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Startup IDEATHON
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Robotics & World Models Reading Club 28: Booster T2: The Next Frontier of Open Humanoid Robotics. SF 9/12
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RocketRide × SCU Buildathon: Build It. Scale It. Get Paid.
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-B8PjJv64VNq3OCs RocketRide × SCU Buildathon: Build It. Scale It. Get Paid. A collaboration between AI Collaborate at SCU and RocketRide Most student projects die in a GitHub repo. This week, that changes.
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[Online] Rote Playoffs Hackathon - Win a MacBook Pro + iPhone 17
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YC Fellows 2026
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The Heist: Actian VectorAI DB Hackathon
3:30 AM
Personal Branding for Founders
9:00 AM
Sunday Founder Rides: Low-Gear, High-Connection
Tomorrow · 10:00 AM
Founders Bay: Virtual Investor Pitch Session
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-cCV0yvMYOUulXrC Get ready to pitch your startup to leading investors and venture capitalists at the next Founders Bay Virtual Investor Pitch Session.
Tomorrow · 2:00 PM
Office Hours: Email Marketing — Bring Your Emails, Leave With Better Ones
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-NcnoXMbA6DgD8nS Tired of sending emails that don’t get opened — or worse, don’t get clicks? This monthly session is for founders who want to turn email into one of their strongest growth channels.
Tomorrow · 4:00 PM
MD Blockchain Association Virtual Happy Hour
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-t1LHAQSdcMY4QS5 Join the Maryland Blockchain Association's Virtual Learning Panels, dynamic monthly sessions, designed for blockchain professionals, entrepreneurs, developers, attorneys, investors, and enthusiasts across Maryland, the DMV,…
Tomorrow · 6:30 PM
A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Coding
[A slightly more in-depth version of the last talk] You shipped it in a weekend. Can you fix it at 3 AM when you get a customer call? AI writes the code now. The hard part is trusting what you can't fully read — whether you're an engineer signing off on 2,000 lines a day, a…
Tomorrow · 7:00 PM
90/30 Club Reading: A Full-Stack Performance Evaluation Infrastructure for 3D-DRAM-based LLM Accelerators
Come join us for a group discussion of "A Full-Stack Performance Evaluation Infrastructure for 3D-DRAM-based LLM Accelerators" Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08044 This reading group will explore ATLAS, a silicon-validated framework for evaluating LLM accelerators that…
Tue, Sep 8 · 2:00 AM
Co-Founder Setup ungefiltert: Vorausschauend gründen. Was tun, wenn ein:e Mitgründer:in geht?
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-b9PCRivJ0jKAXCc Allein gründen oder mit Co-Founder? Die Entscheidung fällt meist schnell. Doch was rechtlich danach zu regeln ist, wird oft aufgeschoben. Vertrauen ist da, Verträge wirken unromantisch.
Tue, Sep 8 · 3:00 AM
The Fundraising Journey - Grants, Debt & Equity
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-1TJbqVpCX6KQlcC Thinking about raising investment for your startup but not sure where to start? Join Sam Simpson, co-founder of FounderCatalyst, for a practical session exploring the fundraising landscape - from understanding funding…
Tue, Sep 8 · 7:00 AM
Workshop with Ryan Forde CEO of BHTA
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-kIClYiSxBWCB121 Join Ryan Forde, CEO of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA), for an engaging workshop exploring the future of Barbados’ tourism and hospitality sector.
Tue, Sep 8 · 7:00 AM
FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!
Join Founders Common for our weekly early morning run with other founders, operators & creatives! Come run and then hang out afterward to chat with new friends across the startup community over coffee.
Tue, Sep 8 · 7:30 AM
Build an LLM Wiki for Agent Long-Term Memory
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-2Q8x2ZvtDbzjScu Build a compounding knowledge engine - Paul Iusztin Imagine giving your AI agents a true long-term memory where every piece of information they learn builds on the last.
Tue, Sep 8 · 9:00 AM
AI basics: intro to LLMs
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-O8FZYMkZupSXhB6 Part of our AI basics series (session 2/5) Level up with AI in 5 sessions! Join any session at any time, though we highly recommend starting with session 1 and working your way through (missed one?
Tue, Sep 8 · 9:00 AM
AI Safety Evals - Paper Reading Club
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-tCPKvAGE4SKbtWA Hi all! Join us for the AI Safety Evals Paper Reading Club! We usually have 80-100+ for informed discussion. All are welcome (do read the paper/summary)!
Sep
12
CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops Hackathon with Weights & Biases and AGI House
Sep
14
Luxid & Valo.ai Present: The Ultimate Dreamforce Lunch Cruise
Sep
14
Coder executive forum: Building the agentic enterprise
Sep
15
Catalyst Breakfast at Dreamforce (Asana HQ)
Sep
15
Zoom VIP Reception at Dreamforce 2026 (Bay Cruise)
Sep
15
V2Force Executive Exchange | Dreamforce 2026 (Private Rooftop)
Sep
15
Annual Speakeasy Night at Dreamforce (Uptima, Certinia, Youreka, Ladd Partners)
Sep
16
Genpact Executive Happy Hour | Dreamforce 2026
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