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​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...

​Join us for an exclusive evening at Freepik’s San Francisco office — where creativity meets technology. ​Experience an interactive session with Jesús Terrada, Creative Lead at Freepik and innovator in design and AI-driven storytelling. He’ll share how he leverages top GenAI models to turn vision into reality — from concept to final production — all within the Freepik AI Suite. You’ll also get hands-on access to the tools, with a chance to experiment, learn, and explore how AI can transform your creative process. ​The evening will also feature a fireside chat with José Florido, Freepik’s Chief Marketing Development Officer (CMDO), and Xavier Collins, CEO & Co-Founder of Wonder Studios, as they discuss the future of creative production, the intersection of AI and storytelling, and how technology continues to redefine the creative industry. ​Designed for creatives eager to learn from industry leaders, this event offers practical insights, inspiration, and strategies to elevate your cr...

​Join us for an exciting evening where innovation takes center stage. This event will feature 4 pre-selected startup pitches, showcasing founders already making waves. ​​​We’re also opening the floor to 10 additional live pitches. If you’re a startup looking for exposure, feedback, and connections, this is your chance. ​​​📩 How to Apply Send your pitch deck here ​​​Don’t miss this opportunity to share your vision, meet investors, and connect with the entrepreneurial community! ​Who Should Attend • ​​​Founders • ​​​Angel and Seed Investors • ​​​Venture Capitalists • ​​​Experienced operators looking to become founders ​Judges and Investors • ​​Prof. PK Prasanna Kumar, CEO, Business Optima Advisor, TheAgentic, Investor • ​​Grace Gong, Founder of Smart Venture Media, Angel Investor • ​Vineet Jain (VJ), Managing Partner at Wildtree VC, Partner at VU Ventures ​​​Hosts & Sponsors. ​​​​At TheAgentic we are out to change that. TheAgentic provides a complete suite of agent infrastructure—...

AI x Marketing Meetup: | Free Community Event ​Our goal is to make this community the go-to gathering for thought leaders at the intersection of AI, Marketing, and Growth. ​We see AI x Marketing as covering everything that traditional agencies have handled so far such as —SEO, branding, websites, influencer campaigns—alongside modern automations like email and multi-channel communications. ​Building the right product and selling it is a visceral undertaking. Just like football coaches on the sidelines to get a feel for whats going to happen, we believe community is the secret ingredient to anticipate where the gap is and what wedge product you could build and sell. ​We warmly welcome and invite anyone who shares this feeling to join our meetups and the AI x Marketing Summit. What's on the Agenda? Sakshi Pratap Hexus AI ​Meetup Talk: How to 10× Your Growth Using Hexus.ai ​Are you building a product-led startup and tired of juggling content tools, demo builders, and marketing collat...

​Outerbounds, Netflix, and Nebius are excited to co-host this event as part of Open-Source AI Week, co-located with the PyTorch Conference in San Francisco. ​​We’ll dive into Metaflow, the open-source framework originally developed at Netflix and now widely used to scale ML and AI projects in production. If you aspire to build AI products and systems beyond demos following the footsteps of leading AI teams, this event is for you! ​You will also have plenty of opportunities to connect and network with fellow AI and ML leaders and practitioners. ​Agenda ​6:30 Doors open ​6:45 - 7:05 Fireside Chat - The Next AI Experiment: Scaling Intelligence Through Open Systems with Sarah Catanzaro, PyTorch Conf keynote speaker and General Partner @ Amplify Partners ​7:05 - 7:25 Opening Remarks: Production AI with Metaflow, Ville Tuulos, CEO @ Outerbounds ​7:30 - 7:45 Building an End-to-End Developer Experience with Metaflow, Shashank Srikanth, ML Platform @ Netflix ​7:45 - 8:00 Metaflow for Pr...

​Note: We have hit waitlist, but PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE WAITLIST as we will send a reminder to people to remove their names if not attending and you have a high chance of being able to come. ​A landmark event awaits you in San Francisco on October 22, 2025 as four Pixar Alumni, who worked on beloved films ranging from The Incredibles to Cars to Wall-E and beyond, gather to speak about the future of filmmaking with AI and Generative Video tools. ​Presented by Genvid and KlingAI, you'll have a front row seat to hearing about what lifelong animators, film makers, and creators think about these tools, their challenges and opportunities. ​​This select group of leaders, including an Emmy award winner, will share firsthand perspectives from the front lines—what’s working, what’s breaking, and what comes next. ​​Attendance is reserved only for those directly involved in creative or technical work with generative media. ​The event will begin promptly at 6pm with a screening of a new short...

​Anyscale and Snowflake are excited to host an evening focused on Ray and DeepSpeed, two of the most powerful open-source projects helping deliver large scale AI in production. Join us for networking, lightning talks from AI experts from Snowflake, Anyscale and LinkedIn on how today’s most ambitious AI teams are scaling smarter and faster with Ray’s distributed computing framework for Python and DeepSpeed’s easy-to-use deep learning optimizations for large-scale model training. ​5:30-6:00 Welcome & Networking ​6:00-7:15 Lightning Tech talks: ​DeepSpeed overview - Olatunji Ruwase ​Distributed Training with Ray - Suman Debnath ​SuperOffload: Novel offloading technique for Superchips - Masahiro Tanaka ​Arctic Long Sequence Training: Scalable and resource-efficient long sequence training - Olatunji Ruwase ​​Muon Optimizer Support: Extend DeepSpeed (ZeRO) optimizer to enable Muon - Zhipeng Wang ​DeepCompile: Compiler-driven optimization of distributed training - Masahiro Tanaka ​Sn...

​Join STARTUPSTARTER, CarClub & The Windward on Friday October 17th, as we head to a private venue at the Venice sign to host the LA Tech Week closing party. Three floors to choose from, open bar, DJs open to close, and LA's top founders & investors converging at an iconic location for a close out event to remember. - Ground Floor: Lounge- 2nd Floor: Bar + Lounge- Rooftop Deck: Open Air DJ ​Limited Capacity, RSVP for entrance. ​See you there. ​ Presented by: ​Discover CarClub. ​CarClub is redefining car ownership with an AI-powered car management platform and subscription fleet that turns vehicle data into value.Fresh off closing their pre-seed, they're gearing up for a seed round - Join CarClub and see how they're driving the future of population car data!Learn more at carclub.life In Partnership with: ​This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com

​AI Agent World Tour is hitting the New York City this October and it's exactly where you should be! Mark the date! ​Welcome Remarks – Demetrios ​Keynote by Alon Horev of Vast Data – Building the Next Wave of Agents ​Keynote by Sidd Seethepalli of Vellum - Why I'm (hopefully) never building another agent ​Keynote by Arcade - How to Build Agents that Take Action ​Keynote by Anoop Dawar of Deepgram – From Speech to Action: Building the Next Generation of Voice AI Agents ​Keynote by Thierry Damiba of Qdrant – Agentic Vector Search ​Keynote by Aparna Dhinakaran of Arize AI – Feedback-Driven Prompt Learning: Teaching Agents to Self Improve ​Lightning Talk by Kristin Boyer of Linear AI ​Lightning Talk by Willem Pienaar of Cleric - Runbooks are dead ​Founders Pitch Contest ​Closing Remarks ​ ​​30+ booths featuring teams that are actually building production grade AI Agents. ​Come chat with engineers directly, one-on-one. Ask questions and get the answers you really want. ​Email ...

Rejuvenation Mansion is a tactical reset for top founders, operators, and investors. Set in a private West LA estate, attendees unplug from chaos and recharge through cold plunges, sauna circuits, complimentary massages, high-performance sessions, breathwork, meditation, and yoga. Designed for the people who can’t afford to burn out—but can’t afford to slow down either. This is the anti-conference: no surface talk. Just recovery, clarity, and real conversations with the ones building the future. This isn't networking. It's recovery. A step away from noise to detox, decompress, and reboot. Leave the chaos behind—come back sharper, stronger, and ready to hit it harder than ever. This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Thank you to our premiere sponsors at Ramp, NikeSwim, & Rivian! ☕ Matcha by Cha Cha Matcha ❄️ Cold Plunges by IcePass 🧠 Brain Mapping by Visualizein360 👃 Breathwork by Gabby Reece 🎶 Sound Journ...

​Our 7th AI Agent Meetup is sponsored by Neo4j and the AI Alliance. ​​The SF AI Agent Meetup is a new & growing community for AI Agent Developers, Engineers, UX, Ops, and Applied Researchers exploring and leading the evolution of AI agents. Whether you're building autonomous systems, experimenting with LLM-powered assistants, or integrating AI agents into real-world applications, this meetup is the place to discover, share insights, and collaborate with your peers. Join us for talks, demos, discussions and networking with like-minded innovators shaping the next generation of AI. ​​📆 Agenda • ​​​5:00 pm – Checkin & Networking • ​​​5:30 pm – Introductions & Welcome • ​​5:45 pm - Talks:​​Code Review is Dead; Long Live Code Review!Beyang Liu, Co-Founder and CTO, Sourcegraph/AmpCode.The bottleneck for agentic coding is now human review. If you don't read the code, you're going to ship slop. But reading code is a lot less fun than writing it. What should we do?"​​Parallel is the New Fast:...

ConciergeMD invites you to an exclusive evening exploring optimal living through two expert led panels—addressing both physical longevity and mental clarity in high-performance environments. Together, they’ll share insights on the future of health, vitality, and aging well. 🧬 Session 1: Dr. Sogol Ash, a leading longevity expert, shares how founders can fight burnout, extend healthspan, and stay at peak performance with peptides, biomarker-driven care, and cutting-edge longevity strategies. 🧠 Session 2: Purpose introduces the world's first AI-powered personal growth & coaching solution for overcoming mental roadblocks, boosting clarity, and making personal growth enjoyable and sustainable. ✨ Following the talk, step into our Recovery Lounge featuring: 💉 Vitamin Shots → quick, powerful boosts (5 min each) 💧 IV Drips → deeper replenishment (allow ~45 min per person) This unique experience blends cutting-edge knowledge with restorative care, leaving you both inspired and recharged. Who...

Join us for an exclusive in‑person launch of GDate—the only dating app that plans IRL group dates for you based on your preferences and availability. ​Tired of constantly swiping and never going on dates? Let's change this by creating your own group date of 8-10 people when you're free at our Launch Mixer. Towards the end of the event, tell the hosts who your chosen group members are and enter to win a GDate voucher towards ​🥇 1st Place: $100 voucher toward your final bill ​🥈 2nd Place: $75 voucher toward your final bill ​and with 15 min left to go we will announce the winners! To get a headstart, please create your profile on GDate(iOS, Android) before arriving and we will take care of setting up the group date if you submit your group. Food will be served shortly after we start so please come on time. If you’re an L.A. single tired of traditional dating apps, come be a GDate early adopter, meet new people, and help us make dating fun again! ​About GDate ​GDate is transforming moder...

​Join us for an n8n Community Meetup in San Francisco!In partnership with Vapi! Vapi is the developer platform for building voice AI agents. ​​​We’re excited to invite you to our n8n meetup in San Francisco, hosted by our Community Manager, Dylan Watkins. ​Connect with automation enthusiasts, developers, and builders as we explore powerful use cases, share knowledge, and collaborate on building with n8n. Whether you're just getting started or already deep in your workflow game, this meetup is your chance to get inspired, troubleshoot, and network with other n8n users. ​Come see how it works live and get inspired by what’s possible with n8n! ​✨ What to Expect: • ​Introduction to n8n • ​Live demos • ​Networking with builders and automation pros • ​Q&A • ​Food and Drinks • ​Swag, stickers, and good vibes ​Bring your questions, your curiosity, and your ideas. We’ll see you there! ​​​​​Don’t forget to register to stay updated and, of course, so we can make sure there’s plenty of pizz...

Join us during LA Tech Week for an intimate evening connecting top founders and investors at a stunning private beachfront residence in Santa Monica. Enjoy a curated dinner, great drinks, and meaningful conversations with some of the most ambitious and innovative minds in the ecosystem. This curated gathering is designed to foster authentic relationships, spark collaboration, and celebrate LA’s vibrant startup community with an ocean view as the backdrop. Thank you to our sponsors: Relay Human Cloud, Polsinelli LLP, AE Studio, and Talk Shop Media ​Find your next team member in minutes with Relay Human Cloud. Offshore talent, in Relay Human Cloud's office, dedicated to you. Use code LAGRIND for $500 off every resource every year. ​Polsinelli is an AmLaw 100 law firm that specializes in technology, startups/emerging growth companies, and healthcare law. Ephraim Hintz, an LA-based attorney at Polsinelli, is an experienced technology transactions/venture capital attorney with clients rangi...

West coast travel techies, founders and investors unite! Nappr, Jetzy and Bubbl are taking our startup showcase to LA Tech Week after a successful Happy Hour in San Francisco with record turnout, and it's going to be more lit than the Hollywood sign. Like our previous shindigs, this will be a pit stop for the globally curious and a space where you can swap big ideas about the future of travel, trade road warrior hacks or just recharge with fellow innovators over a drink. Here’s what'll be waiting for you: 💤 Nappr rest kits to keep you powered up (plus the chance to win free hotel stays!) 🧳 Jetzy exclusives with travel perks & discounts that make your next adventure smoother (2 months free subscription for the premium Jetzy Select worth $60 and travel perks at 1.6 million establishments) 🌍 A community of kickass founders, dreamers and travel lovers who know that the best journeys start with great conversations 🤖 A talk from Jetzy founder Shama Zehra about the Agentic AI they a...

​The Vibe Olympics marks the dawn of a new era in competitive coding. Combine the US Open and Great British Bakeoff technical and get a high-energy, 1v1 tournament where developers battle it out in real-time coding challenges technical skill, creativity, and speed. With a $$$ prize pool and live event streaming, we're transforming how the world sees competitive programming. Join us October 11th for a day that will redefine what it means to code under pressure. ​Join the morning qualifiers - the top 8 hackers will progress onto the Finals. ​When the sun sets, the real show begins. Our championship finals bring together the day's top performers for a spectacular evening of elite-level competitive coding, broadcast live on Twitch for the world to witness. Eight finalists, three elimination rounds, and one ultimate coding champion. The prize pool has never felt more within reach, and the pressure has never been higher. This is where technical mastery meets pure performance—expect jaw-dr...

​​Join us for the 2nd event from the AI Boba Club during SF Tech Week! Where visionaries, creators, and AI fans will gather for a chill afternoon. Sip on delicious matcha or coffee (if green is not your jam) courtesy of our awesome sponsors at Comet, and connect with an inspiring crowd. ​​This laid-back event is designed for founders, technologists, indie hackers, tinkers, researchers, and friends of AI. Relax, mingle, and share ideas in a vibrant setting. The morning will feature loosely structured activities to spark great conversations, but feel free to just come as you are! ​​Whether you're deep in the AI scene or simply curious, this gathering is a perfect chance to unwind, explore ideas, and meet some fantastic people. Don’t miss out on this unique blend of tech talk and boba fun!