Cerebral Valley – Week of October 27th 🗓

Join us in SF & London for our Google Vibe Code Hackathons, read about our Open Roles, and more...

October 27, 2025

CV • X • IG • AI Events 

  • Next Stop? Actually... two 😎 We’re bringing Vibe Code with Gemini to London and San Francisco; two cities, two chances to build what’s next.

    • 🌉 Register here for SF’s Vibe Code with Gemini November 8th Hackathon.

    • 🇬🇧 Register here for London’s Vibe Code with Gemini November 15th Hackathon.

  • And if you’re tuning in virtually this week…

    • October 28th — Register here to join Eric Davis, VP AI at SK Telecom, and Alessandro Cappelli, ML Researcher at Adaptive ML, for a virtual discussion on how SK Telecom used reinforcement learning to tune specialized LLMs for customer support tasks.

  • Launching, Hiring or Recruiting in Q4? Reach out to explore a collab 💥

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Open Jobs

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

1) 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

2) Research Scientist 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: Past publications in top research conferences • Experience researching in academia, top AI labs, or hedge funds • Deep understanding of Pytorch, RL, LLMs, and Embedding Models • High agency and following latest research trends

3) Frontend 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: Able to innovate and develop novel human-AI interaction • 4+ years experience building scalable consumer web and native applications • Familiar with Typescript, React, Next & the likes • Native intuition for user interfaces and AI usage

Events List

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

Featured in September:

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ Thursday, October 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.

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ Wednesday, November 5th · 9AM — 10PM PST
📍 Virtual

Join Voxel51 & NVIDIA for a first-ever live demo: turn messy multisensor data into simulation-ready pipelines for Physical AI. Learn how to automate validation, enrich data for neural reconstruction, and accelerate development from months to days — cutting testing and QA costs by up to 80%.

🗓️ Saturday, November 15th · 10AM — 8PM PST
📍 Digital Jungle San Francisco, CA

A full-day hackathon for AI builders to create agents that actually work. Compete, collaborate, and prove your skills on real evals across multiple datasets.

This Week in SF:

🗓️ Monday, October 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us at Datadog HQ for a creative sprint hosted by CodeWords and Datadog, in collaboration with Anthropic. In just two hours, you’ll prototype, deploy, and use your own WhatsApp agents — built entirely on CodeWords.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 30th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join your fellow voice AI builders and leaders from Bluejay, Twilio, Rime, and Groq in a Halloween-themed Voice AI Meet-up! Costumes are encouraged! ​The theme for this event is campfire stories about voice AI.

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🗓️ Friday, October 31st
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join 200 of SF’s top builders for 24 hours of building autonomous agents that reason, remember, and communicate. Winners will take home thousands in cash prizes, credits, and even a guaranteed YC interview, plus a $1,000 costume contest for the most creative pieces.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Monday, October 27th
📍 New York, NYC

​Come learn, explore, connect with financial services investors & executives, and AI innovators transforming the world of finance in the financial capital, NYC.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 30th
📍 New York, NYC

​Join us for Design Space, a social workspace series by Framer, bringing together the top founders, designers, and builders in the city. This edition is about Creative & Media, co-hosted with Hedra, RunwayML, and ElevenLabs.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 30th
📍 New York, NYC

​Hack Night NYC is back at Betaworks with LLMs, AI Observability, Vector Databases, Agentic RAG and more! This evening is brought to you by Weaviate and is powered by HackerSquad

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Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.

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