Join Workato's AI Journal Club series—we're bringing together the best AI researchers to share papers and exchange perspectives on how AI research is shaping real-world systems.
Who Should Attend
AI Researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of AI research and real-world systems.
Schedule
5:30–6:00 PM: Check-in and registration
6:00–6:15 PM: Welcome to Workato
6:15–6:45 PM: Talk by Allen Chuang (Google)
6:45–7:00 PM: Q&A
7:00–7:30 PM: Talk by Ray Liu (NVIDIA)
7:30–7:45 PM: Q&A
7:45-8:30 PM: Networking
Please arrive by 6:00 PM. We politely ask that attendees arrive by this time out of respect for our speaker.
Sessions
Allen Chuang — Taming the Dynamics of LLM Reasoning: Test-Time Exploration, Data Scheduling, and On-Policy Distillation
Scaling reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) requires navigating complex optimization and search dynamics across both inference and post-training. However, modern reasoning pipelines suffer from critical inefficiencies throughout the model lifecycle: test-time decoding wastes compute on redundant search trajectories, reinforcement learning (RL) struggles with uniform data pacing, and on-policy distillation frequently undergoes catastrophic truncation collapse driven by length inflation. In this talk, I will present a unified perspective on understanding and taming reasoning dynamics. First, we examine inference-time search, demonstrating how Decoding Tree Sketching (DTS) enables structured exploration and early termination at decision tokens to eliminate redundant rollouts without retraining. Next, we turn to post-training optimization, showing how Adaptive Data Scheduling (ADS) leverages semantic clustering and policy-boundary selection to dynamically pace LLM RL curricula. Finally, we analyze the failure modes of On-Policy Distillation and introduce StableOPD to suppress trajectory explosion and restore distillation stability. Together, these methods provide practical mechanisms for building effici
[9/6 update: we’ve received more than 3× the RSVPs we have room for 🥹🤍 We only have a few spots left. If you’d still love to join us, follow @blinkko_labs and DM us the full name you registered with so we can prioritize your RSVP. Hope to see you Tuesday! ] Meet Blinkko, a tiny companion for discovering the world around you. Blinkko is a small creature that sits on your shoulder. It glows, reacts, and goes where you go. The app turns the city into a map of places, prompts, and light left by other people. We’re showing Blinkko in person for the first time in US. Come meet the device, try the app, and spend an evening with the people building the next interface between humans and the physical world. This evening is part product reveal, part community gathering, and part live demo experience. You’ll get to see how Blinkko works, explore the story behind the product, and move through interactive stations designed around curiosity, memory, place, and connection. What to expect: See Blinkko in person before its public launch Try the device and app through live demo stations Explore earlier prototypes and the product journey Add your favorite Bay Area hidden gems to a shared community wall Customize a Blinkko tote Create launch-day content at the Creator Booth Meet creators, builders, investors, press, and friends of the Blinkko community We have a nice space: 🗓 September 8, 2026, 6:00–9:00 PM 🍷 light refreshments only, demos, and good vibes Agenda: 6:00 PM — Arrival, and Blinkko TVC 6:45 PM — Founder welcome 6:50 PM — Product reveal and launch remarks 7:10 PM — Q&A 7:30 PM — Curated networking and live demo stations 9:00 PM — Event close Learn more: https://www.blinkko.co Join the community: https://discord.gg/D8X43hArA7
Join Arize on September 9 at Corgi Cafe for The Corgi Cup, an RC car racing tournament built around the same problem AI teams face in production: spotting the pattern behind a bad run before it happens again. Between races, see Signal in action. Signal is Arize’s always-on managed agent SRE, continuously analyzing production traces to surface recurring and emerging failure patterns. It turns those patterns into prioritized investigations with the evidence teams need to understand what happened, how often it is happening, and what deserves attention next. The goal is the same on the track and in production: learn from every run and make the next one better. Come race, dig into Signal at the demo station, and compare notes with other teams operating agents in production. There will also be a grand prize for the fastest team. No racing experience required (but a competitive eval mindset will definitely help).
Overview This meetup features presentations on the newly announced NVIDIA Nemotron Lightning and then jump into the Developer Live Agent Gauntlet. Featured presentations NVIDIA Nemotron Lightning — Learn how NVIDIA’s newest Nemotron advancements can help developers build faster, more capable, and efficient AI applications. Special event: Developer Live Agent Gauntlet Can your agent explore the unknown? Get access to a new agent test platform for a chance to win NVIDIA prize packs. Your mission is to build an agent capable of dynamic exploration using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). At kickoff, your agent will connect to a “Black Box” MCP server filled with hidden tools, unknown functions, and encrypted data. Challenges will be across four domains: Text, Image, Audio and Video. Your agent won’t know what’s inside. It will need to: Explore the server dynamically Identify and use available tools Uncover hidden functions and encrypted data Solve a series of challenges nested within the architecture Refreshments will be provided, so come hungry for knowledge—and maybe a snack or two. Resources and Legal Resources NVIDIA Privacy Policy: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/
The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley, and the teams building in production to examine concrete work — papers, methods, and results — with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes, and what would count as convincing evidence. Each session features 2–3 talks selected for rigor and discussion value. Presentations are intentionally brief so the majority of time is reserved for questions and critique. Papers and supporting materials are shared in advance to ensure a high-baseline conversation. Agenda 5:30pm: Doors open 5:30pm – 6:30pm: Networking + light dinner 6:30pm – 8:00pm: Research presentations + discussion 8:00pm – 8:30pm: Networking Presenters & topics Talk 1: TBA Talk 2: TBA Want to present your work? If you have a research paper you’d like to discuss at one of our next sessions, please submit it for consideration. Submit your paper here! Who should attend Robotics researchers and research engineers People training or deploying policies on real hardware — manipulation, humanoids, VLA, sim-to-real, world models Controls, safety, and verification people working on what it takes to trust an autonomous system Founders and engineers building tooling for robot data, simulation, and evaluation Capacity is limited. We will take photos and short video clips for event recap and promotion. By attending, you consent to being photographed and recorded, and to the use of those images and clips by the organizers on social media and other event marketing channels. 🌐 Connect with Frontier Research Club Luma Calendar: luma.com/frontiersyndicate YouTube: youtube.com/@FrontierResearchClub LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/frontier-research-club Instagram: @frontierresearchclub Email: kristopher@frontiersyndicate.vc Hosted by Frontier Syndicate is a venture community connecting frontier tech researchers, builders, and inve
Important note: Register on AICamp website is REQUIRED for admission. Description: Welcome to the 'AI Dev Showcase Night SF' series, co-hosted with Workato. This series bring the Workato and AICamp communities together for an evening dedicated to deep-dive tech talks, hands-on labs, and high-impact technical networking. Expect the best innovative AI demos and conversations built for technical audiences. At this September Edition, we team up with Coder to dive deep into coding agents and AI-native development. Agenda: \- 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin\, food and networking \- 6:00pm\~6:15pm: Welcome and Community update \- 6:15pm\~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A \- 7:30pm\~8:30pm: Open discussion\, Mixer and Closing\. Speakers/Topics: If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 50,000+ AI developers in San Francisco and 500K+ in global.