Cerebral Valley – Week of October 20th 🗓

LA - that was surreal! Follow @cerebralvalley for all of the content from Thursday's LA Tech Week activation...

October 20, 2025

CV • X • IG • AI Events 

On Thursday night, we hosted the marquee event of LA Tech Week 2025.

WELCOME TO THE FRONTIER brought 300 of LA’s top founders, investors and creators together for an invite-only celebration of LA’s tech ecosystem. Held at the iconic Delilah, a 1920s supper-club, this was our flagship LA event and a first-of-its-kind for the LATW calendar.

In attendance were Executives and VIPs from leading consumer, tech and entertainment brands including YouTube, TikTok, Snap, Meta, UTA, Wasserman, Warner, EMPIRE, Diageo, Roc Nation, and many more…

In 2025, we’ve activated where AI and Culture intersect - from NBA All-Star Weekend to New York Fashion Week. LA is the apex of all-things consumer + entertainment, and LA Tech Week was our largest activation yet.

A huge shoutout to our partners Unicorner, Nebius, Bolt and Syndicate. Follow us @cerebralvalley for all of the incredible content we have coming for you… 👀

LA, until next time 🍸

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Open Jobs

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.

1) Research Engineer at Financial AI Lab (NYC)

- About:  Founders with previous 9-figure exit • Top investors including Garry Tan and hedge fund founders • Building OpenAI for finance
- Ideal candidate: Experience implementing and reading research papers • Python and Pytorch expertise • Ability to engineer the research lifecycle, including data eng, experimentation, training, and deploying • Experience at academic or commercial labs

2) Forward Deployed Engineer at AI Transformation Startup (SF/NYC)

- About: Large unannounced funding rounds • Founded by former tier 1 investment partner & big tech veterans • Building custom AI solutions for enterprise • Too much inbound to handle
- Ideal candidate: 2+ years experience in a forward deployed or AI engineering role • Expertise in Python, LLMs, & ML technique tradeoffs • Able to interact with customers & manage technical / non-technical stakeholders • Can leverage and advise on code productivity tools

3) AI Engineer at Codegen Automation Company (SF)

- About: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $50M+ funding raised
- Ideal candidate: Experience developing and deploying agentic and LLM-based systems • 2+ years experience building with LLMs • Personal projects demonstrating AI-nativity in engineering • Work at the intersection of AI and product

Events List

A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).

Featured in October:

🗓️ Thursdays, October 16th, 30th
📍 Virtual

This 6-part virtual event series will enable startups to effectively build, deploy, and scale Generative AI workloads on AWS using NVIDIA technologies. This comprehensive series combines AWS's cloud infrastructure with NVIDIA's cutting edge platform/full-stack to help startups accelerate their Generative AI journey.

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🗓️ Tuesday, October 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

Elastic{ON} offers a hands-on experience with Elastic's latest AI capabilities, focusing on search, observability, and security. Attendees will explore Elasticsearch query advancements, incident tracing with AI, and how AI enhances SOC efficiency, and much more. This free event empowers participants to leverage AI in real-world applications.

🗓️ Tuesday, October 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for an immersive, full-day conference at the AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco where industry experts will guide you through the complete journey of deploying AI solutions at scale.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 22nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join open source leaders and innovators to discover the Internet of Agents through real-world use cases, interactive demos, and thought leadership sessions that explore the future of scalable multi-agent systems with open source projects like AGNTCY and more.

🗓️ Monday, October 27th
📍 Virtual

Join us for a global hackathon focused on simulation, open to all stages with tracks starting from beginner tasks to advanced tracks. A total prize pool of $50k split across various tracks! Thanks to our partners over at AWS Startups, Intel, Coohom, Akash, Berkeley AI Research, Tianji and Rokae.

🗓️ Tuesday, November 4th
📍 Virtual

​Join thousands of data scientists, engineers, AI practitioners and developers virtually at Snowflake’s BUILD event on November 4th - 6th.

This FREE 3-day virtual event offers you three days of exclusive product announcements, “how to” technical sessions, and hands-on labs focused on Snowflake’s latest innovations.

This Week in SF:

🗓️ Tuesday, October 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

​TEDAI San Francisco is a leading two-day TED conference exploring the impact and power of Artificial Intelligence.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 23rd
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Join us at Google's San Francisco office to meet the Gemma team!
​​Food & drinks will be served.

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🗓️ Friday, October 24th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Calling all AI builders in the Bay Area! Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, and Runway are teaming up for an exclusive one-day hackathon in San Francisco, focused on building the next generation of Applied AI agents.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Tuesday, October 21st
📍 New York, NYC

Join us at Cafe Cursor. We're taking over a cafe in Soho and inviting Cursor users to come build with us. A bunch of folks from the Cursor team will pop in and say hi throughout the day.

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🗓️ Wednesday, October 22nd
📍 New York, NYC

We’re bringing together MCP builders to showcase their work. Join us for a live demo night to see how these leading teams are turning MCPs from concept to production.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 23rd
📍 New York, NYC

The Hardware Meetup community is excited to announce the 112th NY Hardware Meetup at Viam. ​​​Hardware Meetups happen across 30+ cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals to network and learn from each other.

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