Meet the builders, exchange ideas, and leave with something new. Around the world or online.
International founders and business executives will explore how VC and PE funding choices shape growth, expansion, and eventual exits, including key tradeoffs and pitfalls. Insights will come from Crane VC investor Dan Jaeck, middle-market finance adviser Joel Goschalk, and Q5 North America President Juliet Scott-Croxford, whose 20-plus years of leadership span consumer, media, retail, mobility, and lifestyle.
Explore eventAI Builder Night will bring together about 200 developers for hands-on conversations and a panel on building, shipping, and securing AI agents, featuring Marianne Bekker, 1Password’s Director of Developer Relations. Attendees will explore practical agent workflows and credential safety while connecting with builders from communities including Founders Bay, a 250,000+ member network, and The Builder Series, with 60,000+ members.
Explore eventTen Seattle AI startups will showcase what they’re building, followed by drinks and networking that continue conversations from the PitchBook keynote, Graylin x Sposato fireside, and VC panel. The event will bring together founders, operators, and investors as part of Seattle AI Week, hosted by Thinkspace in partnership with Skillsheet.
Explore eventLumara Film Festival will debut boundary-pushing, artist-led AI short films and award prizes across seven categories, including a $32,000 Grand Prize and more than $100,000 in cash. The nominated films and exclusive previews will be judged by a jury featuring filmmakers and creators including Chris White (Backrooms, A24/Atomic), Voidstomper, and FaZe Banks.
Explore eventThe DC Industrial Policy Salon will explore how government and industry can move federally funded research beyond the “Valley of Death” and into fielded defense capabilities. Dr. Dillon Watring, Ph.D., Integer Technologies’ Director of Research and a former CHIPS R&D Office leader and AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, will share lessons from research funding, acquisition reforms, and industry partnerships.
Explore eventA reading group will unpack *The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement*, exploring how AI might identify its limits, validate improvements, and improve the process itself. The evening will include optional quiet reading, discussion of the paper’s ideas and challenges, and time to socialize.
Explore eventThe discussion will explore how investors evaluate and fund enduring companies across enterprise software, AI, health, fintech, and frontier tech. Speakers will include NFX General Partner Omri Amirav-Drory, a Ph.D. scientist and founder, alongside venture, family-office, and technology leaders with experience at Plug and Play, BlackRock, Samsung Electronics, and Luminar Ventures.
Explore eventSignal CEO Meredith Whittaker will discuss the intersection of privacy, AI, and resistance, drawing on her leadership of one of the world’s leading encrypted messaging platforms.
Explore eventWomen founders, operators, and investors will dig into the unfiltered reality of building and scaling in tech and AI—from financing challenges and bias to navigating underrepresented industries—while bridging conversations between Mexico City and New York startup ecosystems. Hosted by Mina Abdulla, founder of Genee and AI After 5 (former Google leader in AI education), this raw, no-nonsense conversation cuts through polished panels to explore what real inclusion and ecosystem support actually look like across LATAM.
Explore eventThe ninth Vibe Code LA meetup will bring app builders together to create apps with AI and connect with the local tech community.
Explore eventSURF Incubator will celebrate its 17th anniversary with founders and members of the tech, AI, robotics, and engineering community, alongside hosts SWELL and SoundStartups.org. The event will spotlight a new nonprofit effort to equip emerging entrepreneurs with resources and support.
Explore eventThe Revenue Engine Hackathon will bring 30 selected, VC-backed startups with more than $2M in funding together for a one-day build, supported by GTM and product experts from HubSpot, lemlist, and OpenAI. Teams will create a working revenue engine tailored to their business, spanning CRM and reporting, AI-powered research, enriched prospecting, and a live multichannel outbound campaign.
Explore eventThe APRIL AI Hub Annual Summit 2026 will showcase cutting-edge research from interns and researchers while featuring insights from industry partners and hands-on tutorials on emerging resources. Attendees will get to explore funded projects and network with the AI community's brightest minds pushing the field forward.
Explore eventTech leaders and business owners will gather to dive into how innovation and inclusion are shaping the future of technology.
Explore eventThe event will explore how AI capability can translate into national productive capacity, featuring keynote speakers, a VIP government panel and more than 100 business leaders.
Explore eventThe event will spotlight innovators advancing home healthcare through AI, telehealth, and evidence-based health technology. Attendees will explore emerging ideas shaping more accessible, effective care at home.
Explore eventEligible pharma and biotech professionals will receive free admission to the AI Drug Discovery & Development Summit, running October 27–29 and focusing on AI advances in drug discovery and development.
Explore eventDie Veranstaltung beleuchtet praxisnah, wie Unternehmen KI-Governance, Datenschutz und Compliance umsetzen – vom AI-driven Privacy Management bis zu Nachweisen für regulierte Prozesse unter KRITIS-Dachgesetz, NIS2 und EU AI Act. Fachleute von Makery, caralegal und Resaro sowie Stefan Pinelli geben Einblicke; Volkswagen zeigt seine End-to-End-Plattform für Legal & Compliance.
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