Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
A dynamic gathering will bring together AI enthusiasts, builders, and thinkers to dive into reasoning models, ethics, business implications, and real-world AI impact—with Berkeley's AI War Room energy and community driving candid discussions on what's reshaping the field right now.
Explore eventFestiverse 2026 will gather a vibrant mix of builders, designers, founders, artists, and engineers to innovate the future of festivals through AI, AR, and immersive tech, reimagining how we celebrate cultural moments worldwide. This global hackathon promises groundbreaking creations from AI planners to virtual celebration platforms that will transform holiday experiences.
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 eventThe application-only AI Engineer Code Summit will bring together leading coding-agent builders and AI engineers for three days of focused exchange, November 10–12, 2026.
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.
Explore eventAI leaders from Akamai, NVIDIA, IDC, and Reactor will explore distributed inference, secure agentic workloads, and real-time multimodal AI through expert talks, live architecture demos, and hands-on infrastructure testing. CTOs, founders, and engineering leaders will also hear futurist Salim Ismail’s perspective on how AI will reshape organizations.
Explore eventData science leaders and AI researchers will converge for curated sessions exploring how machine learning drives enterprise innovation, with senior executives and top local talent diving into predictive analytics and real-world AI implementations.
Explore eventThe Frontier Voice AI Summit will bring builders, product and business leaders, growth teams, and operators together for two days exploring what’s working, and what’s next, in voice AI. The program will feature morning keynotes, a Vapi product keynote, afternoon breakouts, a fireside chat, and daily happy hours.
Explore eventSGLang Summit 2026 will bring 2,000+ engineers, researchers, builders, and leaders together to explore frontier AI models, infrastructure, hardware, agents, robotics, and real-world applications through talks, workshops, demos, and technical sessions. Speakers will include Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, OpenAI’s Lilian Weng, Thinking Machines Lab’s Soumith Chintala, and Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas.
Explore eventLeading researchers will dig into how AI is transforming biological discovery by cutting through noise to extract meaningful patterns from massive datasets.
Explore eventAI Snack Club members will kick off the quarterly, hands-on GTM Lab series with CRM, the foundation for outbound, workflows, forecasting, and retention. The session will be led by Michelle Zhang.
Explore eventVapiCon’s after party will bring attendees together for high-energy networking, arcade games, crafted cocktails, and light bites after two days focused on the future of voice AI. Founders, engineers, and product leaders from Vapi, OpenAI, LangChain, Deepgram, and other teams will have a relaxed setting to trade ideas and connect.
Explore eventDevelopers, ML and edge engineers, founders, and students will build offline AI applications using Liquid Foundation Models and Qualcomm iQ9s, then test them with Wi-Fi switched off. Qualcomm Developer Relations professional Heath Blandford and Liquid AI Developer Relations professional Viviana Márquez will lead a workshop, with Qualcomm iQ9s and Rubik Pi boards awarded to top teams.
Explore eventQCon 2026 will bring senior engineers from top tech companies together for five days of deep dives into AI in production, software architecture, leadership, and modern development practices, sharing real-world insights from successful large-scale implementations. This event will feature candid sessions by experienced practitioners and hands-on training designed to elevate strategic and practical skills in engineering leadership and system design.
Explore eventBackprop by Tokens& will bring AI and security engineers together for expert talks and technical deep dives on agent sandboxing, identity, permissions, tool security, and adversarial testing. Speakers will include Mastra CEO and founder Sam Bhagwat, Adaption co-founder Sara Hooker, WorkOS founder Michael Grinich, and VGS Senior VP of Finance Simon Tiu.
Explore eventDeveloper advocates from Deepgram and Vapi will guide attendees through building a working phone voice agent in one evening, with hands-on support for beginners and experienced makers alike. The session will cover a complete build, with dinner and drinks provided.
Explore eventTechnologists and healthcare professionals will explore cutting-edge algorithmic solutions transforming patient outcomes and digital health systems. Expect hands-on demos, insights from industry innovators, and discussions on the intersection of AI and modern medicine.
Explore eventOn November 28, robotics and AI engineers, researchers, and builders will team up with Google DeepMind to prototype Physical AI across perception, spatial reasoning, dexterity, autonomy, and human-machine interaction. The day will feature hands-on building with robotics and simulation tools, finalist demos, and judging by NVIDIA Gen AI Solutions Architect Vineeth Kalluru.
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