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Marcel Top and Tessa Edwards will lead a free, one-hour talk exploring creativity and experimentation in machine learning and AI, both as tools and as forces shaping society.
Explore eventOctober’s build will focus on OpenAI Codex, a leading AI coding agent, and explore how AI can help write code.
Explore eventTech leaders and ethicists will dive into the thorny questions around AI's societal impact and whether we're actually building responsibly. Expect candid discussions that'll challenge how you think about the technology reshaping everything.
Explore eventHarvard SEAS Assistant Professor David Alvarez-Melis will present a data-centric approach to AI, exploring how optimal transport can measure datasets, scaling laws can extend scarce training data, and boomerang distillation can produce models at intermediate sizes. His talk will also consider open questions for building a stronger foundation for machine learning.
Explore eventAgentic AI Day will bring together founders, engineers, researchers, investors, and enterprise leaders for a keynote, infrastructure panel, and 10 live demos of real AI products and workflows. Speakers and judges include Docker’s Staff Developer Success Advocate Dan Ndombe and investors from Sixty Degree Capital, Acorn Pacific Ventures, and DCVC.
Explore eventFounders will get candid answers on fundraising, enterprise growth, and building an AI company investors want to back. The panel will feature T.A. McCann, a serial founder whose companies were acquired by Google and BlackBerry and a two-time America’s Cup racer, and Ryan Else, Roadster Capital’s founder and General Partner with deep-tech investment and commercialization experience.
Explore eventA Stanford Assistant Professor of Statistics and Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute scholar will present state space models that reveal how neural activity relates to social interaction, goals, and natural behavior. The talk will highlight new statistical and machine-learning methods, followed by a reception with food and drinks.
Explore eventAI Collective will host a coworking afternoon followed by an open, practical conversation on the latest in AI, with time for news, questions, and opinions. Moderators Sthefany Diaz, Bucaramanga Chapter Lead and MBA candidate at UIS, and Alejandro Mendoza, Agentik CEO and co-founder with a Systems Engineering degree from UIS, will guide the discussion.
Explore eventVahab Mirrokni, a Google Fellow and VP leading cutting-edge algorithm and optimization research, will discuss his work spanning market algorithms, large-scale graph mining, and distributed optimization—drawing from his decades of expertise at Google, Microsoft Research, and MIT.
Explore eventAntithesis and AWS will bring engineers and development and infrastructure leaders together to explore resilient distributed systems, agentic development, and rigorous pre-production verification as AI-generated code accelerates software delivery. AWS and Antithesis experts will share approaches to reliability, failure testing, and uncovering bugs that conventional testing may miss.
Explore eventResearchers, founders, and builders will explore AI’s emerging role in scientific discovery, from generative AI and autonomous labs to synthetic biology and computational imaging, followed by audience Q&A and networking. The panel will feature MIT and Boston University professors, lab and startup co-founders, and the CEO of Zeteon.ai.
Explore eventAs part of Tough Tech Week, the Boston Hardware Meetup will bring hardware professionals together for guest talks, audience Q&A, and an open mic for sharing builds, demos, and ideas. Hosted by LeafLabs, an engineering consultancy specializing in embedded systems, the evening will also feature support from Peridio, PTC, and CircuitHub.
Explore eventA curated rooftop mixer will bring founders, operators, and investors together for relaxed peer conversations, with professionals from companies including YC, SpaceX, a16z Speedrun, Stripe, and Meta. Hosted by Founders & Operators, a 2,000+ member community, the gathering will be led by founder Stephan Rihs, whose background includes Coinbase, BCG, and Austria’s Treasury and Chancellor’s Office.
Explore eventAn expert will give a focused 20-minute introduction to an idea, followed by small-table conversations for curious people who want to explore it beyond a conference-style talk.
Explore eventThe second demo night will feature designers presenting their latest projects in 15-minute talks, including Gonzalo Gelso’s ETHEREA, which uses voice and LLMs to generate live visual worlds, alongside demos from Lafiya Watson Ramirez, Dimitri Otero, and Andrew Hoag. Hosted by The Old School, the evening will spotlight multidisciplinary creative work and open inquiry.
Explore eventNewsreel’s Midterm Mania will pair election-focused conversations with a no-phones party, featuring New York City Council Member Chi Ossé, Vox journalist Astead Herndon, political strategist Morris Katz, and NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon. The program will cover local politics, AI data centers, and who leads the Democratic Party before the DJ takes over.
Explore eventSurreal’s technical AI dinner series will explore how recursive self-improvement (RSI) is changing software development, featuring a fireside chat with Tim Shi, co-founder of Recursive. The evening will pair an art gallery tour and dinner with conversation among technologists and builders.
Explore eventStartup marketers, growth leads, founders, and GTM operators will trade practical stories and current growth strategies over drinks and bites, with a brief talk from Okara on marketing and GTM. Hosted by Okara, an AI CMO helping startups tackle growth and distribution.
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