Cline, Parallel, & Composio Hackathon

An ancient-future solarpunk gathering in the San Francisco Bay bioregion. Co-convened by CrowdDoing and Solarpunkification, hosted at Mabuhay Gardens, supported by Kinship Earth — a registered public satellite event of the ORIGIN Global Festival (Cradle of Humankind, South Africa). Talks, a Warm Data Lab, festival tables, live uplinks to the ORIGIN global broadcast, and food for sale from 8:30 AM. Free or by suggested donation. Tickets: https://luma.com/90i6vrae

AI: The Age of Agency Join us on October 17th for the 10th annual MIT AI conference: The Age of Agency. 500 corporate executives, founders, researchers and investors will gather for a day of workshops, demos, thought-provoking talks and networking. Since 2017, the MIT AI Conference has brought together leaders and influencers in the AI community who are at the forefront of solving the world’s most challenging problems through creative applications of technology. Hear from 50+ speakers including Aparna Chennapragada: VP of Wearables Product - Meta Brad Porter: Founder and CEO - Cobot Bret Taylor: Co-Founder - Sierra / Chairman - OpenAI Daron Acemoglu: Nobel Laureate / Professor - MIT Feyza Haskaraman: Partner - Felicis Hadi Partovi: Founder - Code.Org Julie Yoo: General Partner - Andreessen Horowitz Omar Khawaja: Field CISO - Databricks Raffi Krikorian: CTO - Mozilla Sam Schillace: CVP, Deputy CTO - Microsoft Shishir Mehrotra: CEO - Superhuman / Board Member - Walmart and Spotify What Makes MITAI Unique? High-signal AI builders: founders, c-suite executives from large corporates, researchers, operators, and investors MIT-style deep dives panels and fireside chats: across healthcare, robotics, government, and more AI Hackathon: teams building real products, with top teams pitching on the main stage AI Research Slam: featuring breakthrough work before it becomes obvious Workshops, Demos, and Awards: plus the kind of hallway conversations you can’t manufacture For more information, visit: https://www.mitaiconference.org/ EXCHANGES/REFUNDS: All ticket sales are final and non-refundable. However, we will honor one name change on a registration up to October 1, 2026.

Builders who Run is an informal and international running club. We’re celebrating our 127th consecutive week of BWR SF! 🎉 Join us for a chill 5M run with new and old builder friends at Angel Island, followed by a BBQ. Schedule: 9:45 AM – Meet at SF Ferry Terminal Gate B 9:50 AM – Quick intros 10:15 AM – Depart SF 10:45 AM – Arrive at Angel Island & get to the campsite 10:55 AM - 12:30 PM — Hike or Run with the group 12:30 PM – BBQ & games 3:20 PM – Depart Angel Island 3:50 PM – Arrive back in SF The pace will be relaxed and conversational. Bring good vibes and stay for the BBQ after the run. This event is free! We ask for a $5 refundable ticket to secure your spot and help us plan for food. We’ll refund it after the event. We’re thrilled to be co-hosting this event with Mercury, a trusted partner to thousands of founders and startups worldwide. Mercury provides banking and credit solutions built for startups. Trusted by 100,000+ companies, Mercury is also ODF’s bank of choice. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC.

A facilitated Warm Data Lab as part of the day's festival — share stories around a common question, move between small groups to explore it from different viewpoints, and gather to share insights. Co-hosted with Jess Groopman. Everyone welcome; no preparation needed. Registration: https://luma.com/g9l0pkv0

Maxima is partnering with [Solidcore] for a Sunday morning mat Pilates class in Mountain View, made for the women who keep finance and accounting teams running. Come move, meet other women in the field, and start your Sunday feeling good. We’ll have a matcha bar too, so grab a drink before or after class! Sunday, 10/18 10:00 to 11:00am Mountain View, CA All levels welcome, no Pilates experience needed, and BYOM(Bring Your Own Mat!). We’re keeping it exclusive with just 20 spots, so request your spot early. See you there!

Open Source AI Week 2026 | Open Weight Debate Night The Open Weight Debate is where Open Source AI Week gets into discussion, opinions, and fun. We're bringing together sharp minds who actually like to debate and discuss with each other and putting them on stage to hash it out live. Real arguments, real examples, and real dialogue about the questions that matter most to the future of open source AI from leaders shaping the AI ecosystem including Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley, Databricks, Anyscale), Percy Liang (Stanford, MARIN Project, Open Athena), Ben Brooks (Black Forest Labs), Cheryl Cheng (M12), Malo Bourgon (MIRI), David Bellamy, MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models) and moderated by Michael Schwarz (Microsoft), Vibhu Sapra (AI Engineer / Latent Space), and Sophia Dew (MTS Live). We're hosting at GitHub HQ where the developer minds are at. Agenda 5:30 PM – Registration & Networking 6:00 PM – Welcome & Event Overview 6:15 PM – Debate #1: The risks of publicly releasing frontier AI model weights outweigh the benefits. 7:00 PM – Debate #2: Enterprises will always prefer closed models over open models. 7:45 PM – Debate #3: Closed models will retain an overall performance capability advantage over open-weight models 8:25 PM – Closing Remarks & Next Event Announcements 8:30 PM – Event Concludes Expect some spicy takes, a few surprises, learn a few things, disagree or agree. Whether you're firmly on one side of the debate or genuinely undecided, this is the session where things get interesting fast. This is one of the highlight events of Open Source AI Week. Check out opensourceaiweek.com for the full lineup and more info on what else is happening throughout the week. About the hosts Microsoft delivers the cloud, AI, and data platforms that help researchers and enterprises build, train, and deploy intelligent systems at scale. Through Windows, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure computing infrastructure, Microsoft is accelerating scientific discovery and innovation from on devic