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Cerebral Valley – Week of May 5th 🗓
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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:
🗓️ Thursday, May 8
📍 San Francisco, CA
Hosted by Google Labs in collaboration with Cerebral Valley, this invite-only workshop will give a first look at experimental & unreleased tools at the intersection of AI and developer workflows. The event will feature a curated series of live demos showcasing never-before-seen products from the lab 👀
Several product teams will be onsite to walk attendees through early-stage builds & offer early access to the public.
‼️ This event will feature Pre-Release Products
Register
🗓️ Saturday, May 3rd - Sunday, May 4th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Build with Sonar API - the best AI answer engine 🌐
Cerebral Valley is partnering with Perplexity to bring you SF's premiere Sonar API Demo Night, designed for AI's top engineers and builders. This Demo Night will feature some of Sonar's most compelling use-cases across a wide range of AI applications.
This invite-only event will be taking place at Perplexity's SF office (RSVP for address). Perplexity's CEO, Aravind Srinivas, will also be giving the opening remarks.
Demos: We will be soliciting exciting Sonar API demos from the AI community. Use this link to submit your demo for review and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!
Excited about harnessing the power of unlimited search in your AI products? Perplexity's Sonar, Sonar Pro and Sonar Reasoning are the most performant, affordable and secure search APIs available to developers today.
Learn more here: https://sonar.perplexity.ai/
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🗓️ Sunday, May 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA
A hackathon pushing the frontier of Reinforcement Learning with AI forward, hosted by NOUS RESEARCH
This event will be a gathering of top AI talent with one of the largest prize pools for a hackathon in 2025, focused on discovering innovative, creative, and useful new environments for doing Reinforcement Learning training with LLMs.
We'd like to give a huge shoutout to our sponsors: xAI | NVIDIA | Nebius | Lambda | Akash Networks | Tensorstax | RunPod
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Featured in May:
🗓️ Tuesday, May 6
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join industry leaders, founders, and some of the best minds in the business as we dive into Architecting Modern AI Application on AWS. We will discuss how to build, deploy, scale, secure and operate AI applications in production — with the right infrastructure, automation, and go-to-market foundations from day one on AWS.
You will learn
Proven strategies for AI application design in the cloud
What Agent as a Service is and how SaaS best practices accelerate your journey from AI model discovery to scalable deployment
Insights into launching your solution via the AWS Marketplace
Modern AI Applications leverage SaaS based technologies to create Agent as a Service solutions. Attendees will gain practical insights into designing Agentic applications that are production-ready, and building Agents as-a-Service with scalable infrastructure, compliance, and usage-based billing. AWS and its partners are here to make this journey just a little easier.
Register
🗓️ Wednesday, May 7
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for an exciting evening of innovation and networking at the AWS Loft in San Francisco!
We, in collaboration with AWS, are bringing together 10 cutting-edge startups to showcase their latest products and technologies. Each startup will have 3 minutes to demo their product, offering a glimpse into the future of AI and tech innovation.
After the demos, the stage will be open for networking, Demo stations where you can connect with fellow tech enthusiasts, startup founders, investors, and industry experts.
Whether you want to discover new technologies, find potential collaborators, or simply expand your network, this event is the perfect opportunity to engage with the vibrant AI and tech community.
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🗓️ Thursday, May 8
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join the ecosystem of applications and infrastructure for Voice AI products for an exciting event dedicated to exploring the latest advancements in AI.
This exclusive gathering will feature lightning talks from cutting edge applications, followed by a panel of Voice AI infrastructure platforms. This is a unique opportunity to gain insights into state-of-the-art tools and technologies shaping the future of Voice AI.
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🗓️ Monday, May 12
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for a day of educational fun at CalibrateAI!
This event is co-organized by Comet and Weaviate.
Get ready for an exciting day of learning, hacking, networking, and innovation! This event is all about exploring the potential of AI and creating impactful solutions alongside fellow developers.
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🗓️ Tuesday, May 13
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join fellow developers and AI practitioners from varied organizations for a free happy hour hosted by MongoDB. Come connect with industry leaders, share ideas, and explore the possibilities of next-generation AI applications in a casual setting.
This is a great opportunity to:
Network with other AI innovators
Enjoy great drinks and food in a fun atmosphere
See you there!
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🗓️ Tuesday, May 13
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join fellow developers and AI practitioners from varied organizations for a free happy hour hosted by MongoDB. Come connect with industry leaders, share ideas, and explore the possibilities of next-generation AI applications in a casual setting.
This is a great opportunity to:
Network with other AI innovators
Enjoy great drinks and food in a fun atmosphere
See you there!
Register
🗓️ Thursday, May 15
📍 San Francisco, CA
A supernova is a massive stellar explosion—symbolizing rapid transformation. As the AI industry evolves, Cerebras is breaking through traditional limits.
Supernova is Cerebras’ flagship AI event of the year.
Join us as we unveil the next generation of models and cloud infrastructure powering real-time reasoning and intelligent agents. From DeepSeek R1 to Llama 4, Cerebras is the fastest AI inference provider for cutting-edge, open-source models—built for those deploying at scale.
Whether you're building apps, deploying models, or designing infrastructure for the agentic era, Supernova is where AI goes from promise to production.
Register
🗓️ Friday, May 16 - Sunday, May 17
📍 San Francisco, CA
Previous winners and grantees:
Deep Seek Fine Tuning: Hackathon: Increase PyTorch -> CUDA translation from 10%->30% accuracy
ARC Prize: Grantee placed Second Place in ARC Prize contest
Chess Bots: Train From Scratch: reached 2000 ELO in 10 hours.
STRONG COMPUTE GPU HACKATHON
For Engineers, AI Researchers, students & anyone who is 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.
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🗓️ Tuesday, May 20 - Wednesday, May 21
📍 San Francisco, CA
A conference where AI and creativity blend together is coming to San Francisco! From design, through filmmaking to music, the immersive stage at SFJazz will be taken over by the latest artistic possibilities and debates about expectations for the future developments.
Join us for 2 days of insightful talks, hands-on workshops, and real conversations. Whether you're deep in AI or just curious about where it's all headed, this is the place to be.
Our speakers include: John Maeda, Karin Fong, Leonardo De La Rocha, GMUNK and many more.
Get Early Bird tickets with extra 30% off. Discount code: CV30
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🗓️ Wednesday, May 28
📍 San Francisco, CA
30+ booths featuring engineers building agents in production.
Real demos. Real conversations.
Expert lightning talks and dedicated office hours to go deep.
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🗓️ 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.
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🗓️ Thursday, May 29
📍 San Francisco, CA
DevRel-ativity is a laid-back evening designed for two kinds of people:
👉 Developer relations pros who live and breathe community, content, and advocacy.
👉 Startup founders who are looking to hire their first (or next) DevRel.
It’s not a conference. It’s not a workshop. It’s an invite-only evening of good food, great conversations, and real talk about the world of DevRel—what it takes to build it, grow it, and make it work in the AI era.
What’s on the menu (besides food and drinks)?
Lightning talks: Quick, practical talks from battle-tested DevRel leads on topics like scaling community programs, content strategies in the AI era, and proving ROI without pulling your hair out.
Roundtables: Small, lively group discussions where you can swap real-world strategies, challenges, and ideas.
Instant connections: Whether you’re looking for your next DevRel role or looking to hire, you’ll leave with new contacts and a head full of ideas.
Who’s invited?
Developer advocates, community managers, technical writers, product evangelists—and startup founders ready to grow their DevRel efforts.
Come hungry for good food, new connections, and honest DevRel conversations.
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.
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