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Cerebral Valley – Week of April 14th 🗓
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Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
CV Events:
🗓️ Saturday, April 26th - Sunday, April 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Registration is now open for another weekend of building in support of national security at our second annual National Security Hackathon, in partnership with Stanford DEFCON and Shield Capital!
Hack on problems that matter – problem statements curated by US military stakeholders. Judges and mentors are from US government, startups, and venture capital firms. Full list of problem sets, judges, and mentors will be provided after registration.
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🗓️ Saturday, May 3rd - Sunday, May 4th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We’re excited to welcome you to the LlamaCon Hackathon hosted by Meta in collaboration with Cerebral Valley and SHACK15!
This is a unique opportunity to build new AI apps on top of the newest Llama models, alongside the best hackers in AI. Meta's Llama team will be in attendance, and hackers will receive hands-on support from the Meta team.
Winning teams will receive cash, hardware, and credit prizes.
Our speakers and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!
This is a fully in-person event - remote teams are not allowed.
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Featured in April:
🗓️ Tuesday, April 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for the AI Agents Meetup: Voice to see how voice-powered AI agents are transforming customer interactions, driving operational efficiency, and redefining enterprise support.
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🗓️ Wednesday, April 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for an exciting evening of Generative AI demos from local startups leveraging Amazon Bedrock.
Generative AI is truly changing our lives and the way we work - opening up new use cases and opportunities.
This is a great opportunity to see the latest applications of Generative AI in action and to network with and learn from fellow Gen AI enthusiasts.
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🗓️ Wednesday, April 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA
AI is transforming every industry, but technology and business leaders face a critical challenge – integrating it seamlessly with their data and systems while ensuring accuracy and transparency.
AI Disrupt is an exclusive gathering where AI leaders come together to share real-world insights, tackle key challenges, and connect with top decision-makers.
Join us in San Francisco for an energizing one-day event featuring dynamic panels, case studies, technical workshops and interactive sessions – designed for those shaping the future of AI.
🗓️ Friday, April 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join a curated, interview-only hackathon alongside top AI researchers, engineers, and developers to tackle the ARC Prize.
The ARC Prize is a $1M public competition to beat and open source a solution to the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark—learn more here. ARC-AGI-2, launched in March 2025, sets a new standard for AI reasoning: every task is solvable by humans in under two tries, yet unsolved by any frontier AI system.
Last year, we supported a project that went on to place 2nd in the 2024 ARC Prize. This year, Strong Compute is proud to return as a Foundation Partner — backing more open-source efforts pushing the frontier of machine reasoning.
Join us over a weekend at our hacker house. We’ll bring the GPUs, food, drinks, desks, and vibes — you bring your laptop and your ideas.
🗓️ Tuesday, April 22nd
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for a day of fun in the Vectorverse!
Get ready for an exciting day of learning, hacking, networking, and innovation! Hosted at AWS GenAI Loft, Presented by Weaviate and HackerSquad, this event is all about exploring the potential of AI and creating impactful solutions alongside fellow developers.
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🗓️ Tuesday, April 22nd - Thursday, April 24
📍 Oakland, CA
Data Council is the no bullsh*t data conference. Experience 3 DAYS of cutting-edge technical talks from the brightest minds in AI & data in Oakland, CA. Our community includes AI engineers, founders, CTOs, AI researchers, Heads of Data, and investors who are all building the future of AI & data.
This year's conference features 100+ speakers, hands-on workshops, and our famous office-hours sessions where attendees can meet their AI & Data heroes in small group settings.
Keynotes and Speakers from: OpenAI, Perplexity, Meta, Datadog, Snowflake, Vectara, MotherDuck, and more! Use code CVALLEY20 for 20% off!
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🗓️ Tuesday, May 20- Wednesday, May 21
📍 San Francisco, CA
A conference where AI and creativity blend together is coming to San Francisco! From design, through filmmaking to music, the immersive stage at SFJazz will be taken over by the latest artistic possibilities and debates about expectations for the future developments.
Join us for 2 days of insightful talks, hands-on workshops, and real conversations. Whether you're deep in AI or just curious about where it's all headed, this is the place to be.
Our speakers include: John Maeda, Karin Fong, Leonardo De La Rocha, GMUNK and many more.
Get Early Bird tickets with extra 30% off. Discount code: CV30
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This Week:
🗓️ Tuesday, April 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
AI on the Edge Series: Edge AI Workshop with Qualcomm Technologies
Dive into the essentials of on-device AI, explore the Qualcomm® AI Hub, and participate in a build-along session using a Copilot+ PC with the Snapdragon X Elite.
Learn how to tackle real-world constraints—from low-latency decision-making to power efficiency—and discover the practical steps required to design, deploy, and scale AI solutions at the edge.
Please note, this workshop is geared towards developers and will be technical in nature.
🗓️ Tuesday, April 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join SPC for an off the record conversation with Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer at Anthropic. This is the final event of the SPC x Anthropic Hackathon. All approved hackers who complete a project are guaranteed admission to the fireside chat- register here to hack.
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🗓️ Wednesday, April 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA
April Voice AI Meetup — in-person in San Francisco and live streamed.
🎙️ A fireside chat with Moin Nadeem and Nikhil Murthy, founders of Phonic, about training voice models end-to-end for production use cases.
🏎️ A conversation about realtime architecture with Freddy A Boulton of HuggingFace about FastRTC.
📈 A discussion with AI investors Bucky Moore (Kleiner Perkins), Paige Bailey (Sequoia Scout), Radhika Malik (Dell Tech Capital), and Roseanne Wincek (Renegade).
Doors open at 6:30. There will be pizza, drinks, and lots of good conversations.
Thank you to Chroma for once again letting us meet in their fantastic San Francisco office space.
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🗓️ Thursday, April 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join Us for the Hack Night at GitHub!
Get ready for an exciting evening of hacking, networking, and innovation! Hosted at GitHub, Presented by Weaviate, this event is all about exploring the potential of AI and creating impactful solutions alongside fellow developers.
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