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Future of Team Productivity: AI and Workflow Automation
Space Happy Hour, Perkins Coie
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Software for Hardware Panel & Happy Hour
El Segundo
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Space Happy Hour, Perkins Coie
Deep, in the heart of "The Gundo" the future isn’t just bits or atoms, software or hardware, it’s a dramatic collision of both!
From rockets to robots to reactors, the most ambitious companies are building in the hardest places: where cutting-edge software meets mission-critical hardware.
Join leaders from Magenta, First Resonance, Epsilon3, Boltline, and Stell as we dig into the question:
👉 Where do the Venn diagrams of these companies overlap, and where do they boldly diverge?
Expect sharp insights, spicy debates, and a peek at the next generation of tools powering deep tech.
✨ Panel + Q&A
🍸 Happy Hour to follow (because great ideas need good cocktails)
🌐 Connect with founders, builders, and investors pushing the frontier of physical innovation.
Come for the panel, stay for the connections and curated conversations in an event co-hosted by Space Happy Hour and Perkins Coie.
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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Find a Cofounder, Help or Join a Startup
Welcome to Startup Oasis! #LAtechweek
If you are a startup founder, investor, developer, marketer, or anyone else in the tech ecosystem looking to start, join, or help a tech startup, this event is for you! Startup founders pitch their startups to the attendees; then, you can join a breakout room/area (that we curate) to talk to the founders, ask questions, and give feedback. People have been able to start a business as a result of this process. You are welcome to just watch as well. We will have pizzas delivered at 4 PM.
If you would like to pitch, please RSVP here, and you can sign up on the day of the event. This event is free to attend. You can also support us with a donation.
We are visiting LA for Tech Week and will have this special event at the Flight Deck inside the Sports Basement in Long Beach. Look for the flyers on the ground floor!
You can join us early for structured speed networking and pitch practice before the main event begins at 4 PM.
Schedule for the Day:
1:00 🚪 - Doors Open for networking. Sign up at the check-in table if you want to pitch your startup. You can bring your own food and drinks if you wish to eat lunch here. There are many restaurants nearby if you want to eat lunch beforehand
2:00 🔬 - Pitch Lab begins. Founders, you'll be able to get feedback for your pitch from PitchPartner.app Then, we can discuss the feedback as a group and in pairs/small groups. This will help prep you for the pitches at 5 PM
3:00 🪑 - Deal Flow Cafe speed networking begins. Founders sit on one side of the table, and those looking to join a team or help sit on the other side for 1 on 1 conversations, switching every 3 minutes
4:00 🍕 - The main event begins: signups for pitches open, and networking continues. Pizza will be served
4:45 👥 - Founders are chosen to pitch
5:00 🎤 - Startup Oasis Begins, Founders Pitch
5:30💡- Founders break off into break-out groups, and attendees can move around and help one for the remainder of the time, similar to a hackathon
7:00 ⌛ - The event starts to end, please wrap up connections
7:30 🥂- Head to happy hour @ Kennedy's Craft Kitchen
Startup Oasis was created to pierce the illusion of accessibility of startups and tech by creating a grassroots forum for early-stage founders to pitch to those in the tech ecosystem to get real-time feedback for their idea or business.
https://www.startupoasis.org/contact-10
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Nearby Transit:
Metro: A-line (Blue), C-line (Green). Take an Uber or a connecting bus from those lines to the venue. The most efficient option is to take the A-line to the Pacific Coast Hwy Metro Station, then catch the 172 bus, which drops you off at Stearns & Bellflower
Public bikes and scooters are available
Free parking is available in the plaza
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.
Overlap, stability.ai, iHeartMedia
[SF]
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Capitalizing on AI in Media
Santa Monica
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Overlap, stability.ai, iHeartMedia
Capitalizing on AI in Media will explore how AI is reshaping the media industry and the future of work.
Moderated by Jonathan Baer, Founder of Overlap (overlap.ai), this panel discussion explores how AI is creating the greatest impact and opportunity. The conversation will highlight key shifts in content creation, distribution, and monetization as AI continues to transform workflows.
The event will conclude with an open Q&A and networking session.
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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Hiring Tech Talent in Gaza
We will discuss how to support Palestinian tech workers displaced and still living in Gaza, Cairo and the West Bank. This will include live video streams from those creating software within Gaza. There will be clear directions on how best to employ and pay them as well. Hosted by Apricot a recruiting firm helping underserved MENA talent with a strong emphasis on Palestine. Event will be live streamed as well.
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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B2B Pricing in the AI Era Panel w/ Anthropic, Intercom, and Stripe
B2B SaaS pricing has always been hard. Now today with AI-native companies shifting to usage-based, hybrid, and outcome-driven models — and iterating weekly — the complexity has only grown. It's slowed down sales cycles, increased internal friction, and resulted in lost revenue opportunities.
We're bringing together a panel of GTM Finance leaders from Persona, Anthropic, Intercom, and Stripe to discuss what they're seeing play out in real time and how they're better equipping their orgs to handle the pace that is required in today's AI era. Join other founders, GTM / Finance operators, and investors in this conversation on one of the most pressing issues hindering growth in startups and scaling enterprises today.
About the cohosts:
- Dealops is building the deal pricing platform for AI and usage-based companies. Learn more at dealops.com
- Persona is an online identity verification platform that helps businesses, from any size and industry to collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle. Available in over 200 countries. Learn more at withpersona.com/community
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 joining this event, you abide to Persona's Events Code of Conduct:
https://withpersona.com/legal/persona-events-code-of-conduct
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What Makes a VC Lean in… or Walk away?
MaC Venture Capital, Perkins Coie
[SF]
[LA]
Tech Meets Culture: Connect & Innovate with MaC Ventures
Santa Monica
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MaC Venture Capital, Perkins Coie
Just US, Mercury, Velvet, Status Labs
[SF]
[LA]
Just Us x Mercury - Beyond the Horizon: Frontier Tech & the Future of Capital
Santa Monica
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Just US, Mercury, Velvet, Status Labs
Trove, Puerto Rico Blockchain Association, MindfulBytes
[SF]
[LA]
Where Robotics Meets Heart - Embedding Family Values in a Future with AI
Santa Monica
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Trove, Puerto Rico Blockchain Association, MindfulBytes
[SF]
[LA]
Global Founders Happy Hour
[SF]
[LA]
AI in Service of LifeLanguages
This salon invites discussion on LifeLanguage companies and their use of AI as a force for good in healthcare.
LifeLanguage companies specialize in building new AI models to understand the languages of life—proteins, RNA, and DNA. These companies differ from traditional biotech in that they investigate these languages not with wet-lab approaches but with GPUs. AlphaFold is a leading example in this nascent space and won the Nobel Prize last year. Since then, many startups have modeled their teams after the AlphaFold team, generating sister models that rearrange protein space to form combinations that would have taken evolution hundreds of millions of years to create. These new rearrangements have special properties for curing human disease, strengthening agriculture, and improving manufacturing.
At Ecotone, our mission is to pioneer the next frontier: a model we call Hawaiian Diamond, capable of reading the human genome-as-a-first-language. The challenge is that AlphaFold was possible because of 3D protein data (PDB), where each protein structure serves as a spatial scaffold. For DNA, which is an encoded information space, no such training data exists (AlphaGenome, NT, etc have a priori constraints). Our breakthrough is a novel method to create this data by shifting from spatial to functional understanding. We interlace, arrange, and layer genomic outputs to build a functional scaffold—the "Point Cloud Feature"—that assigns meaning to sections of DNA. Hawaiian Diamond, trained on these scaffolds, will directly pinpoint the root causes of disease, generating the GPS coordinates needed by DNA-guided medications (e.g., CRISPRs) to cure all 10,000 genetic diseases. This will improve the lives of approximately 800 million people and begin the process of fully annotating the mysterious, unresolved sections of our DNA.
Come and discuss over champagne [no oysters, too risky :(] at a secret cozy space. Thanks to our sponsors Columbia University Venture Community (CVC SF) and #SFTechWeek.
Format: Fireside chat followed by conversation and good vibes. Location will be made available the day before the event.
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.
Concept Community, GetGenAI
[SF]
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AI Marketing: Scale vs Quality
Venice
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Concept Community, GetGenAI
AI Marketing: Scale vs. Quality 🚀✨
Join Concept Community & GetGenAI [getgen.ai] for an insightful panel during LA Tech Week as industry leaders explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the marketing landscape — and the risks emerging alongside rapid innovation.
Marketing no longer scales in tens of ads — it scales in thousands. With AI accelerating creative production, the challenge isn’t whether you can produce content, but how to keep it high-quality, authentic, and localized while meeting compliance standards across diverse markets. These are exactly the challenges GetGenAI helps brands navigate every day.
🎙️ The Panel Will Cover:
- 'Platforms’ 2025 AI shift: What “AI-first ads” mean for the future of campaign creation & compliance.
- From Copilot to Operator: How AI is moving from assistant → orchestrator of marketing workflows.
- Hype vs. Reality: Turning mass AI output into market-ready campaigns.
- Digital twins of content assets: Unlocking localization & personalization — and what that means for compliance, scale & creative nuance.
- What AI can’t (and shouldn’t) do: Why human creativity & cultural insight still matter in an AI-driven world.
👥 Panelists:
- Anastasia Sartan – Founder of GetGenAI, a content review tool helping brands scale compliant marketing.
- Raghu Banda – Enterprise AI leader at SAP with deep experience embedding AI/ML into large-scale organizations, driving strategy, architecture, and measurable business impact.
- Gabriela Camilli – Sr. Associate at Act One Ventures, investing in pre-seed and seed startups, with expertise across early-stage venture, accelerator programs, and platform strategy.
- Dan Grossman – Digital marketing and advertising executive with deep expertise in growth, compliance, and AdTech innovation (Fmr: Snapchat, Sword Health, VaynerMedia).
🎤 Moderator: Lucy Nazaryan, Founder at Concept Community.
Expect a candid, forward-looking conversation packed with tactical insights for founders, marketers, product leaders & teams navigating AI’s next frontier.
✨ Sponsors
This event is sponsored by Rafael Alexandrian, CPA Inc, a boutique CPA firm offering white-glove tax compliance, accounting & strategic advisory services for individuals and SMBs.
Thanks to Julia Latkins for creative direction, and to our other amazing partners:
🍴 Food – Horbox Catering & Events
🥂 Drinks – The Cycle
🌸 Decor – Fresh Flower Society
👗 Style – Ranitsa Studio
📸 Photography – Guzel Khos
🎥 Video – Luse Avetisyan
🎁 Gift sticker pack - AxiomPrint Inc.
🤖 AI Super Connector - Boardy.ai
This event is part of #LATechWeek — a week of events hosted by VCs & startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at 👉 [www.tech-week.com].
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CleverTap Presents: The Big Leap
[SF]
[LA]
Hardware Happy Hour: Defense, Robotics, Computing, Space, and More
Hardware Happy Hour: Defense, Robotics, Computing, Space, and More
Hosted by H*QUOTIENT & Orrick
The next wave of innovation won’t be apps—it’ll be atoms. Hardware startups are scaling faster than ever, with deep tech investment projected to hit $3T+ globally by 2030. From defense and robotics to computing and space, hardware is where the future is being built right now.
Join founders, engineers, and investors shaping the frontier for an evening of connection, collaboration, and discovery. If you’ve ever thought about building in hard tech—or just want to meet the people investing in the hardware of tomorrow—this is the room to be in.
H*QUOTIENT is the world's leading deep tech & hardware community for students, recent grads, and GenZ technologists. We're a collective of 4,000+ engineers, scientists, founders, investors, and students across 55+ countries, built by engineers for engineers. We aim to empower the next generation of founders in IP-intensive industries to commercialize their tech, connect over niche STEM-adjacent events, and make deep tech sexy again.
Join our community here: https://tally.so/r/nWjGMe and tell us how we can help you! https://linktr.ee/hquotient
Orrick is a tech-focused law firm passionate about helping entrepreneurs, innovators and investors push boundaries. Through its extensive client portfolio, deal volume, and relationships in the ecosystem, Orrick provides commercial insight to each client’s strategy. From financing to protecting IP to retaining talent to advocating for innovation-friendly public policy, Orrick offers a holistic solution across the tech & venture lifecycle. Please reach out to Andy Bloom (abloom@orrick.com) if you're a founder or investor or want to learn more!
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 consent to be photographed and receive email updates from the hosts and be added to the H*QUOTIENT newsletter mailing list. Photographs may be used for marketing and media purposes without compensation.
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