Startup Pitch Night

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!

A Cline x Composio x Parallel hackathon for Open Source AI Week Everyone's talking about closed personal agents right now. We want to see what you can build in the open. Come spend the day building your own personal agent with Cline, Composio, Parallel, and open-source models. Bring a laptop and an idea, or find a teammate here and figure it out together. The only rule is that you open source what you build and share it. Prizes 1st: NVIDIA DGX Spark 2nd: $1,000 in Cline credits 3rd: [~$500 prize, TBA] Judges Max Paulus, Senior Software Engineer, Cline (https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-paulus/) Rayane Boussanni, Composio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayane-boussanni/) Karan Aggarwal, Parallel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karan-aggarwal/) Need ideas? Here are a few to get you started A morning briefing agent that goes through your inbox and calendar, looks up who you're meeting, and sends you a summary A research agent that keeps an eye on topics, competitors, or prices you care about and messages you in Slack when something changes A job hunt agent that finds roles, digs into each company, and keeps your applications organized in a spreadsheet Honestly anything you'd want running for you every day. Weird ideas are welcome. What you get $50 in Cline credits for every attendee, open-source model credits, lunch, snacks, coffee, and swag from all three teams. Schedule 11:00 AM: Doors open, check-in, swag 11:30 AM: Kickoff 11:45 AM: Start hacking (lunch is served while you work) 3:15 PM: Submissions due 3:35 PM: Demos and judging 4:15 PM: Winners announced 4:30 PM: Wrap up What you'll build with Cline: the open source coding agent used by 11M+ developers. cline.bot Composio: hooks your agent up to 1,500+ apps like Gmail, Slack, and GitHub, and handles auth for you. docs.composio.dev Parallel: web search and research APIs built for agents, so your agent can work with the live web. docs.parallel.ai