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Cerebral Valley – Week of May 26th 🗓
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CV Spotlight: Weights & Biases Fully Connected 2025
Fully Connected 2025 is right around the corner!
Weights & Biases is bringing the AI community back together June 17-18, 2025, at Convene in San Francisco. This year’s theme is taking your agentic AI applications from prototype to production, with insights from leaders building at the forefront of AI. It’s shaping up to be an incredible two days of learning, building, and connecting.
The conference will bring together a day of hands-on workshops led by Weights & Biases AI experts and 20+ speakers from leading companies like Adobe, Meta, Pinterest, and Snowflake. Featured sessions include talks from Weights & Biases co-founders, Google’s VP of Product for AI and Compute Enablement, CEO at Windsurf (formerly Codeium) and many more impactful leaders.
Expect talks on emerging topics such as scaling AI inference, building production-ready agents, synthetic data generation, establishing guardrails, and training models at scale. Whether you’re refining an early prototype or pushing an agent into production, there’s something here for every AI builder and researcher.
Tickets are on sale now, and they’re moving fast. If you’re planning to attend, be sure to reserve your spot soon — and don’t forget to use promo code CV2025 for 20% off. Weights & Biases is excited to connect with familiar faces (and new ones!) this June in San Francisco.
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
🗓️ Tuesday, June 3
📍 New York, NY
Join us at Zero Bond in Soho for one of New York Tech Week's most unique gatherings for high-impact leaders at the intersection of culture, capital, and technology.
🗓️ Sunday, June 8th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Welcome to the AMD x Axolotl x GPU Mode - Synthetic Data Hackathon hosted in collaboration with Cerebral Valley and Shack15.
💰 Prizes include 10K+ in cash and credits.
Our speakers and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!
Register
Featured in May:
🗓️ 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 scribers an exclusive promo code to secure a free ticket. Enter CVALLEY during checkout to secure your ticket.
🗓️ Friday, May 30
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us to build cutting-edge AI agents that push the limits of LLMs and AI applications!
Register
🗓️ Tuesday, June 3
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for an exclusive evening during AI Engineer World's Fair, where AWS and Anthropic unite to showcase the future of generative AI development. This unique collaboration brings together leading experts from both organizations for an immersive experience in AI innovation and practical implementation.
This event is specifically designed to foster meaningful connections within the startup ecosystem while providing technical insights. Enjoy complimentary drinks and refreshments as you network with fellow founders, technical leaders, and AI experts.
During this session, you'll gain firsthand insights into the powerful integration of Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic Claude capabilities, exploring real-world applications and implementation strategies. Our technical experts will demonstrate how these cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing application development and driving business transformation.
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🗓️ Wednesday, June 4
📍 San Francisco, CA
At the GenAI Collective, we've been quietly rearchitecting. Now, we’re bringing together a select global circle to witness the shift before it becomes visible to the world.
This is an invite to those who notice the inflection points early.
To the builders, the architects, the edge-pushers. The ones who know that what’s next is rarely loud at first – but impossible to ignore once it lands.
Be there.
See what’s coming, before it’s everywhere.
Register
🗓️ 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 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.
Register
🗓️ 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.
Register
🗓️ 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.
Register
This Week:
🗓️ Tuesday, May 27
📍 Santa Clara, CA
Agents are the future of AI - your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate our meetup to acquire more tools and knowledge 🕵️
Come for night of learning, presentations, and code with developers and AI enthusiasts who are building AI applications 👩💻 Light refreshments will be served.
Interested in speaking? Apply here.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, May 29
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for an evening focused on AI/ML Model Reliability and Evaluation, featuring lightning demos and expert-led discussions.
Lightning Demos — will spotlight real-world implementations and best practices for ensuring the reliability of models in production—covering monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident response.
The Future of AI/ML Model Evaluation — will explore current techniques and emerging methodologies for assessing model performance, fairness, and robustness, with insights from leading practitioners shaping the future of trustworthy AI.
Networking & Community – Mingle with developers, founders, SREs, and AI advocates
Whether you're building, deploying, or managing machine learning systems, this event will provide actionable insights and inspiration to level up your model reliability game.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, May 29
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for our May AI Agents + Full-Stack Demo Night at Convex.
This is an in-person event.
Registration is required to get in.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, May 29
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for an evening focused on the next phase of AI development, agentic systems that can navigate, reason, and act across dynamic digital environments.
The Age of Agents brings together founders, engineers, researchers and field leaders building the infrastructure that enables long-term, multimodal autonomy. From programmable interfaces to memory-driven reasoning, we’ll explore how today’s tools are giving rise to persistent and intelligent AI agents.
This event is hosted by Susa Ventures and portfolio company OIX, and features a set of short, high-context talks followed by open discussion and informal networking.
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