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Muslim Women Meetup is turning ONE! Join us for a special games night to mark one year of MWM. We’ll have a mix of group games, friendly competition, small prizes, and refreshments throughout the evening. Whether you’ve been with us from the beginning or this is your first MWM event, come hang out, play some games, and enjoy the evening with the community - we’d love to celebrate this milestone with you! 🎉🤍 Please note that tickets are non-refundable. All proceeds from this event will go forward sustaining future MWM events. Photos and videos will be taken during the event for social media. By signing up, you are consenting to be on camera. If you are not comfortable being photographed, please reach out to organizers in advance and we will do our best to accommodate.

In this meetup, we'll mainly solve problems from LeetCode. LeetCode holds a contest every week: Before the meeting, make sure you participate in the LeetCode Weekly Contest which starts at 11:30 AM KST. We'll go over 4 problems presented in the contest. You definitely need to spend some amount of time, solving the problems on your own before the meeting. . 💻 If you're new to LeetCode, the following video will help you understand how to use it effectively. . This event and all Code Seoul events are FREE. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing tech education to the Seoul community. . 🔸 Time: Every Sunday, 2:00pm 📍 Location: Online! https://meet.google.com/fte-iqqm-nfv 💬 https://discord.gg/HFknCs8 . (Image from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/photos/work-typing-computer-notebook-731198/)

As AI and cloud technologies continue to evolve, so do the security challenges around them. We are taking a closer look at Microsoft Azure, AI, and Cloud Security, discussing emerging risks, security considerations, and practical ways to build more resilient cloud environments. Join the conversation, exchange ideas, and discover how security is evolving alongside AI and the cloud.

The Startup Huddle provides a unique platform to highlight emerging startup companies within the ecosystem. Unlike traditional fundraising pitches, companies are encouraged to present specific challenges they are facing—whether business, regulatory, or intellectual property issues. The audience will comprise experienced life science operational leaders, mentors and angel investors who will offer free guidance, advice, and diverse perspectives. Anyone interested or involved with the life sciences community is welcome to attend! This innovative approach not only offers companies valuable visibility but also provides health tech investors with an early look at promising ventures. Come join us! (Must be 21+ to attend)

Toronto's tech scene moves fast. But the stories that really matter - the pivots, the hard calls, the lessons learned the hard way - rarely get told. At our monthly Together Toronto series, we bring founders onto the stage to share what it looks like to build a company here. Honest behind-the-scenes conversations from entrepreneurs who've taken bold bets, hit unexpected walls, and figured out how to keep moving. What to expect: 🎤 Raw founder stories with real frameworks you can apply 🤝 A room full of builders, investors, and operators 💡 Conversations that challenge how you think about your own work Whether you're launching your first thing, scaling a team, or just curious about how Toronto's best companies get built - there's a seat here for you. Who you'll hear from: Kevin Callahan, Co-founder & CEO, Uniblock - One API for every blockchain. Raised $2.3M and left a comfortable tech career to build it. Avril Sun, Co-founder & CEO, Succession AI - AI-powered M&A for founder-led businesses. She started it after her family's 28-year-old restaurant chain wound down for nothing, because nobody knew what it was worth. Azam Khan, Co-founder & CEO, Trax - Building code compliance software after a research career in simulation and design. Ujwal Arkalgud, Co-founder & CEO, Orbit - Currency exposure and attribution analytics for multi-entity finance teams. Backed by Diagram and Sagard. This isn't just an event. It's your community. Come ready to listen, connect, and meet the people building what's next. 📣 More ways to get engaged as a startup founder Pitch Feedback from VCs (5–6 PM) Early-stage founder? Get your pitch in front of investors before doors open. We're running a dedicated 5–6 PM session where group of founders pitch and get live feedback from VCs. This runs as a separate add-on to the main event. Spots are limited to pitch live and goes to startup founders only. Apply to attend above! Early-stage startups - want a booth? We're opening a handful of booth spaces i

AI is changing how designers explore ideas and bring them to life. But what does that look like in practice? Join us for a panel discussion on how designers are incorporating AI into their prototyping workflows, which tools they’re using, and how their work is changing as a result. We’ll explore the benefits and challenges of the tooling and ask the question on everyone's minds: with AI integrated into the design process, how do we expect the role of a designer to evolve? Event Details 6:30pm: Check-in Begins 7:00pm: Panel Begins 7:45pm: Audience Q&A 8:00pm: Post-event networking 📍 San Diego Made Factory Our Sponsor Thank you to our amazing sponsor, Magic Patterns, for making this event possible! Magic Patterns is an AI design tool used by 2,500+ product teams at companies like Toast, Vanta, and Ramp to iterate on product ideas, get user feedback, and deploy to a website. Our Panelists Panelist: Shira Kates Principal Designer, Agentic Interfaces Shira Kates spent 20 years leading 0→1 product design, most recently at Google, where she ran UX for AppSheet and Cloud Al and shipped Google Cloud's first generative Al feature. She now works independently on Al products and runs Al prototyping workshops for design Panelist: Adam Rayman UX Design Manager, CVS Health Adam is a UX Design Manager at CVS Health, where he explores how AI tools can support the user-centric design process. His 12+ years as a product designer and researcher has produced a portfolio of award-winning work for household acronyms such as AWS, CVS, HBO, NBC and GM, as well as ICW Group and Property Meld. His UX claim to fame is having his work referenced in a Nielsen Norman Group article. Panelist: Alex Danilowicz CEO & Co-founder, Magic Patterns Alex is the CEO & co-founder of Magic Patterns. He jumped into AI systems early, building Magic Patterns in early 2023 to enable teams to design faster. Magic Patterns is used by some of the largest enterprises in the world to accelerate ideation and product

TOPIC: Can AI Save Democracy? How AI Could Build Better Government SPEAKER: Dr. Beth Simone Noveck, Northeastern University Trust in government is at a low point, and everywhere you look, AI seems to be part of the problem, fueling misinformation, automating jobs away, deepening surveillance. But what if the story could run the other way? In this talk, based on her new book Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy (Yale University Press, 2026), Dr. Beth Simone Noveck argues that fixing democracy is a design problem, and one AI can actually help solve, if we build and govern it the right way. Drawing on her work inside the Obama White House, 10 Downing Street, and AI systems used by millions of people, she makes the case that democratic renewal deserves the same ambition we give to space exploration or curing disease. Topics include: Why "democratic dysfunction" isn't just a political failure, it's a design challenge we can actually work on Real-world experiments, from citizen participation in Hamburg to faster permitting in Boston, that show tech making government work better How AI can help defend elections, catch disinformation, and get voters accurate information What it would take for AI to make government more responsive instead of more powerful in the hands of a few About the Speaker Dr. Beth Simone Noveck is a Professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and The Governance Lab (The GovLab), and serves as Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey. She previously worked in the Obama White House as the first U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer and advised leaders including Chancellor Angela Merkel and 10 Downing Street on modernizing government. She holds an A.B. from Harvard University, a Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Agenda 7:00 PM — Doors Open (Grab a seat and drinks!) 7:30 PM — Lecture Begins 8:10 PM — Audience Q&A 8:30 PM — Drinks & Conversation 9:00 PM — Eve

Every scalable business starts with an idea. The challenge is turning that idea into something people need, choose and pay for. AI Collective Dubai invites founders and product builders to an interactive Product Workshop led by Michael Clark. Through practical frameworks, guided exercises and real challenges submitted by participants, the workshop will explore the path from idea to scalable business: Prove it works Validate the problem, the user and the buyer. Make it repeatable Turn early insight into a focused product and business model. Multiply it Identify the path from initial traction to sustainable growth. The workshop is designed for founders and product leaders ranging from early validation to live products. Come with a real challenge and leave with a clearer direction and actionable next step. About Michael Clark Michael Clark builds and scales products. Over two decades, he's led product, digital and AI capability across global firms such as Mastercard and J.P. Morgan, taking ideas from strategy through to delivery, commercialisation and enterprise scale, including multi-million-dollar products for FTSE 500 companies and globally recognised startups, and also designed the future of money for NEOM. He currently mentors in the Dubai proptech hub, sits on the Dubai DIFC AI regulation 10 committee, and advises businesses and governments globally on product development, AI and data. From product-market fit to investment readiness We’ll close the workshop by placing the learning in the UAE founder context: what evidence founders need to commercialise, become investment-ready and access the right ecosystem and infrastructure support. We’ll also hear a brief practical perspective from Miraj Hossain, award-winning founder building the UAE’s first COAD-certified AI-native venture studio, DiamondAI, followed by audience Q&A on moving from a promising product towards a scalable business. Places will be curated to create the right mix of participants and experience.

Welcome to your backstage pass to Houston's most innovative energy and climate technology companies. No panels. No podiums. HTX Tech Tours is a curated conversation on wheels — a small number of intentionally designed routes across the HTX region, led by the companies actually building Houston's energy future. Founders meet funders (and) customers, allocators meet pioneers, and the people building the physical economy get to show their work. Tuesday, September 15, 2026 · HTX Tech Tour Metro Energy & Climate Innovation, hosted by Plug & Play, University of Houston, and Creatopia (Program begins at 9:30 AM) RECOMMENDED ARRIVAL - BY 9:00 AM Head to Sugar Land Town Square (16092 City Walk, Sugar Land, TX 77479) and check in at the registration booth no later than 9:30 AM. Punctuality really matters here - the buses roll out at 12:00 PM and won't wait, so an early, relaxed check-in sets up the entire day. When 80+ of us are moving together, a few minutes early keeps the whole convoy on schedule. For those not on the tour, this will give you a head start to the day. DRESS CODE: Please be prepared to be outside and wear closed-toed-shoes in case you are touring any facility. This is a safety requirement. All other PPE will be provided. PARKING: Free parking is available in the on-site multi-story garages (Lone Star Garage - 2105 Brazos Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77478 and Texas Garage - 15958 City Walk, Sugar Land, TX 77479), which are a 5-minute walk from the venue, with metered street parking as a backup. 9:30 AM | - Metro Innovation Tour & Market, Networking Breakfast Tacos & Coffee 10:00 AM - Welcome Remarks & Ecosystem Overview Carolina Rio, Plug & Play with AY Young Keynote: A Vision for the Resilient City of Tomorrow 10:20 AM - Mobilizing the Future of Smart Cities Clean Energy, Equitable Access & Next-Generation MobilityThe technology is here. The real challenge is moving it from a promising pilot to citywide impact. This fast-paced conversation will bring together leaders

The objective of this meetup is for you to connect with your fellow founders, talk about what you are struggling with, and just get to know the community. Hope to see you all there! Josh & Mark As a business owner, you are faced with many challenges. You're forced to make decisions every day that could make or break your business. founder.coffee is a way to network with other entrepreneurs to allow free-flowing information with the intent to collaborate and help each other. So often we're challenged, and there's very little we can do to express our challenges with the people we work with or the people we care about. Think of founder.coffee as your own personal support group for business owners. We're all here to help!

AI Explorer⚡ AI Demos, AI Use Cases and Q & A Build Into a Portfolio We’ll show you how to publish your challenge progress on GitHub so your project becomes shareable, credible, and portfolio-ready. Post your learnings on LinkedIn + tag Decoding Data Science We’re announcing the winner of the last giveaway LIVE, and launching a new giveaway: Please Follow

Join us to celebrate the launch of Activate Houston's 2026 Cohort and discover the breakthrough technologies they're building to solve some of the world's biggest challenges. Anning Corporation: Pioneering geologic hydrogen through advanced geoscience and stimulation technologies, creating a scalable low-cost, clean energy Brint Tech: Building optical sensing systems that quantify hydrogen, giving infrastructure operators the data to scale safely and credibly Simora Core: Building rare-earth free, contact-free electric motors with wireless rotors for everything from small appliances to vehicles and heavy industry Nivera: Developing natural composite coatings and packaging materials that reduce food waste and sustainably extends the shelf life of fresh food Orbital Arc: Creating electric propulsion on a microtrip to power movement in space at an unmatched scale, speed, and cost Renesin: Developing advanced materials that enable faster, more efficient AI hardware Selerra Separations: Engineering high-performance membranes that cut the cost and energy consumption of water treatment without compromising durability or water quality SwieNitro Recovery: Transforming nitrogen-rich waste streams into valuable fertilizer through a low-energy ammonia recovery platform Also, learn more about our C25 cohort: Biosimo: Enabling the chemical industry's net-zero transition by replacing fossil-based essential chemicals with identical quality ones made from bio-ethanol Brightlight Photonics: Replacing tabletop laser systems with chip-scale titanium:sapphire lasers—bringing lab-grade performance to quantum technologies, diagnostics, and advanced manufacturing in a package that’s 100x smaller and cheaper Deep Anchor Solutions: Compact anchor making offshore energy viable in new and remote markets worldwide by enabling faster, cheaper deployment of floating renewables FlowCellutions: Chemistry-agnostic diagnostics for grid-scale batteries KIRA: Reimagining desalination expanding access t

Are you interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, and start-ups at UWaterloo? Join current and alumni students who are pursuing their startup journey at the Velocity Student Start-up Panel! Get the chance to meet current, and recently graduated student founders who are pursuing their start-up journey. Ask questions, network, and see if entrepreneurship is the path for you by learning directly from other students who have gone through the process! Be the first to know how Velocity can help you reach your entrepreneurship goals. Your comfort and participation are important to us. If there is something we can do to make this event more accessible for you please reach out to velocity.events@uwaterloo.ca and let us know. Velocity is an official event host with Waterloo Tech Week 2026, a celebration of what’s been built here, and what’s still to come. We’re building something great together. September 12-17, 2026. waterlootechweek.ca Meet the Panel: Pasha Khoshkebari | Founder of HOPE (Student) Hi! My name is Pasha and I'm a 2x founder. I build for impact and HOPE is my best attempt at improving the quality of education. Parents are extremely frustrated with the lack of 1-on-1 support their kids are getting at school, so I built HOPE, the AI tutor that enables every student to get the attention and eduction they need. Divhleen Ruprai | Founder of IISence (Recent Grad) Eric Blondeel | Founded Kenota Health and Samos Insurance (Velocity Alumni Founder) Eric has founded two Velocity companies, Kenota Health and Samos Insurance, both of which attended YCombinator. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from UWaterloo. Eric is passionate about helping early stage startups navigate the earliest challenges of getting a company off the ground. Meet the Moderator: Ashley Juraschka | Founder of AllioHealth (Recent Grad) My name is Ashley Juraschka, and I’m the founder of AllioHealth, a biomechanically intelligent breast pump that mirrors infant feeding rhythms, combining compress

Join us for a Tech Tuesday focused on water technology innovation, commercialization, and industry collaboration. Water challenges are increasingly urgent across Utah, the Mountain West, and the world. From water quality and treatment to reuse, sensing, PFAS, atmospheric water harvesting, infrastructure resilience, and sustainable resource management, university researchers are developing technologies with the potential to make a meaningful impact beyond the lab. Speakers include: Dr. Ling Zang, Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah, also serving as the Associate Dean for Research for the Price College of Engineering at the University of Utah Mr. David Cumming, Chairman of the Cumming Foundation and Co-Chair of the Great Salt Lake Alliance Dr. Saroosh Mortazavian, Environmental Engineer at Carollo Engineers Dr. Marian Rice, Moderator, Director Peak Water Sustainability Engine This event is designed for faculty, researchers, industry professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, policy-makers, and anyone interested in water technology innovation and commercialization. Light refreshments will be served. Must be 21 years of age to attend.

The WINners Circle is a mini-mastermind experience to share and receive ideas, input, solutions and support in a small group setting. Networking happens in a deeper way by diving in to encourage each other's professional success. What's keeping you up at night? Chances are, you're so buried in your day-to-day work that fresh perspective and new solutions can be hard to see - but that doesn't mean they don't exist! With the connections, support, and input you’ll receive at this event, you’ll be ready to bust through barriers, apply creative solutions, and reach your next level. Whatever is happening for you (good or bad), being able to brainstorm and get feedback from other professionals is hugely helpful in turning that idea into a plan, that challenge into an opportunity, or simply getting you unstuck and moving forward. Each participant in the WINners Circle will receive: Professionally facilitated time to ensure each attendee has an equal opportunity to introduce themself and their business/work Time to frame their business query to the rest of their small group Solutions/suggestions/ideas/feedback brainstormed by the other participants You may wish to use this time: As a mini-focus group to gain feedback To help you determine next steps For finding potential solutions for a challenge For generating fresh perspectives and ideas To get to know other professionals more in-depth Here are some specific ways past participants have used the WINners Circle: gain insights before launching a new service or product; assistance to better define target market; ideas for fresh ways to reach target market; feedback on how to amp social networking profile; help in clarifying a big goal; choosing between options for a title or new logo; input on pricing model--you name it! Participants will lift each other up with their ideas, support and encouragement. You'll be in a small group to ensure plenty of time for each of you to share and gain valuable ideas and input from other pro

A one-day business competition where student teams tackle a real business challenge set by Sydney's space hardware industry, then pitch live to a panel of industry, academia and government judges. Australia's space hardware sector (ANT61 included) has moved past prototype stage into scaling mode, they need business, marketing and sales talent now, not just engineers. This connects that need directly to the students who could fill it. On the day: Teams form on the day, get briefed on the challenge by ANT61 and industry reps in the morning, hear a midday panel, then spend the afternoon building a pitch, closing with 3-minute presentations, scoring and prizes. Who is it for: Business and marketing students at any University, no space/engineering background needed, just commercial thinking and a good pitch. Top teams win prizes and a shot at a space industry internship for business and operations, starting February 2027. ** Please note, this is aimed at Business Development students, as Engineering internships are filled separately. Thank you.

Being a female entrepreneur isn’t always easy. That’s why we believe in creating intentional spaces where we can slow down, connect deeply, and lift each other up. Join us for the first edition of Female Founders in Nairobi🥳 What to Expect: This breakfast brings together a curated group of solopreneurs, startup founders and female leaders, each of them invited to share about their projects, intentions, and challenges as we create space for exchange and collaboration. Please arrive punctually to participate in the introduction round and networking. 💬 Let’s Talk About... The impact you want to have in this world What products or services you're offering Where you need support from others Opportunities to co-create, cross-promote, or partner Your Ticket Includes: Meaningful conversations Potential new business partnerships and clients The opportunity to co-create with our founder, Nina Simone as well as our ambassador Angela Mbuli from the Wafumi Collective.

Every startup faces defining moments. The difference between those that scale and those that stall often comes down to a handful of critical decisions. Join us for an honest, founder-focused conversation with leaders who have collectively advised hundreds of startups through fundraising, hiring, scaling, legal challenges, and financial growth. Rather than telling you what should happen, we'll share the real patterns we see every day—the costly mistakes founders make, how to spot them early, and what you can do differently. You'll hear from: Robert Bowness – RBCx Radhika Vaidyanathan – Pulse Law Alex Hardy – BDO Moderated by Shawn Chance, Partner and head of Go-To-Market services, BrightIron and former VC. We'll tackle questions like: What are the biggest mistakes founders consistently make—and why do they keep happening? Which problems start small but become incredibly expensive if ignored? When is the right time to engage legal, finance, banking, or HR partners? What separates the startups that scale successfully from those that struggle? If each panelist could give every founder one piece of advice, what would it be? Whether you're raising capital, hiring your first team, or preparing for your next stage of growth, you'll leave with practical insights you can apply immediately—and a chance to ask your own toughest questions during an interactive discussion. We are official event hosts with Waterloo Tech Week 2026, a celebration of what’s been built here, and what’s still to come. We’re building something great together. September 12-17, 2026. waterlootechweek.ca

Summer’s coming to an end, so we’re bringing the community together one more time, in partnership with Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. Join us on a rooftop in South London for an evening celebrating Caribbean culture, good food and great company. Expect professionals, founders, creatives, students and community builders from across the Caribbean diaspora, all coming together to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces. Come on your own, bring a friend or bring your whole group. Plenty of people attend CTC events solo, so you’ll be in good company either way. You’ll also be able to pick up exclusive Caribbean Tech Collective merchandise during the evening. What’s included 🤝 Access to our community of professionals from across the Caribbean diaspora 🗣️ A space designed for real conversation and meaningful connection 🔍️ Intentional networking moments 🥘 Curated Caribbean food and music throughout the evening 🛍️ Opportunity to purchase exclusive CTC merchandise Drinks will be available to purchase from the venue. Who’s attending? You’ll meet people from a wide range of industries including technology, finance, consulting, healthcare, media, government, education and startups. Some are early in their careers, others have spent years building them. Everyone is there for the same reason: to spend an evening with the community. We can’t wait to welcome you! – Team CTC 🌴 About Caribbean Tech Collective Launched in July 2025, CTC connects founders, engineers and professionals from the Caribbean and its global diaspora, creating intentional spaces for people building at the intersection of tech, business and culture. Accessibility This venue has two flights of stairs to reach the main event space and currently has no lift or step-free access. We would encourage guests with mobility challenges or accessibility requirements to contact us in advance at team@caribbeantechcollective.com so we can discuss how best to support your attendance. Disclaimer Photos and videos wi

A cinema. A room full of founders and investors. Drinks in hand and the whole night to make the connections that actually move things forward. This is a night at Cineworld, The O2 - where the startup community comes together to watch five founders pitch live on the big screen, then spend the evening doing the part that really matters: meeting people, making friends, and finding the investors, partners, and opportunities that take you further. Whether you're building something, backing founders, or just want to be in a room full of ambitious people - this is where you want to be. The night Drinks, networking, and five live pitches on the big screen to kick things off - then plenty of time to connect with founders, investors, and everyone in the room. Come for the pitches, stay for the people. Want to pitch? Send over your pitch to the 'Pitch on the big screen' challenge on the platform: https://vaultt.io/ 🗓 Wednesday 16th September ⏰ 6:00 - 8:30pm 📍 Cineworld, The O2 🍿 Drinks on the night Free to attend - but only 150 seats. Once they're gone, they're gone. Grab yours below 👇

Knowing When to Pivot A Fireside Chat & Workshop for Women in Tech With Leslie Chen, founder of Leslie Chen Coaching, and Sally Revell, founder of GenerativeHuman.AI Some of the biggest moments in our careers and lives come down to one simple question: is it time to pivot? Join us for an evening built around exactly that question. Whether you are sensing a shift coming or you are already standing at the edge of one, this is a space to think it through with other women who get it. What to Expect: We will start with a 20-minute fireside chat where Leslie and Sally share the reality of their own major life and career pivots. They will talk about choosing courage over comfort and the messy reality of jumping before feeling fully ready. Then, we move into an interactive workshop where we will discuss: The signs that it is time for a change, especially the ones you keep talking yourself out of. How to take the first step with confidence. Ways to ensure your next move aligns with your values, rather than just what looks good on a resume. Who This Is For: Women in tech who feel stuck, uninspired, or ready for a new challenge. Leaders and founders debating a major career transition or life change. Anyone who wants to make a career move based on internal values rather than external expectations. Who This Is Not For: Those wanting a passive, listen-only lecture. We expect attendees to participate, reflect, and share. What You Will Walk Away With: Clarity: A better understanding of your own readiness for change. Actionable steps: the starting point for making your next move. Connection: New relationships with a community of ambitious women facing similar choices. Agenda Light bites and beverages will be provided. 6:00 PM: Doors open for food, drinks, and mingling. 6:30 PM: Fireside chat with Leslie and Sally. 6:50 PM: Interactive workshop and group exercises. 8:00 PM: Q&A and final wrap-up. 8:30 PM: Event concludes. Come for the conversation. Leave with clarity on your next mov

AT CAPACITY! Use this link to pre-register for our next AI Engineer night in October: https://luma.com/event/manage/evt-DbGmdJ0lCBaZbQH AI Engineer Night Melbourne #1 is kicking off Road To AI Engineer Sydney with an evening of sharp talks, fresh ideas, and a good excuse to get out and mingle over food and drinks. We’re bringing together speakers from past and upcoming AI Engineer conferences for a night that digs into the real-world challenges shaping AI systems right now. Expect: Chris Lienert on taking chaos engineering from theory to practice to create self-healing code Zubin Pratap on Where Every AI Voice Agent Breaks (And Why) Nadia Makarevich with the provocation that Skills are wishful thinking Plus a few more speakers still to be announced Come ready for practical insights, honest war stories, and a relaxed night with a bite to eat and a drink or two. *By registering for this event, you agree to MLAI's and the venue's codes of conduct and this event's terms and conditions, and agree for your registration details to be shared with Web Directions for the purposes of event delivery and the AI Engineer Sydney campaign.

Get ready for the September Rust meetup! The theme for this meetup is graphics. And we'll meet at the new Atuin office in SF. We have a few speakers already lined up, and if you're interested in giving a talk, join our Discord server so we can chat more: https://discord.gg/e2UrCSm4vH Or email at esther@zed.dev. Our goal with these meetups are simple: meet regularly, learn from each other, and connect with others facing similar challenges. Here's the agenda for the meetup: 6:00pm: doors open 6:30pm: Talk 1 6:50pm: Talk 2 7:10pm: Talk 3 7:40pm: Networking and food! Your Bay Area Rust organizers, Yerke Tulibergenov Tauseef Khan Mikayla Maki Rain Mary Luna Esther Trapadoux

Massachusetts was building robots before it was a category. The labs are here. The hardware is here. The people who have actually made machines work outside a lab are here. FieldAI Coffee Talks is a morning meetup for them. Two hours, good coffee, and the conversations that usually only happen after the demo breaks. Perception and controls engineers, researchers, founders, operators, students — anyone building embodied AI in Greater Boston, or curious about what happens when a robot leaves the lab and the map runs out. About FieldAI FieldAI is building one autonomy for all robots — and a growing share of that work happens here. Our founders' research roots run through MIT, NASA JPL, and DARPA's underground challenges, and our R&D organization is now based in Boston, next door to the labs and hardware companies that made this region robotics' center of gravity. The team came from DeepMind, JPL, Boston Dynamics, NVIDIA, Zoox, Cruise, Toyota Research Institute, and SpaceX. What we're building: Field Foundation Models™ — physics-first, risk-aware foundation models designed from the ground up for embodied intelligence, not retrofitted from vision or language. In practice that means perception, planning, localization, and manipulation with explainability and safety treated as first-class constraints, plus multi-robot simulation and fleet orchestration. The goal is robots that work in unstructured, GPS-denied environments with no prior maps and no predefined paths — one brain, many embodiments, many tasks. We're hiring in Boston. Come find us at the event, or start here: https://jobs.lever.co/field-ai/63922c78-4646-45dd-bf63-6e8f7fb08d49 Space is capped so the room stays a conversation, not an audience. RSVP below.

Claude Fable 5.1 just shipped, and Tel Aviv is getting hands-on. 🛠️ Fable 5.1 Build Day - Tel Aviv 📅 Thursday 17 September · doors 17:00 📍 Island offices, Tel Aviv 🎟️ Limited seats, approval required Every attendee gets $100 in Claude API credits to build with Fable 5.1 on the night, plus Claude merch to take home. And this time it's a contest: one hour to build, two-minute demos, a judging panel, and prizes for the winners. 🏆 Build Day is Anthropic's new developer format: within two weeks of a model launch, the community gets in a room, sees what the new model can do, and builds on it the same week the rest of the world is reading about it. ——— WHO THIS IS FOR Developers and builders who'll actually build on the night: you'll code for an hour with Claude Code or the API and demo your build in two minutes. If you use Claude Code, the API, or are building agents, this is for you. If you're looking for talks and networking, our next meetup is a better fit. Seats are limited and approved for builders first. ——— RUN OF THE EVENING 17:00 Doors, food, mingling 17:30 Opening announcement and the latest from Anthropic Ambassadors 18:00 Talks & demos: Benji @ EON, Ofer Yorkovsky & Daniel Haddad @ Island 19:00 Build contest: one hour, pick a track, go solo or team up, from POC to a small working app 20:00 Demos, two minutes each 20:30 Judging panel, winners announced, prizes 🏆 ——— PICK A TRACK ✨ Delight: something surprising, beautiful or fun 🚀 Breakthrough: something you could not build before 🔧 Everyday: something that solves a real problem in your life The tracks describe the quality of what you build, never the domain. ——— WHAT TO BRING Your laptop, a charger, and Claude Code installed before you arrive. Have a console.anthropic.com account ready to add your credits to. This one's for developers and builders: if you're using Claude Code, the API, or building agents, it's for you. nothing to arrange in advance. Please cancel on Luma if you can't make it, so your seat

🎲 Meet your future co-founder at Spilloteket Looking for a co-founder, or just curious what it takes to start something new? Join us at Spilloteket for a relaxed afternoon of meeting other founders, swapping ideas, and seeing if there's a spark for working together. ✨ What to expect Spilloteket is packed with board games and chess sets, so grab a table and challenge someone to a match while you talk, or just settle in with a drink and chat. Whether you've already got an idea you're building or you're simply exploring what's out there, this is a good chance to meet people in the same boat. We'll get some pizzas in for everyone!🍕 📍 Details 🕓 Time: 16:30–19:00 📌 Place: Spilloteket, Kongens gate 7, 0153 Oslo We're excited to see you guys there! 🙌 Best, the Antler team

Prague's first meetup for marketers who actually build with AI. AI is rewriting how marketing works, and everyone's figuring it out at once. So let's figure it out together and have some fun while doing it. We're bringing marketers together for one evening of real demos, honest talk about what's working and what isn't, and a proper party. Hosted by the Apify marketing team, people who run AI in marketing every day. 🎁 What's in it for you: Real AI-marketing demos to kick off the night Themed roundtables to discuss the challenges that AI brings to a specific marketing field. Whether you're in SEO or social media, you'll find what's working for your peers, what they're stuck on, and get inspired. Stay for the party - food, drinks, and networking 👥 Who's this for? Marketers who want to do more with AI. 🗓️ Schedule 17:30 — Arrival & refreshments 18:00 — Welcome 18:10 — 3 AI-marketing demos (speakers TBA) 19:00 — Food & drinks 19:20 — Themed roundtables 20:30 — Party Free to attend. Looking forward to discussing AI in marketing with you! We will use your information to contact you about the event. For more information, see our Privacy Policy.

Join us for an evening of bold ideas, inspiring founders, and meaningful connections at the Mindspace Pitch Night in Berlin. Watch some of Berlin’s most promising startups take the stage to pitch their businesses in front of an expert jury of investors, founders, and industry leaders. Expect fresh ideas, honest feedback, and a firsthand look at the next generation of innovation. Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, startup enthusiast, or simply curious about the future of tech and business, this is the place to meet ambitious people and become part of Berlin’s thriving startup ecosystem. What to Expect 🚀 Inspiring Startup-Pitches Discover innovative business ideas and meet the founders who are shaping the future with their vision and ambition. 🎤 Expert Jury & Live Feedback Our expert jury, featuring leaders from the startup ecosystem, investment, media, and digital industries, will provide valuable feedback, share their perspectives, and choose the winning team. 🤝 Networking with Berlin's Startup Community Connect with founders, investors, entrepreneurs, and Berlin’s startup community over an evening of inspiring conversations and networking. 🏆 A Launchpad for the Next Big Idea The winning startup will receive one year of complimentary office space at Mindspace, together with additional benefits designed to help turn ambition into growth. Secure your spot and be part of an evening where bold ideas take the stage. We can’t wait to welcome you for an inspiring night of innovation, exchange, and meaningful connections. 🚀 Meet the Jury: Our expert jury brings together leaders from the startup ecosystem, venture capital, corporate innovation, and the media industry to evaluate each pitch and share valuable insights. Leo Ginsburg – Editor-in-Chief, Gründerszene As Editor-in-Chief of Germany’s leading startup publication, Leo Ginsburg has a deep understanding of innovative business models, emerging trends, and the stories that help startups capture attention. He also

Our next LTUX Melbourne meetup of the year is here! 🎉 Australia’s healthcare landscape is evolving fast, and while an ageing population and public health demands bring real challenges, they also open up incredible room for smarter, human-centred design. Tackling these big shifts takes a genuine team effort, pairing innovation in health tech and academic rigour with government policy to rethink how care gets delivered. Join us on Thursday, 17 September for an evening with women shaping the future of Australian healthcare design. Expect insightful lightning talks, an interactive Q&A and an opportunity to connect with others in Melbourne’s design community over some pizza. 🎤 Speakers ⚡️ Maryke Laubscher, Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Fellow at Monash University Design Health Collab Maryke is a design researcher, educator and doctoral candidate at Monash University’s Design Health Collab, whose practice sits at the intersection of design, healthcare and emerging technology. Her interdisciplinary research brings together design, clinical, and technical expertise, in partnership with industry and government, to support the development of emerging healthcare technologies, with a focus on medical imaging for deployable and resource-constrained environments. ⚡️ Jessica Rudolph, Design and Research Lead at Healthdirect Australia Jessica is a service design and experience leader with over a decade working across healthcare, government and complex service environments. As a Design Lead at Healthdirect Australia, she focuses on embedding consumer and clinical workforce voices into service design and improvement, working across digital, clinical and operational teams to create more accessible and connected healthcare experiences. ⚡️ Claire Hines, Honorary Clinician at Royal Melbourne Hospital and PhD Candidate in Digital Health at RMIT University Claire Hines is an Intensive Care Physiotherapist, Lecturer and PhD Candidate and inaugural Bupa Scholarship holder at RMIT Univer

AWS Jam is a gamified, hands-on learning experience where teams compete to solve real-world GenAI challenges in live AWS environments. It's not just training - it's an adrenaline-fueled competition that gets participants excited about AWS while building practical skills with cutting-edge GenAI services like Bedrock, Kiro, and open-source frameworks. BRING YOUR LAPTOP Action Required Before the Event — First time user must create AWS Builder ID Access to the AWS JAM environment requires an AWS Builder ID linked to your official email id. Create your Builder ID Enter your company email address Verify your email and complete profile setup Use this Builder ID to sign in on the day of the JAM Event link provided by your facilitators

Product People is bringing together 20-30 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 Arrival, Coffee & Food 10:00 - 10:45 Panel Discussion with Q&AHost: Jon Freeman, Lead Client Solutions Partner at Product People Panellists:Veronika Braun, Chief Product Officer at YourHero Susanne Dubuisson, Director of Product Management at Doctolib Diana Pulnar, Senior Vice President of Product at Babbel 10:45 - 12:00 Casual Networking 😊 Who should attend? Anyone driving the product lifecycle in the new age of AI, whether you're leading a department or just starting to shape your career in product. Typical titles include: CPO, CPTO, CTO VP / Director / Head of (AI) Product, Engineering or Growth Director / Head / Lead Product Operations Group Product Manager, Product Lead Senior / Principal / Product Manager 🍙 About Product People We are a product management consultancy. Our interim consultants fill gaps on short notice, scale product teams, or lead key initiatives during transitions. Whether you need to ship faster, validate strategic bets, or get your team operating at full speed, we step in and make it happen. 🙌 Want to get involved? If you'd like to host one of our events at your company, apply as a panelist, or become a sponsor, please reach out to us at 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 of registration.

Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! Fable 5.1 Build Day — Singapore Come build with Claude’s newest model alongside Singapore’s developer and builder community. This isn’t a sit-and-listen meetup. After a short launch overview and live demos, you’ll choose a challenge track and start building: Delight: Create something surprising, beautiful, or fun. Breakthrough: Tackle something you couldn’t build with previous models. Everyday: Solve a real problem in your work or daily life. You can build cool stuff like this (done using Fable 5.1) Build independently or form a small team on the day. We’ll finish with fast demos, community feedback, and the opportunity to submit your project for potential featuring by Anthropic. What you’ll receive Every approved attendee will receive US$100 in Anthropic API credits to build with through Claude Code CLI or the Claude API. Setup and redemption instructions will be shared before the event, with credits becoming redeemable on the event day. Who should join This Build Day is designed for developers, technical builders, and people experimenting with Claude Code, APIs, or AI agents. You don’t need to arrive with a finished idea but you should come ready to build. Bring your laptop, charger, and curiosity. Whether you’re testing an ambitious concept or solving an everyday frustration, the goal is simple: leave with something working.

Welcome to Season 2 of CircleBudapest! So yup, AI. We use it a lot. But the more it produces, the more everything starts to look the same. Same brands. Same posters. Same copy. Same ideas, just faster. People universally call it: AI slop. And we don’t think AI is really the problem. Slop happens when making something becomes so easy that nobody stops to ask if it’s actually any good. That’s what this evening is about. AI can do more of the work. Sure. So what are we still responsible for? The Agenda & What You'll Learn 17:40: Doors open, drinks, people 18:10: Welcome to Season 2 18:15: AI-Assisted, Not AI-Generated (by Nándor Fehér) First, the mindset shift. No, this isn't a “stop using AI and go back to Figma” talk. Quite the opposite. We've built parts of our upcoming CircleCampus project with AI tools. These tools can do a ridiculous amount of work for us. But someone still has to decide what the thing should be, notice when it feels wrong, kill the generic ideas, and refuse to ship the first plausible answer. That's the human part. We'll get into AI slop, taste, visuals, copy, thinking with AI, and why obvious AI work often says more about the person who approved it than the model that generated it. We will also share a base prompt we recommend to make chat interfaces like ChatGPT less agreeable and way more useful when he actually wants his thinking challenged. 18:30: Stop Chatting With AI and Give It a Job (by Matt Malishev) Okay, so we've kept our judgment. Now let's make the machine useful. Matt works with AI systems that actually do things, not just sit in a chat window waiting for another prompt. What is worth automating? What tools are actually useful? What can be connected together? And what needs to happen before you'd comfortably let an AI system run without watching it every five minutes? Less “look what AI can do.” and more “here's where this actually saves you work.” 18:45: When the AI Does It, Who's Responsible? (by Bence Gajdácsi) And then there's

Let's attend an author book talk on Who Is in Charge?: Why AI Must Remain Under Human Control by Khaled Koubaa A few copies of the book will be available for participants. Book Introduction: Who is in charge when AI systems advise, decide, automate, and act across institutions? As artificial intelligence becomes more capable, faster, and more autonomous, the old promise of “human in the loop” is no longer sufficient. Many systems now operate at a speed and scale where human review can become ceremonial: a person is present, but not actually positioned to see, challenge, stop, or answer for the system’s conduct. Who Is in Charge? argues for a different doctrine: Human in the Oversight. Speaker & Author Bio: Khaled Koubaa is a technology policy leader, entrepreneur, and governance strategist working at the intersection of Internet governance, digital trust, and AI oversight. He is the Founder and CEO of AT Worthy Technology, where he advances the concepts of Digital Worthiness and AI Worthiness as practical frameworks for accountability, trust, and institutional readiness in the digital age. Khaled serves as a member of the World Bank Group Sanctions Board. Over more than two decades, he has held senior leadership and advisory roles across the global Internet and technology ecosystem. He has served as a Tech + Society Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation, Public Policy Manager at Meta, Head of Public Policy and Government Relations for the MENA at Google, and a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, the Board of Directors of AFRINIC, the World Bank Group Advisory Council for Citizen Engagement, and the Internet Governance Forum’s Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group. Schedule: 10:30am - 10:50am: Welcome & Introductions 10:50am - 11:40am: Book Talk by Khaled Koubaa 11:40am - 12:00pm: Author Q&A 12:00pm - : [Optional] lunch with the author at Ten Ten West End 👥 Who should join AI practitioners, startup fou

AI Engineering: Under the Hood How are modern AI systems actually built, evaluated, and scaled? This meetup is designed for AI Engineers, Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, MLOps/LLMOps Engineers, and developers working with or exploring AI Engineering. The session will go beyond AI demos and explore the engineering layers behind modern AI applications, from models, context, tools, and agents to data, infrastructure, evaluation, reliability, and scale. Agenda 1. Welcome & Introduction to Indian Data Club: 10 min A brief introduction to Indian Data Club, the Bengaluru community, and the focus of the meetup. 2. Icebreaker: 10 min A short networking activity to connect with fellow AI, data, software, and engineering professionals. 3. Speaker Session: 40 min Building AI Systems: Models, Context, Tools & Agents A practical deep dive into how modern AI applications are designed and assembled. What we'll cover: Model selection and LLMs Context engineering RAG and retrieval Connecting models with data and tools Tool calling and agentic workflows AI application architecture Building reliable AI systems AI Engineering Quiz Think you understand AI engineering? Put your knowledge to the test. Join a fun quiz covering AI, LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, and real-world AI systems. 4. Introduction of the Ecosystem Partner Paytm 5. Tea Break Refreshments and informal networking. 6. Panel Discussion: 40 min Engineering the AI Stack: Data, Infrastructure & Evaluation A technical discussion on the engineering challenges behind taking AI systems from prototypes to reliable production applications. 8. Closing Remarks & Open Networking: 30–40 min Closing remarks followed by open networking with speakers, panelists, founders, engineers, and other members of the Bengaluru technology community. What You'll Take Away By the end of the meetup, you'll have a clearer understanding of: How modern AI applications are engineered What sits beyond the LLM How models, context, tools, agents, and

In this meetup, we'll mainly solve problems from LeetCode. LeetCode holds a contest every week: Before the meeting, make sure you participate in the LeetCode Weekly Contest which starts at 11:30 AM KST. We'll go over 4 problems presented in the contest. You definitely need to spend some amount of time, solving the problems on your own before the meeting. . 💻 If you're new to LeetCode, the following video will help you understand how to use it effectively. . This event and all Code Seoul events are FREE. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing tech education to the Seoul community. . 🔸 Time: Every Sunday, 2:00pm 📍 Location: Online! https://meet.google.com/fte-iqqm-nfv 💬 https://discord.gg/HFknCs8 . (Image from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/photos/work-typing-computer-notebook-731198/)

Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! Build Day — Miami Sunday, September 20 · Miami, FL Fable 5.1 just shipped — this is where Miami's builders get hands-on with it, the same week the rest of the world is reading about it. This isn't a lecture. Bring a laptop, pick a challenge track, and build something real with the newest capabilities — solo or in a team of two to four. At the end, everyone demos what they made. What to expect A quick look at what's new in the model Live demos so you see it work before you build A build block where you pick your track and go Everyone shows what they built — two minutes each Pick your track Delight — build something surprising, beautiful, or fun. The bar: you couldn't have made it this good, this fast, before. Breakthrough — build something you couldn't build before. Bring a problem the old model choked on and see how far the new one gets. Everyday — build something that solves a real problem in your actual workflow. Who this is for Developers and builders — anyone using Claude Code, the API, or building agents. All skill levels welcome; helpers will be floating during the build block. What to bring Your laptop, an idea (or come find one there), and a charger. Credits Every attendee gets API credit to build with on the day — the redeemable link goes live the day of the event. Credits attach to an Organization (via console.anthropic.com), not a personal Claude.ai account, so set up your Org ID ahead of time if you can. RSVP below — spots are first-come, first-served.

Every day, we create valuable information through meetings, conversations, notes, documents, and decisions. Yet much of it gets scattered across different tools, inboxes, and personal notebooks. A Second Brain turns this information into a working memory you can actually rely on. With the support of AI, it can capture, organize, and retrieve knowledge, while judgment and decisions remain firmly in human hands. Join us for a hands-on co-creation workshop to design your own Second Brain. Together, we will identify the information you handle every day, the tasks that take up too much time, and the moments where an AI assistant could genuinely help. You will then map out a practical system to capture, organize, and reuse your knowledge in the flow of your work. No technical expertise is required. Come with your daily challenges, your favorite tools, and a few real examples. Leave with a clearer vision of your own Second Brain and the first steps to build it.

Startup Clinic — Creatives Edition, hosted with Business Helsinki A gathering for creative founders who are building. FiBAN Startup Clinics bring together founders and FiBAN investors for a session of open sparring, problem-sharing, and honest conversation. No presentations, no pitch competition — just a room where you can talk about what's actually hard right now and get real input from people who've seen it before. Around one third of the room are FiBAN member investors and experienced operators. The other two thirds are founders from creative industries at companies with early traction or active development. Business Helsinki will share a brief perspective from their work to open the evening. This is for you if: You're building a company in a creative field — design, media, fashion, gaming, culture, content, or beyond — and navigating real decisions around growth, funding, or team. You want direct, unfiltered input — not a lecture. You're ready to both share and help others in the room. There is no official program; just casual sparring around a cup of coffee between founders, FiBAN members, and other ecosystem partners. Start your journey to pitch at Pitch Finland here. Learn more: https://fiban.org/apply/ Spots are limited and registrations are reviewed.

Save the date! We are going to make our final selection round public. In this year's edition, the Prototype Fund Switzerland is committed to making AI more sustainable and responsible. We asked you to apply to our challenges. Now, our Jury is selecting the best proposal for each challenge area. We will advance into the prototyping stage with five selected groups.

(Hybrid event, held in-person at HKU and also livestreaming online.) HKU address: Lecture Theatre CBC, LG1/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus. Zoom link: to be released later. Beneath the abstract debates about machine consciousness and moral status lies a more urgent, practical question: whose values should AIs embody, and who gets to decide? As frontier AI systems grow more powerful and pervasive, the choices about what they are trained to value are increasingly concentrated in a handful of labs, each operating under a single, unified "constitution" or model spec. Simon Goldstein, Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Editor at AI Frontiers, joins us to challenge this prevailing orthodoxy. Drawing on his extensive work at the intersection of AI ethics, law, and institutional design—including his forthcoming book AI Rights—he will argue that the current approach of instilling a single set of values into each AI system is not only philosophically narrow but practically dangerous. Instead, he makes the case that frontier AI labs should embrace constitutional diversification: creating many different kinds of AIs, each shaped by different constitutions reflecting a plurality of moral frameworks. The Problem with a Single Constitution: Why relying on one value system per lab concentrates moral authority in the hands of a few developers, silences legitimate disagreement, and creates brittle systems ill-equipped for a pluralistic world. Diversification as a Risk-Mitigation Strategy: How deploying AIs with diverse values can reduce the likelihood of catastrophic outcomes by ensuring that no single moral or behavioral failure mode is universally embedded across all systems. Political Legitimacy: Why a plurality of AI value systems is essential for earning public trust and accommodating the genuine moral diversity that exists across societies, rather than imposing a narrow, lab-defined orthodoxy. Unlocking Emergent Value and Avoiding Lock-In: How

AI Explorer⚡ AI Demos, AI Use Cases and Q & A Build Into a Portfolio We’ll show you how to publish your challenge progress on GitHub so your project becomes shareable, credible, and portfolio-ready. Post your learnings on LinkedIn + tag Decoding Data Science We’re announcing the winner of the last giveaway LIVE, and launching a new giveaway: Please Follow

Martedì 22 settembre a partire dalle 17:30, presso PedersoliGattai (Via Principe Amedeo 5 a Milano), si terrà The Space Venture | Dalle Startup all’Orbita, un appuntamento, organizzato insieme allo Studio Legale PedersoliGattai e dedicato agli investimenti nella space economy e nel deep tech. In un contesto di forte crescita del settore spaziale, caratterizzato dall’emergere di nuove opportunità industriali e tecnologiche, permane la necessità di creare maggiori connessioni tra capitale, impresa, ricerca e innovazione. L’iniziativa nasce proprio con l’obiettivo di favorire questo dialogo, creando una piattaforma di riferimento per venture capital, startup, corporate e istituzioni attive nell’ecosistema. The Space Venture | Dalle Startup all’Orbita si propone di favorire l’incontro tra investitori e imprese innovative, stimolare nuove opportunità di co-investimento e rafforzare il posizionamento dell’Italia come hub europeo per l’innovazione nella space economy. I lavori saranno aperti da Luca Rossi Provesi, Partner di PedersoliGattai, e da Francesco Cerruti, General Director di Italian Tech Alliance, che presenterà l’iniziativa e le prospettive di sviluppo del settore. Seguirà la presentazione del Focus Team Space Law & Economy di PedersoliGattai e del booklet The New Space Game, a cura di Marco Galli ed Enrico Candotti, Senior Counsel dello Studio. L’evento proseguirà con una tavola rotonda dedicata alle principali dinamiche del mercato e alle prospettive di crescita dell’ecosistema, con la partecipazione di Roberto Carnicelli (CEO Eoliann), Ilaria Cavalleri (Investment Principal Primo Space - Primo Capital) e Matteo Bonfanti (Key Partner Venture Capital Kairos Partners SGR). 📅 Accredito ore 17:30 - Inizio lavori ore 17:45 👉 A seguire aperitivo di networking.

Our Activate Fellows, community, and partners are bringing breakthrough technologies to the world to solve global challenges. At the showcase, we will convene the New York hard tech community and spotlight companies pioneering breakthrough technologies powering the future! As a guest, you have the opportunity to: See breakthrough technology prototypes Meet founders and leaders in hard tech and science entrepreneurship Network with key ecosystem partners in local and federal governments, academia, venture capital, start-ups, and industry Refreshments & light food are provided at the event. We look forward to seeing you on September 22! Full agenda to be announced. This event is brought to you by Activate and our sponsors Berkner Group, DCVC, Foley Hoag, and New Energy New York with support from Labstart and Urban Future Lab. Activate: Activate is dedicated to turning scientific discoveries into real-world impact. Through partnerships with government, philanthropy, universities, and industry, Activate builds the cross-sector ecosystem that drives hard tech innovation—equipping scientists and engineers with world-class resources, training, and community to bring their work from discovery to deployment. Berkner Group: We build world-class executive and technical teams for companies catalyzing a decarbonized economy. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, our team of executive search consultants is actively recruiting top talent throughout the U.S. and Canada DCVC: DCVC is deep tech venture capital, backing brilliant entrepreneurs using computational approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems. DCVC Energy + Climate supports breakthrough companies in clean energy development and climate change mitigation and adaptation. We invest on the principle that deep tech is our best tool for slowing global warming while ensuring a future of energy abundance and resilience. Foley Hoag: Foley Hoag is an award-winning, international law firm that focuses on innovative industr

'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more. For our next session, we’re joined by Stoyan Nikolov (Principal Software Engineer - Developer AI at Google) for a discussion on Large Repo Maintenance and Migrations in the Era of AI Agents. As AI coding assistants become part of everyday software development, engineering teams are beginning to rethink how large codebases are maintained and evolved. We’ll explore how AI agents are changing repository-scale development, what it takes to execute large migrations safely, where current approaches break down, and the emerging patterns for managing complex engineering systems at scale. Drawing on recent research and practical experience, Stoyan will share insights into repository-scale reasoning, AI-assisted code transformations, evaluation, and the challenges of moving from promising demos to production-ready developer workflows. Agenda: Arrivals: 09:00–09:30 Roundtable discussion: 09:30–10:30 See past roundtables here: https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables I agree that photographs and/or video may be taken during the event and used by the hosts on social media and in future promotional materials.

Watch the next generation of AI startups take the stage with Anthropic! For Maria 01 NEXT, Maria 01 and Anthropic are bringing together ten ambitious startups building bold, novel solutions with AI for a live pitching competition in Helsinki. These startups will take the Maria 01 NEXT stage to pitch their companies in front of Anthropic and Felix Capital. And there’s more at stake: the winning startups will have the opportunity to join Anthropic on stage at an exclusive Slush side event in November, alongside Claude credits and Anthropic startup benefits. 10 startups. 3 minutes. One stage. Each selected startup will have: 3-minute live pitch A sharp introduction to their company, product and vision. 3-minute Q&A Direct questions and feedback from the jury. The pitches will be evaluated by a jury featuring three representatives from Anthropic and one representative from Felix Capital. Come see what these startups are building, hear their pitches, and discover the companies shaping what’s next in AI. About Anthropic Anthropic is an AI research company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its Claude family of AI models is designed to be helpful, honest and harmless. About Felix Capital Felix Capital is a venture capital firm for the Creative Class, managing over $1.2B of venture and growth capital. Based in London, Felix operates at the intersection of technology and creativity, with an investment focus in Europe and North America. Illustrative investments for Felix Capital include: Farfetch, Moonbug, Perk, Mirakl, and Voy. About Maria 01 NEXT Maria 01 NEXT is Maria 01’s flagship startup festival, bringing together founders, investors, operators and ecosystem leaders for two days of talks, networking, workshops and curated side events in Helsinki. The Maria 01 × Anthropic Pitching Competition is one of the headline events of Day 1. If you find this event interesting, we invite you to explore the Pitch of Finland: Turning the Investor

Join Wireframe Ventures, Prelude Ventures, and Overture during NYC Climate Week for a focused discussion among leading fusion and fission innovators to discuss timelines, enabling infrastructure and what new opportunities become possible once this new foundation of clean baseload power gets built. This panel will go beyond conversations on feasibility and funding momentum to ask when we can expect new nuclear electrons on the grid at scale, what additional technologies and capabilities need to be developed to get there, and what markets get built once the world has nearly infinitely scalable power. Speakers include: Alexander Valys, Co-founder, President, and CTO at Xcimer David Faherty, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Elementl Power Stafford Sheehan, Founder and CEO at Project Omega Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Partner and Global Co-Head of Climate Transition Strategy and Head of Sustainability at KKR If you're innovating in this space - or want to meet and learn from founders at the forefront - we'll see you there. Event Agenda: 8:30 - 9:00 AM: Breakfast & networking 9:00 - 9:45 AM: Panel Discussion 9:45 - 10:00 AM: Q&A with the audience 10:00 - 10:30 AM: Networking & event close Thank you to Stifel & Goodwin for making this event possible! Curated guestlist. Please RSVP to secure your spot. **** About Wireframe Ventures: Wireframe Ventures backs mission-driven founders using advanced technology or unique market insights to dramatically improve the health of people and planet. About Prelude Ventures: Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. About Overture: Overture is an early-stage venture fund with a hyper-differentiated edge. We invest in energy, artificial intelligence, resilience, and industrial transformation startups and focus on helping those founders win government support and navigate regulatory complexity. About Stifel: After operating for more than 135 years, St

The 2026 State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report examines a paradox at the heart of corporate sustainability today: commitment is rising, even as the ability to deliver is becoming more difficult. The report explores how companies are responding to geopolitical disruption, governance gaps, fragmented sustainability data, rapid advances in Industrial and Agentic AI, and the broader challenge of embedding sustainability more deeply into supply chain decisions and operations. Produced by the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and sponsored by C.H. Robinson Foundation, Breakthrough, and CO2 AI with Dassault Systèmes, the report reveals where progress is real, where the constraints are tightening, and why greater efficiency and intelligence do not automatically translate into greater sustainability. Join us for a panel discussion in the Chelsea/Meatpacking District with the research team exploring four major themes from this year's findings: Two Gaps: How Geopolitics and Governance Are Testing Corporate Sustainability — how stronger corporate commitment is colliding with external disruption, while public sustainability ambition is outpacing the internal governance and accountability needed to deliver it. Where Sustainability Lives in the Supply Chain — where sustainability is actually embedded in supply chain decisions, where it remains weak, what benefits companies are realizing, and how measurement and collaboration are expanding across the value chain. AI and Sustainability — how organizations are using Industrial and Agentic AI, what AI is contributing to sustainability today, and why greater efficiency and autonomy do not necessarily translate into lower environmental impact. Freight Transportation and Warehousing — how two critical physical parts of the supply chain are progressing on decarbonization, where efficiency gains are reaching their limits, and how technology, economics, infrastructure, and regional dif

Pricing AI Agents From tokens and seats to customer value. Agents challenge traditional pricing because their value may depend on usage, tasks completed, time saved or outcomes delivered. Reasoning Project together with Stripe Metronome and Dust are bringing together a small group of AI founders, product leaders and technical operators to explore this shift. We’ll compare subscription, consumption, outcome-based and enterprise models, exploring how pricing can reflect customer value while accounting for underlying costs such as token consumption. In discussion with: Thibault Martin - Ecosystem and Growth Lead at Dust Constance Grisoni (Deperrois) - Head of Growth at Gradium Mohit Jitani - Head of Monetisation & Product Growth at Photoroom Agenda 18:30 - Doors open 19:00 - Fireside discussion 19:45 - Bites, drinks and vibes 21:30 - Goodbyes, doors close About Reasoning Project Reasoning Project brings founders and technical builders across Europe and the US together with leading venture firms and generation-defining companies. We back teams at the earliest stages as angels, before and alongside tier-1 investors. About Metronome, a Stripe product Metronome is the usage-based billing platform that helps companies launch products faster and already powers some of the most ambitious AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA. About Dust Dust is the multiplayer AI system for human-agent collaboration. It lets GTM Engineers turn their expertise into shared agents and skills that growth and sales teams can use from one place.

Hosted by the MIT Climate Project as part of Climate Week NYC 2026: Data centers are at an inflection point, facing interconnected technical, operational, economic, and community constraints that demand cross-sector dialogue and innovation. The program will feature presentations from MIT researchers and spinouts developing technologies that will reshape the future of data centers, followed by a panel discussion exploring the sector’s most pressing opportunities and challenges. The session will also bring together a panel of leaders from technology, infrastructure, capital, and policy to explore how a systems approach can reveal pathways to reshape data center performance, strengthen community outcomes, and support long-term operational viability. A dedicated showcase and networking period will allow attendees to connect directly with presenters and explore areas of mutual interest. Location: Chelsea/Meatpacking District. Exact address provided upon RSVP approval. A confirmed ticket is required for entry. No walk-ins or unregistered guests will be accommodated.

Pitch Roast Live's SF Debut. 6pm cocktail hour; 7pm doors! Pitch Roast Live️‍ is the startup pitch competition comedy roast show. The show brings comedy, startups, and venture capital together. A Shark Tank and comedy roast crossover episode. Real comedians and real VC investors roast real startup pitches. 4 founders, 3 comedians, 2 VC investors, 1 winner! Come see professional comedians and venture capital investors roast real startup founders. See the show on Instagram Featuring incredible comedians and hosted by Noah Obstfeld. Want to pitch? Sponsor? Be on the panel? Apply here.

The Pitch of Finland collides two iconic formats: the sharp scrutiny of Lion's Den and the crowd-powered drama of The Voice. The result is a night that's genuinely entertaining and educational, built for people who want to understand how real angel investing decisions get made, not just watch a pitch competition. 📅 September 24th 📍 Maria 01, Helsinki 🎥 Livestreamed 🔒 Private event — 100 seats in the room 8 of Finland's most promising startups pitch live in front of a jury of seasoned investors and operators. Hosting the night: Claes-Mikko Nilsen Co-founder of FiBAN (Finnish Business Angels Network) and Principal at NordicNinja VC, one of the most recognizable voices in Nordic angel investing, and famous for his sharp, entertaining style as a pitch moderator. On the jury: Elias Aalto (Co-founder of Wolt, Angel Investor, Host of Bängeri) Kim Väisänen (Serial Entrepreneur and Investor) Noora Keskievari (Consumer Entreprenuer & Investor) Pekka Samuelsson (FIBAN most active angel of the Year 2024) Who this is for: Business and tech leaders who are actively angel investing, thinking about starting, or simply curious how it's done. This is a curated crowd. Expect Finland's sharpest operators, investors, and future angels in one place. After the pitches: Networking - a chance to meet others in the room who share your curiosity about angel investing, from first-timers to seasoned investors.

Join us at the third annual SoCal Deep Tech Symposium, produced by The Alliance for SoCal Innovation, hosted by DTI at THE BR-DGE and proudly sponsored by KPPB, Sunstone Management, J.P. Morgan, Caltech, and Gunderson Dettmer. When: September 24, 2026, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM Where: El Segundo, CA Who: >120 deep tech industry leaders, founders, investors, innovators, and thought leaders What to know: A curated event featuring a keynote and a pair of startup pitch showcases with live Q&A that will provide insights into the unique opportunities and challenges of commercializing deep tech innovations in sectors such as Aerospace & Defense, Advanced Manufacturing, Autonomous Mobility, Robotics, and Cleantech. Stay for the investor panel "Fundraising in Today's Deep Tech Sector" and networking reception. Why it matters: Connect with top minds and explore the technologies and economic conditions driving the future of deep tech industries. AGENDA 01:00 PM: Attendee Check-in 01:30 PM: Opening remarks: Mayor Chris Pimentel, City of El Segundo 01:40 PM: Keynote: Dr. Crystal Dilworth, Ph.D. aka "Dr. Brain", Instructor at Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education 02:10 PM: First Look SoCal Deep Tech Showcase sponsored by KPPB Get an early glimpse into exciting new deep tech science-based startups emerging from SoCal's top research universities. Each of the 5 selected startups will quick pitch for 3 minutes immediately followed by 6 minutes of Q&A with a panel of investors and subject matter experts. Presenting Startups Cacophony Innovation (USC) Water Illumination (UC Riverside) Aphelion Aeronautics (Cal Poly SLO) Precise Polymer (Skysong Innovations/ASU) Helicoid Industries (UC Irvine) Expert Q&A Panelists Matt Kozlov (Multiball Capital) Howard Ko (Morpheus Ventures) Alexa McCulloch (Stardeck Ventures) Nima Ashraf (Physical Fund) John Peck (KPPB, LP) Investor and startup details are here 03:15 PM: Break 03:45 PM: SoCal Deep Tech Accelerator Showcase Early-stage startups

AI Socratic Madrid is a monthly gathering for AI practitioners, researchers, founders, educators, and builders in the Madrid AI scene. We run Socratic dialogues on the last AI topics: new models and tools, research papers, AGI alignment, philosophy, geopolitics, and more. We believe the best conversations happen when diverse perspectives are in the room. Whether you come from engineering, research, product, policy, or education, if you think seriously about AI, you belong here. To keep discussions meaningful, every application is reviewed. We look for curiosity, depth of thought, and a genuine willingness to contribute, not a specific job title or background. The event runs in English 🇬🇧, unless everyone in the room speaks Spanish 🇪🇸. Agenda 17:30 – 18:00 Welcome & networking 18:00 – 19:00 Socratic dialogues 19:00 – 20:00 Demos and presentations Socratic Conversations We open with networking, time to meet the people in the room before the conversation starts. The main session is structured around the latest AI Socratic monthly post, with room for the threads and topics that matter most to attendees. Everyone is encouraged to contribute. Jorge Ordovás and Alfonso de la Rocha moderate to keep things flowing and make sure every voice gets heard. We close with demos and short presentations. Submit yours here. AI Socratic Madrid — Code of Conduct AI Socratic is built on the premise that better ideas come from more perspectives. This Code of Conduct exists to make that real, not aspirational. Who this is for: Everyone: attendees, speakers, organisers, and guests. No exceptions. What we expect: Be curious, not combative. Challenge ideas, not people. The Socratic method works because it assumes good faith on all sides. Make room. If you tend to speak a lot, listen more. If you see someone being talked over, say something. Respect identities and expertise. Don't make assumptions about what someone knows (or doesn't) based on how they look, their accent, or their background