Silicon Valley AI/Tech Investing Summit | Attend or Pitch
2490 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto · Angel Launch
Startup pitches, investor conversations and demos. Free attendance; pitching and demo tables cost extra.
This Week in AI: 23 Events | October 12 to 18
Disrupt, AI hackathons and the opening weekend of Open Source AI Week.
This week brings startup conversations at Disrupt, hands-on AI building and community meetups across the Bay Area.
Build a company knowledge system, make a game with Claude, or hear how teams are making AI more reliable. Pick the rooms that fit what you want to learn.
Monday, October 12
Company Brain Hackathon: Build an AI Agent That Knows Your Organization
Snowflake Silicon Valley AI Hub, 135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park · TechEquity Ai
Build an AI knowledge system using company documents, meeting notes and internal tools. Bring a laptop.
Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos
San Francisco; address through registration · Ontology of Value
Meet people building work tools, robotics and AI agents, with startup pitches and demos.
San Francisco | Claude for Games
San Francisco; address after approval · Claude Community Events
Make a playable game with Claude in one evening, then try what other attendees built.
Tuesday, October 13
Trusted AI Adoption
Online via Zoom · IEEE Consultants’ Network of Silicon Valley
A talk on making business AI answers more accurate, traceable and dependable.
Open Intelligence Summit
San Francisco; address after approval · DigitalOcean
Talks and demos on open AI models and tools, with DigitalOcean, Nous Research and OpenHands.
Agentic + AI Observability Meetup SF
Databricks, San Francisco; see registration · Agentic + AI Observability
Learn how to spot and fix problems in AI agents. Currently full; waitlist only.
Wednesday, October 14
AAMA Future of AI Summit
Cooley LLP, 3 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco · AAMA
Talks on AI businesses, investment and opportunities across the U.S. and Asia.
Fast Forward: Vercel + Meta Hackathon
San Francisco; address after approval · Vercel + Meta
Build an AI app, agent or VR experience with mentors, then share a working demo.
The Trillion Dollar Teams | In conversation with Vinod Khosla
San Francisco; see registration · Outcast Ventures, Amy Lin and Andy Chen
A conversation with Vinod Khosla about AI and the changing shape of company teams.
Token Economics: From Cost per Token to Value per Outcome
Venue shared through registration · Llama Beta Fellowship + Hellyeah
How AI product teams manage running costs, pricing and reliability.
Thursday, October 15
AI Engineering & Infrastructure Summit
Crowne Plaza Palo Alto · Clutch Events
A technical summit on keeping AI systems reliable and managing the cost of running them.
LlamaIndex x Corgi: Doc Chai Launch Party 🦙🌟
Corgi Cafe, 9 Claude Ln, San Francisco · LlamaIndex + Corgi Cafe
Meet the LlamaIndex community over chai. A social gathering, not a technical workshop.
NachoThursday: SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Happy Hour
San Francisco; address after approval · NachoNacho and partners
For seed-funded or later founders, executives, investors and tech media. No plus-ones.
Fireside Chat with Tony Zhao, Sunday Robotics
San Francisco; address after approval · South Park Commons
Hear Sunday Robotics cofounder Tony Zhao discuss building robots for the home.
CoreWeave x NVIDIA Dynamo Meetup
San Francisco; see registration · CoreWeave + NVIDIA
Discuss running AI models with CoreWeave and NVIDIA Dynamo. For developers and infrastructure teams.
Friday, October 16
Crusoe Field Day: Build, Train, Deploy
Civil War Parade Ground, Presidio, San Francisco · Crusoe
An outdoor afternoon of team games, food and meeting fellow AI builders.
Open Together: AI Builders Unite
The Midway, 900 Marin St, San Francisco · Hugging Face and cohosts
Open Source AI Week kicks off with community demos and a meetup, followed by music.
Saturday, October 17
The Recursive Agents Hackathon
Shack15, San Francisco · Cerebral Valley + Crusoe
Build a team of AI agents that can plan, delegate work and recover from errors. Teams up to four.
MITAI Conference: Age of Agency
Computer History Museum, Mountain View · MIT Alumni Startups
A full day of AI talks, workshops and demos, including robotics, healthcare and business applications.
Arm + ExecuTorch: Edge AI Challenge
San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave · Arm, Meta + SFSU
Build AI that runs directly on devices. Teams of 2-5; organizers select proposals.
Sunday, October 18
InclusionAI Tech Night: Your AI Reality Check
San Francisco; address after approval · Ant Open Source + inclusionAI
Meet open-model builders and discuss whether AI test scores translate into useful results.
Check each organizer’s page for current availability and admission requirements.