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Caravan '26: The most hands-on edition yet.
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Caravan '26: Where Investors find India's AI edge, first.
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Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon
You bring the idea. Build the AI that makes it happen. The Challenge Build Your AI Co-Founder is a hackathon where you build and ship a company with a founding team of 2–4 co-founders, combining humans and AI. Every team must have at least one human and one AI co-founder.
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Hackathon: AI Tools for Better Decisions and Coordination
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Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon
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Taiwan Tech Summit 2026
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2026 HYSTA Annual Conference | AI at Scale
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⚡ AI Native Camp - Santa Cruz & Online
Today · 3:00 PM
Run AI On Your Local Machine And Save $$
매달 API 비용 보면서 "이거 그냥 로컬에서 돌리면 안 되나" 생각해본 적 있으신가요. 이번 모임에서 그 답을 찾아봅니다. 로컬 LLM 세팅부터 비용 절감 팁, 그리고 클라우드 없이 어디까지 가능한지까지. 이제 막 관심 생긴 분도, 이미 이것저것 만져본 분도 가져갈 게 있을 겁니다. Talk by 황민하 박사 (Microsoft) (30분) Part 1. 어떤 로컬 모델을 골라야 하나: 찾는 법과 판단 기준 Part 2. 모델 타입에서 앱 아키텍처까지 Part 3.
Today · 3:00 PM
Love & Hate Screening Session @ Human vs. AI Film Premiere
A journey through the bonds that unite us and the wounds that divide us The Love & Hate Screening Session explores cinema’s power to create closeness, affection, empathy, discomfort, and emotional resistance.
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 clean
Today · 5:00 PM
Desire & Disgust Screening Session @ Human vs. AI Film Premiere
Note: You will need to purchase your ticket and select your seat directly through the Sparknify website. Registration on Luma alone does not provide admission to the theater.
Tomorrow · 4:00 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 · 8:30 AM
Founders Run and Recovery
Run. Recover. Connect. Join Corgi x Amity Ventures for a ~5K founders run through San Francisco, starting at Corgi Cafe on Claude Ln and finishing at our Dogpatch Corgi Cafe. We’ll run along the waterfront near Oracle Park and down Terry A.
Tomorrow · 9:00 AM
Technology, AI and Addictive Behaviors: Can They Be Treated?
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-7PRSFoICSQJyXvG Technology is becoming impossible to ignore, especially for younger generations. From social media and gaming platforms to increasingly personalized AI systems, many people now report difficulty disconnecting, concentrating…
Tomorrow · 10:00 AM
ITCHATHON - Solve actual problems
"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself." Paul Graham We run the ITCH panel discussion, where we sit down with business owners and industry experts to discover problems worth solving.…
Tomorrow · 12:00 PM
The AI × Bio Cookout
AI × Bio BBQ: Sunday afternoon in SF Come hang out with us for a relaxed Sunday afternoon with a BBQ, good coffee, and great people. We're bringing together people from both sides of the AI × Bio frontier: researchers and engineers from frontier AI labs, computational…
Tomorrow · 2:00 PM
Deep Tech & Robotics Underground: Founder & Builder Meetup
Join us for an intimate afternoon of cutting-edge hardware, robotics, and deep tech networking in a true piece of Silicon Valley history — the very house where Mark Zuckerberg and the early Facebook team stayed during their founding days in Los Altos.
Tomorrow · 2:00 PM
Pace AI Picnic 🟡
Sunday Picnic, Halfway Between the Labs Well, “pace the frontier” is having a week. What started with more than a thousand people across the labs has become a very public conversation about how fast the frontier should move, how labs can coordinate, and whether countries can…
Tomorrow · 2:00 PM
Agora Series: Wisdom in the Age of AI
Apollo Innovation Commons with Wisdom Exchange We have gotten very good at building intelligence and remained fairly bad at cultivating wisdom. The gap between the two is arguably the defining problem of this decade.
Oct
3
Supabase Select 2026 Hackathon
Oct
3
Robotics Center Dexterity Day + IROS Recap
Oct
3
Rethinking Agents: Special Edition — What Happens When AI Starts Building With You?
Oct
3
Bubble Lab (YC W26) X Lunatechs - Pretty Cool Demos and Pre-Tech Week Social!
Oct
4
Nordic AI Frontiers @ SF TECH WEEK
Oct
4
Build Personal Agents Hack
Oct
4
Founder Wellness Morning
Oct
5
The MCP Gateway during SF a16z TechWeek
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