Cerebral Valley – Week of September 30th 🗓

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September 30, 2024

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Spotlight - The AWS Gen AI Loft: San Francisco is Now Open!

AWS Gen AI Loft in SF fosters innovation and community, and brings together AI startups, developers, investors, and industry experts. Whether you're looking to gain deep insights, get your questions answered by generative AI pros, or build and launch your next gen AI application, we invite you to come learn, build, and network with the Gen AI community here in San Francisco.

We have an exciting line-up of events - check them out here and register before space runs out!

Download Mastering RAG now to access 200 pages of technical content covering: chunking strategies, embedding and reranking model selection, vector database comparisons, RAG architecture best practices and testing and evaluation methods. 

Key topics include: mitigating hallucinations, optimizing chunking techniques, choosing the right vector database, overcoming common RAG implementation challenges, preparing your system for production and boosting RAG performance.

Untapped Ventures and Georgian are co-hosting an unmissable Agentic & Vertical AI - VC +  Founder Firesides + Networking event at SF Tech Week on Tuesday, October 8th. 

This exclusive event gives early-stage AI founders the chance to connect with top VCs from Khosla, PearVC, and Conviction. Focused on growth and securing high-impact investments, it’s designed for founders ready to scale their AI ventures. The fireside chat will feature a dynamic panel of VCs discussing the future of AI, investment insights, and how to overcome scaling challenges. 

In addition to the VC Panel, we’ll also have a Founder Panel with founders from Agentic + Vertical AI startups like You.com, Bounti.ai, Beam, and Nullify who will share their experiences in securing funding and scaling in the AI space. It’s a rare opportunity to gain insider knowledge from industry leaders.

In addition to the discussions, you'll get dedicated networking time to build relationships with top VCs and fellow founders. This event promises to be a highlight of SF Tech Week, packed with insights, connections, and opportunities for growth.

Register here to secure your spot at this exclusive event!

Also, be sure to check out our full calendar of in-person + virtual SF and LA Tech Week events, so you don’t miss any of the exciting sessions we have lined up! 

Events List

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

Featured Events:

🗓️ Monday, September 30th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Hello and welcome to this edition of AI Dev Tools Night!

​This is going to be an energetic evening filled with great talks, interesting dev tools, and great people.

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🗓️ Tuesday, October 1st
📍 San Francisco, CA

What to expect

Real experience. Real connections. Real results. ElasticON Tour San Francisco shows you how to use the precision of search with the intelligence of AI to supercharge <anything> with the Elastic Search AI Platform.

  • See how your peers are tapping into Elastic to harness the power of their data.

  • Get answers and advice on building with Search AI from Elastic experts.

  • Discover how to get the most from search, observability, and security at unprecedented speed and scale with the Elastic Search AI Platform.

Who should attend

Developers, architects, IT professionals, DevOps engineers, SOC analysts, and anyone working with or interested in the Elastic Search AI Platform are welcome at ElasticON San Francisco.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 3rd
📍 San Francisco, CA

Don't miss out on SingleStore Now at the Chase Center on Thursday, October 3rd!

Get ready for an action-packed day of keynotes, hands-on demos, and technical sessions, where you'll learn how to build and scale enterprise-grade AI applications. Hear from industry leaders like Jerry Liu, CEO & Co-Founder of Llamaindex, and get an inside look at how companies like 6Sense and SAS use real-time AI technologies.

Use code S2NOW-GOWARRIORS for an exclusive discount, and as a bonus, everyone who snags a ticket using the code will be entered into a raffle to win club-level seats to a Golden State Warriors game!

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🗓️ Sunday, October 6th - Monday, October 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Get ready to unleash your inner tech wizard at Hockeyhacks AI for RevOps!

Prompt: AI for RevOps

Wondering what is Revops?
Revops integrates and aligns Sales, Marketing & Customer Success to enhance customer experience and improve revenue growth for companies

Here's what you should expect:

​Whether you're a coding newbie or a seasoned pro, this event is all about diving into the world of AI and revolutionizing revenue operations.

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🗓️ Tuesday, October 8th
📍 London, UK

This event will look at how generative AI is shaping the future of development, taking a look at how developers are using next generation developer tools such as Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Bedrock Studio, and other tools. It will take you on a journey of what development will look like in the future, with hands on technical talks, code, and demos.

You will get to hear from and meet developers who are using these tools on a daily basis, learn about how you can use these tools, and provide a place where you can network and ask questions.

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🗓️ Tuesday, October 8th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us on the eve of Stanford University's Conference on Technology & National Security, Tuesday October 8, to explore career pathways in defense tech!

This collab between Defense Tech Jobs (defensetechjobs.com) and Stanford DEFCON (https://gordianknot.stanford.edu/stanford-defcon-student-network) will feature Career Exploration in partnership with Defense Tech Jobs- your chance to meet the actual people working in growth, product, strategy, operations, and engineering roles across some of the most dynamic companies.

Whether you can attend in person or want to be a part of our remote network, RSVP NOW -- space is limited and we will cap attendance.

Want to become a part of our nationwide def tech network? Sign up at www.TalentEdge.network, a platform that matches mission-aligned operators with great jobs based on team fit and personal attributes.

See you there

🗓️ Thursday, October 17th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for 2nd ever GenAI Salon, with Jerry Liu (CEO at LlamaIndex) and Ben Firshman (Founder & CEO at Replicate), at the new W&B offices!

​Jerry is going to talk about how the world has started to shift from simple RAG stacks, which are mostly good for answering pointed questions, to agents that can more autonomously reason over a diverse set of inputs, and interleave retrieval and tool use to produce sophisticated outputs. Building a reliable multi-agent system is challenging. There’s a core question of developer ergonomics and production deployment – what makes sense outside a notebook setting. In this talk, Jerry will outline some core building blocks for building advanced research assistants!

​Ben will dig into the Replicate story, focusing on two main concepts: how he and the Replicate team grew their business to millions of users, and what kinds of products and projects they are seeing people build with AI. This presentation will be a great opportunity to learn about the business side of our industry, as well as a chance to get inspiration from millions of builders.

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