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Cerebral Valley – Week of March 10th 🗓
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🗓️ Tuesday, March 18th
📍 San Jose, CA
Join the Akash core team during NVIDIA GTC week! Whether you’re a developer, innovator, or just curious about decentralized, open-sourced tech, this is your chance to:
🔧 Pull up with the minds behind Akash’s Supercloud—ask questions, share ideas, or brainstorm the future of open-sourced infrastructure.
🍹 Ctlr + Sip craft cocktails in the retro-chic vibes of Five Points Speakeasy.
🚀 Repo the benefits of seeing how Akash is redefining cloud computing.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured Events:
🗓️ Wednesday, March 12th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join the SF Reactor for our first installment of our new monthly series, AI Show + Tell featuring Engineered Arts' Leo Chen!
Keynote title:
Humanoid Robots in the real world
Session Abstract:
A discussion on the impact of AI and humanoid robotics in the real world and examples of real world applications.
🗓️ Monday, March 10th
📍 Virtual
Can you outsmart the AI? Compete in Pangea's prompt injection challenge for a chance to win $10,000 in prizes.
Three rooms. Four weeks.
To escape each room, you'll need to outsmart the AI chatbot with clever prompts to unlock secret phrases. To win each room's grand prize, you must escape with the highest score. The fewer tokens (words) you use, the higher your score. Ready to play?
🗓️ Thursday, March 13th
📍 Remote
Join us for our monthly Sourcegraph Live Stream to stay updated on the latest developments, feature deep dives, and real-world use cases.
Our inaugural session launches on March 13, 2025, where we'll explore all the new features in Sourcegraph 6.0 and 6.1, including an in-depth look at our Review Agent. We'll also showcase Cody AI's agentic chat and auto-edit capabilities, demonstrate working with remote repository context, and host a Q&A session.
See you soon!
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🗓️ Saturday, March 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
At Funding the Commons: San Francisco 2025, we gather researchers, policymakers, builders, and funders for a 2-day conference to explore:
How do we fund, govern, and align AI and digital infrastructures as public goods?
What models ensure accessibility, accountability, and resilience in these rapidly evolving spaces?
How do we balance rapid technological acceleration with governance, security, and ethics?
This 12th edition takes place at the iconic Internet Archive, a global symbol of open access and collective stewardship, reinforcing the urgency of sustaining digital infrastructure for the public good.
Happening alongside NVIDIA’s developer events and ETHSF, this conference provides a critical space to examine how AI, blockchain, and decentralized infrastructure can be stewarded, regulated, and sustained for the future.
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🗓️ Tuesday, March 18th (11am ET)
📍 Virtual
“The hottest new programming language is English," as Andrej Karpathy famously said. But does that hold true for writing end-to-end RAG applications with Qdrant? We will put it to the test.
We'll demonstrate how to build a complete RAG app by avoiding writing code ourselves at all costs. We'll explore how far we can push AI systems to generate both frontend and backend code through natural language prompts and instructions, creating a fully functional RAG app powered by Qdrant's vector search capabilities.
We've evaluated different AI coding assistants, including Cursor, Aider, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot. While Claude 3.5 and 3.7 have earned recognition for producing amazing frontend code, we'll assess its capabilities for full-stack development and discuss which frameworks deliver the most consistent and high-quality results.
🗓️ Tuesday, March 18th
📍 Sunnyvale, CA
EntreConnect is hosting an exclusive NVIDIA GTC AI side event on 3/18, bringing together C-suite executives and founders from top public companies and unicorns including:
Turing (Jonathan Siddharth, CEO / Cofounder), Nebius (Roman Chernin, Cofounder / CBO), Gen (Howie Xu, Chief AI Officer), Zyphra (Erik Norden, Chief AI Officer), Caper AI (Lindon Gao, CEO / Cofounder) and more to discuss scaling LLMs, AI applications, deep tech, robotics and neuromorphic computing.
Network with top founders, investors, and AI experts over pizza and drinks, making valuable connections in the heart of the AI revolution.
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🗓️ Wednesday, March 19th
📍 San Jose, CA
You’re invited to kick off GTC with our friends at Turing and Fireworks AI for an evening of creative cocktails and fantastic food with leaders in the AI and LLM communities.
Taking place on Wednesday, March 19 from 5 PM - 7 PM PT at Paper Plane, the Generative AI Gathering is the perfect place to unwind after the day’s GTC sessions and chat with your peers about topics ranging from AI-assisted software development to the future of LLM training.
There’s no charge to attend but space is limited so make sure to register quickly before we hit capacity.
Not attending GTC this year but interested in swinging by the Generative AI Gathering? You are still welcome to RSVP at the link above.
🗓️ Wednesday, March 19th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Greptile is bringing together a group of engineers for an evening of AI demos and networking. The event will feature several short demos showcasing innovative AI products, including a demo from our hosts at Greptile. After the presentations, there will be time for conversation over food and drinks.
🔹 Live AI Demos – presentations from engineers building AI tools
🚀 Special Demo from Greptile – Presented by co-founder & CEO Daksh Gupta
🍕 Food & Drinks will be served
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🗓️ Thursday, March 20th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join AI+ with NVIDIA GTC on an invitation-only summit for global LPs, founders and investors. This forum brings together LPs, Founders and Venture Capital leaders to explore the changing landscape of AI-driven opportunities.
LPs: Discover top-tier GP insights & emerging tech alpha
Founders: Master Exit Strategies & scale with strategic capital
Investors: Identify Capital Strategies & future unicorns
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🗓️ Friday, March 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA
STRONG COMPUTE GPU HACKATHON
For Engineers & AI Researchers who are 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.
Choose from one of the following hacks to compete in over the weekend.
Competition A: DEEPSEEK Fine Tuning
DeepSeek has landed. Come build the next demonstration of leaner meaner reasoning models dominating the big guys.
Strong Compute will provide the DeepSeek distillation model weights at your fingertips, and a bunch of GPUs to fine tune on. Over to you!
Fine-tune a DeepSeek reasoning model on your dataset and show us what it can do. The most impressive demo wins.
Register
🗓️ Friday, March 28th
📍 Palo Alto, CA
Join Founders Creative, a community of 10k+ AI execs, founders, and investors for The AI Engineering Summit, sponsored by Progressive Ventures, TheAgentic, Fiddler, and Rapticore!
Confirmed speakers include:
Shibani Sanan, CTO, Ladder (ex VP Eng from Google) | Aysha Khan, CIO, Treasure Data | Rohit Jain, CIO, Harvard Business School | Mala Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner, Progressive Ventures | Meghana Puvvadi, Director, Nvidia | Raymond Peck, CTO, Intertru | Geeta Pyne, Chief Architect, TIAA | Manasi Joshi, Director, Waymo | Srividhya(Vidhya) Narayanan, Sr Director of Engineering, Google | Swati Ranganathan, VP of IT, Uniphore | Mitalee Gujar, Director of Engineering, AWS | Meena Rajvaidya, Director of Engineering, Splunk Cisco | Sendil Thangavelu, Engineering Leader, Visual Shopping, Amazon | Harsh Verma, Senior AI Staff Engineer, Palo Alto Networks | Akshaya Aradhya, VP of Engineering, Oscilar | Sachin Joshi, VP of Engineering, Cisco | Tillman Elser, Engineering Leader, AI/ML, Sentry | Sameer Merchant, Senior Distinguished Engineer, Palo Alto Networks | Sandeep Kaipu, Engineering Manager, Broadcom | Akash Saraf, CEO, TheAgentic | Krishna Gade, CEO, Fiddler | Ahsan Mir, CEO, Rapticore | Raymond Lee, Cofounder, Founders Creative
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