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Cerebral Valley – Week of April 28th 🗓
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AWS Gen AI Lofts are coming to 10+ cities worldwide in 2025. From San Francisco to São Paulo, Tel Aviv to Osaka, these pop-up spaces bring together local AI communities, technical experts, and founders to learn, connect, and build in the world of generative AI. The next destination is Dublin, Ireland from May 13-23.
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Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
CV Events:
🗓️ 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.
Register
Featured in April:
🗓️ Wednesday, April 30
📍 San Francisco, CA
AI agents are reshaping how sales teams qualify leads, personalize outreach, and scale communication. But while the potential is massive, most teams hit roadblocks early.
Some agents hallucinate. Others misfire across large CRMs. And most simply don’t reason like an experienced seller would.
Over the past year, we’ve worked with companies pushing AI to the edge of sales automation — and we’ve seen the hard truths most people don’t talk about.
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🗓️ Thursday, May 1
📍 San Francisco, CA
This event is geared towards vertical-aligned enterprises looking to adopt AI solutions to automate business activities, internal or external.
Market Trends:
LLMs continue advancing, but vertical-aligned businesses are falling behind.
How can Fintech, Legal, and Healthcare (among many others) keep up with AI & ML to automate their businesses with measurable KPIs such as reducing costs and people time, accelerating projects, and improving CSAT.
Datasaur + AWS + Anthropic presents the most cost-effective, intuitive, and scalable way to deploy a secure, compliant, and private version of Claude for every business use case by vertical.
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🗓️ Monday, May 5
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us at the AWS GenAI Loft in San Francisco to get hands-on experience building AI automations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Arcee AI, a pioneer in small language models (SLMs) and trusted by customers like Intel, PIMCO, and SK Telecom.
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🗓️ Friday, May 16 - Saturday, May 17
📍 San Francisco, CA
STRONG COMPUTE GPU HACKATHON
For Engineers, AI Researchers, students & anyone who is comfortable with PyTorch.
Our goal is to offer the best platform to build and train models at cluster scale. Come on over, light up some clusters, have a blast and let us know what you love and what needs work.
Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer (ISC) is designed to be the easiest way to get started on multinode training. You’ll be up and running in an hour.
Engineers only. All code. Recruiters/Slidegineers/Marketers etc. need not apply.
All applicants will be vetted for technical fit before being approved to attend.
Register
🗓️ 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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🗓️ Thursday, June 5
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join thousands of data scientists, AI practitioners and developers at Snowflake’s Dev Day in San Francisco on June 5.
This FREE in-person event offers you a packed agenda of industry experts; leading venture capitalists; demos from the most popular AI companies; a gen AI Bootcamp; and fun networking events.
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This Week:
🗓️ Monday, April 28th
📍 San Francisco, CA
You probably already know that AI is changing the world. Come learn about some of the awesome AI dev tools being worked on.
🗓️ Tuesday, April 29th
📍 Remote
Model context protocols (MCP) are gaining momentum (with recent adoption by OpenAI and Google) as a new standard for agent interoperability.
We’ll show you how to harness the power of MCP to connect AI coding tools like AugmentCode with OpenAI’s new Agents SDK, all backed by Qdrant for fast vector search.
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, April 29th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We're thrilled to invite you to the AGI Builders meetup in SF on April 29th.
It's a gathering where AI builders, researchers, and enthusiasts share ideas, inspire peers, and transform the future.
Participants can expect engaging tech talks covering the latest challenges and advancements in AI.
Light refreshments will be available.
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🗓️ Tuesday, April 29th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Come hang out at Chroma HQ with ~100 builders to see what devs are vibe coding.
The line up is 🔥 with demos from Replit, Chroma, Jam, & more!
+ food, drinks and a good time! 🍕🥤
Spots filled up so fast for our last AI Night (600+ signups 🤯) - we're excited to meet more of you!
See you there,
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🗓️ Wednesday, April 30th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Voice and video AI devs and founders, we’ve got something special cooked up this month!
Join us on April 30th for a fireside chat with the legendary Justin Uberti. Justin created the WebRTC protocol, led the development of Google Meet and Stadia, started Fixie, and is now the Head of Realtime AI at OpenAI.
We’ll cover a gamut of topics, both looking back on Justin’s career and towards the future of human-computer interfaces that OpenAI is building towards.
Before and after, we’ll have plenty of time to compare notes, exchange stories in the trenches, and become better friends.
Don’t worry; we learned from the last one and will double the pizza order! Looking forward to seeing you soon.
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