Cerebral Valley – Week of August 26th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

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Partner Spotlight - Small Data SF

Hands-on workshops and technical talks with a pragmatic lens on the future of data and AI

What do we mean when we talk about Small Data? It's not about data volume - it's about Real Data workloads. Most workloads don't require Petabytes of data, so why are we obsessed with engineering our systems and workflows for Petabyte scale?

Small Data SF (9/23 - 9/24) is a community gathering for developers and data people to come together and start having the real conversation about simplifying our work now that 10Tb of Big Data now fits on your laptop. Do you really need distributed systems for that?

With hands-on workshops and technical talks from Gemma, Ollama, Prisma, and more, check out the lineup and stay tuned for the full agenda of sessions and workshops dropping later this week 👀

Events List

A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).

Featured Events:

🗓️ Tuesday, August 27th
📍 Remote

​​​In this event, we’ll dig into the details of deploying generative AI in big business settings where security, privacy, and compliance aren’t just buzzwords—they're must-haves. We’re bringing together a panel of industry leaders to discuss, debate, and answer questions from our audience of AI engineers.

​We're teaming up with Cerebral Valley as our Community Partner for this roundtable!

​This event will feature a diverse panel of experts including:

​And hosted by Brittany Carambio, Director of Corporate Marketing @ OctoAI!

🗓️ Tuesday, October 1st
📍 San Francisco, CA

ElasticON Tour San Francisco shows you how to use the precision of search with the intelligence of AI to supercharge <anything> with the Elastic Search AI Platform. See how your peers are tapping into Elastic to harness the power of their data. Get answers and advice on building with Search AI from industry experts. Discover how to get the most from search, observability, and security at unprecedented speed and scale with the Elastic Search AI Platform.

🗓️ Saturday, October 5th - Sunday, October 6th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​More information and schedule coming soon!

​AI Agents are going to revolutionize many industries. This is especially true in financial services, where legacy systems/processes still dominate much of the status quo. Some areas that are ripe to be disrupted are:

📈🤖 Algorithmic Trading

​💰📱 Personal Finance Management

🏦🤝 Investment Banking

📈📉 Portfolio Management

​🌡️📈 Economic Forecasting:

📜🤖 Contract Analysis

​And more...

​Join us as we bring together engineers and startups tackling some of the hardest problems in the financial services industry.

​We'll learn about what problems the experts in the industry are most excited about, get early access to cutting edge dev tools, and let you all build something incredible.

​Food and good vibes will be provided.

Invite Only - apply now

​Sponsored by Halluminate, Groq, Alchemist Accelerator, Asian Founders Club, and more...

Events:

🗓️ Tuesday, August 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA

August edition of the monthly academic salon discussing all aspects under the critical topic of AI safety.

​TLDR: Bringing together scholastic exercises with enterprise work in AI, this is a forum to discuss and address the deepest technical and ethical questions around AI safety in use within society. Primarily a social event to discuss current issues, featuring lightning talks while leaving more time for Q&A that could instigate a larger scope for any solutions.

​Talks this month:

  • ​Sergey Davidovich, SparkBeyond, "Can LLMs computationally validate ideas?"

  • ​Lucia Chen, Psyfy.ai "A Framework for Evaluating Appropriateness, Trustworthiness, and Safety in Mental Wellness AI Chatbots" - here is a link to this paper

  • ​Osvald Nitski, Nvidia, TBD

​Schedule:

  • ​5:30pm - Doors / pizza

  • ​6:30pm - Lightning Talks w Q&A (5-10 min)

  • ​7:00pm - Discussion

  • ​8:30pm - Shutting it down


Register

🗓️ Tuesday, August 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​THIS EVENT IS FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE IN-PERSON. OUR OFFICE'S CAPACITY WILL STOP AT 100 AND ANYONE ELSE WILL BE DIRECTED TO THE LIVESTREAM.

Join us for the go-to Bay Area meetup on all things data and AI.

​​​​This event is for engineers passionate about various tools they should include in their AI tech stack. Whether you're a developer, a product manager, or simply a data & AI enthusiast, come to network and hear insights from the teams at Airbyte & Arize AI.

​​​​6:00pm: Networking and bites
6:45pm: Presentations start
7:45pm: Networking and wrap up

🗓️ Thursday, August 29th
📍 Redwood City, CA

​Join the AI/ML Infra Meetup at Poshmark's headquarters in Redwood City, CA, co-hosted by Alluxio and Poshmark. Hear from a great lineup of speakers, including OpenAI, Poshmark, Alluxio, and more, who will share invaluable insights on building AI infrastructure at scale.

​If you're passionate about the latest advancements in AI/ML infrastructure, including LLMs, vector databases, training & fine-tuning techniques, RAG, GPU optimization, PyTorch, and more, then this is the event for you!

​​​Immerse yourself in learning, networking, and conversations. In the end, enjoy the mix-and-mingle happy hour. Food and drinks are on us!

Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Spotlight.

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