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Opening Week Afterparty!
Join us for the longest running #LATechWeek Opening Week Afterparty 4 years in a row with special guest from Autograf music and magic (yes, rumor has it there will be a magician in the audience)!
Come for the show...stay for the drinks and networking. You never know who you're going to meet! We'll be vibing and vibe coding all night long...
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
AI Collective, LifeSpark Labs Inc., WeWork
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Who Will Decide the Future of Work?
Downtown (SF)
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AI Collective, LifeSpark Labs Inc., WeWork
The education and employment social contracts are broken. Power is shifting. Who decides what work means next?
This session convenes voices across generations and sectors to debate and reimagine the meaning of “successful employment” in an era of AI disruption, burnout, and shifting social contracts. The old promises are gone—Gen Z, AI, and new org models are reshaping careers, companies, and what it means to thrive. Instead of clinging to outdated systems, we’ll explore:
* How decision-making power in work is being redistributed (from employers to workers, from credentials to skills to tasks, from tenure to outcomes).
* What models of learning, work, and career readiness are emerging—and which are failing.
* The role technology and human skills play in shaping the next era of employment.
💫 Whether you’re an early career professional, HR or L&D leader, investor, philanthropist, or founder — if you care about reimagining work where human skills and purpose matter, this conversation is for you!
Join us to explore the new rules of the game.
Aevitas, ImYoo, Keplar AI
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Future of Personalized Medicine
SOMA
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Aevitas, ImYoo, Keplar AI
Join us for Frontiers of Personalized Biomarkers, an exclusive event bringing together three visionary founders at the forefront of biotechnology to discuss the future of personal medicine.
Come hear from the founders of ImYoo, Kepler AI, and Aevitas on their work in advancing personalized medicine. This session will feature a live analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data from one of our speakers’ own samples. Using cutting-edge AI and bioinformatics, we’ll demonstrate how next-generation computational tools can extract insights from personal cellular data, bridging the gap between advanced research and real-world applications.
Our speakers will share their perspectives on:
How multi-omics and AI are reshaping the landscape of healthcare.
What the future holds for data-driven personal bioenhancement.
Ways to bring your personal health monitoring to the next level.
# About Kepler AI
Kepler AI is the leading provider of enterprise-grade AI agents and AI-native data interfaces for the life sciences. Kepler allows for secure automation of end-to-end bioinformatics and data-heavy research workflows, unlocking a step change in research efficiency and quality. Based in San Francisco, Kepler was founded by a team of scientists and engineers who built foundational scientific infrastructure at GRAIL, Databricks, Foresite Labs, and Xaira Therapeutics.
# About Aevitas
Aevitas is an incubator for researchers and companies radically expanding our understanding of biology. Our technical community encompasses projects at the frontiers of anti-aging, bioenhancement, and synthetic biology. Supported by Longevity Biotech Fellowship and The Vitalism Foundation.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com
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GovTech Bourbon and Biscuits
Join us for an evening bourbon meetup hosted by our team at ZenGov. We’ll kick things off with a brief introduction from our founding team about what we’re building, what we're seeing in the govtech + fintech + AI space, and where we’re heading, followed by open networking over
the best bourbon and biscuits.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Unlock Apple's Corporate Advantage for your Startup！
Are you a startup founder, CTO, or IT lead looking to gear up with Apple’s best-in-class tech—without the usual price tag or IT headaches?
Join our free 20-minute online session during SF Tech Week (Oct 7) and learn how your startup can:
✅ Access Apple’s corporate pricing—no large enterprise status needed
✅ Get dedicated support—free up your time to focus on building
✅ Simplify device deployment—perfect for fast-moving teams
🎁 Sign up and receive an exclusive Apple for Startups Resource Pack:
👉 https://istorestm.com/business-program/signup/
About the host:
Presented by iStore by St. Moritz—an Apple Authorized Premier Partner trusted by 500+ companies. With 25+ years of experience, we help startups tap into Apple’s ecosystem with personalized solutions and enterprise-level perks.
This session is part of #SFTechWeek—a week-long celebration of founders, builders, and innovation across the Bay Area. Learn more at www.tech-week.com
Don’t miss your chance to unlock Apple enterprise benefits—tailored for startups.
Not So Daily Stand Up Comedy LLC, Vanta, Fondo Inc
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Artificially Unintelligent Tech Comedy Show + Open Bar, with Vanta + Fondo
Santa Monica
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Not So Daily Stand Up Comedy LLC, Vanta, Fondo Inc
Join us for Artificially Unintelligent, an evening of drinks, networking, and tech-themed comedy brought to you by Vanta and Fondo!
No fireside chats, no MBA yapping. Just free drinks, networking, and top tier SWE, PM, Founders, and VC comedians seen on Netflix, Hulu, NBC, NPR, Comedy Central, and more!
Leave your jira tickets open, term sheets unfilled, and SaaS unscaled for the best night of tech-themed stand up comedy you didn't know you needed. (We might sell your data to Palantir)
Agenda:
6:00 – 7:00 PM | Networking, food, and drinks
7:00 – 8:15 PM | Live stand-up comedy show
8:15 – 9:00 PM | After-show connections (the best part)
Who's VC money are we blowing?
Fondo -- Simplify your startup's finances with Fondo: bookkeeping, tax filings, and tax credits all backed by certified experts. The average startup gets back $21k/year from the IRS. (Note: Artificially Unintelligent DOES not pay taxes, as we save A LOT money that way please don't tell anyone)
Vanta -- The LEADING 1 stop trust platform covering the full life cycle security audits. A founder's fastest way to SOC Tuah compliance while protecting precious developer time
Axle Health -- Axle provides AI-powered scheduling and workforce management platforms to help home healthcare providers optimize their operations and patient care delivery. They're based here in sunny Santa Monica and they're hiring! Join them on their mission to make real change in how home healthcare providers deliver for patients.
If you seem lame/a grifter/boring and don't fill the form out, you're probably not getting in. Especially non-technical/fake e-mail job people.
Graphic design by: irisxie.com
Come for the laughs. Stay for the people.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Scaling Your Consumer AI Startup | Panel with Snap & OpenAI | Hosted by Maven Ventures
Join Consumer VC Maven Ventures for happy hour and a panel discussion on Scaling Your Consumer AI Startup.
Panelists:
*Nona Farahnik Yadegar, Product & GTM Director, Snap
*Arielle Mokhtarzadeh, Marketing, OpenAI
*Robert Ravanshenas, Partner, Maven Ventures
Happy hour will include an open bar and appetizers, hosted at one of Los Angeles’ hottest new Italian restaurants!
Hosted by Maven Ventures and Inworld.
◾ Maven - Consumer Tech VC
Details: mavenventures.com
◾ Inworld - AI products for Conversational AI applications.
Details: inworld.ai/
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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Courtside Conversations LA ’25
Step inside the future of higher education—courtside. Join Constructor Tech and 8–10 select guests for an intimate pre-game discussion at LA Live, exploring how technology is reshaping the student journey. Then, head to Crypto com Arena for the Lakers vs. Kings preseason matchup.
An invite-only experience designed for candid conversation and connection.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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APIGTM - the API Growth Conference
Convert your API GTM into a Winning Growth Engine
Streaming live from Postman HQ in San Francisco with a post-event #SFTechWeek Happy Hour in Hayes Valley.
In this half day program, we'll cover:
Battle-tested API playbooks from leaders at Salesforce, Amazon, Canva, Block, WorkOS, Merge, Continue, Google DeepMind, Google Firebase, Google Maps, Twilio, APILayer, Hubspot, Zoom and more.
😀 APIGTM Speakers 😀
🎤 Keynote: Ankit Sobti, Co-founder and CTO, Postman
🤝 Live interview: learn about Zoom’s success as a Verified Publisher on the Postman API Network — Ojus Save, Sr. Developer Advocate, Zoom and Sterling Chin, Postman
🔥 Beyond the Prompt: Building Your GTM with Firebase, MCPs, and Postman — Ernan Anguiano, Google Product Manager, Firebase
💪 Resilient Vibe Coding: Empower Your Apps with the Latest APIs & SDKs — Paige Bailey, Developer Relations Engineering Lead, Google DeepMind
🗺️ The M.A.P. Strategy: Making APIs Personable and Unleashing Their Value for Everyone — Brian Davidson, Sr Customer Eng, Google Maps
🔄 Continuous AI Best Practice — Brian Douglas, Head of Developer Experience, Continue
🔌 How Merge leverages AI to scale integrations — Nour Eldifrawy, Product Manager, Merge
💼 AI, APIs, and Elusive Enterprise Engagements — Stephen Gheysens, Principal Solutions Engineer, Twilio
💻 Beyond the Endpoint: Connecting Postman to Salesforce over MCP — Kris Harrison, Senior Director of PM, Integration Services, Salesforce
🎨 Building Developer Voice in a Consumer Brand — Meredith Hassett, Sr. Developer Advocate, Canva
🧡 Building API Experiences Your Developers Love — Pratham Kumar, Dev Rel Manager, APILayer
🤑 The Agent Economy: Rethinking API GTM for LLMs — Richard Moot, Tech Lead, Developer Relations at Block
📈 From Relationship Building to Product Adoption: How Postman Connected the Dots for HubSpot — Chris Riley, Sr. Manager, Developer Relations, Hubspot
🚀 AWS Marketplace: The API-First Journey — Paulomi Shroff, Head of Engineering, AWS Marketplace International Expansion, Amazon
✨ Let’s Dream Big for MCP Auth — Tobin South, Secure AI Agents & MCP, WorkOS
Here's why to join:
- Learn proven techniques on positioning, pricing, and onboarding.
- Making your endpoints irresistible to developers and AI Agents today, and into the future.
- Proven tactics for converting word-of-mouth into revenue, and turning casual users into evangelists.
Skip the theoretical maybes. Come for the surefire lessons that move metrics and drive growth.
Then, join the speakers at the AI + APIs Happy Hour: https://partiful.com/e/vAZiyXO07T4wM9Meo1Fj
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
📝 By registering for this event, you agree to receive email communications from Postman with important event updates.
Serious Moonlight Consulting
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Sales & GTM for Founders
Venice
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Serious Moonlight Consulting
Are you a founder doing your own Sales and GTM?
Katie Wilson, former Google Head of Sales and Sales Consultant, will walk you through the top mistakes founders make selling themselves and their business. She will go over some top strategies and tips and take live Q&A/Office Hours with attendees. Opportunity to network with other founders and attendees in the outdoor garden area.
Light breakfast snacks and coffee will be provided. Probiotic soda tasting provided by Culture Pop Soda.
Street parking only. Rideshare recommended.
Event is in the back building at Blankspaces Venice. Follow the signs for Serious Moonlight , and the lobby attendant can also direct you there.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
IV.AI, Asteria & Moonvalley
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Data Debt and the AI Gold Rush
Los Feliz
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IV.AI, Asteria & Moonvalley
The AI Goldrush & Shifting Goalposts
In the race to build and deploy AI, speed often wins out over common sense. If you aren’t using models where you can rely on the results then you’re just generating pithy memes. While memes are fun, building useful things that inspire results and progress is far more rewarding.
Join this day of artificial intelligence reality, hear from the people who are driving valuable use cases at scale with AI everyday including leading researchers, engineers, and business executives as they go through the strategic approaches that distill the gold from the rush.
This event will include panels, live demonstrations of tools, specific AI practical strategies that work at scale, agentic AI deep dive, and... a happy hour with a brilliant DJ at the legendary Mach Sennett Studios.
Discussions
1. It’s All About the Data, Darling.
Incomplete, mislabeled, or stale datasets quietly accumulate “interest” that degrade model accuracy, bloat maintenance costs, and spit upon trust. What happens when these models hit the data ceiling?
Experts share real-world discussions about how a sharp focus on the data that is going into… or exposed to your AI system is the most important thing. From bias reduction via 100s of thousands of humans in a panel, to a targeted start focused squarely on image capture, to an AI agentic architecture that cleans while it freshens…
(Live Demo)
2. Unlearn Your AI Assumptions
You haven’t heard this discussion before, we go deep into how AI models drive value against specific workflows that are integral to product ready use cases.
(Live Demo)
3. Delivering Value with AI
The reason so many companies are hitting pilot purgatory with AI strategies is because they are measuring the wrong things. AI can help with cost savings… but it’s often a very hard metric to prove as it optimizes tasks that aren’t usually measured anyway.
So, how do you measure, when do you release, how do you go to market, and what should your investment in AI look like.
Join this fireside chat with experts who have been delivering value with AI for +10 years and grab some takeaways that focus on common sense and measurable results that are game changing from any business. Hear real examples of challenges and how overcoming them drove productization that includes AI models and hits KPIs alongside ROI.
Takeaways:
Practical insights, battle-tested frameworks, and a clearer picture of how to balance rapid innovation with the discipline required to make AI the long term amplifier of human creativity that we all need.
Schedule:
6-8PM - Panels and live AI demos
8-10PM - DJ and Happy Hour
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Events in Minutes, Create Mix & Mingle, Un[co]mmon
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Paint & Sip:Creative Connections Night
Haight Ashbury
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Events in Minutes, Create Mix & Mingle, Un[co]mmon
🎨 Paint & Sip: Creative Connections Night 🎨
The best Tech Week conversations don't happen at crowded after-parties; they happen when you're relaxed, creative, and actually enjoying yourself.
Who's painting:
Founders, operators, VCs, and the executive assistants running the show. People who get that meaningful connections happen outside the pitch-and-mingle grind.
What's included:
Canvas, paints & all supplies (yours to take home)
Wine & drinks throughout
Pro instructor (zero art skills required)
Intimate group of 40 max
This is a ticketed event ($25) to keep the group intimate and cover all supplies, drinks, and instruction.
→ Grab your spot: https://go.eventsinminutes.com/techweek-creative
You'll leave with your own painted canvas and actual friendships;not just another stack of business cards you'll never follow up on.
🍷 21+ (bring ID)
OM Impact Fund, Profound Shift, Stormlife Solutions
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The Human OS: Conscious Leadership
SOMA
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OM Impact Fund, Profound Shift, Stormlife Solutions
Join us for "The Human OS: Conscious Leadership for Breakout Growth" – a unique blend of expert insights and experiential practice that transforms how tech leaders approach scaling both themselves and their organizations.
Beginning with a 15-minute panel discussion where our three facilitators share their best practices for conscious leadership, the session then shifts into an interactive leadership laboratory. In intimate small groups of 4, you'll practice real tools for conscious leadership while connecting with peers facing similar challenges.
Based on principles from organizational transformation and cutting-edge leadership development, you'll discover how to upgrade your internal "operating system" – the mindsets, practices, and awareness that enable leaders to drive breakthrough growth without burning out.
Notable Speakers/Facilitators:
Tiffany Joy Basse - Managing Director at OM Impact Fund, Author of "The Conscious Leader: Empowering the Next Generation of CEOs" and "The Growth Code." Serial entrepreneur and impact investor who has evaluated over 2,000 startups and helped companies raise hundreds of millions in venture funding. Keynote speaker at Yale Impact Investing, Stanford AI for Good, SF GenAI, and Human Tech Week.
Chris Roberts - Founder of Profound Shift, Partner & Chief Risk Officer at Thing Zero. Executive coach to high-performing Silicon Valley leaders, helping organizations thrive in risk, growth, and complexity. Former Managing Director at Edgile with deep expertise in organizational transformation and leadership development through crisis.
Storm Cattoche - Founder of StormLife Solutions, Oracle Advisor and Consciousness Educator. With over three decades of global leadership experience spanning real estate, insurance, and consciousness education, Storm specializes in helping executives lead with clarity, purpose, and higher consciousness through alignment and intentional action.
Format & Content:
15-minute panel discussion: Best practices from three experienced conscious leaders
2 rounds of intimate 20-minute working sessions (groups of 4)
Live practice of consciousness techniques used by successful tech leaders
Peer-to-peer learning and network building
Story circles and pattern finding exercises
Take-home practices you'll implement immediately
What Makes It Special:
This isn't just another panel about conscious leadership – it's a direct experience of it. After hearing best practices from our expert facilitators, you'll immediately put these concepts into practice through structured small-group exercises.
Our facilitators bring complementary expertise: Tiffany's venture and growth experience meets Chris's organizational transformation mastery and Storm's consciousness-based leadership approach.
Together, they create a holistic experience addressing both the tactical and transcendent aspects of leadership.
The combination of panel insights followed by experiential practice ensures you don't just learn about conscious leadership intellectually – you embody it through real interaction and practice. Small group work ensures deep, meaningful connections rather than surface-level networking.
Perfect for: Founders, CTOs, VPs, and senior leaders ready to evolve beyond traditional management approaches and lead from a place of greater awareness, especially those navigating rapid scaling, team transformation, or the integration of AI into their organizations.
You'll leave with: Practical insights from seasoned leaders, a personal practice plan, accountability partners, and the lived experience of what conscious leadership actually feels like in action.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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MeeBoss Startup Social
Hiring + Delicious Food = The Perfect Match
Hiring doesn’t have to be hard or boring! Join MeeBoss during San Francisco Tech Week for a relaxed atmosphere of free food, drinks, and startup connections. Whether you’re actively hiring or just planning your next big wave, this is your chance to meet other founders, grab some bites, and get set up on MeeBoss.
What to Expect:
+ Free food and drinks to fuel great conversations
+ A casual, social vibe with fellow founders and hiring managers
+ Hands-on support from the MeeBoss team to get your hiring started
Register now to save your spot!
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More About MeeBoss: MeeBoss is a chat-first hiring platform that connects job seekers with startups through instant in-app messaging, eliminating resume black hole and lengthy application processes. Our matching engine pairs candidates and companies based on skills, culture fit, and career goals, then opens a direct chat so both sides can ask questions and move forward in real time. For startups, MeeBoss delivers only pre-qualified talent and streamlines coordination.
By attending this event, I consent for the hosts and its affiliates to use my name, image, and likeness in any marketing related to the event. This consent includes, without limitation, an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable, non-transferable license to use any photographs or video recording on me taken while in attendance at the event. I also consent to receiving emails from the event hosts.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Our yearly tradition. Designed for founders in the Healthcare and Bio space by LifeX, we are hosting our annual event during LA Tech Week. Come join us for an evening of drinks and snacks and meet fellow builders and investors in AI x Bio.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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