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Cerebral Valley – Week of May 19th 🗓
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CV Spotlight: Snowflake Dev Day
Don’t miss this free, full-day event with thousands of other developers, data scientists and AI practitioners to connect, upskill in data and AI, grow your career, and get inspiration from industry experts.
Here are three reasons you need to be at this must-attend in-person event on June 5th in San Francisco:
Level up your AI skills: Earn a badge in the Gen AI bootcamp, explore cutting-edge tech and open-source projects, and unlock eLearning opportunities to grow your career!
Get inspired: Learn from industry experts, community leaders and peers. See their innovations, hear their stories and get motivated!
Connect and unwind: Grow your network, meet mentors, join meetups, score exclusive swag, and end the day at our [Code Block] Party!
Last year was incredible — and this year will be even bigger with more content, activities and networking. Don’t miss it!
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
CV Events:
🗓️ Saturday, May 31st - Sunday, June 1st
📍 New York, NY
We’re excited to welcome you to the Llama 4 NYC Hackathon hosted by Meta in collaboration with Cerebral Valley!
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 💰
Our speakers and judges and sponsors will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!
Register
🗓️ Saturday, May 31st - Sunday, June 1st
📍 San Francisco, CA
Welcome to the official AI Engineer World's Fair Agents Hackathon. Hosted by smol.ai in collaboration with Cerebral Valley and Shack15.
Come work on some of the most pressing agent problems, including frontend software generation, evals & reliability, and reasoning & task RL.
Our speakers and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!
Winners will receive $10k+ in CASH prizes, and present on stage at the fair 👀
Hackathon attendees will get a 30% discount on AI Engineer World's Fair conference tickets.
Register
Featured in May:
🗓️ Tuesday, May 20
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join Equinox for a first-of-its-kind gathering of founders, innovators, and creators at our Startup Social.
Come to meet your peers and make new friends from 5:30 - 7:30p at Equinox Sports Club San Francisco (SCSF).
Drinks served by Criollo de Oaxaca ‘Maria’
Light Middle Eastern food will be served by OASIS
Aescape will present the world's most advanced MASSAGE
Lume will present first real-time hormone tracker you can use at home
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
📍 San Francisco, CA
Experience Anthropic's first developer conference, Code w/ Claude, at an official AWS-hosted watch party. This satellite event offers the unique opportunity to view the main conference keynote live while participating in exclusive hands-on workshops focused on Claude implementation through Amazon Bedrock.
🗓️ Wednesday, May 28
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us at PilotHQ on Wednesday, May 28 for Founders x Funders: AI with Mark Goldberg, General Partner at Index Ventures.
Mark has backed standout companies like Ramp, Persona, and Pilot, and brings a sharp perspective on what it takes to build durable, fundable AI startups in today’s market. We’ll cover where the real opportunities are in AI, how to stand out to investors, and what founders often overlook. Stick around for Q&A, beer, and great company.
Priority given to active AI founders — RSVP now.
🗓️ Thursday, May 29
📍 San Francisco, CA
We’re not just witnessing the end of an era—we’re building the beginning of the next one.
As the systems of the 20th century break down, a wave of world-changing technologies—from artificial intelligence to clean energy to synthetic biology—are giving rise to a new chapter in human progress.
We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape what comes next and build a much better world. Freethink Media and veteran tech expert and thought leader on the future Peter Leyden are assembling top innovators at ground zero in San Francisco for an ongoing conversation about how to pull this off.
Joining them for this first event will be Steven Johnson, the Editorial Director of Google Labs and Adam Cheyer, the pioneer in AI human interfaces, co-founder of Siri, and current VP of AI Experience at Airbnb.
This event will be held in the Ferry Building at Shack15 and they are offering Cerebral Valley subscribers an exclusive promo code to secure a free ticket. Enter CVALLEY during checkout to secure your ticket.
🗓️ Thursday, June 5
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join thousands of data scientists, AI practitioners and developers at Snowflake’s Dev Day in San Francisco on June 5.
This FREE in-person event offers you a packed agenda of industry experts; leading venture capitalists; demos from the most popular AI companies; a gen AI Bootcamp; and fun networking events.
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, June 17
📍 San Francisco, CA
Fully Connected is an action-packed, 2-day in-person event hosted by Weights & Biases, designed to supercharge your AI agent development from prototype to production. Dive into hands-on workshops on Day 1, then get inspired by our AI Pioneer Speaker Series featuring Weights & Biases customers and co-founders on Day 2.
Register
This Week:
🗓️ Monday, May 19
📍 San Francisco, CA
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this together! Join us to play around with codename goose — a local open source MCP client that's LLM-agnostic, available as Desktop and CLI, and works with your favorite MCP servers!
We are excited to collaborate with Anthropic, Cloudflare, Stytch, and Supabase on this event, and thank you Cloudflare our gracious hosts!
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, May 21
📍 San Francisco, CA
Graph Exchange is an innovative mini-conference on Graph-powered AI Agents, Knowledge Graphs, GraphRAG, and all ways where graphs underpin the modern GenAI stack. Brought to you by Neo4j, the category-defining graph database, we’ll review key use cases for graphs and bring together the leading graph experts.
Join us at the iconic San Francisco hub for half a day on May 21!
Doors open at 4:00 pm.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, May 21
📍 San Francisco, CA
Missing that post-Bay to Breakers high? In-town for Anthropic Dev Day? Join WorkOS and Cloudflare for a fun run 🏃🏃♂️. Chat and hit up multiple AI offices before getting back to the grind.
Drop off your bags at Cloudflare before we run a leisurely 4.4mi route, running by some influential AI offices and some views. 🌁🌉
We'll end with coffee☕️ at Cloudflare afterwards. There may be some active swag
Register
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us to meet the team, including AI21 Labs Founder Ori Goshen, and peek under the hood of Maestro, their latest tech for agent orchestration:
⚡ Deterministic outputs that guarantee consistent results
⚡ Complete audit trails for full transparency and debugging
⚡ Enterprise-grade reliability for complex, messy workflows
👆Register Now - Limited Space👆
This session reveals the non-obvious architectural decisions required to build AI systems that provide enterprise-grade reliability while leveraging modern language models’ capabilities.
Register
🗓️ Saturday, May 24
📍 Remote
We’re excited to welcome you to the 24 hour accelerator hosted by Sprites and Coplay!
Our speakers and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!
Note: this is a fully online event
Register
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