic geospatial pipeline, turning satellite and weather data into hazard-risk scores and interactive Felt dashboards using Apache Sedona, Wherobots, and Amazon Bedrock. Led by Wherobots, an AWS Partner founded by the creators of Apache Sedona, the hands-on workshop will cover spatial SQL, data pipelines, natural-language map creation, and live data connections.
Explore eventAI Valley and developer-tool company Flox will host an interactive Halloween murder mystery, where attendees investigate a broken build, uncover clues about dependencies and environment drift, and see how Flox creates reproducible software environments across laptops, CI, and production. The evening will also feature real developer horror stories and a Halloween mixer.
Explore eventLeading AI companies Nebius and Voxel51 will host a Physical AI Workshop where engineers and developers will explore cutting-edge applications of embodied AI systems. Attendees can expect hands-on discussions and networking with industry practitioners shaping the future of robotics and physical AI technology.
Explore eventInfrastructure leaders, SREs, MLOps and platform engineers will explore how to keep AI systems dependable under heavy load, GPU failures, and degraded dependencies. The session will cover resilient architectures, incident automation, AI-specific SLOs, and practical lessons from major outages, with insights grounded in Rootly AI’s work supporting reliability teams at companies including NVIDIA and LinkedIn.
Explore eventEngineers building coding agents, harnesses, verification systems, and software factories will explore how to turn increasingly capable agents into reliable systems across the software lifecycle. Prime Intellect researcher Seth Karten, who leads Prime Agent and the Continual Harness, will present a self-improving harness with swarm communication.
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