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Hackathon: AI Tools for Better Decisions and Coordination
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Berkeley x DeepMind Hackathon: Build. Ship. Win up to $5M in Seed Funding*
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AI Executive Summit
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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.…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Preparing for an AI-Powered Future with De Kai Wu | The AI Collective Tri-Valley
Tomorrow · 9:00 AM
Startup Speedrun Hackathon
$27.5k+ in winner prizes. Thousands more in participant credits and perks. 8 hours to speedrun your startup. On Day 271 of the singularity, Brainbase, Anthropic, Cloudflare, and Stripe are bringing together builders in San Francisco for the Startup Speedrun Hackathon.
Tomorrow · 9:00 AM
Beyond the Hype: AI and the Future of Finance
Finance is entering a new chapter. Artificial Intelligence, automation and digital transformation are changing how finance teams operate, make decisions and support the broader business. But the biggest questions are practical: Where should Finance start?
Tomorrow · 12:00 PM
Solana AI & Capital Forum
The Solana Capital Forum is a curated executive gathering that brings together leaders across traditional finance, digital assets, and next-generation financial infrastructure.
Tomorrow · 12:00 PM
ThinkingAI Agentic Growth Summit 2026
Most teams have deployed AI. Far fewer have changed how the work actually gets done. The Agentic Growth Summit puts them in one room for a single question: what changes about the operating model when your analytics layer can act, not just report.
Tomorrow · 5:00 PM
Hard Things
Hard Things is back. We’re excited to return to our community of physical AI founders, investors, and ecosystem partners with Chris Yeh. Chris Yeh is the co-author of Blitzscaling, the book that explains how to build world-changing companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and Airbnb in…
Tomorrow · 5:00 PM
AI Agents for Data Teams: A Practical Mini-Hackathon
Bring a real problem. Build something useful. Show what works. Join the Bay Area Snowflake User Group for an evening building with Snowflake’s agentic AI products. Find the right data, access it appropriately, improve documentation, check quality or govern how it is used.
Tomorrow · 6:00 PM
Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer (seed to series A)
12 Scrappy Founders - outdoor endurance community for founders and investors the Bay Area. What is this? 18 AI founders and investors play two 5x5 soccer games. Think an hour of running around, some friendly competition and drinks after. Who is it for?
Tomorrow · 6:00 PM
Founders Candlelit Dinner
Join us for an intimate invite-only Founders Candlelight Dinner with 529 Labs, Sprinto and Fondo. We’re bringing together 25 founders for dinner, drinks, candle painting and flower bouquet making 🕯️💐 Just a really nice night to meet other founders, make something, eat good…
Tomorrow · 6:00 PM
Above the Fog: Founders × Investors Rooftop Mixer
No panels. No pitches. No awkward networking games. Just an evening on a San Francisco rooftop with an intentionally curated mix of SF Startup Labs founders, investors and operators, drinks in hand and the city around us.
Tomorrow · 6:00 PM
Degrees of Freedom: Robotics Builders Night @ Mission Robotics
A twice-monthly working night for people building embodied AI. No robot required. You built the arm at your kitchen table. You trained the policy overnight on your gaming rig. You collected the teleop data in your garage. The one thing none of it came with: labmates.
Tomorrow · 6:30 PM
Builders Night
Builders Night is a weekly space where people show up with a project, work side by side, and leave with more momentum than they could have generated alone. It exists because building can be lonely, and the hardest part is often simply showing up consistently.
Tomorrow · 7:00 PM
90/30 Club Reading: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
Come join us for a group discussion of "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression" Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19969 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash targets the real cost bottleneck of long-horizon agents—input-heavy prefill and enormous KV caches—using…
Oct
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Build Personal Agents Hack
Oct
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Founder Wellness Morning
Oct
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The MCP Gateway during SF a16z TechWeek
Oct
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The Integration Layer for AI Agents during SF a16z TechWeek
Oct
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Agents in Production: Shared Memory (SurrealDB x Mastra)
Oct
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AI-POWERED NETWORKING
Oct
5
Builders x Bosses x Beers at Club 345 #SFTechWeek
Oct
6
AI basics: agentic AI part 2
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