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The Israeli DefenseTech Innovation Day, led by 10D, Deloitte, Meitar and Protego Ventures, is designed to bring together founders, innovators, and key industry leaders within the Defense sector for a day of networking, knowledge-sharing, and discussions about the challenges and opportunities in this evolving landscape. Agenda Defense Tech 2027 Market Overview: The State of the Industry David Chinn, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; Leader of McKinsey’s Defense Practice in Europe Panel: The Buyer Is the Bottleneck? From Pilot to Program Inbal Kreiss, Chief Innovation Officer, Systems Missiles & Space Division, IAI Asaf Picciotto, Co-Founder & CEO, Spectralx BG (Ret.) Shimon Tsentsiper, Managing Partner, Ace Capital Dr. Irit Idan, Idan Technology Insights Former EVP R&D Rafael Panel: From Dual-Use to Defense: When Commercial Technology Enters the Battlefield Ido Priel, Co-Founder & CEO, Remondo Avner Bendheim, Co-Founder & CEO, Tenna Systems Shuki Yehuda, EVP Chief Technology Officer at Elbit Yarden Gross, Co-Founder & CEO, Orca AI The D-Fend Story Fireside Chat featuring Zohar Halachmi, Chairman & CEO, D-Fend Solutions Panel: The Future Battlefield: Remote, Unmanned and Autonomous Ofer Ballin, Co-Founder & CEO, Shifters Aviv Shapira, Co Founder & CEO of XTEND Tamar Harary, Co-Founder & CEO, LiteVision Avi Gil, Former Military Secretary and Defense Advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister; Managing Partner, Giveon The Dynamics and Evolution of Defense Primes Fireside Chat featuring Alon Dror, Co Founder & CEO of KELA Please note: By registering for this event, you agree to being photographed and filmed, and consent to your registration details being shared with event organizers, partners, and sponsors for event-related communications and promotional purposes.

This is an Open Call to film schools, studios, and artists! AI on the Lot is hosting a curated 8-hour creative sprint at our headquarters on the Culver City plaza. Sit down with best-in-class creatives, focus, and create something amazing at our Sunday Sprint! This event has limited capacity and is selective. The Prompt This Sunday Sprint is focused on animation. Over an 8-hour period of deep focus, you will make an animated short. Participants can join as individuals or teams. You will draw a random number corresponding to a year (10,000 BC, 1265, 2040, etc.) and will be challenged to develop a short pilot episode about someone's first day of a new job in that year. The session will begin with a short talk from animation executive Joel Kuwahara (Bob's Burger, Simpsons, Duncanville) and Claudio Jimenez (Founder of Mighty Animation studio). The Schedule 9:30am - Arrival (Coffee + Pastries) 10:00am - Fireside chat with Joel Kuwahara & Claudio Jimenez 10:30am - OpenArt Workshop 11:00am - Draw a Year from the History Hat 11:10am - Start working! 5:00pm - Wrap 5pm to 6pm - Watch all the films! 6pm - Pick a winner! Our Reputation AI on the Lot hosts an annual film contest "Cinema Synthetica" each year for only 9 filmmakers. Every year, the participants go on to get hired at top studios like Promise, Amazon MGM Studios, Luma, Asteria, Innovative Dreams as well as start their own companies. For the first time, we're making our talent platform a year-round platform with Sunday Sprints. How to Attend To attend, please fill out the application. Space is LIMITED. Priority will be given to the most serious applicants. If you would like to apply as part of a team, please indicate that in your application somewhere. Learn more about AI on the Lot here: https://www.aionthelot.com DISABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE Parts of this event may be reached by stairs only. Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations to attend should contact team@aionthelot.com with their name, c

Acerca del evento SUNDAY BRUNCH · DJ · FÚTBOL · CHILL · SUPPORT · CHEER · CONNECT Queremos aprovechar el domingo 25/Octubre para honrar un increíble año de nostalgia mundialista.🥀⚽ Creando la ¡PRIMERA TECH WEEKS WORLD CUP que consideramos se merece esta increíble comunidad! 🏟️🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🇧🇿 🇸🇻 🇭🇳 🇳🇮 🇨🇷 🇵🇦 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇵🇾 🇺🇾 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇪🇫🇷🇷🇴🏆 ❌NO OLVIDES TU JERSEY❤️‍🔥 Domingo chill, brunch, DJ, fútbol y buenas conversaciones en Casita Solosé🏠🖼️— Altata #310, Hipódromo Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX. @solose.fc (en Instagram) ¡El espacio más trend de CDMX durante el Mundial🇲🇽, en el corazón de la Condesa! 🎨 Todos son bienvenidos: por qué jugar es completamente opcional! Puedes venir a representar a tu país, echar porra, conocer founders, developers, VCs y diversos perfiles ejecutivos del ecosistema, o simplemente organizar tu semana platicando con calma antes de que empiecen los eventos y pitches más formales. 🛬 Sabemos que muchos van a llegar ese mismo día por lo que ya pensamos en eso y podremos resguardar sus maletas🧳 si es necesario. :) 🌎 ¿Cómo participo? Trae la playera/jersey de tu país-selección.👔🤵🏻‍♀️🤵🏽‍♂️ El Mundialito es mixto💜 queremos competencia con buena actitud: nada de juego violento ni entradas innecesarias. Venimos a jugar, convivir y pasarla bien. Tendremos entre 8 y 16 selecciones, cada una con un capitán o capitana asignad@. Puede existir más de un equipo representando al mismo país o comunidad: Colombia Fintech · México Jalisco o Monterrey Tech Week · México Gallo Valley · Spain Founders, etc Fecha máxima estimada para definir capitanes: 18/Octubre Lista defintiva de equipos-"jugadores seleccionados": viernes 23 de octubre. Necesitamos ese margen para preparar una eliminatoria equilibrada y justa. 📋 Por favor confirmar su participación contestando nuestro mensaje de WhatsApp *solo jugadores🥷: los demás accesos estándar no necesitan otra confirmación más que su código QR de Luma. RSVP según cupo y condiciones del spot (todxs recib

The future is being built in Boston and NYC. Get a first look this Tough Tech Week. Campus Deep Tech and MassVentures are collaborating with SOSV, Engine Ventures, and Sumitomo Heavy Industries to bring together a curated group of startups, investors, industry leaders, and academics from Boston and NYC, bridging these top innovation hubs to kick off Tough Tech Week. Experience the most transformative technologies being developed for the physical world and build new relationships with founders, investors, and industry coming from around the world. Campus Deep Tech accelerates innovation by equipping entrepreneurial researchers and startups with a community of peers across universities and connecting them with the right resources, investors, and people from industry. Location: 10 Prospect St, Somerville, MA Parking is available in the garage next door at 20 Prospect (standard parking fees apply). Public street parking nearby is a cheaper alternative. Startup Pitch Interest Form (Pre-Seed - Series A): https://forms.gle/eU4MPMM5qP7457heA Researcher Pitch Interest Form: https://forms.gle/eU4MPMM5qP7457heA The Summit Includes 4 Segments: Morning Session (9 AM - 11 AM) - Physical AI, Robotics, Sensing, Electronics, Motors, Magnets, and more… Featured Panelist, Speakers, and Judges:Elaine Chen (Tufts University) Trey Hewell (ECM PCB Stator Tech) Ben Chostner (Mass Robotics) Kimberly Blakemore (ADVentures) Mikell Taylor (General Motors) Will Koffell (NVIDIA Inception Program) Vijay Narasimhan (M Ventures) Kazuki Tanida (Sumitomo Heavy Industries) Lauren Morimoto (Activate) Daniel Slesinski (ARPA-E) Oliver Mitchell (FF Ventures) Samuel Lipoff (Liminal) Sophie Hsiao (Liminal) Pete Mathias (General Partner @ Reveille VC) Michael Campos (EIP) Midday Session (11:30 AM - 1:30 PM) Applications for Nanotech: Advanced Materials, Photonics, Quantum, and more… Featured Panelist, Speakers, and Judges:Allison Hinckley (Thought Partners) Susan Schofer (Chief Science Officer & Partner @ SO

日本語は下↓ Vol.2｜Co-create — Build business ideas across borders From talking about ideas to building businesses together across borders. The second edition of Go Global Hub 2026 is Build Together – Cross-border Co-Creation Workshop. Date: Monday, October 26th, 2026 at 18:30 (doors open at 18:00) Venue: Sivan's Lab Language: English (with Japanese support) Capacity: 70 - 100 participants Price: Free Overview International and Japanese startups, entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, and other ecosystem players will form mixed teams and work together to turn business challenges and themes into concrete new business ideas. This is open to everyone — whether you're already building your own new business and want to stress-test and sharpen it with cross-border perspectives, or you'd rather start from scratch with a theme and shape a brand-new idea together with your team. Either way, you'll be working through the same core questions: Who is the customer? What problem are we solving? What value can we provide? How can the idea become a sustainable business? What partners do we need to make it happen? Using frameworks such as the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas, participants will combine their experience, expertise, and different cultural and market perspectives to develop ideas — whether brought in or built on the spot — into potential business models. At the end of the workshop, each team will deliver a 3-minute mini pitch. The goal is not to create a perfect business plan. What matters is the experience of building something together with people you would not normally have the opportunity to work with. The ideas and connections created during the session can become the starting point for future business development, partnerships, PoCs, and international expansion. Speaker Catherine Li - Co-Founder, Felo AI | Global Strategy | Startup Investment Haruka Aoyama (Catherine Li) brings more than 20 years of experience in international finance, startup investment, busines

What do we build from here? The #SeattleAIWeek Summit returns this October for a full day of honest conversations, bold ideas, and cross-sector collaboration around the future of artificial intelligence. New venue for 2026: Bell Harbor International Conference Center on the Seattle waterfront. As the flagship event of Seattle AI Week, the Summit brings together startup founders, engineers, researchers, investors, policymakers, creatives, enterprise leaders, and builders from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This is where Seattle’s AI community does its hardest thinking together — not just about what AI can do, but about what we choose to build next. Featuring OpenAI's Vijaye Raji, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Read AI's David Shim, TikTok's Peter Kim, Microsoft's Jolenta Coleman-Bush, AI House's Yifan Zhang, and more. Full speaker lineup → This year’s theme, “What We Build From Here,” explores the opportunities, tradeoffs, and responsibilities shaping the next era of AI. From infrastructure and frontier research to creativity, policy, workforce transformation, security, and entrepreneurship, the Summit is designed to spark conversations that go beyond hype and into real-world impact. What to Expect Hear from leading voices across technology, startups, academia, government, media, and the creative industries as they tackle the biggest questions facing AI today. Keynotes, Panels, and Fireside Chats including topics like:Opening Keynote — Fireside with OpenAI & GeekWire Keeping It Real: Creativity, Music, and the Human Experience AI at Work: Hype vs Production The Startup Playbook: Building an AI Company in 2026 The Workforce Question: An Honest Look at What AI Creates and Replaces AI & Life Sciences: From Code to Cures Quantum + AI: The Convergence Begins Closer or Further Apart: AI and the Human Connection Two Assignments: Teaching With AI vs. Teaching About AI Compounding Advantage: How Washington's Industries Set Up the AI Era Experience Hall with Startup Alley, Creative

¿Qué pasaría si una IA pudiera ver, razonar y actuar en el mundo físico? 🚀🌑 En Lunar Mission trabajarás en equipo para explorar un entorno lunar simulado y desarrollar un sistema de Physical AI capaz de percibir su entorno, interpretar lo que sucede y tomar decisiones. Tendrás acceso a rovers, cámaras y distintos componentes de hardware para interactuar con este ambiente. El reto será conectar estos dispositivos con agentes de IA para construir un sistema capaz de explorar la superficie lunar, identificar elementos relevantes —como formaciones geológicas, recursos o posibles indicios de agua— y actuar a partir de lo que encuentra. Tendrás alrededor de una hora para desarrollar y poner a prueba tu sistema. El resto del tiempo estará dedicado a conocer la misión, entender las herramientas y preparar tu estrategia. La idea es llevar la inteligencia artificial más allá de la pantalla: hacer que pueda percibir, decidir y actuar en el mundo físico. Lunar Mission es una experiencia desarrollada en colaboración entre Mexinlabs, Google Cloud y NVIDIA.

Join CSEE and QuantCo for Claim to Fame, a challenge focused on insurance claims, followed by dinner and networking. You’ll take on the roles of both the insured party and the insurer, pricing invoice items, reviewing what other teams charge, and trying to make the most money without being fooled. Agenda Welcome & introduction Challenge time: Develop your approach and compete against others. Dinner & networking: Continue the conversations over food with the QuantCo team and the CSEE community. What to bring Bring your laptop, charger, and curiosity. About QuantCo QuantCo is a leading applied AI company leveraging expertise in data science, engineering, and AI to help organizations turn data into decisions. With more than 250 colleagues, QuantCo is headquartered in Boston and has offices in San Francisco, London, Zurich, Berlin, and Munich.

From Product Manager to Product Builder: A Hands-on Workshop with Scout24 x OpenAI How can AI help you move from a product question to something you can test? Join Scout24 and OpenAI for a hands-on workshop exploring how ChatGPT and Codex can support everyday product work—from discovery to prototyping. You’ll work through a practical product challenge with sample data, try the tools yourself, and learn how to evaluate the results. Expect practical exercises, room for questions, and networking with fellow product builders. Who should apply? Product managers and builders who are familiar with Codex and want to take the next step. 📍 Scout24 Community Hub, Berlin 📆 27 October 2026 · 18:00–21:00 Hands-on workshop until 20:00, followed by networking, food, and drinks. Places are limited. Apply using the short questionnaire so we can understand your interests and experience. Participation is subject to confirmation. Bring your laptop—we’ll share setup instructions in advance. Email-field guidance: Please provide the personal email address you use for your ChatGPT account—not a different address or your work email. Your Pro license will be activated on this account.

Network and learn about the 2027 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenges, where teams compete for grants up to $20,000! As one of the longest-running startup competitions in NYC, the Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge has fueled entrepreneurship in the borough – and across the entire city – for more than two decades. Hosted by the […] \n

Health & Well-Being Pitch Night – October 27th, 2026 Apply Here for Health & Well Being Pitch Night The Startup Network is hosting its signature Pitch Night competition this time focusing on health and well being startups. Health & Well Being Pitch Night at The Commons QV – October 27th, 2026 (Tuesday) Dive into the world of innovation focused on health and well-being at our 2026 Health & Well-Being Pitch Night . This event highlights founders creating transformative solutions to improve lives, promote wellness, and revolutionize health and well-being industries. Why Join Us? This evening is dedicated to showcasing startups tackling challenges in health, fitness, mental well-being, and beyond. Whether you're passionate about advancing wellness, investing in impactful solutions, or supporting startups in this critical space, this event is for you. What to Expect on the Night: The Health & Well-Being Pitch Night is a must-attend event for anyone interested in the intersection of innovation and well-being. Guests will: Network with an ever-growing community of investors, founders, service providers, and startup operators. Support four incredible early-stage founders as they pitch their transformative health and wellness solutions. Vote for their favourite pitch of the night. Reserve Your Seat Today! Don’t miss out on this evening filled with networking, innovation, and celebration. Register now to be part of The Startup Network's Health & Well-Being Startups Pitch Night and connect with the changemakers shaping a brighter future! TSN members enjoy complimentary access to our Pitch Nights! Not a member yet? Join today and unlock numerous benefits designed to support your entrepreneurial journey. -------------------------------------------------------- 🧾 Refund & Credit Policy – The Startup Network We’re a not-for-profit committed to building a stronger, more connected startup community. We strive to make our events accessible, enjoyable, and financially sustaina

🎃 Founders After Dark: Halloween Edition Join Asian Founders Club and Vibranium Labs for a Halloween night (sponsored by Zephyr and Plug and Play NYC) with NYC’s community of founders, builders, and operators. We’re taking over Civic Hall for an evening of costumes, food, drinks, music, tarot readings, and meeting new people across the NYC startup community. This event is supported by our partners Zephyr, the complete fractional finance team for startups, and Plug & Play, the global innovation platform! 👻 What to expect: • Food and alcohol served throughout the evening • A tarot reader offering readings during the event • Founders, builders, and operators from across NYC • Plenty of time to meet new people and catch up with friends • A costume contest with a prize for the person who dresses up the most creatively Dress code: Costumes highly encouraged! Note: This is a curated event and approval is required. Asian Founders Club: We host a curated series of events in New York City for young Asian founders designed to form genuine, long-lasting relationships. We value authenticity and creating impact at scale. Vibranium Labs builds AI-native tools designed to help engineering teams respond to incidents faster and operate more reliably. Its platform focuses on improving how teams investigate, manage, and resolve technical issues. Huge thanks to our partners for making this event possible: Zephyr (https://www.zephyr.business) is your complete fractional finance team. They provide premium-quality, comprehensive financial operations, reporting, FP&A, consulting, and strategic finance work to growing companies, from day-to-day execution to strategic CFO support. Plug and Play is the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we're present in 60+ locations across 25+ industries. We offer corporate innovation programs, helping our partners in every stage of thei

What does it take for AI-powered robots to work in the real world? From robots that can reason across different tasks, to models that translate what they see and understand into actions, AI is expanding what robots can do beyond controlled environments. But building robots that can operate reliably in the real world requires more than better models. They need to reason and plan, remember what has happened, respond to changes around them, and act reliably despite constraints such as latency, connectivity, and uncertainty. Together with IMDA, we are bringing you an AI Wednesdays × Technical Sharing Session edition focused on AI and robotics, exploring the models, systems, and infrastructure shaping how intelligent robots are built and deployed beyond the lab. More About the Sharings Soujanya Poria (Associate Professor, NTU) will share on “Beyond Better Actions: What Generalist Physical Agents Still Need.” What will it take to build robots that can perform many different tasks across different environments? Soujanya will argue that the challenge isn't simply collecting more robot data. Large language and multimodal models can already reason and plan, but physical agents must coordinate that slower reasoning with fast control, remember what happened earlier, and know when they need more evidence before acting. He'll explore this through three pieces of work: GE-Act 2.0, a world action model pretrained at scale; MemBodied, which adds persistent memory to vision-language-action models; and RoboQuest, a long-horizon benchmark that separates failures in evidence gathering, interpretation, planning, execution, and verification. Together, these point towards a different challenge for generalist physical agents: coordinating fast control, persistent memory, and higher-level planners that know when to gather more evidence, replan, and check their own work. Raphael Yee (Director, Griffin Labs) will share on “Griffin Alpha.” Raphael will share how Griffin Labs built Griffin Alph

Join us for "Wiki+Ctrl+Delete: Wikipedia – The Internet Encyclopedia Under Attack", part of Poland Tech Week 2026. While millions trust Wikipedia as their primary source of information, maintaining the world's largest encyclopedia is a highly complex challenge. Behind the scenes, the platform actively pushes back against coordinated disinformation, automated bots, and AI-generated content, as well as major AI-scraping attacks. Far from a simple digital library, Wikipedia is an active space where accuracy and objective truth require constant moderation and technological defense. Join us during Poland Tech Week for an event that will expose the mechanics of these attacks and show how open knowledge defends itself against collapse. We will analyze the most notorious case studies from the frontlines of edit wars, look into the tools guarding the platform and discuss whether truth still stands a chance in the AI era. Reserve your spot and discover what crisis management looks like in the Last Good Place on the Internet. Who is this for? Cybersecurity professionals and tech enthusiasts. Founders, developers, and AI researchers. Journalists, fact-checkers, and content creators. Anyone curious about who really controls the information we read online See the full Poland Tech Week calendar -> https://luma.com/polandtechweek

Most conversations about selling AI to the enterprise stop at the pilot. The harder part comes after, and founders mostly talk about it in private. That’s the elephant and we want to put it on stage. Landing a pilot is one thing. Getting the CIO, CISO, legal, compliance and procurement to sign off on a paid contract is another. Then the contract’s signed, and a lean team has to deliver for a customer that dwarfs it. Join Fidelity Private Shares and The Open Accelerator for a founders’ breakfast with early-stage AI founders who are tackling these challenges right now. Hear firsthand what’s working, what’s not, and lessons learned along the way: Build vs. buy: Why would an enterprise buy from a startup if it can build in-house? Beyond founder-led sales: When does it stop working and what comes next? Delivering at enterprise scale: How does a small team support a huge customer after the deal closes? You’ll also meet Boston’s B2B AI founders and hear how they’re using local accelerators and the wider ecosystem to move faster. Building B2B AI? This one’s for you. Space is limited and founders get priority. Agenda 9-9:30 Arrivals & Networking 9:30-10 PanelRichard Shaaya, Founder & CEO, Sigma Automate Nyari Nain, Cofounder, Whiteroom AI Logan Currie, Director of Residency Programs, The Open Accelerator Kristen Craft, Head of Partnerships, Fidelity Private Shares 10-10:30 Networking & Departures Fidelity Private Shares Fidelity Private Shares is committed to supporting the startup & venture capital community. Fidelity helps founders prepare for their next round of funding with our cap table management and data room platform, events that give you access to seed stage capital, equity scenario modeling, and premier support to generate, execute & store legal documents. No matter where you are in your journey - from inception to IPO - Fidelity has the expertise to support you. The Open Accelerator The Open Accelerator, led by Red Hat with IBM Ventures and the Massachusetts AI Hu

Join Foray Bioscience and the Massachusetts AI Coalition for a two-mile walk bringing together founders and company leaders working at the intersection of AI and Tough Tech. We’ll meet at Area Four in Technology Square, walk to the Charles River and back, and finish with coffee. The goal is to step away from the screen, enjoy the fresh fall air, and make space for thoughtful conversation about what it takes to apply AI solutions in the real world from science and engineering to manufacturing, infrastructure, and the physical economy. This will be an opportunity to meet fellow founders and leaders to explore the opportunities and challenges that emerge when AI moves beyond just software and into the systems around us.

From understanding agents to building and using them Almost a year ago, we hosted our first 7x7x7 Express on Agentic AI. Back then, the industry was just beginning to explore what AI agents could do, how they differed from generative AI, what governance considerations mattered, and where they might be applied, particularly in finance. Fast forward to today, and the landscape has evolved considerably. People are moving beyond single agents to experiment with multiple agents working together. New tools, workflows and applications are emerging, while real-world use is bringing new questions around reliability, security, oversight and control. So, what's changed in Agentic AI over the past year, and what can we actually do with it today? Join us for the next edition of 7x7x7 Express by Women in AI (For Good), where seven speakers will each share their knowledge, experiences and practical insights in seven-minute sessions. Expect less time spent on the basics and more time exploring what is happening now, what is working, what isn't, and how you can get started. Our speakers & topics they are sharing, including how you can get started: Yin Yin- skills vs workflows vs agents: When to use them and how to get started with off the shelf agent? Leila- Leadership in the age of agents and ai. How are our roles evolving, challenges for nurturing new generation of leaders, how do we prepare ourselves? Simran - How to use hermes as a central agent to deploy websites, linkedin content? Harshita - Governance of agents and what we need to look out for in enterprises, and what makes this different than governance of genAI? Pin - Verifiable identity to agents, building trust ecosystems? Anmol - How a 2nd brain can optimise the outputs of agents and what you need to do to prep for building your 2nd brain? Chloe - How to use scheduled tasks in chatgpt/building your own chief of staff to get 1% closer everyday to the woman you want to become? (bonus) Jia Zhen: the 7 hidden challenges of d

Every B2B founder or sales leader wants the same thing: to consistently meet targets, and know why it's working (or not). But last quarter you might have hit your target. This quarter you didn't. And nobody can say exactly why. Meanwhile: Most of the results hang on you personally, or two or three top performers Playbooks aren't clear, or don't exist (be honest) Your CRM isn't used the way it's supposed to be Every LinkedIn guru claims they can fix your pipeline, your outbound, or your forecasting with a snap of the fingers In short: do you actually have a setup that will get you to the next stage? Sounds familiar? If this is your day to day, come join us. Scaler Company and Gradient, with the Breaking Barriers program of the AI Coalition for the Netherlands (AIC4NL, http://www.aic4nl.nl/breakingbarriers), are hosting an afternoon for AI & B2B tech founders and commercial leaders scaling sales sustainably and predictably. What you get: Interaction. You bring your own challenges to the table, and work it out live with fellow founders, supported by specialists in the field Peers. 25 to 40 people, the kind of conversation you don't get on LinkedIn Inspiration session: the system to overcome your growth ceiling, and what it takes to get your team to run it Relevance. What's actually working right now, AI included, from experts running and building it every day of the week Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 13:00 to 18:00, drinks from 16:45, B Amsterdam For founders, heads of and VPs of Sales, Growth, or Marketing at B2B tech companies (preferably AI), 5 to 150 employees (we'll make sure you're at a table with people having similar experience. Group sizes can therefore be mixed, depending on the experience level of the attendees). Event sponsor: B Amsterdam The place to work, connect with others, and bring your ideas to life, whether that's in the workplace or while organizing your event. At B. Amsterdam, you'll find an environment where entrepreneurs, creators, and teams insp

Important Note: This event is intended for UBC students and recent graduates exploring careers at the intersection of climate and business. While we welcome others who are interested in these topics, we will prioritize participation from UBC students and recent graduates. This session explores how infrastructure is evolving to meet the challenges of climate change—from decarbonizing buildings and transportation to strengthening energy systems, water infrastructure, and climate resilience. Hear from professionals working across consulting, engineering, real estate, finance, government, and technology as they share how they're helping design, build, and operate the infrastructure of the future. Whether you're passionate about cities, buildings, energy, or resilience, this session highlights the many career pathways shaping a net-zero economy. Speakers: 🎤 Jeanette Hill, Sustainability Manager, BC Pavilion Corporation (the Vancouver Convention Centre, and BC Place Stadium) 🎤 Jessica Fell, Senior Strategic Advisor, Sustainability and Resilience at BC Housing 🎤 Cheryl Ng, Environmental Project Management Specialist, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority About the Working in Climate Series The "Working in Climate" Event Series is an ongoing initiative by the Centre for Climate and Business Solutions at UBC Sauder School of Business. This series explores how climate action intersects with various careers, industries, and professions through thematic events. From fields like business, engineering and technology to sectors such as energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and infrastructure, the series highlights how sustainability is reshaping every aspect of the global economy. Each event provides insights from experts across diverse industries, helping students and professionals understand the growing need for climate solutions and how they can drive meaningful change within their chosen careers. Whether you’re starting out or making a career shift, "Working in Climate" offers guidanc

When the emperor got new clothes he exposed himself a bit too much. Data teams are looking change up their tools, workflows and job descriptions due to the rapid changes of AI. Will they end up exposed like the emperor or dressed and prepared for a new era? Join us for an afternoon with experts as we openly discuss the future of data teams and their tools. We discuss how tools like MotherDuck and dltHub are adapting, but also what challenges data analysts and engineers face. Together we will explore the possibilities that AI opens up, the changing requirements for data jobs, and the difficulties organizations face when everyone acts as a data team of one. Agenda 15:00 Networking and light bites 15:30 The Workbench of The Future: How MotherDuck and dltHub support the post-modern data stack. Dumky de Wilde, Developer & Agent Experience Engineer @ MotherDuck Adrian Brudaru, co-founder @ dltHub 16:00 Panel discussion Adrian Brudaru, co-founder @ dltHub Amy Raygada, Head of Data & Al Central Europe @ Thoughtworks Stijn Zanders, Data & IT @ Aiven 17:00 More networking, more bites and exploring the best of the brewhouse: the bar

The AI-First Engineering Community is back in Brussels 🇧🇪 Second event in the series, brought to you by TechWolf and ML6, with Wintercircus as ecosystem partner. Join us at BeCentral for three talks, one theme: solving workflows the agentic way. Meet the speakers 🚀 Niels Lowie - Senior AI Engineer @ TechWolf Sleeping While Specto Builds: The Reality of AI-Driven Engineering AI writes most of the code at TechWolf today, shifting the core engineering challenge away from typing syntax and toward specifications, rigorous review, and system design. Niels will dive into how their workflow evolved with the creation of Specto - a custom spec-to-implementation tool that lets agents build full features overnight. Expect an honest breakdown of what works, what still breaks, and where the new bottlenecks lie, giving you practical takeaways for your own AI-first engineering journey. 🚀 Christophe Geudens - CTO & Co-founder @ Prismos Agentic Coding at Prismos Over the past two years, the way we build software at Prismos has fundamentally changed. In this talk, Christophe traces that evolution: from our early experiments with agentic coding to the setup Prismos runs today, where they work through remote agent sessions in personalised cloud environments. He'll cover what worked, what didn't, the struggles along the way, and how practices like code review had to change with it. 🚀 Georges Lorré - Unum, Senior Platform Engineer @ ML6 Unum: Building the Execution Layer for Enterprise Agents Unum is ML6's execution layer for the enterprise: rather than another chatbot or copilot, it senses signals across an organization's tools, decides what needs attention, and carries workflows through to completion under governance the business already trusts, closing the loop between sensing and acting that most agentic AI initiatives never reach. Practicals 🚪 Doors open at 6 PM 🎙️ Talks start at 7:15 PM 🥗🍷 Food and drinks are provided 🛜 Networking after the talks ends at 10:30 PM

Twenty years ago, scientists believed that by knowing all about human genes, most diseases could be explained. We now know that human biology isn’t as simple as that. What if our DNA could tell us not only what we inherited — but what our bodies have experienced? The answer may lay in epigenetics – how your body turns on and off genes to deal with challenges. Factors such as aging, environment, diseases and lifestyle continuously alter our epigenetic settings, and by decoding these changing patterns, we get further in understanding the complexity of human biology. Join us for an evening exploring epigenetics and the future of proactive health. Prof. Maria Lerm, Professor at Linköping University and co-founder of PredictMe, will share how our environment, lifestyle and experiences can leave measurable marks on our biology, and why this matters for understanding and protecting our future health. We'll explore questions like: How much of our health is shaped by our environment? Can lifestyle change our biology? And could we detect harmful changes before disease becomes symptomatic? After the talk, stay for an open discussion and networking with people across medicine, science, longevity, biotech and proactive health. Also you will be offered the chance to early access PredictMe Delta at an exclusive discount. 🥗 Light food & non-alcoholic drinks will be served. 📍 Rotherbaum, Hamburg 🧬 Talk + Q&A + Networking 🎟️ Limited capacity — registration subject to approval 🇬🇧 Please note: This event will be held entirely in English 👩‍⚕️ Our Speaker: Prof. Maria Lerm Professor for Medical Microbiology Prof. Maria Lerm is a professor in Medical Microbiology at Linköping University and is leading projects within epigenetics and infectious diseases, focusing on tuberculosis and post-COVID. She is also co-founder of PredictMe. 🎤 Our Moderator: Thomas “Tom” Lerche Thomas “Tom” Lerche will guide us through the evening. As a Hamburg-based expert in events and communication and a passionat

Hi Vancouver Designers, this one is all about your questions. Design work looks wildly different depending on where you do it. Working at a startup, at an agency, or at a large org are VERY different beasts, each with its own expectations, and a few challenges that follow us no matter where we work. Our Panel This Time Startup: Amy, a product designer with a background in Cognitive Sciences and Visual Arts. She’s worked at startups in cybersecurity and fintech, and is a familiar face in the Vancouver Design Community, bringing design thinkers together to share, create, and inspire. Agency: Rika and Michelle Beaudry, partners at Heywood&Beaudry. Michelle is a graphic designer and artist who leads the firm’s digital and web design while managing the business side of being a creative. Rika is a designer, artist, and educator who teaches at the University of the Fraser Valley and in Emily Carr’s Continuing Studies program, alongside a multi-media art practice. Large org: Abhishek D., Senior Experience Designer at Electronic Arts. Abhishek he leads advanced initiatives for FC Ultimate Team. He’s been a founding designer twice, with over a decade across print, startups, mobile games, and game UX. How it Works We’ll start with a short panel on what each world expects from designers. Then we open the room: breakout groups give you real time with each guest, so you can dig into the path you’re most curious about. Come with a question. There are no bad ones, and the awkward ones are usually the most useful. About UX Den We are a low-pressure, supportive space for designers of all levels to experiment, share, and grow through honest feedback, shared experiences, and practical learning. We help each other improve our craft, build confidence, and level up for the next step in our careers: whether that's a new project, a presentation, or an interview. About Our Host The Information Design & Data Visualization (IDDV) program at Northeastern Vancouver is a community of creators and

Seattle Claude for Designers is back! This time, we're widening the aperture: how are designers, builders, and creative technologists using AI to solve problems in genuinely new ways? Claude Community x PSL: Creative problem solving with AI. We can all find productivity and efficiency hacks galore, but what about thinking bigger, moonshot ideas, expanding your capabilities into other design disciplines, and pushing creative problem solving with the help of AI? Thats what we want to talk about! Show & Tell — Around the table Bring your laptop, pull up a chair, and share what you’re making with Claude. This is a casual, small-group chance to swap ideas, show work in progress, and explore how AI is helping you take on creative challenges you might not have tackled before. Show us what you’re building, how you’re approaching it, and the tools you’re using. Experiments, rough prototypes, and ambitious works in progress are welcome. Come ready to share—or just be curious. Have something that could become a future lightning talk? This is a great place to try it out. Small group show and tell will run from 5:30-6:15pm. Open call for speakers ended -- we've selected speakers and will be announcing them soon We're looking for roughly five speakers, with two formats: ⚡ 6-minute demo Show us one great thing. Get in, make the point, get out. 🔬 10-minute deep dive Take us a little further into what you built, how it works, and what you learned. You do not need to be a professional speaker, AI researcher, or design leader. We'd rather have an interesting idea and something real to show than a polished conference talk. Want to talk? Send a brief abstract to lucas@lucasbd.com (or on X or LinkedIn) and he'll circulate to the rest of the team. We will finalize the speaker line-up 2 weeks prior to the event (~10/14) and update the Luma page details then. The evening Come for the demos and the show & tell session. Stay for food (Un Po Tipsy pizza!), drinks, conversation, and meeting

🎃 Civic Tech DC’s Halloween + Birthday Celebration 👻 Civic Tech DC is turning 13! Come celebrate another year of bringing people together around technology, civic life, and making DC a little better. And also - Halloweeeeeen! Join us UPSTAIRS at Sudhouse for a night of costumes, drinks, snacks, friends, and civic-tech nerdiness. Whether you’ve been coming to Civic Tech DC events for years or this is your first one, you’re invited. (Note - this will replace our usual Project Night) 👻 Costume Contest Come dressed up! Techy, nerdy, civic-tech-inspired, and delightfully weird costumes are especially encouraged. There will be eternal glory for the costume contest. 🎂 And, of course, a birthday celebration with cake! (Please note: there is a cash bar with drinks and food) Civic Tech DC has been connecting technologists, designers, data nerds, organizers, public servants, journalists, and generally curious people in DC for 13 years. Come help us celebrate the community that makes it all happen. Come raise a glass to another year of Civic Tech DC! 🎃🏛️💻

What does it take to turn early-stage promise into a company built for serious scale? Join Will Dufton, Partner at Giant Ventures, for a fireside chat exploring the road from early-stage startup to growth, and what investors expect to see along the way. With investing experience spanning Atomico, OMERS Ventures and now Giant Ventures, Will has backed companies from early stage through to Series B+ and growth. In this session, we’ll unpack the milestones that matter as companies scale, how investor expectations change at each stage, and what separates promising startups from those that successfully break through to growth. Key takeaways The leap to growth: what needs to change as a startup moves beyond the early stage What growth investors actually look for: the signals that turn interest into conviction Where promising companies get stuck: the common gaps that become harder to ignore at Series B+ Raising at growth stage: how the investor conversation changes as rounds get bigger Building ahead of the round: what founders should have in place before they need growth capital Who should attend This event is designed for: Startup founders and C-suite (pre-seed to growth stage) Early-stage investors and angels Spaces are limited to keep the conversation and networking high quality. Agenda 6:30pm: Welcome drinks 7pm: Warm welcome from Novabook 7:10pm: Fireside chat with Will Dufton 8pm: Networking over drinks & canapés 9pm: Event close Speaker Will Dufton Partner, Giant Ventures Giant Ventures is a venture capital firm backing ambitious founders using frontier technology to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. Investing from first cheque through to growth, Giant focuses on companies reimagining foundational systems including energy, industry, healthcare, biology, finance and the future of work. Will also writes Observations, his weekly newsletter sharing the most interesting things he learns through his work and travels as a growth investor in frontier technolog

How can we make AI a tool for collective progress? 4 real-world projects to spark the discussion. How can we use AI to address real needs and deliver tangible positive impact? What design and governance choices shape these technologies? 42AI’s Impact & Governance team invites you to an evening of demonstrations and discussions featuring four solutions using AI across a range of fields: accessibility, food information, content recommendation and water leak detection. An opportunity to see these solutions in action, understand how they use AI, and discuss their benefits and limitations with the people developing them. Featuring: Mehdi Desmartin — SignBridge Raphaël Bournhonesque — Open Food Facts Lê Nguyên Hoang — Tournesol Hubert Baya Toda — Leakmited A lively format with room for your questions: Demonstrations and audience discussion — 60 min: Four 15-minute sessions, one per speaker, each featuring a demonstration and Q&A. Panel discussion — 45 min: The four speakers share and compare their experiences, approaches and lessons learned in practice: what results have they achieved, what challenges have they faced, and what does it take to create a positive impact? Audience Q&A — 15 min: An open discussion to explore the topics that interest you in greater depth. 📅 Wednesday, 28 October 2026 · 7:00–9:30 pm 📍 42 Paris · Damogran Room, 3rd floor, 96 boulevard Bessières, 75017 Paris 🗣 Presentations and discussions will be in French, but questions in English are welcome. Are you a student, a digital professional, or simply interested in how AI is used? Come along, bring your questions and join the discussion! 🇫🇷 IA & Impact positif Comment faire de l’IA un outil de progrès collectif ? 4 projets concrets pour ouvrir le débat. Comment mettre l’IA au service de besoins réels et d’impacts positifs tangibles ? Quels choix de conception et de gouvernance façonnent ces technologies ? Le pôle Impact & Gouvernance de 42AI vous invite à une soirée de démonstrations et de discussion

⏰ EARLY BIRD: $15 until Sunday, Oct 18 at 11:59 PM. Then $20. 🎟️ Get your ticket here: Heads up: your Meetup RSVP doesn't include a ticket. Please grab yours at the link above. 📅 Wednesday, October 28 · 6:30–9:30 PM 📍 IDK Social Bar, 172 Ossington Ave 👥 Groups of 3 or more get 25% off at checkout On October 28, TechinTO takes over IDK Social Bar for our Halloween Special, and this time we want you dressed for it. No stage, no slides, no pitch decks. Come as your favourite villain, hero or inside joke, grab a drink, and talk to people about what you're actually building. WHAT YOUR TICKET GETS YOU ✅ An evening with Toronto founders, devs, designers, marketers and PMs ✅ A colour wristband for your field, so you know who's who before you say hi ✅ A chance to win a free 1:1 social media or personal brand strategy session with Sonia Ovcharenko of Lovemarked 🎃 A prize for the best costume FIRST TIME AT TECHINTO? You don't need to know anyone. The wristbands and nametags make it easy to start a conversation, and the whole night is built around meeting new people. THE VENUE IDK Social Bar: a two-level spot downtown with good drinks and a room built for actual conversation. 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techinto.event/ 🌐 Website: https://www.techinto.ca zero corporate stiffness. absolute social energy. actual human conversations.

AI Horror Competition Screening & Reception - Los Angeles Join us and celebrate the finalists from our 4th Annual AI Horror Film Competition in Los Angeles! We will screen the top films for the first 30 minutes and then a reception will follow. From creepy horror films to hilarious Halloween-themed films, every year gets better and better, and we’re excited to celebrate the season with you. Get ready to meet fellow artists, and geek-out over new tools and techniques for pushing your projects further with AI. Whether you're a horror fan, filmmaker, AI enthusiast, marketer or simply curious about the intersection of technology and creativity, this meetup is for you. Come and be part of the conversation! *Costumes encouraged 🧛‍♂️ *The location will be near East Hollywood.

Join Us: Lenovo × HKSTP – From AI Solutions to Commercial Scale Building an AI solution is one challenge. Scaling it commercially is another. Join Lenovo and HKSTP for an interactive afternoon session exploring how startups can accelerate AI deployment, unlock enterprise opportunities, and scale with the support of a global technology partner. Highlights include: Lenovo's Hybrid AI strategy and deployment framework Practical AI applications across multiple industries Scaling through Lenovo's global partner ecosystem A startup sharing session by iMBrace on its collaboration journey with Lenovo Networking opportunities with Lenovo experts and fellow innovators Event Information 📅 29 October 2026 (Thursday) ⏰ 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM 📍 Multi-functional Room, 1/F, Building 1E, HKSTP 🔗 Register: https://hkstp.wufoo.com/forms/p1kx8z6b0yd9knm/ 📝 RSVP Deadline: 12:00 NN, 28 October 2026 Whether you're validating an AI use case, planning deployment, or looking for strategic partners to support growth, this session will offer practical insights and valuable connections. We hope to see you there.

Primero fue la IA que te contesta: preguntas, responde. Después la que te ayuda: le conectas el correo y el calendario, le pides algo, lo hace. Lo que quiero mostrarte es cómo la IA puede ser tu cofundador, y por qué ya no hay vuelta atrás. Voy a levantar el capó de ENYA Ventures, mi fondo de pre-seed para LatAm. Te voy a enseñar ejemplos de cómo la IA me permite operar el fondo sin equipo, adelantándose incluso a lo que le voy a pedir, y cómo armé mi stack. Más que una clase, es una sesión para compartir cómo lo hago, y para que te lleves una idea de cómo convertir tu negocio en AI-native. Para fundadores e inversionistas. No hace falta perfil técnico. Acerca de Lorenzo de Leo y ENYA Ventures Lorenzo de Leo es Managing Director de ENYA Ventures, un fondo pre-seed en Miami que invierte en fundadores AI-native en América Latina de habla hispana. Empezó en matemáticas puras, con un doctorado por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Después pasó una década como Managing Partner de Rokk3r, un venture builder con más de 40 empresas en el portafolio, donde creó 10xU, su plataforma de formación para fundadores, con más de 30,000 alumnos en la región. Desde entonces ha diseñado y dirigido programas de aceleración en América Latina y Estados Unidos. Hoy dirige ENYA Ventures como su único humano, apoyado en agentes de IA que hacen posible que una sola persona opere un fondo completo. Por eso ENYA Ventures es AI-native, e invierte en startups que también lo son: empresas donde la IA es parte de la infraestructura y no solo del producto. enya.vc

(영어 뒤에 한국어 번역이 있습니다) AI moves fast. New models, bold claims, and constant headlines can make it difficult to know what has actually changed—and what it means for you. Join K Choi for a closer look at the ideas, economics, and limitations behind today's AI race. With LLMs still rooted in the Transformer architecture introduced in 2017, this talk examines the industry's focus on scale and release velocity, and why hallucination remains an unresolved challenge. Support this event We’re looking for companies to support food and beverages for this meetup. Sponsors receive logo placement on the event banner, in the recap video, and in the recap article, social media shout-outs, and 2–3 minutes on stage to introduce their company or product. Interested in supporting Seoul’s international tech community? Explore event sponsorship or contact the host through Luma. What we’ll explore What Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPO ambitions reveal about the economics of training and inference. How Chinese labs use distillation to make open-weight models competitive. What AI-assisted progress on math problems such as Navier–Stokes actually demonstrates, and how that compares with the headlines. How developers and non-technical people can make sense of AI amid hype, uncertainty, and instability. Whether you build with AI or simply want to understand it better, come for a thoughtful discussion and a chance to connect with Seoul’s international tech community. Beginners are welcome. About the speaker K Choi is an AI/ML Engineer at eMoldino. He also runs freeCodeCamp Korea meetups on Sundays, bringing together an international community of developers online and offline. Self-taught developers and beginners are welcome. Photography: Photos and video will be taken at this event and may be used by Dev Korea and other co-hosts for this event. Our photographer will ask at the start of the event if anyone prefers not to appear, and you can also tell us at check-in. This event will be held primarily in

At a time when artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping society, the conversation is shifting from broad principles to real-world accountability. The 2026 summit will explore the theme of Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era. For years, the Responsible Tech field has been guided by ethical frameworks, voluntary commitments, and emerging standards. Today, the challenge is clear: how do we translate those ideas into systems of governance, oversight, and design that ensure innovation does not come at the expense of safety, rights, or trust? The Responsible Tech Summit is designed as a curated convening for 375 leaders that helps align and shape the direction of the movement. Participants will include global governance leaders, AI researchers, industry practitioners, policy experts, civil society advocates, and philanthropic leaders who are building the infrastructure of accountability for the digital age. Through keynotes, panels, and conversations, attendees will explore topics such as accountability by design, platform oversight, youth online safety, the Responsible Tech economy, and the evolving global regulatory landscape. All ticket proceeds fund free resources and services for the Responsible Tech community that our organization provides. Can't make it in person? The event will be livestreamed for free on All Tech Is Human's YouTube page, where recordings will also be available afterward. – Are you a journalist looking to potentially cover the Responsible Tech Summit? Reach out to Hello@AllTechIsHuman.org. Speakers for the Responsible Tech Summit 2026 Camille François - President, ROOST Eli Pariser - Co-Director, New_ Public Cathy O’Neil, Founder, Author, Mathematician & Data Scientist, O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing Rumman Chowdhury, CEO, Humane Intelligence PBC Alex Bores, Assembly Member, New York City’s 73rd District Beth Goldberg, Founding Executive Director of Humanity AI Sinead Bovell, Founder, WAYE Alexis Wales,

Join us for the next Claude Community Budapest Meetup, an evening about what happens beneath the prompt. You might already build with Claude Code every day, run agentic workflows, or just wonder how these models actually think. Either way, this edition takes a step back from tools and tutorials and looks at the questions shaping where AI goes next: How do frontier models reason and revise their own hypotheses? Can AI learn to teach people, and to coordinate with other agents? And is scaling really the only way forward, or do we need to rethink the building blocks themselves? Two researchers working at the edge of these questions, from Google DeepMind and Pázmány Péter Catholic University, will share their work. Then we keep the conversation going over drinks. Who Should Attend? The talks go deep, but the room is open to everyone who’s curious: Engineers & ML Practitioners: Get a look under the hood at how reasoning models think, and why robustness matters as much as raw capability. Founders & Product Builders: Understand the reliability, cost, and agent-coordination challenges behind the products you’re building on. Researchers & Students: Connect with people working on AI cognition, efficient compute, and alternative neural architectures. The AI-Curious: Skip the hype and hear directly from people doing the research. Bring your questions; the break and the networking are made for them. Agenda 05:30 PM: Doors open. Registration, Networking & Drinks 06:00 PM: Welcome Remarks 18:10 - Botos Csabi - Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind Bio: The thread tying my work together is teaching, which I think is the overlooked problem in theory of mind: you cannot teach a mind without first modelling how it thinks. So I study how frontier reasoning models form, test, and revise hypotheses, and how their internal representations line up with human cognition, using controlled behavioural and neural experiments. I then ask how that understanding lets machines teach humans,

Join us at Shopify's Toronto office on Thursday, Oct 29th for an evening of learning, networking, and fun. 🎯 Theme: The Real Work of Data Engineering: AI, Scale, and the Mistakes That Teach Us Some of the best engineering lessons come from the things that didn't go according to plan. We are bringing Toronto's engineering community together to explore the real work behind building data and AI systems: the technical decisions, trade-offs, challenges, and lessons learned along the way. Because increasingly, the hardest problems don't sit neatly inside data engineering, software engineering, or machine learning. They sit at the intersection. 🎤 Meet Our Speakers Derek Pyne Staff Data Engineer | Shopify The Use of River to Build Data Loops to Improve Models Jill Cates Staff Data Engineer | Shopify Can an AI Agent Fix Your Data Warehouse? Using health metrics to find tech debt and verify the fix Mitchell Posluns & Pranavan Pirahalathan Manager, Analytics Engineering & Data Scientist II | Wealthsimple From Craft to Context: How AI Turned Engineering Discipline into Critical Infrastructure Adeniyi (Ade) Bello Data Architect | Assent (PE backed by Blackstone + Vista Partners) Rethinking the Data Stack: Building a Zero-ETL, Go-Engineered Warehouse Who Should Attend? Whether you're a data engineer, software engineer, ML/AI engineer, analytics engineer, platform engineer, architect, or engineering leader working on these problems, we'd love to have you in the room. 📍 Location: Shopify Toronto Office 📅 Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5 - 8 PM ET Sponsors Lead Sponsor: Shopify Supporting Sponsors: Astronomer Cheers! DET Canada Team (Vipul Choudhary, Rushika Verma) Interested in speaking at a future event? How to Submit Talks We are always looking for speakers! Submit your talk ideas HERE. ℹ️ About Data Engineer Things Data Engineer Things (DET) is a global community built by data engineers for data engineers. Subscribe to the newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn to gain

📅 October 29 · 5:30–8:30 PM 📍 867 Boylston Street 5th Floor, BOSTON, MA 02116 What’s next for AI for Science? Join researchers, founders, and builders to explore recent breakthroughs, predictions for the field, and our speakers’ perspectives on the opportunities and challenges ahead. Expect an open conversation, audience Q&A, and plenty of networking. Our Panelists Markus J. Buehler — MIT Professor; Co-Founder & CTO of Unreasonable Labs. Generative AI and scientific discovery. Keith A. Brown — BU Materials Science & Engineering Division Head; leads KABlab. Autonomous labs and materials discovery. Douglas Densmore — BU Professor; Co-Founder of Asimov and Lattice Automation. Synthetic biology and laboratory automation. George Barbastathis — MIT Professor; leads the 3D Optical Systems Group. AI-powered computational imaging and optics. Harry Glorikian (Moderator & Panelist) — General Partner at Scientia Ventures; author of four books and host of The Harry Glorikian Show. Bringing an investor’s perspective on AI, healthcare, and life sciences. Also joining: James, CEO of Zeteon.ai, a Singapore-based startup building autonomous research agents. Schedule 5:30–6:00 · Check-in & networking 6:00–6:10 · The Room & Zeteon.ai introductions 6:10–7:10 · Panel discussion 7:10–7:25 · Audience Q&A 7:25–8:30 · Networking Enjoy thoughtfully curated catering while connecting with fellow researchers, founders, and builders.

No matter where or what we teach, many of us encounter similar challenges: engaging learners, managing difficult situations, responding to different needs, maintaining our own energy, and wondering whether others are struggling with the same things as us. What we are doing This is the first community meetup from T3: Think Teach Transform. We are bringing together a small group of educators for a warm, facilitated conversation about the realities of helping others learn. Participants are invited to bring one current teaching challenge, question, or experience to discuss. Sharing is always optional. You are equally welcome to listen, reflect, and learn from the conversation. Together, we will exchange ideas, make new connections, and identify topics that future T3 meetups, speakers, and workshops can explore. We hope you will leave with practical insights, a stronger sense of support, and the knowledge that you do not have to solve every teaching challenge alone. This gathering welcomes new and experienced teachers, instructors, trainers, tutors, facilitators, coaches, instructional designers, program leaders, and other education professionals: anyone involved in helping others learn. Who is this for? This meetup welcomes new and experienced: Professors and instructors ECE and K-12 Teachers Tutors and teaching assistants Workplace trainers Coaches and facilitators Curriculum and learning designers Education program leaders Community educators Anyone curious about improving how they help others learn You do not need to work in a traditional classroom or hold a particular job title. If helping people learn is part of what you do, this gathering is for you. Your Hosts: Hannaji Puri is an education leader and learning-development professional with more than 10 years of experience designing curricula, training teachers, and leading education programs internationally. Heiko Polinski is a UX and service designer, community lead, and experienced event organizer with a backgr

State of the Commons 2026 HIC End-of-Year Gathering & Social Join Houston Innovation Commons for our final gathering of 2026 — an evening to reconnect, reflect on what we’ve learned together, and look ahead to the questions Houston’s innovation ecosystem should tackle next. Throughout the year, HIC has brought together founders, investors, operators, ecosystem leaders, and community members to interrogate some of the persistent challenges facing innovation-driven entrepreneurship in Houston. We’ve asked questions about technical talent, incubators and accelerators, early-stage capital, and the infrastructure that helps promising ideas move forward. At State of the Commons 2026, we’ll bring those investigations together for the first time. State of the Commons We’ll share a short annual briefing synthesizing what we heard and discovered across the year: What patterns emerged across our investigations? Where does Houston’s innovation ecosystem appear to be working well? Where does friction continue to show up? What have we learned that changes how we understand the problem? What questions and opportunities deserve greater attention in 2027? This won’t just be a recap of HIC events. It’s an attempt to step back, connect the dots, and take stock of the state of Houston’s innovation commons. And then, we celebrate. The rest of the evening is an open house and social. Come grab a drink, eat, reconnect with people you’ve met through HIC, meet someone new, explore some of the findings from the year, and help us think about where the Commons goes next. So expect: State of the Commons annual briefing Food + drinks A little end-of-year atmosphere Plenty of time to actually hang out Whether you joined us for one gathering or have been part of the Commons throughout the year, we’d love to close out 2026 with you. Hosted by Houston Innovation Commons Houston Innovation Commons is a community-driven effort to better understand the friction within Houston’s innovation ecosystem

Start your Friday morning after Moonshot with breakfast, honest conversation, and 50 founders building across Africa. Founders Breakfast returns for its second edition, hosted by Seye Bandele, with two fireside conversations about building through difficult conditions and preparing for what comes next. First, Foluso Ogunwale, Founder & CEO of iFitness, joins Seye for “Scaling in a Market That Fights You Back.” We’ll explore what it takes to build physical scale in Nigeria: financing expansion, navigating infrastructure challenges, finding talent, and keeping operations running when every input works against you. Then, Samson "The Oracle" Esemuede, Chief Investment Officer at Zrosk IML, sits down for “Positioning for 2027, Before the Market Moves.” This conversation looks ahead at Nigerian finance and trade, the shifts founders should be watching, and how to prepare their businesses before those changes arrive. Each conversation includes an open Q&A. Bring the questions you rarely get to ask, the challenges you’re working through, and a willingness to share what you’re learning. No slides or pitch decks—just breakfast and candid discussion with people who understand the work of building. We’re keeping the room small: 50 seed-to-pre-Series A founders, gathering in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, 30 October 2026, from 10:30 AM to 12:35 PM WAT. Attendance is by invitation only. Venue details will be shared with confirmed guests.

Nairobi Business Leaders Sundowner, Vol 2 Resilient Businesses, Relentless Founders Building a business in Kenya is not for the faint-hearted. Cash flow crunches, shifting regulations, talent challenges, and market swings test every founder. Yet some leaders don't just survive. They build companies that last and turn a profit. Following Vol 1, where we unpacked the finance, legal, tax, and HR blind spots that cost startups dearly, we're back with Vol 2. This time, the spotlight is on the CEOs and founders who have done it. What to expect CEO Fireside Chat: Candid, unscripted conversations with top CEOs who have built successful, profitable businesses. They'll share the real story behind the wins: the near-misses, the hard calls, and the lessons that shaped them. Real stories, real numbers, real lessons: How they navigated downturns, managed risk, built strong teams, and kept growing when it would have been easier to quit. Open Q&A: Put your toughest questions directly to leaders who've been there. Sundowner networking: Unwind with drinks and connect with fellow founders, executives, and investors as the sun sets. Who should attend Founders and co-founders building or scaling a business CEOs, MDs, and senior executives Startup operators and aspiring entrepreneurs Investors, advisors, and ecosystem partners Event details 📅 Date: Friday, 30th October 2026 🕔 Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM 📍 Venue: TuWork Park, Lavington, Nairobi Speakers 🔒 Line-up coming soon. We're bringing together some of Nairobi's most respected CEOs and founders. Register now to be the first to know who's on the stage. Hosted by HRBOX Africa in partnership with TuWork Spaces are limited. Register now to secure your seat and join Nairobi's business leaders for an evening of honest conversation and powerful connections.

Have an idea that uses technology or data to tackle a pressing public policy problem? Applications are now open for SIPA\'s Annual Global Policy Challenge, where student teams compete for $75,000 in seed funding and receive expert mentorship and training/bootcamps that help turn bold ideas into real ventures. Teams of Columbia students and recent alumni, […] \n

When Code Meets Animation AI can now turn a single sentence into a production-ready animation. That part is getting easy. The hard part is everything that comes after: keeping motion consistent across a product, turning it into a system with tokens and rules, making sure it performs on every device, and actually shipping it. That gap is what Code Meets Animation is about, and it's what we're digging into for an evening in Bangalore. LottieFiles is teaming up with Zepto and Friends of Figma Bangalore for a night of talks, a hands-on live challenge, and plenty of time to meet people building with motion in real products. Who this is for If you're curious about AI and vector motion, you belong here. Especially: Product and frontend engineers (web, React Native, Flutter) Product designers without a motion background Design systems and interaction designers PMs, eng leads and founders Agency and freelance builders What's happening Pre-Event Networking (30 min): Grab a slice and meet the room Welcome to Code Meets Animation - Bangalore edition by Yaamin M - Sr Partnerships Manager at LottieFiles (5 min) Talk from Zepto (30 min) Why We Killed the Live Map by Jayant Mandan - Sr UX Motion Designer at Gojek (30 min) A first look at LottieFiles' new AI tools for motion by Mau Ali - Lottie Studio Lead at LottieFiles (10 min) Live Challenge (30 min): Build a UI animation using nothing but prompts in a new tool we are introducing. Bring your laptop and your best ideas. Life Beyond the Prompt by Yaamin M - Sr Partnerships Manager at LottieFiles (15 minutes) Networking (30 min) Speakers Our lineup is still being finalised. Speakers and talk titles will be announced soon. LottieFilesMau Ali - Lottie Studio Lead Yaamin M - Sr Partnerships Manger at LottieFiles Zepto: To be confirmed Jayant Mandan - Sr UX Motion Designer at Gojek Keep an eye on this page for updates. Topics we'll cover Motion and AI, motion systems and governance, tokenization in motion, motion design and engineering,

For this edition, we're bringing our Venture Showcase to Nairobi to celebrate the innovation, ambition, and resilience of African founders building businesses that solve real problems and create lasting impact across the continent. This isn't a big, loose conference. We're keeping the room intimate and the day tightly curated, so every conversation, every pitch, and every connection actually earns its place. Expect fewer, higher-signal moments over a day built to be genuinely useful to the people in the room, not just another event to check off. Why Nairobi? Nairobi didn't earn the name Silicon Savannah by accident. It's home to one of Africa's deepest benches of founders, investors, and builders, anchored by a mobile money infrastructure that reshaped financial access for the whole continent and a hub network, from iHub to Nairobi Garage to Nailab, that's been turning ideas into ventures for over a decade. Kenya has led Africa in startup funding two years running, and the energy on the ground matches the numbers: this is a city proving, again and again, that world-class ventures can be built from Africa for Africa, and for the world. It's the right room to put our venture portfolio's progress on a real stage. What to expect We're bringing together ventures from the African Impact Challenge ecosystem for a day built around substance over spectacle: Keynotes from critical voices — legacy founders, current builders, and the sharpest minds in the ecosystem, sharing perspectives on innovation, technology, and what it actually takes to build in Africa. Founder-led conversations — fluff-free, pre-curated discussions on building and scaling across health, climate, agriculture, and digital innovation. No filler, no open-mic; every conversation is shaped in advance to go somewhere. AII Impact Updates — a look at how our programs are supporting African founders, where our ventures stand today, and what's next to accelerate innovation across the continent. Venture Showcase & P

A curated gathering for founders, engineers, researchers, product leaders, and builders exploring what’s possible with Agentic AI. AI agents are moving beyond simple prompts and workflows. The interesting questions now are around how we build agents that can reason, use tools, work with data, interact through voice, and operate reliably in real-world environments. The Agentic Mixer brings together people actively building and experimenting with agentic systems for an evening of practical conversations, real demos, and shared learning. What we’ll explore Agentic workflows across chat, data, and voice Building and deploying agents in real-world environments Evaluations, reliability, and agent performance Lessons from production and early-stage builds What’s next for agentic systems Event Format Spotlight Talks: State of Agentic AI We’ll kick things off with 2–3 short sessions from our team, featuring directors and technology leaders sharing what they’re building, what they’ve learned, what’s working, and where they’re still stuck. Open Mic: Show What You Built The mic is yours. 60mins. Bring a 3–5 minute demo, lesson, problem, or bold take on agentic AI across chat, data, voice, or anything else. The room responds with questions, ideas, and challenges. Submit your proposal. No polished pitch. Just show the work and join the conversation. Mixer & Open Networking Once the talks and demos are done, stick around for food, drinks, and unstructured time to meet the people you actually wanted to meet. No forced introductions. No agenda. Just good conversations with people building in the same space. Who should come? Founders, engineers, researchers, CTOs, product and ops leaders, and independent builders exploring agentic systems. Whether you’re already in production, somewhere in the middle of a build, or still figuring out the stack if you’re doing the work, you belong in the room. What you’ll leave with A sharper sense of what people are actually building, a few problems

✨About This event is for builders, visionaries, entrepreneurs and curious people who want to turn ideas into reality, from complete beginners to semi-experienced builders looking to level up. We’ll explore the journey from fundamentals to production and entrepreneurship, combining practical AI skills, multidisciplinary thinking, and real-world lessons on turning ideas into products, brands, and businesses. 🎤 Talks The Builder’s Journey — Turning Ideas into Reality Guy Aga - Digital Marketing and Social Media Specialist, lecturer, and Generative AI explorer. The Builder’s Mindset — Becoming a Beginner Again Tali Despins - Builder, Claude Ambassador, Psych-Informed AI Adoption The Builder’s Toolkit — Turning Curiosity into Action Amir Harel - Backend Developer; Symphony by Wix 📅 Agenda 17:00 | Registration, Set Up & Mingling 17:30 – 20:30 | Speakers 20:30 | Closing 🤝 Hosted with generous support from Wix. 🤝 Wix Engineering is responsible for the products, platforms, and infrastructure behind Wix, serving more than 300 million users worldwide. Its teams work across areas including AI, AI agents, distributed systems, Cloud, Web, Mobile, Data, and open source, as well as products and platforms such as Base44, Symphony, and Wix Headless. 📖 Full Talk Descriptions The Builder’s Journey — Turning Ideas into Reality By Guy Aga - Digital Marketing and Social Media Specialist, lecturer, and Generative AI explorer. How do you go from “I have an idea” to a real product, brand and business? Guy Aga shares the journey of building Matar from scratch: transforming a book into a knowledge base, researching the market, developing and testing products, using generative AI to visualize ideas, 3D printing custom tools and accessories, and building a complete WordPress e-commerce operation with Claude Code. A practical story about creativity, learning, experimentation and execution — and what becomes possible when AI works alongside human curiosity and craftsmanship. The Builder’s M

About the event Built By Few is the summit by Connect Ventures bringing together the founders, makers and investors building and backing Europe’s defining companies. Over the past couple of years we’ve brought together the people building the future at our London flagship and at satellite events across Europe. They include the founders behind Aikido Security, ai-coustics, Arduino, Dust, Monumental and TrueLayer. We hope you can join us for this highly curated, invite-only event. Expect unfiltered conversations, genuine connection and hard-won lessons from the people who’ve actually built. 🎤 Speakers Fabian Seipel, ai-coustics Vinit Patel, Aikido Security Lamis Mukta, Anthropic Paul Veugen, Desert Ant Labs Stanislas Polu, Dust Alex Fitzgerald, Isembard Matt Dean, Serova Abakar Saidov, Stealth Final speakers to be announced soon. What to expect 09.45: 👋🏽 Arrivals & Welcome 10.40: 🎤 Speakers & Content 12.10: 🥑 Lunch & Networking 13.00: 🎤 Speakers & Content 14.20: ☕ Coffee Break 15.00: 🎤 Speakers & Content 16.00: 🥂 Drinks & Nibbles 17.00: 👋🏽 Departures About Connect Connect Ventures is a London-based, Pan-European venture capital firm that leads pre-seed and seed rounds for outlier founders from day zero. Thank you to our sponsors Latham & Watkins: Global law guiding startups and emerging companies of all sizes as well as the VC partners and other institutional partners that finance the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Google Cloud: Meet your business challenges head on with AI and cloud computing services from Google, including security, data management, and hybrid & multi-cloud. Bound: AI-powered FX risk management platform that identifies and protects your business's foreign currency exposure. Built for finance teams who want to spend less time on FX. Novabook: The accountant for startups. Scene: Builds leadership and high-performing IC teams, exclusively for investor-backed companies. Revolut Business: Power your business with an all-in-one account built for ambi

Bring one real workflow from your job or business. In three hours, design an AI-enabled system around it: people, process, data, decisions, human oversight, and a 30-day plan you can start the next day. This lab is built for the AI implementation gap: systems that run your work. Hosted by OnStack AI Labs, Startup Court, and Futurpreneur during Calgary Innovation Week 2026. What you will do A guided build process: BREAK IT: Find a broken, slow, expensive, or inconsistent workflow MAP IT: Map the people, process, data, systems, and decisions BUILD IT: Redesign the workflow with AI, automation, and human judgment CHALLENGE IT: Pressure-test usefulness, feasibility, risk, and value IMPLEMENT IT: Turn the design into a 30-day roadmap What you leave with One defined workflow challenge A current-state workflow map An AI Systems Canvas and opportunity map A responsible AI and human-oversight checklist A 30-day implementation plan Who this is for Founders, entrepreneurs, professionals, small-business owners, nonprofit and community leaders, educators, and tech-curious Calgarians. The work is systems, workflows, and implementation. Coding experience is optional. Session details Tuesday, November 3, 2026 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Classroom 2, Platform Innovation Centre Capacity: 50 In person only Arrive with a real workflow: something repetitive, slow, frustrating, expensive, or hard to manage. That is the problem you will design against. Presented by OnStack AI Labs · Startup Court · Futurpreneur Built Here. Backed Here. Calgary Innovation Week is the city-wide moment that brings Calgary’s innovation ecosystem into full view. Across the week, founders, industry, investors, talent and community organizations come together to share what they’re building, make connections, and show the strength of what’s being built here – and backed – here. By registering for this event, you acknowledge that Platform Calgary (the organization), as well as third-party organizations hosting activities i

Join us for AI Salon - AI x Gaming demo event at Metropole/ Gamestreet! Supported by our long-term sponsor Synch. "AI Salon is the global community for AI founders and builders, investors, and partners to connect and collaborate." Hosted by Ingrid af Sandeberg and Melina Diamantoglou, as part of AI Salon. AI Salon was founded in San Francisco in 2024 and is now active in 70+ cities globally. Stockholm is one of its strongest chapters, built around genuine developer-to-developer exchange: real questions, real challenges, no pitch theatre. 📅 Nov 3rd, 17:30 - 21:00 📍 Gamestreet1, Magnus Ladulåsgatan 3, Stockholm Indicative Agenda 17:30 Doors Open / Networking 18:00 Program Starts: Welcome and Introductions 18:15 Opening keynotes: Fredrik Wester of Paradox Interactive Christofer Sundberg of Avalanche Studios and Liquid Swords, in stealth at time of writing… 👀 19:00 Start-up demos 20:00 Mingle A demo at AI Salon is low pressure. No pitch, nothing at stake, but a chance to introduce yourself to the community, share what you're working on, and get feedback. A demo can be anything from a discussion topic, to a slide deck with a business idea, a product, or prototype demonstration. Bring your own laptop. Feel free to bring a physical product, as long as it fits in a regular elevator :) Space is limited, so RSVP now to secure your spot. Only registered attendees will be granted admittance. Come prepared to network, connect, and collaborate! Special thanks to our partner Synch! By signing up to this event, you consent to sharing your email address with our partners, who might use it for marketing purposes. You can opt out of this at any time. AI Salon events are free and space is limited, registrations are reviewed to ensure a high-quality and relevant audience. Please note that registrations containing incomplete or low-quality information (such as missing LinkedIn profiles, no identifiable name or organization, or generic email addresses) may be deprioritized in case of over

Are you an aspiring female founder in Berlin who feels sometimes (or all the time) overwhelmed by the journey of launching a startup or becoming self-employed or starting up? You’re not alone. This is the 19th editing of Aspiring Founders Meetup focused on helping aspiring female founders get insights from the journey of our female founders. Last Future female founders meetup: 👀 View complete the Linkedin post 🌟 Speakers: 1. Founders joining the meetup Yes, before networking starts, we will have a round of "getting to know all of you" so you get 30 seconds to share the room about what you are building :) 2. Fireside Chat between Panel & Audience Viktoria Trosien Founder & CEO @ Avant Now Building investable impact-tech ventures | Re-engineering how capital finds undervalued founders. Anja Bauer Co-Founder & CEO CometHire (HR Tech) EXIST Woman, Top 10 BPW 26, Berliner Startup Stipendium Fellow 2026 | ex-COO Impact Start-up Magdalena Skorupska Chief Marketing Officer @ 42 Berlin & Wolfsburg (Education Non-Profit) Scaling Impact Driven NGOs | TEDx Speaker | Hypergrowth Expert Alexandra Buys Co-founder & COO at The Delta 3. Support Corners during networking 3.1 🥣 Fruit yoghurt granola bowl by Jelena 3.2🥤Kaska (Better Energy Sodas) by Nawat Foods by Shadi Payandeh 3.3 💼 Legal Support by Paulina Pfeiffer, German Tech and Commercial Lawyer Simonié Schlombs, German AI/ IP/ IT Lawyer Henriette Steifensand, Rechtsanwältin (German Labour Lawyer) Aspiring Founders meetup is here to create a safe, supportive space for people—especially those affected by layoffs—who want to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Whether you’re exploring a self-employment initiative or building your next big thing, we’re building a community that offers know-how, networks, and access to help you go further, together. Our Inspiring Founders/Speakers: 🗓️ Agenda 18:00 – 18:15 – Check-in, Grab a drink & Networking with Bingo (Win Indian snacks hamper) 18:15 – 19:00 – Welcome, Intro & Getting to

How do you get your agent out of a user interface and into the channels that your customers are using? Join the Twilio team for an evening with a select group of local developers, founders and tech leads exploring the future of AI and Communications. We'll explore what happens when AI moves beyond the UI and into the conversations your customers are already having, with practical examples, the latest tools and a hands-on challenge. What you'll get Practical ideas for building AI-powered communication experiences Connections with developers, founders and tech leads working in the space A chance to win prizes in the TwilioWorld: Escape the IVR challenge We've already assembled in Berlin - here's the reaction from attendees: Agenda 5:00 PM: Doors Open 6:00 PM – 6:45 PM: Twilio Conversations:The Communication Backbone for the Agentic Era 6:45 PM – 7:30 PM: TwilioWorld: Escape the IVR Interactive Build Challenge 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM: Closing reception 💻 Bring a laptop! You'll need one to take part in the build challenge. Space is limited. Please register as soon as possible to secure your spot. We can't wait to see you soon!

Join Merkle Science at Soho House Hong Kong during Hong Kong FinTech Week for an afternoon of focused discussion on the future of digital asset regulation, compliance, and financial infrastructure across Asia-Pacific. The program will bring together leaders from financial institutions, fintech companies, digital asset businesses, and regulatory and compliance teams to examine how Hong Kong’s digital asset strategy is developing, how traditional finance is engaging with the sector, and how companies are managing regulatory complexity across APAC. From licensing and institutional adoption to stablecoins and cross-border payments, the sessions will focus on what organizations are building today, how regulatory expectations are evolving, and what the next phase of digital asset adoption could mean for the region. What to expect Short, substantive sessions led by industry practitioners Perspectives from financial services, fintech, compliance, policy, and digital assets Practical discussions on licensing, risk management, institutional adoption, and cross-border payments Product demonstrations and opportunities to connect with speakers and attendees Drinks and networking following the program Event Agenda 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM | Arrival & Networking Join fellow industry leaders, financial institutions, regulators, and digital asset professionals for informal networking and light refreshments ahead of the afternoon's discussions. 1:50 PM – 2:00 PM | Welcome Remarks Opening remarks from Tom Luo, VP of Sales at Merkle Science, welcoming attendees to Merkle Science Meet Hong Kong 2026 and introducing the key themes shaping the future of digital asset regulation, financial innovation, and compliance. 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM | Panel: Hong Kong's Digital Asset Strategy — Regulation, Licensing & Global Competitiveness Hong Kong is strengthening its position as a leading regulated digital asset hub, combining evolving licensing frameworks with growing institutional interest and financial i

Description How do we build the infrastructure that helps physical AI scale and improve? Join Tokyo AI for an evening exploring three complementary challenges: moving robot data reliably from fleets into training, building persistent data platforms for production AI, and evaluating learned robot policies before spending scarce time on real hardware. Petr Khrapchenkov (AIRoA) will share lessons from processing thousands of hours of robot data each month. Hiroshi Hashimoto (Wasabi Technologies Japan) will explore the storage foundations of production RAG, with an MCP demo. Ryo Watanabe (Muso Action) will show how physics simulation, Real2Sim scenes and cloud GPUs help evaluate imitation-learning policies before costly hardware runs. For robotics and ML engineers, researchers, data infrastructure practitioners, and technical founders. When: Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 18:00-21:00 JST. Where: KERNEL HONGO, 3F, 4-1-4 Hongo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. Language: English. The running order may be updated as final speaker logistics are confirmed. Agenda Provisional running order. Each 30-minute talk slot includes Q&A. 18:00 - Doors open 18:25-18:30 - Welcome 18:30-19:00 - Talk 1: Challenges in scaling robotic data pipelines (Petr Khrapchenkov) 19:00-19:30 - Talk 2: From Storage to Intelligence: The AI-Powered Future of Data (Hiroshi Hashimoto) 19:30-20:00 - Talk 3: Physics simulation for evaluating imitation-learning policies (Ryo Watanabe) 20:00-21:00 - Networking 21:00 - Doors close Talks Talk 1: Challenges in scaling robotic data pipelines Speaker: Petr Khrapchenkov, Senior Research Engineer, AIRoA. Abstract: Robots generate data continuously and at massive scale, and the hard part is making sure all of it reaches a training run. Every stage between recording and training is a point where data can be dropped, corrupted, or become too slow and expensive to use. As a fleet grows, these problems grow with it, and a pipeline that worked for a handful of robots stops

Are you a startup seeking targeted, sharp advice from top-tier mentors? Welcome to Startup.Tampere Accelerator’s Speed Mentoring! Get 5 fast-paced, to-the-point 20-minute sessions with experienced mentors who have been in your shoes. Whether you’re refining your Go-To-Market strategy, navigating funding, or scaling your sales, this evening is built to deliver real impact. How it works: Apply: Fill in your startup’s details and pick your TOP 3 topics on the registration form. Match: We curate a personalized schedule connecting you with mentors who match your immediate challenges. Sparr: Join us on Nov 5th for 5 high-energy, focused 1-on-1 mentoring rounds. Please note: Seats are limited to 10 selected startups to ensure maximum value. We will confirm selected teams individually after reviewing the applications. If you’d like to register as a mentor, please use this link: https://luma.com/ccr200k9 This is one of the most insightful and valuable nights of the fall. Are you ready to unpack true startup wisdom?

Tech Square Game Day @ The Biltmore Innovation Center 📅 Thursday, Nov 5 🕛 12-1PM 📍 Biltmore Innovation Center- Imperial Ballroom About the Event We’re kicking off Game Day—a monthly gathering for the Tech Square community centered on food, play, and shared experience. Expect a catered lunch (while it lasts!), games/shared activity, and a lively midday atmosphere designed to bring Tech Square together in one place. What to Expect 🍽️ Catered lunch (while it lasts!) 🏈 Casual games & friendly competition 🤝 A cross-section of founders, builders, operators, students, and community leaders Who It’s For Anyone who works, meets, studies, networks, or plays in Tech Square. 📌 Game Day will take place monthly, with food + play!

The world has problems. We have bad ideas. An evening of amazing pitches for absolutely terrible ideas to save the world. Climate change is a massive, complicated problem that will require serious innovation, collaboration, policy, investment, and action. This is not that. For RDSCo Climate Week, we’re bringing back the Bad Idea Pitch Competition and challenging teams to tackle real problems facing our planet in the most questionable ways possible. Each team will pitch live to a panel of Celebrity Judges, who will ask questions, poke holes, and ultimately cast their votes. The audience gets a vote, too, to help crown the Best Worst Idea to Save the World. Expect big swings, bad science, unnecessary apps, suspicious sustainability claims, and at least one solution that probably involves putting solar panels somewhere they absolutely do not belong. Come for the creativity, stay for the community (and a laugh!), and join us for a night of bad pitches, climate bingo, and plenty of chances to dream up a few terrible ideas of your own. The world has enough good ideas. For one night, we want your worst. Interested in forming a pitch team and being a part of the show? Please fill out our very serious application to pitch here: https://airtable.com/appwJTZLBy955Kvik/pagy2KLsI5VQeISdR/form Thank you to our Sponsors and Partners! We are thrilled to partner with Life's a Pitch! They are generously offering attendees 15% off Life’s a Pitch with the code BADPITCH15 at lifesapitchthegame.com, good through Nov 30.

Join us for the 10th edition of Startup Nights on 5–6 November in Winterthur! Startup Nights is Switzerland's largest startup event, bringing together founders, investors, corporates, students and innovators from across the country. Under this year's motto "Make It Matter" , expect two days full of inspiring keynotes, hands-on workshops, meaningful conversations and better networking than ever before. The new matchmaking platform makes it even easier to connect with the right people and create valuable opportunities. Startups can showcase their innovation in the Startup World, join the Pitching Competitions and connect with investors, partners and customers. Whether you're building a startup, looking to invest, grow your network or simply get inspired, there's something for everyone. We'd love to see you there!

Product People is bringing together around 100 local product professionals for a morning meetup. Expect breakfast & coffee, meaningful networking, and a panel discussion covering the realities of product strategy, roadmapping, and the endless challenge of stakeholder management. 🗓️ Agenda 09:30-10:00 Event opening and breakfast 10:00 Official opening by Karin Hennessey, Director Product Management, Account & Device Integrity @Google 10:05-11:15 Panel Discussion with Q&AHost: Jeroen Kemperman, Global Product Lead @Google Panellists:Mirela Mus, Founder & CPO @Product People Dana Ritter, CPO @Unique AI Tilke Judd, Head of Product @Benetics AI Antonio Gaetani, Group PM @Google DeepMind 11:15-12:00 Networking 😊 Who’s coming? AI enabled and AI native product builders. Typical titles include: CPO, CPTO, CTO VP, Director, Head of (AI) Product, Engineering or Growth Director, Head, Lead Product Operations Group Product Manager, (AI) Product (Strategy) Lead Senior, Principal (AI) Product Manager Our events tend to be oversubscribed so attendee applications are subject to approval by Product People team members. Selection criteria include fit with our theme, target audience, previous show/no show rate, time of registration and venue capacity. 🍙 About Product People We are the premier destination for product management services in Europe. Our in-house consultants fill gaps on short notice and lead key initiatives. Whether you need to grow revenue or save costs, move fast, validate strategic bets, or show your team what good looks like: we make it happen and make it matter. Curious to become our client? Schedule a quick intro call calendly.com/productpeople/client 🙌 Get involved Host our events, sponsor, be on the panel or introduce us to great speakers -> offline-events@getproductpeople.com ℹ️ Please note Registration is subject to approval by our team. Selection criteria include alignment with the event’s target audience, diversity of backgrounds, event capacity, and order o