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Cerebral Valley – Week of September 8th 🗓
Our Mistral AI MCP Hackathon, NYFW Cocktail Hour, Open Roles and more...
Register here and join us à Paris for our Mistral AI MCP Hackathon on Saturday, September 13th! 🇫🇷🥐
In NYC? We’re hosting a NYFW Cocktail Hour for our friends in the city, this Wednesday evening 👀
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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: Backed by Sequoia & other Tier 1 VCs • Top research & engineering culture at the forefront of software automation • $20M+ funding raised
-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) 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
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
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in September:
🗓️ Wednesday, September 10th
📍 New York, NY
Join us for a sunset-soaked Cocktail Hour to celebrate the start of NYFW 2025 🍸
Drinks and light bites will be served. Sounds brought to you by Mixture-of-Experts 🎧
A thank you to our partners Limitless, The Ritz Carlton, and SERHANT. - The Most Followed Real Estate Brand in the World.
Note: This is a private event. Any +1s must be approved by CV & friends.
🗓️ 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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🗓️ Thursday, September 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Learn more about how to easily and effectively scale your AI workloads using AWS’ accelerated compute via Baseten's managed inference platform, Exostellar’s CPU & GPU optimization technology, and Unsloth’s open-source RL & fine-tuning solution!
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🗓️ Thursday, September 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA
It’s faster than ever to build prototypes of AI products—but delivering high-quality, reliable products is still a lot of work.
Join AI experts from Fin, Cognition, and Harvey live on September 11th to hear how they're investing at all levels of the AI stack—from training specialized models to scaling real-world applications.
Expect candid conversations about the technical choices they’ve made, what they’ve learned, and the systems they’ve built to achieve reliability and control.
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🗓️ Saturday, September 13th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Calling all SF Bay Area based AI developers, builders, and enthusiasts for an intense all-weekend hackathon. Create autonomous AI Agents that integrate real-world tools, automate workflows and eliminate the mundane stuff in your work or personal life.
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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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🗓️ Saturday, September 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join Physical AI Summit '25 to hear industry leaders from Waymo, Zipline, F-Prime Capital, and Capgemini share insights on shipping intelligent hardware and robotics, tour Synapse’s prototyping labs, learn about their upcoming physical AI accelerator program, see demos of edge AI systems, learn how to turn AI technologies into fundable products, and network with innovators and investors — ending with a happy hour in the labs.
🗓️ 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 15K+ 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
A new era of AI customer service is here. Join fellow innovators and CS leaders at Pioneer to explore the incredible opportunities presented by AI Agents like Fin, the #1 AI Agent for customer service.
At Pioneer, you’ll learn how teams at companies like Anthropic, Toast, Crypto.com, and more 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.
🗓️ 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 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Wrap up Day One of ELC with free food, drinks, and an evening of networking with fellow engineering leaders at Radhaus — powered by Vercel and WorkOS.
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🗓️ Wednesday, September 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA
A builders-only meetup featuring live demos, real code, and zero slides. With top engineers, founders, and tinkerers in the Bay, this is your chance to see what’s actually possible with today’s tools.
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🗓️ Thursday, September 11th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Build something wild, weird, or wonderful, choosing between the Vibe Builder Prize for fun, accessible projects or the Interface Paradigm Prize to push the boundaries of AI interaction.
Register
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Monday, September 8th
📍 New York, NYC
Join the ClickHouse and Docker teams for a fast-paced night of technical talks, hands-on stories, and practical advice for anyone working on AI-driven applications.
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🗓️ Wednesday, September 10th
📍 New York, NYC
Join us for a hands on workshop building agent collaboration demos with tools like Google A2A and Agents.md. We'll also explore how Kinic adds value with a persistent and semantic on-chain data layer for agent collaboration.
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🗓️ Saturday, September 13th
📍 New York, NYC
A Consumer & Prosumer AI Hackathon with friends at Creator Ventures, FLORA, Eleven Labs, and Anthropic.
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