Cerebral Valley – Week of June 16th 🗓

The latest in AI Products, Events, and News

June 16, 2025

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Events List

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

CV Events:

🗓️ Saturday, June 21st - Sunday, June 22nd
📍 Seattle, WA

We’re excited to welcome you to the Llama 4 Seattle Hackathon co-hosted by Cerebral Valley and Meta!

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. Attendees will be amongst the first to get free access to the newly released Llama API, now in limited preview.

💰 Compete for $21K+ in CASH prizes 💰

Note: This is a fully in-person event. Remote participation is not allowed.

Featured in June:

🗓️ Thursday, June 17
📍 Remote

​​AI agents are reshaping how work gets done, but most employees need clear guidance to start building agents in their business environments. In this live webinar, we’ll show you how to automate work at scale by building agents tailored to complex workflows, cross-functional teams, and real organizational challenges.

This session will walk you through the key steps to build AI agents for real, scalable impact. Don’t miss out on your chance to see live demos of high-impact agents that drive significant ROI and speed up workflow completion by up to 97%.

Whether it’s accelerating security reviews, streamlining support operations, or helping go-to-market teams move faster, these agents are designed to solve real problems and deliver measurable impact.

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🗓️ Tuesday, June 17
📍 San Francisco, CA

In a world obsessed with AI speed and scale, Human+Tech Week dares to ask a different question: What do humans need? Taking place June 17–19 in San Francisco, this summit gathers 200+ leading minds—from neuroscientists and futurists to AI founders and HR innovators—designing a future where technology amplifies well-being, performance, and purpose. Learn more here.

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🗓️ Tuesday, June 17
📍 San Francisco, CA

Wrap up YC Startup School with an evening of knowledge sharing, networking and good vibes. We’re bringing together founders, investors, and top-tier builders for an event you won’t want to miss.

What’s in store:

🗣️ GigaML’s story
🔥 Fireside chats with surprise thought-leaders
🍕 Food &🍸 Drinks
🔊 Live DJ
🎳 Social bowling

Whether you're exploring your next role, looking for a co-founder, or fundraising for what you’re building — this is the room to be in.

Space is limited so RSVP now!

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🗓️ Tuesday, June 17 - Wednesday, June 18
📍 San Francisco, CA

Weights & Biases is thrilled to bring back Fully Connected 2025, happening June 17-18, 2025, at Convene in San Francisco. This year’s theme is taking your agentic AI application from prototype to production, and includes two days packed full of hands-on workshops and talks from leaders at Adobe, Meta, Pinterest, Snowflake, and more.

Highlights include keynotes from Weights & Biases co-founders, Lukas Biewald, CEO and Shawn Lewis, CTO, and Xavi Amatriain, a brilliant leader at Google, plus talks on emerging AI topics such as  scaling AI inference, building production-ready AI agents, synthetic data generation, establishing guardrails, training models at scale.

Tickets are selling quickly — grab yours before they’re gone! Use promo code CV2025 for 20% off. 

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🗓️ Tuesday, June 24
📍 Seattle, WA

Join experts from Elastic and Microsoft as they reveal the practical strategies behind this success story, and show how you can do the same.

In this exclusive roundtable, you’ll learn how to:
• Optimize large language models for real-world applications
• Track AI costs and performance with confidence
• Define clear KPIs that tie AI to business impact
• Avoid common pitfalls and scale AI initiatives smarter

Enjoy breakfast, networking, and actionable insights with fellow technology and business leaders who are shaping the future of AI in the enterprise.

Seats are limited—reserve yours today and walk away with a clear AI game plan.

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🗓️ Saturday, June 28
📍 San Francisco, CA

Every breakthrough era had its proving ground. Bonneville Salt Flats, the Mojave Desert, Cape Canaveral—places to push new technology to its limits.

On Saturday June 28, ​The General Partnership invites a select group of developers to a new, one-day proving ground for AI-powered software development.

💰 Compete for $5K+ in cash prizes 💰 plus credits and discounts from our partners including OpenAI, Anthropic, Graphite, Jazz Tools, and Runloop.

Note: This is a fully in-person event.

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This Week:

🗓️ Monday, June 16
📍 San Francisco, CA

​We're giving out free access to the workshop for a limited number of folks who register through Luma! Your spot isn’t locked in until you’re approved. After that, the next batch will get a discount code by email to use on the site. First come, first served!

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🗓️ Monday, June 16
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us after YC's first-ever AI Startup School for an evening with Anthropic's research team and fellow AI builders!

If you are a student building at the frontier of AI, join us to learn more about Anthropic's leading family of models, connect with peers, and hear from our research team about what’s top of mind and how we can help bring your AI-powered ideas to life.

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🗓️ Wednesday, June 18
📍 Remote

Who Can Participate

This hackathon is open to students, professionals, and early-stage startups who are passionate about building data applications with Python. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting your coding journey, we welcome your participation!

Team Size

You can participate as an individual or form a team of up to 4 members. While teams can bring diverse skills and perspectives, solo participants are equally welcome. We'll help you find teammates if you're looking for one!

Global Participation

This is a global hackathon! We welcome participants from all around the world. All submissions and communications will be in English, and the hackathon timeline is based on UTC to accommodate participants from different time zones.

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🗓️ Wednesday, June 18
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​Take a break from back-to-back meetings and join us at Oracle Park for a night of baseball, networking, and next-gen AI insights — all from the comfort of a luxury suite.

​Hosted by AI industry leaders Cohere and Invisible, this event will include business leaders and tech innovators to discuss the transformative impact and applications of artificial intelligence.

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