Wed, Oct 21
Hackathon
Three days where judges watch you build under real constraint, not rehearse a pitch. Teams that survive the pressure test and Street Test follow-up get noticed by actual investors.
Talks & panels
Trae Stephens built Anduril into a defense AI powerhouse and spent years at Palantir scaling systems for intelligence agencies. This fireside chat covers the trajectory from early government work to founding in autonomous systems, straight from someone who's done both.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Three hard problems for long-running agents: surviving crashes, staying effective against external systems, and maintaining visibility into what happened. This edition covers durable execution and agent infrastructure with teams already shipping these solutions to production.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Milvus 3.0 lets you search vectors, full-text, and structured data directly on lake-resident formats like Parquet and Lance without maintaining a separate serving copy. Hear from maintainers and production engineers on the architecture, tradeoffs, and when this approach actually makes sense at scale.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
The Fearn team walks through patent strategy for hardware founders in the early filing stage, with concrete advice from former Big Law experts now focused on startups. Direct Q&A beats generic IP advice if you're shipping hardware in the next few months.
Mixer / networking
A private dinner for engineering leaders shipping AI agents at scale, focused on what actually breaks moving from demo to production. Twelve people around a table comparing notes on the same hard problems from different angles, no panels or pitches.
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