Mon, Oct 12
Workshop / hands-on
A hands-on day shipping real projects with open-weight models and open infrastructure before the Open Intelligence Summit proper. Pick your own path building agents, routing across models, or fine-tuning, with mentors at your table the whole time.
Hackathon · Mixer / networking
Build a working Company Brain in four hours: an AI system that ingests your organization's docs, tools, and processes to make institutional knowledge available across the company. Hands-on hackathon at Snowflake's Menlo Park hub with demos, judging, and networking for developers and founders exploring agent-based systems.
Mixer / networking
Cayman Finance's traveling pickup basketball series lands in SF with a free throw elimination challenge and casual games for all skill levels. It's a low-pressure way to meet folks across funds, digital assets, law, and tech during Funds Week.
Demo night · Mixer / networking
Open-mic demos and pitches for founders building worktech, robotics, and agentic AI during TechCrunch Disrupt week. Investors will review decks in advance, and speakers like Nick Linck and a Stanford communication coach will share what actually moves a room.
Mixer / networking
Free cookies and founder conversations until 1 am at 501 Folsom. Worth stopping by if you want to meet people building in the SF AI scene without the usual event structure.
Mixer / networking
The opening party for SF Funds Week with Cayman Finance and member firms, featuring cocktails and island vibes. A solid networking play if you want to meet fund managers and digital asset folks before the week's main events.
Mixer / networking
Eighteen AI founders and investors running two 5x5 soccer games, then drinks. Low-key way to meet your people if you're seed-stage or beyond.
Demo night
Three DTC brands test their product pages, ads, and positioning against AI audiences built from real customer signals to see what actually converts. Watch live reactions reveal what customers don't understand, what sells them, and what you're missing.
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