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​🎃👻 Join Us for a Fireside Chat & Happy Hour 🕸️🍕🍻 ​Scaling a high-growth startup comes with tough choices. As much as builders love to build, if everything is managed in-house with grit, sweat, and tears, growth will eventually stall. ​Join us on the first night of TechCrunch Disrupt - just a 5-minute walk from Moscone Center for beer, pizza, networking, and an unfiltered fireside chat with the founders from Descope and from Delve. They’ll share: • ​🛠️ Build vs. buy lessons from scaling startups • ​🔐 Common identity and compliance challenges to watch out for • ​🚀 Tips to stay lean and keep shipping as you grow ​October 27th, 6pm-9pm ​Register now, places are limited! ​ ​This event is organized and operated solely by Descope & Delve (not TechCrunch Media LLC, nor any of its affiliates or brands, including TechCrunch).

​Step into the heart of innovation at Orbis86: AI & Web3 – Founders & Funders Mixer during #TechCrunchDisrupt 🚀 This exclusive gathering is where disruptive ideas meet visionary capital. Designed for builders and backers shaping the future of AI and Web3, it’s all about sparking powerful conversations and forging real partnerships. ​From bold startups to global investors and industry leaders, this is the room where the future takes shape. 🌟 Whether you're building the next big thing or funding it, get ready to connect, collaborate, and create. ​🚀 PS: We will prioritize accepting those active in our Telegram group for the remaining open slots. Catch us on TG to get approved! ​Step into an immersive experience at our event, where hosts, co-hosts, and sponsors warmly welcome all participants. Be introduced to enlightening discussions, networking opportunities, and visionary insights into the tech landscape. ​Discover what they’re building, their vision for the future, and how they’...

​Design Field Notes is a lecture series where we invite the public to the UC Berkeley campus for conversations with makers, designers and artists who are contributing to shaping the future through design. 

Join us Monday, October 27th at 5:30 PM for a talk with Julia Solano, a social and community oriented designer, bamboo and watercolor installation artist, and indie publisher out of Oakland, California. ​Julia has lived various lives co-founding humanitarian AI companies, living in communes and experimental cities, and building bamboo and earth structures for festivals and land-based projects around the world. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design; founder of Making Tangible Studio; Community Architect for The Tech We Want; and was previously on Omidyar Network’s Exploration and Future Sensing team. Her practice explores threads of community infrastructure and collective flourishing, responsible innovation, ancestry and hopeful futures, sustainability a...

​🌌 SZ 198: Beyond the Stars Pt. 2 (+ Alien Costume Party) 👽✨📍 Park James Hotel, Menlo Park🎙️ Live Silicon Zombies Experience ​We’re going beyond the stars once again - and this time, we’re doing it in alien costume style! ​Join us for an unforgettable evening featuring two of the brightest minds in astronomy and science communication: ​5-6pm Mixer ​6-7pm Speaker Event ​7-9pm Mixer ​🪐 Dr. Franck MarchisAstronomer & Director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute ​🌠 Dr. Lauren SgroAstronomer, Science Writer & PhD in Physics - and post-doc fellow at SETIBridging complex astrophysics with human curiosity; making space discovery accessible, engaging, and deeply inspiring. ​💫 Come for the science. Stay for the energy. And don’t forget your alien costume — creativity is highly encouraged. ​🎧 Presented by Silicon Zombies - bringing you the best brains from the Bay...and Beyond! ​#SiliconZombies #SETI #Astronomy #SpaceTech #Innovation #LiveShow #LongevityOfTheMind #BeyondThe...

​Fewer than 10k people work globally on radical or near-radical life extension. Let’s build millions of bioAI agents to amplify their mission. At the event, you can meet VCs, angels, researchers, leading longbio companies, builders, and others committed to accelerating longevity. ​Agenda:1 pm - Networking1.30 pm - Finals ceremony & Demos3 pm - Coffee + Food Break3:30 pm - Introduction Ideathon (check calendar)The event is dedicated to the Agentic AI Against Aging Hackathon Closing Ceremony. ​More about the Hackathon: For two weeks, the hackathon participants from all over the world have been building AI agents to fight aging and death.Hackathon Sponsors: Retro.bio, Gero.ai, Bio.xyz, VitaDAO, AthenaDAO, Bioptic, Open Longevity, LifeAhead, Immortal Dragons ​Computational sponsor: Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS)Prize pool: $41,500 ​Partners: LongeVC, 2060 FouBlastim, Longevity Economics Institute, Vitalism.io, Longevity Biotech Fellowship, Zelar.city, Viva.city, BioPharmaTrend, Femtech Real Mon...

​Antler NYC is hosting a Founder-Led Hackathon to bring top technical builders together with our current Founders-in-Residence. ​You’ll choose real startup challenges submitted by Antler founders, form teams, and build rapid prototypes. ​For founders, it’s a chance to meet and scout technical talent. For participants, it’s an opportunity to showcase skills, collaborate with founders, and explore potential co-founder or early team roles. ​This hackathon is sponsored by Lovable! ​About Antler: Antler is a global early-stage VC and startup generator. It backs exceptional founders from day zero with capital, hands-on support, and a global network. Our portfolio ​Event Highlights • ​Real Startup Tracks: Work on challenges submitted by Antler founders. • ​Collaborate & Build: Prototype in teams with fellow builders. • ​Meet Founders: Network with startup founders looking for technical partners. ​Who Should Attend • ​Software engineers, data scientists, and designers eager to build fa...

​Join us for a relaxed 2.4-mile morning walk to kick off your weekend with some fresh air, good coffee and networking! ​​We'll meet across the path from Marina Green Restroom East and walk at a very casual pace to Crissy Field Beach. We'll stop here for a chance for everyone to regroup, a restroom break if needed, and for an opportunity to take some photos. Afterwards, we will walk back the same way to where we started. Here is an exact route map link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/24sLW3t7DL7sABuk9Whether you're an AI founder, investor, or simply passionate about AI, this walk offers a great opportunity to connect while maintaining a comfortable pace for conversation. ​​​Event is brought to you and hosted by techtrust.ai and sponsored by Aonic Revive – the caffeine-free energy drink that keeps you hydrated and powered up all day long. 💧⚡

​We host weekly runs in San Francisco and 46 other locations worldwide for founders, their friends and families, investors, creators, tech professionals, and anyone who loves to move and connect. This time, we’re excited to be part of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025! ​📍 Where & What to Expect ​We’ll meet at the William McKinley Monument for intros and a group photo, then head out for a 5K run to Golden Gate Park and back. ​The pace will be around 10:30 min/mile — it’s a relaxed community run, not a race. Everyone’s welcome! ​🍎 After the Run ​We’ll wrap up with a picnic and light refreshments — a chance to relax, chat, and meet others from the startup and tech community. ​This year, we’re also partnering with wellness brands that will bring on-site activities and experiences to make the morning even more fun and energizing. ​💡 Featured Partners ​OptiGenix is building the future of personalized performance.By combining genomic testing and performance bloodwork, they help athletes and ...

​De-vibe Hackathon - How to vibe code without AI slop. ​​Attention hackers, builders and founders! ​Do you like Hackathons where you generate lost of AI slop code that makes a cool demo but breaks every time you try to add a new feature? ​If so, you're in the wrong place. ​Come to the De-vibed Hackathon, hosted at AngelList’s Founders Cafe, and prove that it's possible to build real software with AI coding. ​There's a special twist: 2/3 of the way through the Hackathon, we'll be releasing a set of challenges — new kinds of features or special tweaks to your project that you'll have to incorporate. Only those with sufficiently de-vibed code will prevail! ​The Opportunity ​​​Win big at this hackathon! Compete for a chance to grab prizes and present your product. ​​​Maximize your creation with sponsor APIs: Many sponsors offer APIs that can enhance your projects. Explore and utilize sponsor products to win special prizes. ​​​Join a vibrant community: Connect with fellow AI engine...

📢 About this Event ​Aspiring entrepreneurs and underdogs with big startup dreams come together in one place to bring their ideas to life using Snapdeck and present them on stage. ​After the pitching session, participants will have the chance to share insights and connect with fellow underdogs from diverse fields. ​This is more than just networking — it’s a space to exchange ideas, explore collaboration opportunities, and ignite a shared passion for entrepreneurship. ​ 🙋‍♂️ About Host ​Snapdeck is a startup building an AI-powered presentation generation solution. By simply typing in your ideas, Snapdeck instantly structures them and transforms them into beautifully designed slides. Our mission is to help anyone create compelling, professional presentations in just minutes. ​Learn more: www.snapdeck.site ​The Underdogs’ Pitch & Networking Night, hosted by the Snapdeck team, is an event designed to bring together aspiring entrepreneurs and rising startups with the potential to sur...

​We're excited to announce that the third annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) at IBM returns to the Bay Area at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose on Friday, October 24! ​Join us to hear from leading experts on open technologies in AI and get hands-on experience with AI tools and frameworks. ​This event is free and open to all! You must be 18+ to attend in person. ​🩷 New this year! Help support individuals affected by breast cancer! Stop by the Volunteer Kiosk to decorate bandanas with vibrant designs and heartfelt messages - bringing warmth, dignity, and encouragement to survivors.✨ Want to win cool IBM swag? Click on 'Invite a Friend' in Luma to refer friends and peers. Person with the most number of referrals wins! Or ​post on LinkedIn, tag us, and use the hashtags #WiDS2025 and #WiDSBayArea. The most creative post will win a swag prize! ​Speakers🎙️Executive welcomePriya Srinivasan, General Manager, IBM Software Products (Core & ALM), Software Support & SRE ​​🎙️Storytellin...

​Do you work with PyTorch? Would you like to have smarter, smaller, cheaper ML models? Would you like to have them today rather than next year? Then join us for Perforated AI's second Dendritic Optimization Hackathon as a part of Open Source Week! ​Neuroscience has come a long way since the artificial neuron was first invented in 1943. In 2012 researchers discovered that this original design was missing something important, the additional computation happening within biological dendrites. This hackathon is an opportunity to use Perforated AI's open source repository to add artificial dendrites to your own PyTorch projects. Empowering them to be even more powerful on the same datasets. ​Mandatory for Participation: Bring a project with you!  This is not a typical hackathon where you build something from scratch.  You will be applying Dendritic Optimization.  When you walk in the door you should already have a functional PyTorch project you want to improve. ​Case Studies Track: ...

​This Halloween, we’re pulling back the curtain on artificial intelligence. Join the AI Collective for a Halloween-themed evening where we cut through the myths and expose the realities of large language models.Our panel of experts Ryan Prenger (NVIDIA, Deep Learning Research), Tom D’Aquino (HiddenLayer, AI Security), and Ash Kumra (The AI Collective) will explore the state of AI today: emerging trends, real security threats, safe adoption, and trust & community guardrails informed by the AI Collective Institute’s AI Trust report (institute.aicollective.com/reports/trust). From cutting-edge research and live demos to conversations on security and innovation, this event is designed for anyone curious about the future, whether you’re building companies, investing in them, or just starting your journey into AI.Halloween costumes welcomed (optional)!!! Event will be hosted in Pleasanton. Expect sharp insights, interactive experiences, and the chance to connect with a diverse community pass...

​Join the LF Edge InfiniEdge AI community during Open Source AI Week 2025 for a fast-paced session on building Generative AI on distributed edge clouds. We’ll share hands-on lessons from open collaboration across LF Edge, LF AI & Data, and the broader OSS ecosystem—covering edge inference, data pipelines, privacy-enhancing techniques, and AI agents running close to users and devices. ​Who Should Attend ​AI/ML engineers, edge/cloud practitioners ​OSS contributors & maintainers ​Product leaders exploring real-world edge GenAI ​What You’ll Learn ​How to run GenAI workloads on geo-distributed edge clouds ​Design patterns for privacy, latency, and reliability ​Practical demos with InfiniEdge AI and related OSS ​Agenda ​Welcome & OS AI Week context (5m) ​InfiniEdge AI updates & roadmap, Tina Tsou, TSC Chair, InfiniEdge AI (LF Edge) (10m) ​Deploy SGLang on NVIDIA DGX Spark, Pen C Li, NVIDIA, Jerry Zhou, SGLang (10m) ​Scaling AI infra and Edge considerations, Ashok Prakash, Oracle...

​🔥 Ready to see smarter AI and next-gen search in action? ​Join Austin’s MLOps community for an evening where the future of enterprise AI isn’t just imagined—it’s delivered. • ​Connect with leading AI experts and the MongoDB team • ​Enjoy food, networking games, and interactive polls • ​Ask your toughest questions and see enterprise-ready code in real time • ​Connect with expert hosts and MongoDB team members ​5:30pm – ✨ Doors Open & Networking (food and registration)6:00pm – 📣 Welcome Remarks (Emcee & Host: Arham Choudhury, Director at CMB ) ​​6:05–6:40pm – 🧑‍💻 Vector, Voice, and Vision: AI Search in MongoDBDiscover how MongoDB powers advanced vector, voice, and vision-based AI search—transforming unstructured data into intelligent, context-aware applications.Keynote Speakers: Arturo Nereu, AI Leader at Mongo DB ​6:40–7:05pm – 🛠️ Deep Dive: Code and Working SolutionsExplore scalable vector search and semantic agentic AI, with a live RAG or semantic agent demo.Arturo with Ale...

​Join fellow developers and creators for an interactive event dedicated to Model Context Protocol (MCP) server development. Experience hands-on talks and live demos from community members sharing their latest experiments, lessons learned, and innovative approaches. ​Whether you're just starting with MCP or have built multiple servers, this gathering offers practical insights and real-world examples to advance your projects and connect with others pushing the boundaries of what's possible with MCP. • ​Amanda Martin - (DA @ Apollo) - will show an agentic driven developer flow to orchestrate your APIs and generate operations to expose as MCP tools using Apollo MCP Server and GraphOS MCP tools. This talk will focus on tips to get the most out of your tool generation when working with AI agents • ​Nnenna Ndukwe (DA @ Qodo AI) - This talk will demo building an MCP server that solves the universal developer problem of understanding code across multiple repos, showcasing semantic search, dep...

Ape Hotel: Opening Rooftop Event ​Powered by ApeCoin ​Ape Hotel opens its doors in Vegas with an unforgettable rooftop experience to kick off ApeFest weekend in style. ​Set above the Strip with panoramic views, this invite-only evening brings together Apes, creators, founders, and friends for a laid-back, high-energy welcome event under the Vegas sky. Expect drinks, music, vibes, and early access to the heart of Ape Hotel. ​🎧 Curated Music📸 Content moments🥂 Rooftop bar & light bites🛎️ First access for Ape Pass holders👋 Soft landing & networking before the madnessPLEASE NOTEDue to high demand — and so nobody gets left out — we’re increasing capacity for the Thursday Rooftop Event. To absorb additional venue costs, there will now be a small entry fee of $25 for anyone wishing to attend. ​🧾 How to Pay & Confirm Your Spot • ​Entry: $25 • ​Closing Date: 21/10/25 ​🧾 How to Pay & Get Your Official Ticket ​Send USDC to apeconcierge.ethor 0x517235Cf482D6C14f1E58609cE2Da979cD82c695...

​On October 23 in San Francisco, join us for an evening of lightning talks, food, and open discussion as part of Open Source AI Week 2025. ​This edition of our community series will focus on making LLMs efficient in practice and designing agents that scale. ​📆 Agenda • ​6:00–6:20pm: Arrival, food & networking • ​6:20–6:40pm: Alex Shaw (Laude Institute): Terminal-Bench: How Good Are CLI Agents? • ​6:40–7:00pm: Seiji Eicher (Anyscale): Efficient Multi-Node Orchestration for Sparse MoE Model Serving • ​7:00–7:20pm: Smit Kadvani (Meta): Throughput Efficiency Using Disaggregated Inference • ​7:20–7:40pm: Kerim Kaya (Dria) : Evolutionary Coding Agents • ​7:40–8:00pm: Zhuohao Li (SGLang): Optimizing Large Scale RLHF ​Over the past year, our events in NYC and SF have brought together 1,500+ developers and researchers, with speakers from Google Labs, Nvidia, Modular, Meta, Snowflake, AI2, Warp, and more. ​This time, we’re gathering during Open Source AI Week to keep pushing the frontier o...

​Join us for an evening of innovation and inspiration as standout founders from the Beta U community take the stage to demo what they’ve built — and what’s coming next. ​Whether you're an investor, builder, or curious supporter, this is your chance to connect with the people shaping the future — one product at a time. Agenda ​6:00 PM – Doors Open & Check-In6:30 PM – Welcome & Opening Remarks6:45 PM – Founders Product ShowcaseEach founder will have 3 minutes to present, followed by 2 minutes of live Q&A8:00 PM – Open Networking ​Bring your curiosity — and your questions. Let’s celebrate what these founders have built! Presenting Companies ​Pianpian Xu Guthrie Founder and CEO of Amotions AI ​Annas Farra Founder and CEO of SignAiture This event is brought to you by ​​​Beta University｜#1 pre-accelerator in Silicon Valley, helping early-stage founders build VC-fundable startups. Ready to build with us? Apply here. You can also learn more about how to get involved—as a mentor, partner,...

​Whether you're in town for the PyTorch conference or simply curious about GeoAI, join us for a fun and informative evening filled with networking, drinks, and light bites! ​In addition to the networking, you'll hear from Isaac Corley, one of the core maintainers of the TorchGEO project about the recent work processing all of Sentinel 2 CONUS Imagery for the Fields of the World project in collaboration with the Taylor Geospatial Engine team. • ​Practical tools for GeoAI: Learn about I/O-efficient data loaders, sensor-agnostic foundation models, and integrating cloud-native tools into PyTorch pipelines. • ​Real-world challenges: Share what’s working (or not) in your projects, from land cover segmentation to object detection, change detection, and more. • ​Community-driven solutions: Help surface common pain points and identify opportunities for new open-source tools, datasets, and models. ​This is a space for the GeoAI community to connect, share ideas, and ask questions. Join the co...