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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
8:00 AM
Concord Ruby Early Birds
Come hang out with fellow Rubyists! Feel free to bring a project or pair on somebody else's, or just geek out about Ruby and adjacent technologies.
9:00 AM
Focus On Risk Hike — Monthly Founder & Investor Walk | Los Gatos, CA
Today · 2:00 PM
Berkeley Future And Current Founders Meetup And Poker
Founders Meetup, cards provided Cards on the table, and the people you’ll end up building with around it. Saturday, September 5 2-5:30 pm Location Near campus, posted once booked Free to attend Optional $5 to $10 donation if you’d like to chip in Good to know Open to current and…
Today · 2:00 PM
AI Agents Are Here. The Future of Work: How Autonomous AI Is Reinventing Work, Software, and Organizations
AI Agents Are Here. The Future of Work: How Autonomous AI Is Reinventing Work, Software, and Organizations Saturday, September 5, 2026 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Stanford Campus Location details will be shared with confirmed attendees.
Today · 2:00 PM
AI for the Rest of Us: A no-jargon, hands-on workshop for people who feel left behind by AI - Members +3
AI for the Rest of Us: an honest conversation for people who are curious about AI and a little afraid of it. No demos, no jargon. A room to figure out where you stand, together. You run a small business. You coach, you consult, you farm, you make things.
Today · 2:00 PM
Robotics & World Models Reading Club 27: Rethinking Robot Development: Co-Designing Morphology, Sensing, and Learning. SF 9/5
Robotics & World Models Reading Club 27: Rethinking Robot Development: Co-Designing Morphology, Sensing, and Learning A high-signal reading group for AI researchers & builders pushing the frontiers of robotic world models, WAMs, and embodied intelligence.
Today · 4:00 PM
Bayview Happy Hour Cleanup
Join the Civic Joy Fund, Refuse Refuse, SF Public Works, and the Bayview community for a friendly neighborhood cleanup! Volunteers will meet at Gratta Winery and Lounge (5299 3rd St) to grab our supplies and form our crew.
Today · 4:00 PM
Local AI Workshop
Back for a 3rd session! AI is not just chatgpt.com where you're reliant on an opaque service provider that is sycophantic, increasingly pricy, changes behavior etc. Much of the AI space is open source and that has engendered a very rich ecosystem of open weight models that you…
Tomorrow · 2:00 AM
OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-NFKmuFKnROzlGnE OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows Most people use AI in a simple loop: ask a question, get an answer, then ask another question. But that is only a small part of what these tools can do.
Tomorrow · 2:00 PM
🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 07: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation, Hierarchical Control & World Models — Retriever
🤖🍨 Grab a sundae and join Sundae Robotics, a private, invite-only Sunday series bringing together robotics researchers, founders, and builders working at the frontier of physical intelligence.
Mon, Sep 7 · 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.
Mon, Sep 7 · 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.
Mon, Sep 7 · 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,…
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.
Sep
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CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops Hackathon with Weights & Biases and AGI House
Sep
12
Sisters Female Founders Hike
Sep
12
The AI Trust: Compliance as Competitive Advantage
Sep
12
From Idea to Startup: enterpreneurship basics for young founders
Sep
12
AI Safety Summit at Stanford
Sep
12
YC S26 DEMO DAY PARTY CELEBRATION
Sep
14
Luxid & Valo.ai Present: The Ultimate Dreamforce Lunch Cruise
Sep
14
Coder executive forum: Building the agentic enterprise
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