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The upcoming AI Tinkerers meetup will bring together engineers, researchers, and founders actively building and shipping production AI systems across New England. Expect a practical gathering focused on real-world AI work and ideas.
Explore eventThe 10th meetup will explore how specialised AI agents and Graph RAG can help diagnose and repair failing Playwright tests.
Explore eventSenior in-house growth, acquisition, and performance marketing leaders at consumer brands will discuss how AI is reshaping video advertising, and why creative decision-making will become a key performance advantage. Hosted by Connecty.ai co-founder and CEO Aish Agarwal, the off-the-record dinner will bring together experienced marketing executives and performance-minded creative strategists for a peer roundtable.
Explore eventTech professionals will build connections with investors, technology experts, and entrepreneurs, creating opportunities for meaningful networking and collaboration.
Explore eventAngela and Hamza from The AI Furnace (the world's largest AI startup community) will host 15-20 early-stage AI founders for an intimate monthly dinner featuring a 3-course meal, real conversations, and connections with peers tackling similar challenges. The evening will bring together vetted founders alongside sponsors like PwC's Emerging Company Solutions (the #1 provider of tech/software IPO audits among Big 4 firms), Fidelity Private Shares, Ramp, and Niural—all ready to help founders navigate fundraising, equity management, and scaling operations.
Explore eventNath Goldberg Meyer and Edge will kick off AIPLA with an evening of networking, cocktails, and food for intellectual property professionals. Attendees will also see Edge’s AI-powered trademark clearance technology in action through complimentary two-minute live searches.
Explore eventImprov Asylum founder Norm Laviolette will lead an interactive, on-your-feet session connecting live improv to the human skills AI can’t replicate: listening, presence, adaptability, and genuine connection. Part of FI’s AI-Native Series, the session will explore how these skills can give company builders an edge.
Explore eventDevelopers and creative technologists will spend an evening rebuilding favorite generative-media apps as open-source projects on the Comfy Developer Platform, with hands-on support from Comfy developers. The program will include talks from ComfyUI and Runpod, project demos, and networking, ahead of the competition deadline and its $10,000 grand prize, RTX 5090s, and other awards.
Explore eventYou'll discover how to transform holiday shopping into actual travel bookings through smart AI tools that automatically track and stack your rewards—no need to juggle multiple loyalty programs anymore.
Explore eventOctober’s Papers We Love will explore what mathematical learning theory can reveal about language, centering on Gold’s 1967 paper on language identification and a 2024 supporting paper on language generation. Speaker Abed Qaddoumi, a Linguistics PhD student affiliated with Stony Brook’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science and an NYU computer science MS graduate, will connect the research to computational models of language, including Arabic phonology and morphology.
Explore eventTechBrunch: Language Learning Edition will explore how large language models intersect with human language acquisition. Attendees will dig into the role of AI in learning and using languages.
Explore eventFirst Rays’ 2026 Portfolio Day will explore how enterprise AI adoption is reshaping infrastructure, security, data, and development, with practitioner panels and presentations from portfolio founders. First Rays Venture Partners leaders Amit Sridharan and Alok Nandan will bring together senior technology practitioners, founders, operators, and investors.
Explore eventActive builders will see live demos and three 15-minute technical talks, followed by a private screening of *AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist* and a relaxed hangout.
Explore eventThe AI-Powered Goal Achievers Meetup will bring together driven individuals to explore how AI can help them reach their personal and business goals.
Explore eventAfter day one of GitHub Universe, Heavybit, Sanity, and Omnara will bring DevOps, platform, infrastructure, and AI engineers together for Mexican food, cocktails, and a social deduction game: GitBlame: Werewolf Edition. The no-slides, no-pitches evening will put attendees’ people-reading skills to the test as they uncover secret “wolves” among the crowd.
Explore eventSpeakers from VeloDB and StreamNative will explore how AI agents are reshaping data stacks, from freshness and parallel queries to permissions, discovery, and production reliability. The talks and panel will share practical lessons for teams preparing to put agents in front of production data.
Explore eventNebius and Voxel51 will host a hands-on Physical AI Workshop on October 28 where attendees will work with real robotics data, explore multimodal MCAP recordings in FiftyOne, and fine-tune a YOLO11n detector live using Nebius's serverless AI infrastructure. The session brings together engineers and practitioners interested in practical robotics AI workflows, featuring networking, lightning talks, and a deep dive into taking raw robot logs to trained detection models.
Explore eventDesigners, builders, and creative technologists will share demos and works in progress exploring how Claude can unlock new approaches to creative problem-solving, from quick prototypes to ambitious ideas. The evening will feature short demos and deeper dives, plus informal conversation with peers and hosts from Anthropic and Pioneer Square Labs.
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