Tech Week.Los Angeles.

Hands-on workshop: build an MCP app

Myop

A two-hour hands-on workshop on building an MCP app that runs inside an AI chat experience.

Why go: A narrow, tangible outcome makes this worth considering if you want to prototype an integration during the week. Bring a laptop and a specific use case.

Bring a laptop.

Reliable Agents Need Evals: A Scale AI Workshop

Scale AI

Scale AI runs a workshop on defining evaluation criteria, identifying failure modes and improving agent reliability.

Why go: A named technical team and a live evaluation walkthrough make this one of the most practical choices for teams moving agents into production.

People: Brad Kenstler (Scale AI) · Ryan Kappedal (Scale AI)

Includes a talk, hands-on walkthrough and open Q&A.

The Official a16z Tech Week Kickoff by HSBC and Fenwick

HSBC + a16z Speedrun + Fenwick

HSBC, Fenwick and a16z speedrun host an evening gathering for founders, investors and startup leaders in Santa Monica.

Why go: A social opening to the week with a broad startup audience. Pair it with a substantive daytime session if you want both learning and connections.

Curated gathering; confirm acceptance and the venue with the organizer.

Builders & Brews LA

Tavily

Tavily and Nebius bring technical mentorship, workshops and focused project time to their LA builder gathering.

Why go: Flexible participation makes this useful even without a finished idea or hackathon team. You can work on a project and ask for technical help.

People: Jacquie Capur (Nebius)

Hackathon participation is optional; this local gathering is separate from the online competition.

Adobe & Greycroft Present: Who owns creativity now?

Adobe + Greycroft

Adobe and Greycroft bring together perspectives from venture capital, corporate development and AI filmmaking.

Why go: A strong fit for LA: the panel connects creative tools to the companies, capital and production work around them.

People: Dana Settle (Greycroft) · David Popowitz (Adobe) · Don Allen Stevenson III (Asteria Film)

End time is not listed.

Factory Field Day at Flyby Robotics

Flyby Robotics

Flyby Robotics opens its El Segundo factory for tours, mission footage and drone and sensor demonstrations.

Why go: A rare chance to see physical products and the place they are built. A good complement to a week heavy on software presentations.

The host lists drinks from 7 PM. End time is not listed.

Google Codelabs

Google for Developers

Google for Developers offers four guided codelabs spanning AI, cloud infrastructure and full-stack development, with expert support.

Why go: One of the clearest learning formats on the calendar: guided tutorials and one-to-one troubleshooting, rather than a day spent watching panels.

Bring a laptop and charger. Check the organizer for individual lab times.

The Visionary Edge: 10x Thinking and Agentic Architecture

Google for Startups

Google for Startups hosts a morning on moonshot thinking and real-time agentic software, with demos and an expert lounge.

Why go: Combines product strategy with architecture questions and access to startup resources. Useful for founders deciding what to build next.

People: Nikao Yang (Google)

Check the organizer for individual session timings.

World Models: The Next Frontier for Media & Entertainment

Amazon Web Services + Reactor + Elorian

AWS, Reactor and Elorian host a discussion and demo on world models, visual reasoning and media production.

Why go: A concrete bridge between frontier AI and LA's creative industry. The published agenda includes a live demo and audience questions.

People: Bryce Schmidtchen (Reactor)

The description schedules this session for 1–2:30 PM.

Building AI for the Physical World

Orrick + Bessemer Venture Partners + Harmoni + JPMorgan

A panel of manufacturing and industrial technology leaders examines factory data, robotics and the conditions needed for useful AI deployment.

Why go: The focus is on operational constraints and live production environments. Relevant to builders and investors following industrial AI, not just general-purpose models.

People: Jim Belosic (SendCutSend) · David Caputo (Harmoni) · Jai Malik (Amca) · West Owens (Hadrian)

Check-in at 4:30 PM; panel at 5:15 PM. Allow travel time to Torrance.

Build AI Agents on AWS

Amazon Web Services

AWS leads a 90-minute workshop on building, deploying and testing agents with Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands SDK.

Why go: A concrete implementation workshop for technical founders and engineers. The agenda covers security, tools and deployment as well as creating the agent.

Bring a laptop; the description specifies a 90-minute session.

CLAUDE CREATOR SUMMIT by TechSpace

Anthropic

The LA Claude Community and TechSpace bring creators and builders together for a morning panel and afternoon product demonstrations.

Why go: A community-led look at tools for production, audiences and distribution. A good fit for creators who want to make and evaluate AI workflows themselves.

Community-hosted program. The full speaker lineup and end time are not yet listed.

USC ISI Lab Tours

USC Information Sciences Institute + University of Southern California (USC)

USC Information Sciences Institute opens its quantum and space engineering labs for afternoon tours.

Why go: An opportunity to see research hardware rather than another pitch deck. Particularly interesting for readers following the overlap between AI and deep tech.

Check in on the 10th floor. Paid parking nearby; the host does not validate.

Never Finished: Creativity, Reimagined | A Dialogue on Reinvention

Gap Inc. + Fal

Gap Inc. and fal host a conversation on how AI and digital design affect creative work across film, fashion and culture.

Why go: A cross-disciplinary panel puts creative judgment alongside technology. A useful counterpoint to purely technical media-generation sessions.

People: Sven Gerjets (Gap Inc.) · Gorkem Yurtseven (fal) · Barbara Ford

Registration joins a waitlist. A separate confirmation is required to attend.

Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWS

Amazon Web Services

AWS hosts a technical session on GPU memory, serving throughput, infrastructure choices and the economics of open-weight models.

Why go: The agenda is organized around deployment decisions you can use: capacity, cost, operations and control over your model stack.

The description specifies a 90-minute session.

A16Z | ElevenLabs - Official Afterparty

ElevenLabs + a16z Speedrun

ElevenLabs, a16z and the Chroma Awards host an LA Tech Week afterparty with music and creative AI announcements.

Why go: A relevant social close for the creative AI crowd, connecting the startup and entertainment sides of the week.

People: Andrew Chen (a16z)

Venice Beach location is shown after approval.

MOLTEN - Spatial hackathon (ElevenLabs, AssemblyAI, Miro...)

Field Lab

A one-day hackathon invites builders to prototype multimodal tools for creating spatial experiences.

Why go: A specific, exploratory brief for people working at the intersection of interfaces, hardware and creative tools.

Review the organizer's hardware and participation details before attending.

touch ./SAND - The Voice Agent OUTDOOR Hackathon

Openbase

Openbase hosts a collaborative build sprint near Venice Beach for voice-controlled agents and mobile workflows.

Why go: The format invites designers and product thinkers as well as developers, with a clear focus on trying interfaces and demonstrating what you build.

Bring a laptop, phone and headphones. The tentative agenda begins with breakfast at 10 AM.