Cerebral Valley – Week of February 10th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and Jobs

February 10, 2025

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Athena is an AI agent who augments and automates manually-intensive and data-heavy workflows, allowing your team to focus on the strategic work that matters most. 

Traditional business processes often involve manual, repetitive tasks that take valuable time away from essential work, resulting in missed opportunities, extended deadlines, and critical oversights. 

Athena is your virtual employee who aligns with existing workflows and executes tasks the way you need them done. Athena seamlessly integrates with all your business tools, systems, and communication channels, allowing you to delegate tasks and receive outputs over email, just as you would interact with a remote employee, or natively in the platform itself.

Use Athena in pilot mode to execute workflows autonomously after being trained on your process or work with Athena as a copilot for more collaborative work where a human touch is needed.

With Athena powering your operations, your team is freed up to collaborate on the work that humans do best - applying judgment, creativity and expertise to maximize business impact.

Want to meet Athena? Learn more here

Events List

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

Featured Events:

🗓️ Monday, February 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join Qdrant, Arize, CrewAI, n8n, and AWS for an evening event tailored for executives and business leaders to explore the strategic value, possibilities, and pitfalls of AI agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in the enterprise.

​If you're a business leader, discover the latest trends in AI agents and learn how to seamlessly integrate them into your workflow to drive innovation.

​If you're a technical leader, gain insights into crafting strategies around AI agents and building systems that deliver measurable impact for your organization.

🗓️ Monday, February 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for an insightful paper discussion on "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning," a groundbreaking research paper exploring novel approaches to enhance reasoning capabilities in large language models led by Nithin Dhananjayan.

🗓️ Tuesday, February 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Every company sees the potential of GenAI, but most teams hit a wall when turning it into scalable, production-ready applications. This series of master classes will equip you with the practical skills to build and deploy GenAI solutions that deliver real impact.

Schedule

  • ​Nov 4: Part 1: Foundations of Prompting, RAG systems, Agents

  • ​Nov 25: Part 2: Evaluate and Productionize AI Systems

  • ​Feb 11: Part 3: Build and deploy a GenAI app end-to-end

🗓️ Tuesday, February 11th
📍 Santa Clara, CA

If you’re building or scaling AI-driven applications, this talk is for you. Learn how agentic workflows enable autonomous state management, seamless scaling, and customizable workflows to deploy production-ready AI applications with confidence and speed.

You have two options to attend: in person in Santa Clara on February 12th or join virtually on February 19th. Claim your free pass by registering here-- and if you'd like a deeper dive into how Inngest can help your team, book a demo directly with Inngest CEO, Tony Holdstock-Brown to see it in action!

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🗓️ Thursday, February 13th
📍 Remote

Join us for an in-depth look at how to deploy DeepSeek for  agentic retrieval-augmented generation, purely open-source and in your own environment .

We’ll walk through orchestrating your agentic AI application, and ensuring secure, high-performance, privacy-first vector search with Qdrant — all while maintaining full control over your data.

🗓️ Thursday, February 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for a dynamic conversation on the evolution of sports tech investing and the strategies shaping its future. This discussion will bring together seasoned investors and founders who have been at the forefront of the industry, exploring how sports tech has evolved, where capital is flowing, and what it takes to build and scale in this competitive space.

​From athlete-led investments to the latest innovations in fan engagement, fitness, and performance technology, our panelists will break down the trends, challenges, and opportunities defining the next era of sports tech.

🗓️ Friday, February 14th
📍 San Francisco, CA

SparkLabs Group is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013. We have invested in over 550 companies across 6 continents, and our portfolio has gained over $44 billion in post money valuation. We are also the leading startup accelerator in Asia with the best survival rate in the world at 86.7% (280 out of 323 accelerator investments).

​Nex’s mission is to connect families through active play. The Nex Playground is a motion gaming console that is designed from the ground up to serve kids and their families.

🗓️ Saturday, February 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​CreatorsCorner, collaborating with Google Deepmind, Weights & Biases, Together.ai, Stytch, Senso, LlamaIndex and others enthusiastically welcomes individuals and teams to join our hackathon! Seize this opportunity to create cutting-edge solutions that enhance human potential through AI-powered software.

​​​🎉 🏆 $50k+ in Prizes!

The Challenge

  • ​Build Autonomous Agents: Develop AI solutions that can independently perform tasks like scheduling, purchasing, buying, trading and more.

  • ​Participants will build and compete, each pitching their ideas and solutions in 3 minutes

​​Make a difference: Demonstrate a useful project which solves a unique problem and/or introduces a new capabilities which benefits users in the voice and video space.

🗓️ Wednesday, February 19th
📍 New York, NY

​The AI Engineer Summit is the #1 technical conference in the world for AI engineers and leadership (CTOs & VPs of AI) to meet, learn, and advance the field, for the third year running. Speakers and sponsors of past events include founders and senior leaders of DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Cohere, Mistral, Midjourney, Cartesia, NVIDIA, Groq, Crusoe, Together.ai, Fireworks, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Databricks, Neo4j, MongoDB, GitHub, Microsoft, Google, AWS and more.

The theme of this Summit is Agents at Work, with a special focus on in-production stories in Finance (Jane Street, BlackRock, Bloomberg etc.), and no vendor pitches for our main stage.

We are convening the top AI Agent builders in the field to share their work, discuss problems, and propose solutions for 2025 to succeed as the Year of Agents. Applications are invite only as the in-person attendee experience is highly curated. Join us!

🗓️ Wednesday, February 26th
📍 London, UK

At Nebius, we’re creating an AI Neocloud — a cutting-edge cloud platform designed exclusively for AI practitioners. We provide seamless AI solutions accelerated by NVIDIA, popular MLOps tools and a scalable inference platform to support AI application development.

Ready to meet the team behind it all?

Join us at CodeNode, London, on Wednesday, February 26, for an exclusive look into Nebius AI Neocloud, our cutting-edge platform designed for explorers and innovators.

Whether you’re developing AI models, scaling ML workloads or deploying AI applications, this is a great opportunity to connect with our developers, product experts, architects and the NVIDIA team.

What’s in store?

  • An insider’s look at Nebius architecture and development principles.

  • Insights into NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture.

  • A deep dive into how we developed a Kubernetes operator for Slurm.

  • Discover how test-time computation unlocks the potential of agentic systems.

And much more!

Plus, all attendees will receive free credits to try out our GPU Cloud Accelerated by NVIDIA and explore the new text-to-image functionality in AI Studio.

Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out! Register now to secure your spot.

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🗓️ Wednesday, February 26th
📍 San Francisco, CA

AO Labs has booked the Alamo Drafthouse for a private screening of the movie Her. If you are working in AI, let's watch and rediscover one of Spike Jonze's masterpieces. In times of deep coping and major shock, we want to get inspired and get to know more builders that can see beyond the AGI/ASI hype.

Space is limited, we may not be able to accommodate everyone. We'll prioritize founders building in AI.

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🗓️ Thursday, February 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​This unique event gives AI practitioners and early stage startup teams the chance to work side by side with supply chain and procurement professionals to help develop tools and strategies for addressing supply chain disruptions caused by extreme weather. With a panel of expert judges from industry, policymakers and nonprofits, the AI Supply Chain Hackathon is a terrific opportunity for people excited and concerned about the impact of AI on accelerating both supply chain decisions and supply chain disruptions.

Sign up for free to get more info.

Our panel of expert AI Supply Chain Hackathon judges include:

  • Marc Carlson, Chief Revenue Officer - Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Perdue

  • Charlotte De Brabandt, ex-JJ & Amazon, supply chain thought leader

  • Ben Roome, PhD, Founder - Ethical Resolve

  • Frederik Bohn, Director, Supply Chain - Plug & Play Ventures

  • Dr. Elouise Epstein, Procurement Futurist - Kearney

  • Dr. Arash Azadegan, Professor of Supply Chain and Director of Supply Chain Disruption Lab, Rutgers University

  • Amy Fong, Partner, Everest Group

  • Clark Bernier, Vice President of Data Science, Arkestro

  • Susan Marty, Chief Product Officer, Institute for Supply Management

  • Jim Fleming, Innovation Leader, Institute for Supply Management

  • Kaitlyn Glancy, Partner at Eclipse VC

And more to be announced!

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