Cerebral Valley – Week of September 15th 🗓

Recap our Mistral Hackathon, NYFW Event, YC S25 Afterparty, Open Roles and more...

September 15, 2025

CV • X • IG • AI Events 

  • Announcing LATW: The Finale - our official closing party for a16z's LA Tech Week. Taking place October 16th in LA. RSVP here for early approval 👀

  • 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) Full Stack 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: 3+ years experience building in AI, crypto, or finance • Alum from Stripe, Ramp, Plaid, or other fintech unicorns • Experience in Python / Go backend + React / Next frontend • Fit in with research-driven culture and bridge the gap

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) Frontend Engineer at Codegen Automation Startup (SF)

- About: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $20M+ 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

CV Event - LATW: The Finale

The time for work is over. The time for play is here 👀

Join us for our LA Tech Week Afterparty - taking place on Thursday, October 16th at a secret location overlooking the cityscape of Los Angeles.

A special shoutout to our incredible co-hosts & partners for bringing this to life:

  • Nebius - The ultimate cloud for AI innovators

  • Bolt - Create stunning apps & websites by chatting with AI.

  • Unicorner - A hot startup in your inbox, every Monday morning

  • Flite - OS for Creators to Grow Their Brands

RSVP early & spread the word - a lot more to be announced. See you there 🥂

CV Event - NYFW Cocktail Hour @ The Ritz

Quick fit check?  

This past week, we hosted our first-ever NYFW Cocktail Hour for NYC’s fashion-tech ecosystem - founders, investors and creatives at the intersection of AI x fashion.

This evening took place in an exquisite penthouse at The Ritz-Carlton, hosted in collaboration with our partners LIMITLESS and SERHANT.

You can find all event photos here. One for the books 🍸

Events List

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

Featured in September:

🗓️ Thursday, September 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join Physical AI Summit '25, where leaders from Waymo, Zipline, F-Prime Capital, and Capgemini share real insights from shipping intelligent hardware and robotics systems in production. Tour Synapse's advanced prototyping labs, see demos of investor-backed edge AI tech, and hear about their upcoming physical AI accelerator program.

Plus, learn how to turn emerging AI into fundable products while networking with the enterprise innovators, founders, and investors actively building this market —ending with happy hour in our labs.

🗓️ Tuesday, September 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Come join Together AI as we kick off The AI Conference in style at one of San Francisco's hottest rooftops!

Join Dan Fu, VP of Kernels and our team to relax and learn how research drives real-world advances in inference and training infrastructure. Connect with top leaders, innovators, and visionaries in the AI industry while enjoying a vibrant evening of fun!

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🗓️ Thursdays, September 4th, 18th; October 2nd, 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, September 16th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​​Join us for an exciting evening of Agentic AI demos from local startups leveraging Amazon Bedrock. ​​​​​This is a great opportunity to see the latest applications of Agentic AI in action and to network with and learn from fellow Gen AI enthusiasts.

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🗓️ Wednesday, September 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA

AWS Community Day brings together cloud enthusiasts, developers, and professionals to explore the latest in AWS technologies. Attendees can join educational sessions, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities, gaining insights from AWS experts and industry leaders.

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🗓️ Tuesday, September 23rd
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for an opportunity to network with AI applications developers in the Bay Area! Hear insights from speakers representing AWS and PingCAP as they discuss the latest advancements in building and deploying scalable GenAI solutions with Amazon Bedrock & TiDB.

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🗓️ Wednesday, September 24th
📍 Virtual

Join Claire Longo from Comet for a hands-on workshop on building and evaluating AI agents. This interactive session includes live coding, discussion of best practices for LLM evaluation, and an open Q&A. You’ll learn how to implement a practical workflow with Opik, log traces, annotate sessions with expert insights, and design LLM-as-a-Judge metrics that capture human reasoning. Perfect for anyone developing conversational agents and serious about delivering high-quality AI.

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🗓️ Thursday, September 25th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Flower AI Day will change AI forever. Superintelligence is here, and it is both open-source and decentralized. Join us for keynotes from world-leading engineers and scientists, ground-breaking demos of brand-new decentralized AI tech, interactive expert-led panels, and catered social and networking sessions.

Speakers: Sara Hooker (VP, Cohere), Ce Zhang (CTO, Together), Joseph Spisak (Director, Meta), Daniel Beutel (CEO, Flower) and others from Redhat, Stanford, JP Morgan and Coinbase — and we’re just getting started, more surprises soon!

Special Offer: CV Community gets 50% off. Register here.

🗓️ Friday, September 26th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us to build projects that explore multimodal data exploration, analysis, dashboarding, and synthetic generation for a chance at 19.5K+ in prizes. Partners from Glean, WRITER, CrewAI, Meta, LandingAI, and AWS will be there.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

​VapiCon is a voice AI summit tailored for developers. Join us on October 2, 2025, in San Francisco for a one-day event bringing together engineers, developers, and industry leaders to explore innovations and the future of voice AI.

Learn about building, deploying, and scaling voice AI agents, explore modern architectural designs, and discuss where the voice AI industry is headed. The event features talks from experts, including voices from Top Research Labs, Vapi, Deepgram, Assembly, Coval, Krisp, Ultravox, Rime Labs, and others.

🗓️ Thursday, October 9th
📍 New York City, NY

Solving tough challenges in search, security, or observability? Looking to sharpen your skills or stay ahead of what’s next?

Whether you’re a developer, engineer, or architect (or you just love working with Elastic) you’ll find your place at Elastic{ON}. Join this single-day, no-cost event where you'll get early access to new features, explore technical deep dives, and go hands-on with the latest Elastic innovations. You’ll connect with peers, swap real-world lessons, and shape what’s next — together, in person.

🗓️ Thursday, October 9th
📍 New York City, NY & Virtual

Looking for insights into the future of tech, AI, and customer service? Then Pioneer is the summit for you, with a special guest keynote delivered by renowned entrepreneur, investor, and media executive, Gary Vaynerchuk. You won’t want to miss this.

At Pioneer, you’ll learn how teams are adopting AI-first strategies to deliver incredible experiences for their customers.

Join Pioneer in-person in NYC or online from anywhere on October 9th, 2025.

🗓️ Saturday, October 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA

In this hackathon, builders will reimagine how agents store, share, and recall information using MongoDB Atlas, Voyage AI, and their partners. Hackers will get hands-on support and work alongside some of the best builders in the AI community #SFTechWeek

🗓️ 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:

🗓️ Wednesday, September 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Building Blocks is an invite-only half-day summit designed for a select group of startup founders and builders to go deeper on the playbooks shaping how startups build, monetize, and distribute products in the AI era.

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🗓️ Wednesday, September 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Get ready for an exciting evening of hacking, networking, and innovation! Hosted at GitHub, Presented by Weaviate, this event is all about exploring the potential of AI and creating impactful solutions alongside fellow developers.

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🗓️ Saturday, September 20th
📍 San Francisco, CA

This is not your typical “change the world” hackathon — it’s the opposite. Spend a day creating gloriously useless projects, meeting fellow chaos-makers, and celebrating the joy of building for fun. ​The winning team will take home a rare Labubu, custom-made with hand-set diamonds and pearls by celebrity jeweler Kyle Chan.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Wednesday, September 17th
📍 New York, NYC

Join us at .local NYC for a full day of learning, hands-on workshops, and customer stories — plus a VIP experience crafted just for startup founders and builders. This is a chance to connect with the NYC startup community, hear directly from industry leaders, and uncover insights that could help accelerate your company’s growth.

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🗓️ Saturday, September 20th
📍 New York, NYC & Virtual

This global hybrid event invites builders, developers, and visionaries from around the world to build powerful agentic software using Coral Protocol — and to shape the future of automation through AI agents.

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🗓️ Monday, September 22nd
📍 New York, NYC

Join us for our monthly ComfyUI NYC Meetups, where we dive into real-time video AI, creative AI, and the latest advancements in the ComfyUI ecosystem. Each meetup features technical sessions, live demos, and discussions with community experts.

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

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