PLATFORMday: In-Person Platform Engineering Event | San Francisco | Q4 2026

Your resume can't show how good you are with AI. This competition can. The AI-Native Talent Hunt is a live, in-person competition. You get a real problem from a real company and work on it from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM with any AI tools. Each work is sized for about an hour, so you can do more than one. We score your result and how you got there. PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR COMPUTER! Schedule Sunday, October 11 10:00 AM: Doors open, sharp, not before. Check in, set up your laptop, meet people. 11:00 AM: Opening: the companies, the works, a live demo, the rules and the prizes. 11:30 AM: Works open. 1:00–2:00 PM: Lunch, provided, in shifts. The clock keeps running. 1:15 PM: Prize drawing. 3:30 PM: Submission deadline. 4:00 PM: Prize drawing. 5:00 PM: Awards and group photo. 5:30–6:00 PM: Networking, then we wrap at 6:00 PM. About RSVPs About 1,500 people have registered and the venue holds 200 in total. Entry is first come, first served from 10:00 AM sharp, so going doesn't guarantee a place. If you can't come, please switch your RSVP to Can't Go now so someone else gets your place. If we're full, there's a waitlist at the door. Waitlisted guests are let in only if a spot opens before 1:00 PM. We'll post in Discord the moment we're full. You can only compete in person: the event code is shown only at the venue. Prizes Overall 1 | $1,000 + 5,000 Codex credits (worth $200) Overall 2 | $500 + 2,500 Codex credits (worth $100) Overall 3 | $300 + 1,000 Codex credits (worth $40) Each of the 3 track winners: $200 A top-three winner can't also take a track prize. It goes to the next person in that track. Two free prize drawings, at 1:15 PM and 4:00 PM, for our merch and cash prizes of up to $50. Your name-tag number is your ticket, and you must be in the room when it's drawn. What to bring A personal Mac (Apple chip or Intel) or Windows laptop, and your charger. Chromebooks, iPads and Linux don't work. Company laptops often block the screen-recording permission NeoWork needs. Yo

Claude for Games · Build Day An evening to make your own video game with Claude. 🎮 The Claude Community Build Day comes to San Francisco with a brand new theme. What's it about? Building, not listening. Show up with an idea (or without one), sit down and make a game with Claude. A small game, made in one evening, but yours and playable. At the close, everyone plays what the others built. It's for fun: no competition, no judging, no homework. 🎁 Credits for every builder Every approved attendee receives Claude API credits to power their game with Claude Code, so you build all evening without worrying about tokens. Every attendee will receive $100 in Apify credits. Agenda Doors at 5:00 PM, one continuous build block with no break, demos to close. Who it's for Developers, students, designers and anyone who has ever wanted to make a video game. You don't need to have built one before: if you can describe a game, you can build it. Laptop with Claude Desktop and Claude Code installed before the event Charger Your active Claude account Details Date: Monday, October 12, 2026 Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM PT Venue: San Francisco, address shared with approved guests Language: English Claude API credits included for every approved attendee Apify API credits included for every approved attendee Registration Approval-based: request your spot and we'll confirm by email (confirmation only comes through Luma). Limited capacity.

Excited about the future of the physical world? Come mingle with fellow builders who are making robots, rockets, chips, and everything in between! Syntro is hosting Long Lead Time, a happy hour during TechCrunch Disrupt, for the founders, engineers, and operators building robotics and frontier hardware to connect, share ideas and war stories, and partner up. Join us for drinks and good vibes! ABOUT SYNTRO Syntro is the first agentic procurement platform purpose built for the realities of modern hardware manufacturing. We enable manufacturers to discover, select, and manage suppliers across the entire hardware lifecycle, from first prototype to production, at the speed and intelligence of AI. Learn more here: usesyntro.com Syntro's event is independently organized and operated solely by Syntro. TechCrunch Media, LLC is not responsible for the event's content, programming, speakers, venue, attendee conduct, or any incidents, injuries, or claims arising from the event. Syntro agrees to indemnify and hold harmless TechCrunch Media, LLC from any liability related to the event.

Office Hours are unstructured discussions between Golden Seeds members and entrepreneurs. This opportunity is particularly relevant for companies that are likely to seek funding in the next 12 to 24 months.

Agentic AI Demo night! Join us for an exciting evening of Agentic AI demos from local Bay Area startups. Agentic AI represents the most significant shift in the Gen AI landscape today - changing our daily lives and the way we work. ​Come see the latest applications of Agentic AI in action, and mix and mingle with other Gen AI enthusiasts! Registration To attend, you need to register at luma <- Please register at Luma as the venue requires this. Agenda Date: Tues October 13th, 5:00pm (doors open at 5pm) Location: Microsoft Reactor, 555 California, 3rd floor 5:00-6:00pm doors open for networking 6:00-7:00pm demos 7:00-7:30pm additional networking Want to demo? If you are interested in demoing, please fill out the application form.

TechCrunch Disrupt brings the startup world to SF. On Day 1, we're bringing the people who build real things together. Join Foundry Robotics for drinks, bites and a good conversation at Harlan Records, a midcentury vinyl cocktail bar in downtown SF. About Foundry Robotics We're building The Everything Factory: AI-first robotic assembly cells to rebuild American manufacturing. As a physical AI company, we teach robots the laws of manufacturing. Our robots use foundation models to perceive, adapt and assemble to spec across modular, reconfigurable cells that take hardware from prototype to production. Six programs, from humanoids and drones to compute boxes, run on one cell architecture. Build with us. Why you should come 🛠️ Hard tech and defense tech founders. Is manufacturing your bottleneck? Meet the team and see how Foundry can build your product. We work on defense and dual-use systems, complex mechanical sub-assemblies, all through a secure supply chain. ⚙️ Engineers. We're hiring top robotics, AI/ML, software, manufacturing and operations talent in Emeryville. Come meet the team and hear what we're building. 📈 Investors and builders. Meet the team building the next generation of physical-world companies. Agenda 5:00 PM: Doors open, drinks and food 6:00 PM: A quick hello from the Foundry team 6:15–8:00 PM: Networking on the patio Host: Vik Sreedhar, Head of Commercial GTM, Foundry Robotics Food and drinks are on us. Space is limited, and RSVPs need approval. Event details When: Tuesday, October 13 · 5:00–8:00 PM PT Where: Harlan Records, 18 Harlan Place, San Francisco, CA 94108 (about 15 min from Moscone West)