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Cerebral Valley – Week of September 16th 🗓
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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!
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured Events:
🗓️ Thursday, September 19th
📍 Remote
PostgreSQL is catching fire as the default database choice for AI applications. Thanks to its robust relational foundation and ecosystem of extensions like pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai, PostgreSQL is all you need to build a state of the art AI application.
But how can you best leverage all that PostgreSQL has to offer for AI applications? What are best practices to follow, common pitfalls to avoid, and tools that will accelerate your development?
Join us for a live webinar on the state of the union of developing AI applications in 2024, and why PostgreSQL can save you time and headaches now and in the future:
Topic: Building AI applications with PostgreSQL: A busy developer's guide
When: Thursday, 19 September 2024 at 12:00 ET | 9:00 PT | 17:00 CET
Who: Avthar Sewrathan, PM AI and Vector @ Timescale
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🗓️ Friday, September 20th
📍 Palo Alto, CA
CHAI is hosting a meetup in our office. One of our engineers will talk about how we do RLHF on open sourced models. We serve 1 million daily active users, and at any given point have about 1000 A100s running for these users.
Come to learn about:
- How we're reducing the inferencing cost to stay profitable (post operating costs and salary!)
- The tried and true RLHF techniques we use that helped us get to 1M DAU - reward models, DPO
- What A/B test experience we ran and surprising things we've learned about building an engaging conversational AI
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🗓️ Monday, September 23rd - Tuesday, September 24th
📍 San Francisco, CA
Calling all San Francisco AI builders, developers, and data people! Join Ollama, MotherDuck, and Turso for a series of hands-on workshops and technical talks with a pragmatic approach to making the most of real data volumes now that ‘Big Data’ fits on your laptop. Is 10Tb big or small data? That’s for you to decide.
Join us for two days of good coffee, community, delicious meals, killer swag, a closing happy hour, and more. Get $120 off with code ‘CerebralVIP’ - with only 250 tickets that are almost sold out, it’s time to grab yours.
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🗓️ Tuesday, September 24th
📍 San Francisco, CA
The MindsDB team is excited to announce our latest release towards helping organizations accelerate their time to market with AI Apps and Agents securely.
What to Expect
A deep-dive into the latest MindsDB product release and how it will transform your AI workflows
Live demos showcasing the power of our new tools
Insights from our team of experts on the value organizations can achieve with real-world use cases
A Q&A session to answer all your questions and explore how MindsDB can help you achieve your goals
Register below for our virtual launch event, taking place Tuesday, September 24 at 12PM PT. You’ll receive a link to the broadcast as well as an email reminder for the event.
Register
🗓️ Thursday, September 26th
📍 Palo Alto, CA
Remarkable Women in AI is a catalyst for broader diversity and inclusion in tech. In September 2024, RWIAI will host its flagship in-person event in Silicon Valley, bringing together business decision-makers, innovators, and young future leaders to foster an inclusive AI community, highlighting the importance of diversity in driving innovation and addressing AI’s ethical challenges.
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🗓️ Friday, September 27th
📍 San Francisco, CA
THE PICKS AND SHOVELS EVENT OF THE SEASON. Elevate your AI strategy AI INFRA SUMMIT is a one-day event that offers thought leadership, innovative solutions, and extensive networking opportunities.
Focused on "Ecosystem & Optionality," the summit brings together AI developers, enterprise leaders, and industry experts for a comprehensive day of knowledge exchange. Featuring keynote speakers from AMD, Supermicro, and Cerebras, this event attracts over 600 AI professionals and industry innovators. Gain actionable insights, explore cutting-edge technologies, and create meaningful connections.
🗓️ 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.
Register
🗓️ 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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