Cerebral Valley – Week of June 9th 🗓

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June 09, 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 May:

🗓️ Tuesday, June 10
📍 New York, NY

Join experts from Microsoft and Elastic as they share the inspiring story of how a leading technology company boosted efficiency and saw an impressive ROI within just four months by implementing an AI assistant. Discover how AI can be your ally in optimizing large language models for generative AI applications.

Learn practical tips for cost-tracking, setting AI KPIs, and measuring key business metrics to ensure your AI investment drives real, tangible business value and growth. Enjoy breakfast, networking, and refreshments as you explore the future of AI in business.

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🗓️ Thursday, June 12
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for a free, hands-on workshop to learn how to deploy and optimize large language models (LLMs) for scalable inference at enterprise scale. Participants will learn to orchestrate distributed LLM serving with RayServe and vLLM on Amazon EKS, enabling robust, flexible, and highly available deployments. The session demonstrates how to utilize AWS Trainium hardware within EKS to maximize throughput and cost efficiency, leveraging Kubernetes-native features for automated scaling, resource management, and seamless integration with AWS services. You'll gain hands-on experience using observability tools like Ray Dashboard, CloudWatch, and neuron-tools to effectively monitor inference workloads.

AWS Solution Architects will guide you through the process and be available to answer questions about your specific use cases. After the workshop, stick around to enjoy some refreshments and network with other attendees and AWS team members.

​Please bring a laptop to participate.

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🗓️ Thursday, June 12
📍 New York, NY

​​Join us at this gathering for NYC’s AI leaders, practitioners, and enthusiasts, hosted by Emergence. Connect with peers, deepen your understanding, and enhance your AI strategy.

​You'll have the opportunity to:

  • ​Engage with industry experts and local AI leaders

  • ​Experience live demos showcasing agent implementations

  • ​Gain actionable insights into strategy, organizational culture, and successful AI agent adoption.

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🗓️ 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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🗓️ 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 - 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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🗓️ Thursday, June 19
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Join us for an exploration of the next frontier in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): persistent agentic memory and dynamic context injection using MCP (Model Context Protocol) and Qdrant.

​As LLM-powered agents become more capable, they need more than just one-off prompts — they need context that evolves, memory that persists, and infrastructure that scales. This event will show you how to use MCP to manage complex, multi-turn contexts, and how Qdrant enables high-performance vector memory at scale.

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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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This Week:

🗓️ Sunday, June 8
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​Join early-stage investors from SignalFire, DTC, Zetta, and 8VC alongside other founders and builders for an intimate happy hour on the eve of the 2025 Data + AI Summit.

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🗓️ Tuesday, June 10
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​After an inspiring day of sessions and insights on day one of Databricks AI Summit, we invite you to wind down and connect with peers at the Windsurf After-Party.

Join us for an evening of relaxed conversation, light refreshments, and great company. Whether you're continuing the AI discussion or simply looking to unwind, this is the place to be post-summit.

Windsurf is a leader in AI-powered coding solutions, offering next-gen AI tools built by developers, for developers.

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🗓️ Wednesday, June 11
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​We The Builders is a series of conversations and live events including dinners celebrating American agency and progress with the builders shaping the future of through science and technology.

​Previous guests feature David Sacks (White House AI & Crypto Czar, All-In), Matt Angle (Paradromics, $100m raised), Kian Sadeghi (Nucleus Genomics, $30m raised), David Friedberg (Ohalo, All-In), Delian Asparouhov (Founders Fund, Varda Space, $90m raised), and more.

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🗓️ Wednesday, June 11
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Join us at Pilot HQ for an exclusive evening with Mike Vernal, General Partner at Conviction Partners, a venture capital firm founded by Sarah Guo, former General Partner at Greylock Partners. Before joining Conviction, Mike was a partner at Sequoia Capital and spent eight years at Facebook as VP of Product and Engineering. He has led investments in companies like Notion, Rippling, and Verkada.

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🗓️ Saturday, June 14
📍 Mountain View, CA

​​​Can you build an MVP in a weekend?

​Here's what you get for coming:

  • ​Free inference credits to use an open source LLM available via GMI Cloud

  • ​Access to industry experts who come to judge or mentor

  • ​Ways to kickstart conversations with potential customers or investors

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