Rally events, and the rest of AI SF

Hackathon

Three tracks spanning autonomous agents, multimodal AI, and VR let you pick your challenge, then build and ship in a single day with support from Vercel, Meta, and Neon. If you want to test ideas fast alongside SF builders who actually care about moving quickly, this is where to do it.

DYNA's founders share how they're scaling robot foundation models from laundromats to restaurants, with Jason Ma walking through the research behind their world-action model and what actually ships in production. Solid technical deep-dive if you're thinking about embodied AI or how scaling laws translate from vision to robotics.

Mixer / networking

Engineering leaders swapping war stories over drinks with folks who actually understand why migrations take forever. No sales pitches, just a room full of people who've lived the chaos.

Mixer / networking

Post-ELC decompression at Ghirardelli Square with engineering leaders and founders, no slides required. Craft cocktails and Bay views while comparing notes on scaling teams and the AI inflection point with people who actually get it.

Research & papers · Mixer / networking

Frontier Research Club brings robotics researchers, policy engineers, and hardware builders together for rigor-focused paper discussion with minimal slides and maximum critique. Expect depth-first conversation on embodied AI evaluation, failure modes, and what actually counts as evidence with capacity limited.

Demo night

Likely is handing out the first personal AI agents that understand your relationships and can coordinate directly with agents of people you know. Claim one of the remaining genesis agents and become part of the network that forms the foundation of agent-to-agent communication.