Cerebral Valley – Week of April 7th 🗓

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CV Spotlight: AWS Gen AI Lofts

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.

  1. Explore the latest in LLMs, Amazon Bedrock, and AI Agents

  2. Network with industry leaders and innovators

  3. Experience live demos of AI Applications across industries

  4. Get expert support for your AI implementation challenges

  5. Join the growing AI community in your city

Events List

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

Featured in April:

🗓️ Saturday, April 26th
📍 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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🗓️ Wednesday, April 9th
📍 San Francisco, CA

About the event

Join AWS experts for an immersive day exploring the intersection of Generative AI and Serverless architecture. You'll learn to build, deploy, and scale GenAI applications that deliver real business value using cloud-native AWS services. Our comprehensive agenda blends expert-led technical sessions, live demonstrations, and hands-on workshops, providing you with deep insights into real-world implementation scenarios and best practices.

You'll also have the opportunity to network with AWS experts, fellow developers, cloud architects, and industry innovators. We'll keep you energized throughout the day with complimentary lunch, refreshments, and a happy hour, ensuring you're at your best for learning and collaboration.


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🗓️ 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.

What you’ll experience

  • ​A deep dive into the tech, design, and strategy powering next-gen voice.

  • Real use cases from brands already scaling with AI.

  • ​A live demo of Zowie Voice AI: AI agents that sound human and act with precision.

  • ​Candid conversations with product builders, AI experts, and enterprise leaders.


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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.


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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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🗓️ Friday, April 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join a hacker house for 2 days of cluster-scale model training on Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer — the fastest way to spin up multinode training in under an hour.

🔥 Bring code, ideas, and curiosity.

🧠 Leave with compute credits, killer demos, and research momentum.

🚫 No slidengineers, recruiters, marketers — just Engineers, AI Researchers, students & anyone who is comfortable with PyTorch.

Two hack streams to choose from:

🏆 Competition A: ARC Prize Hack

Tackle ARC Prize — $1M public competition to beat and open source a solution to the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark

🧪 Competition B: DeepSeek Fine-Tuning Showdown

Take leaner, meaner DeepSeek models and fine-tune them into reasoning beasts. Best demo wins.

Apply now — see you April 18-19.

🗓️ 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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This Week:

🗓️ Monday, April 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Join AI developers and enthusiasts for a night of learning and laughs at Cloudflare HQ SF with TQ Ventures, OpenAI, and LangChain!

The 15-20 minute talks will start at 6:30pm.

Talks:
Brace Sproul from LangChain on Generative UI with LangGraph
Prashant Mital and Dave Leo from OpenAI on Building Agents w/ Responses API
Jonathan Mortensen from stealth AI startup on the Unofficial Guide to Apple’s new SoTA system for provably private LLMs, Private Cloud Compute

🗓️ Thursday, April 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join our engineering team and industry peers for an engaging evening to learn about the exciting work our Machine Learning teams are doing at Roblox and how we’re tackling unique, complex, and career-defining challenges.


You'll have the opportunity to meet the engineering leaders behind our innovative technology that enables our creators to build unique and engaging experiences on our platform. Light bites and drinks to be provided.


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🗓️ Saturday, April 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Hey Bay Area AI enthusiasts! Ready to connect, learn, and have some fun? Join us for The Bay Area AI Langflow Meetup hosted by Langflow at the awesome DataStax office in Santa Clara. Whether you're an AI developer, engineer, or just someone excited about Langflow, this meetup is the perfect spot to mingle, share ideas, and geek out about all things AI.

​We'll have engaging talks from speakers, plenty of time to network with fellow AI enthusiasts, and of course, some tasty light refreshments to keep the conversations flowing.


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🗓️ Sunday, April 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Stop by SPC to see the final projects produced during the SPC + Anthropic Hackathon! This event is open to the public. Please register so that we have an accurate headcount as space will be limited.

If you're interested in hacking please register here.

Agenda:

  • ​​Science fair style demos from 4-5:30pm

  • ​​Finalist demos and prize-giving from 5:30-7pm

​Prizes awarded for Best Overall, Most Interesting Interface, Best Agent for Developers and Audience Choice. Judging will be done by a panel of SPC team members, Anthropic leadership, and guest experts.


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