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data λ code unconference
Most data events are just people talking at you from a stage. We're doing something different.
This is practitioner-led:
no agenda until you make one,
no slide decks,
just data engineers and builders figuring stuff out together.
⚙️ How it works: ⚙️
1️⃣ We start in one room.
2️⃣ Everyone throws problems or ideas on sticky notes.
3️⃣ Vote on what's interesting.
4️⃣ Split into groups.
5️⃣ Discuss and share ideas.
6️⃣ Come back, share what we learned, then grab drinks.
The agenda is whatever the room brings.
💡 People have already mentioned:
- Getting CI/CD and testing into data work without everything grinding to a halt.
- What collaboration actually looks like when your whole team goes code-first?
- Balancing speed vs quality when your pipeline is your product.
- What does AI exactly mean for the future of our field?
🎯 Why this matters:
- Data teams are becoming more like engineering teams.
- Engineering teams are doing more data stuff.
- Nobody's figured out the best way to do this yet.
👤 Who should come:
Data engineers, analytics engineers, tech leads, and anyone building stuff at the intersection of code and data.
❓Why bother:
Because the conversations that actually help happen over whiteboards with people who've been in the same mess you're in right now.
Space is tight. RSVP or you're out of luck.
Drinks after with PostHog + Deskree + Recce → separate invite: https://partiful.com/e/zE0NqSFH0YxukzNF0XWd
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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『MELT』150+ Founders x Investors Dynamic Network
🚀Update 2025/10/06
【Total Registrations】
620+ Registrations
• 80 Angel Investors x Venture Capitalists
• 24 Enterprise Decision Makers
• 45 Exited Founders
• 61 Multimillion-ARR founders
• 406 Pre-Seed to Series C Founders
• 2 Limited Partners
Stage Breakdown
• 2 Series C+ company
• 10 Series B company
• 36 Series A companies
• 34 Pre-Series A companies
• 159 Seed companies
• 260 Pre-Seed companies( will be approved 20% - 30%)
• 56 Bootstrapped
Industry Focus
• AI, Ai Agent & AI-related → 62%
• B2B & SaaS → 14%
• Fintech → 9%
• Healthtech / Biotech → 7%
• Gaming / Media → 4%
• Other → 4%
Funding Raised
• $100k – $200k × 38 companies
• $200k – $300k × 19 companies
• $300k – $500k × 31 companies
• $500k – $1m × 38 companies
• $1m – $3m × 46 companies
• $3m – $10m × 28 companies
• $10m – $30m × 16 companies
• $100m+ × 5 companies
Company Metrics (ARR)
• $100k – $200k × 24 companies
• $200k – $300k × 14 companies
• $300k – $500k × 13 companies
• $500k – $1m × 16 companies
• $1m – $3m × 32 companies
• $3m – $10m × 16 companies
• $10m – $30m × 13 companies
MELT - Remarkable participants
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eSrYcH6iZepzXoJHVOA5Xf4J6qu2XuxhD0YhHxRCs5M/edit?usp=sharing
💎 1st VIP Sponsored By
- CRWD
The World's First Community Activation Intelligence
Fast growing startup - $4M Run Rate
Website:
https://www.joincrwd.ai/
💎2nd VIP Sponsored By
- Scrumball (Pre-Series A )
Influencer marketing AI agent with 120M creator database
Ranked #1 on Product Hunt
Website:
https://www.scrumball.com/
Value Proposition: Launch influencer campaigns within minutes with your AI team
✧ Presented By MELT / Kyosuke Togami
MELT Partners in the past:
• J.P. Morgan – The largest global bank
• Sheppard Mullin – The largest law firm
• NECX – Tech Giant in Japan $20B ARR
• Minerva University – The hardest university to get into
• Y Combinator – Pylon, Parsana Ai
• Treasure Data – Raised $288m, $200m ARR
• AGI Inc. – Pioneer of AI Agents
• Orbiter Finance – $100m+ net profit within 3 years. Ranked #2 globally in the decentralized bridge field
【This event is exclusively for founders, investors, and enterprise decision-makers】
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🚨Check-in is required at the door, and only approved guests will be admitted
🤝The event is a dynamic 2-hour networking session
🙇♀️We kindly ask for your understanding as we carefully review and select attendees, which may result in some applications not being approved. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.
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SF Techweek, where over 100,000 professionals gather from around the world, we have decided to hold this event at this momentous occasion.
We're bringing together an exclusive group of around 150+
- Exited founders
- VC-backed founders
- Multimillion-ARR founders
- Angel investors
- Venture capitalists
- Enterprise Decision maker
Every interaction brings you closer to future fundraising, potential partners, and mentors who have already solved the challenges you’re facing today
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【The previous event, MELT】
• 80+ VC and Angel Investors
• 300+ Founders/CEOs
Industries: Ai, Fintech, Climate Tech, Gaming, Edtech, Proptech, Web3, AR/VR, Cybersecurity, Insurtech, Retailtech, SaaS, B2C, B2B, and Pre-seed to Series D stages
Stage Breakdown:
• 3 Series D companies
• 2 Series C companies
• 6 Series B companies
• 35 Series A companies
• 15 Pre-Series A companies
• 106 Seed companies
• 146 Pre-Seed companies
• 26 Bootstrap companies
• 50+ Executives
Additional highlights:
• 8 companies featured in Forbes Under 30
• 12 Y Combinator alumni
- 1st MELT event
• 1,070 registrations from around the world
• Carefully selected 300 founders and investors
Composition:
• 10% Series A and above (Founders/C-levels)
• 35% Seed (Founders/C-levels)
• 40% Pre-seed (Founders/C-levels)
• 10% Investors
• Other
- 2nd MELT event
• 420 registrations
• Carefully selected 170 founders and 30 investors
Founder profile:
• Most had raised at least $1 million, had revenue of $1–$3 million, or had a previous successful exit.
Composition:
• 33 Series A and above (Founders/C-levels)
• 133 Seed (Founders/C-levels)
• 112 Pre-seed (Founders/C-levels)
• 58 Investors (Tencent, Netease, Docomo Ventures, other VCs and Angel Investors)
• Others
- MELT for GDC
• 29 VC and Angel Investors
• 280+ Founders/CEOs
Stage Breakdown:
• 2 Series D companies
• 1 Series C companies
• 5 Series B companies
• 22 Series A companies
• 43 Pre-Series A companies
• 85 Seed companies
• 77 Pre-Seed companies
• 17 Bootstrap companies
• 3 Enterprise decision-makers
Industry Focus:
• 94% Gaming or Ai x Gaming
Company Metrics:
• Over $1m ARR × 35 companies
• $3m – $10m ARR × 15 companies
• $10m – $100m ARR × 5 companies
Funding Raised:
• $500k – $1m × 26 companies
• $1m – $3m × 37 companies
• $3m – $10m × 24 companies
• $10m – $30m × 17 companies
• $30m – $100m × 2 companies
- MELT in NY
https://irradiated-parsnip-a7d.notion.site/Previous-MELT-in-NY-Global-Founders-Investors-Lineup-26b477d2eb60803483e1d3cd916ac99c?source=copy_link
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MELT is a founder–investor event series curating high-trust, high-impact gatherings with
- Exited founders,
- VC-backed founders,
- Multimillion-ARR founders,
- Angel investors
- Venture capitalists
Every interaction brings you closer to future fundraising, potential partners, and mentors who have already solved the challenges you’re facing today
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- Multimillion-ARR founders
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Reimagining E-Commerce: How AI is Transforming Brand Growth
E-commerce is undergoing a profound transformation, with artificial intelligence at the center of the change. As products themselves become the building blocks of campaign creative, growth teams are turning to AI-powered reasoning and generation tools to achieve hyper-efficient scale.
This fireside panel, part of a16z LA Tech Week, brings together leaders from across the ecosystem to explore what’s next.
• Tadas Jucikas, CEO of Genus.AI, will share how enterprise reasoning is just around the corner, supporting growth teams with reporting, audience insights, creative generation, and campaign execution. Genus.AI and their AI agent Sage already processes over $1B in e-commerce revenue annually, powering growth for iconic brands like Lulus, Chubbies, Gorjana, and others.
• Neil Popkin, Vice President at a high growth agency Brand.co, will discuss how Dynamic Product Ads (DPAs) are rewiring digital commerce across all channels. With Brand.co’s work for brands such as Caddis, Kut from the Kloth, and Larroude, Neil will share the best practices how products as creative, combined with AI tools, unlock new opportunities for sustainable growth.
• Tyler Prone, Director of E-Commerce at Parks Project, brings the brand perspective. Parks Project is a leading apparel and accessories company innovating with collaborations from Red Hot Chili Peppers to Dr. Seuss, while donating a percentage of profits to U.S. National Parks. Tyler will share how the brand leverages AI to drive customer acquisition, retention, and engagement—maximizing its mission-driven impact.
• Steve Morales, Head of Growth at Swat Frame, will discuss how multi-brand operators are scaling with AI. Swat Frame’s portfolio includes Kut from the Kloth, a high-quality denim wear brand that has experienced dramatic growth through AI-driven customer engagement and campaign execution.
• Rita Zahir, VP of Marketing & E-Commerce at Unique Vintage, brings two decades of digital marketing expertise. At Unique Vintage, she’s using AI to dynamically generate 20,000+ SKUs across platforms like Meta, Google, Criteo, and Pinterest, demonstrating how technology can accelerate growth for mission-driven brands.
Together, this panel will explore how AI is reshaping e-commerce—from personalization and automation to reasoning-driven systems—and what it means for platforms, agencies, and brands building the future of digital commerce.
📌 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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IMPACT San Francisco
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EuReality: XR Sharing and Happy Hour
Join XR's leading innovators to dive into how AI-driven hardware is crafting a digital reality surpassing the natural world.
A decentralized and organic event that brings together top global XR founders and builders, tech investors, XR ecosystem veterans, and hardware enthusiasts. Communicate in person, share your insights and lessons on what it truly takes to “build” - the highs, the lows, and everything in between.
👀 EuReality Event: We help founders create momentum with bold visions and craftsmanship mindset in the digital reality era. — “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it happen?”
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Behind the Name:
EuReality is the next frontier—a collective, interdependent digital reality where intelligent machines and synthetic data cooperate seamlessly to create a reality beyond the natural.
The past few decades, defined by the fifth Kondratiev wave, marked the small-information era of electronics and the Internet. The coming sixth wave will ignite the big-information era, powered by autonomous intelligent machines—hardware in the physical world—that will transform how humanity lives, works, and imagines the future.
Looking further ahead, guided by First Principles that technology evolves in a ‘Left-Right-Left’ cycle, the next wave will bring the intelligent revolution. Robots, drones, aircrafts, and autonomous vehicles will generate vast streams of synthetic data, pushing a profound upgrade of the digital realm and crafting a digital reality that surpasses the natural world.
Now is the critical window to shape this future. We stand at a paradigm crossroads: from “human value comes from our labor” to “human value comes from who we are.” I believe in this shift, and I have named it EuReality.
Inspired by eusociality—the highest form of social organization in biology, where individuals thrive through cooperation, specialization, and shared purpose—eureality reimagines this principle for technology. It embodies distributed intelligence: machines and systems acting collectively, like a superorganism.
In the digital realm, eureality is not just an upgrade; it is an ecosystem of intelligent machines, smart hardware, and synthetic data working together to create a reality more connected, adaptive, and transformative than ever before.
👀 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.
AIX Ventures, Berkeley Female Founders and Funders, Women in AI Club
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Beyond the Algorithm: Women Leading AI Innovation
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AIX Ventures, Berkeley Female Founders and Funders, Women in AI Club
An Evening of Conversations, Community & Celebration Hosted by AIX Ventures
Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving—and women are shaping the future. Join us for an evening of conversation, connection, and collaboration as leaders in AI share their perspectives on the next frontier: agentic AI systems.
This event will feature a dynamic panel discussion followed by networking over food, drinks, and community vibes. Whether you’re a founder, builder, researcher, or investor, you’ll walk away inspired and more connected to the women driving real AI innovation.
🗓 EVENT AGENDA
5:00 – 6:00 PM | Arrival & Networking
Welcome drinks, bites, and casual mingling.
6:00 – 6:10 PM | Opening Remarks by Event Leads: Claire Xie, Isa D’Elia, and Lucy Chong.
6:15 – 6:45 PM | Panel: Women Innovating in Agentic AI — A conversation with leading women in AI: Dilshoda Yergasheva (Head of Financial Services, WRITER AI), Erika Bahr (Co-Founder, Daxe), Sara Choi (Partner, Wing VC), Silvia Chen (Founder & CEO, Bilrost)
6:45 – 7:00 PM | Audience Q&A
Interactive discussion with the panelists.
7:00 – 8:00 PM | Networking Reception
Drinks, food, swag, and deeper conversations with the community.
🌟 Who Should Attend?
Founders & operators building in AI
Investors backing the next wave of innovation
Researchers & engineers curious about agentic AI
Anyone passionate about diverse leadership in AI
Male and non-binary allies are more than welcome to attend!
Our Speakers:
Dilshoda Yergasheva
Global Head of Financial Services, WRITER AI
Dilshoda Yergasheva leads the financial services practice at WRITER. She works closely with product, sales, and marketing teams to help drive genAI enabled transformation at top financial institutions. A seasoned industry veteran, she has 15 years of experience as a portfolio manager and investment director at top hedge funds and investment management firms, including Wellington Management, Bridgewater Associates, and State Street Global Advisors. Dilshoda graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Applied Mathematics and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Erika Bahr
Co-Founder, Daxe
Erika Bahr is the co-founder of Daxe, a seed-stage AI company building solutions at the frontier of enterprise automation. A Harvard alum with experience across startups and consulting, Erika has worked at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and organizational change. She brings a founder’s lens on the realities of scaling early-stage ventures, navigating fundraising, and building diverse teams in the AI ecosystem. Her work focuses on making AI both powerful and practical for organizations of all sizes.
Sara Choi
Partner, Wing VC
Sara Choi is a recovering founder and General Partner at Wing VC where she oversees Wing’s investments in healthcare and biotech. Wing VC is a leading early-stage tech VC whose team has partnered with 24 companies that have IPO’d or sold for over $1b. Sara has partnered with several category-defining companies at inception and Series A that are now unicorns and market leaders. Prior to Wing, Sara was a multi-time founder having most recently founded the mobile data company, Airfox, acquired in 2017. Sara holds a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She enjoys being active in many communities in technology, media, and the arts, and runs the Healthcare x AI (HAI) community.
Silvia Chen
Founder & CEO, Bilrost
Silvia Chen is a principled, analytically minded builder whose leadership spans in-house and entrepreneurial journeys. After beginning her career at Bridgewater and evolving through Head of Product roles, she founded and exited two startups before launching Bilrost, an AI-powered platform that automates key workflows in commercial real estate financing, helping lenders close deals faster and more confidently. Her prior product initiatives unlocked over $1B in liquidity, scaled trading volume 30×, and delivered nine-figure revenue. At bilrost, she’s driving impact in smarter capital deployment, affordable housing, and disaster recovery. Outside of building, she invests as an angel, kitesurfs, trains jiu-jitsu, hits Barry’s, meditates, paints, and reads.
Hosts of the Event:
AIX Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital firm dedicated to funding and supporting AI-native startups. Founded and operated by top AI practitioners and experienced investors, the firm is deeply embedded in the artificial intelligence ecosystem, ensuring it remains at the forefront of technological advancement and company-building expertise. Notable investments include Perplexity, Hugging Face, Weights and Biases, Ambience and Athelas.
Women in AI is built to connect, empower, and elevate female founders, investors, and engineers in artificial intelligence. Subscribe to our newsletter to join us!
Berkeley Female Founders & Funders at Berkeley is a campus-wide club across UC Berkeley’s Business School, Engineering Schools, Masters students and Alumni network. With >250 members, we launched in 2023 to unite women founders and investors on campus and the Bay Area. Our mission is to empower women-driven entrepreneurship and to narrow the persistent VC funding gap, with only 2% of funding going to female founders.
Let’s celebrate the women leading in AI — and build a more inclusive, brilliant future, together.
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.
Swissnex in San Francisco
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Robot-Puppy Yoga
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Swissnex in San Francisco
Forget puppy-yoga. This is robots-yoga, a playful experiment blending movement, machines, and mindfulness to question how it feels when technology enters a space usually reserved for trust and vulnerability.
This session is for builders, researchers, and curious minds shaping the future of robotics. We’ll stretch, reflect, and then connect over a breakfast designed to spark the conversations that matter. Don’t forget to bring your yoga mat!
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.
Event rules: https://swissnex.org/app/uploads/sites/6/2024/05/Swissnex-Event-Rules.pdf
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Sunset Mixer with a Mix (DJ set)
A mixer with a live DJ mix. Grab a brew and hang with Vibeset to kick off LA Tech Week 2025 featuring b2b set of two LA-based DJ's.
We're bringing together LA's community of AI/ML experts, Designers, and general tech & creative enthusiasts to hang.
As part of our event, Vibeset will be available to test via web app for anyone to put a mix together.
Come check out the next wave of AI-powered music curation at Sugar Monkey Brewing - El Segundo.
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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Convo AI World Hackathon Kickoff
Kick off SF Tech Week with the Convo AI World Hackathon. Build voice-first agents, real-time TTS, and multimodal assistants with live mentor support and daily office hours. Featuring hands-on workshops from Agora, ElevenLabs, and HeyGen LiveAvatar.
Schedule:
Agenda:
5:00–5:45 PM | Check-in & Networking
5:45–6:00 PM | Welcome + Partner Intros (Hermes, Agora)
6:05–6:25 PM | Hackathon Brief (Hermes, Agora)
6:30–6:45 PM | Workshop 1 – James Zhou (ElevenLabs)
6:50–7:05 PM | Workshop 2 – Wayne Liang (HeyGen)
7:10–7:25 PM | Workshop 3 – Dennis Ivy (AppWrite)
7:30–7:45 PM | Workshop 4 – Jan and Faisal (Groq)
7:50–8:05 PM | Workshop 5 - Hermes & Ben (Agora)
8:05–9:00 PM | Mixer and Hackathon Kickoff
9:00p Hackathon officially starts
(runs Mon–Thu 3:00p)
Winners will be announced Thursday during Convo AI World: Voices of Tomorrow event: https://partiful.com/e/cFENKndM0wTK8XvryHT2
The hackathon is part of Agora’s global Convo AI World event series spotlighting real-time engagement and conversational AI and held around #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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Making Every R&D Dollar Count: Biotech CEO Dinner
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Human Intelligence in AI Training
Join us during SF Tech Week for an evening exploring how human intelligence powers AI training at scale (micro1) and shapes the future of applications. From frontier LLMs (Amazon AGI) to voice AI (Cartesia) and enterprise agents (Microsoft), leaders from across the AI ecosystem will share how expert data, human-centered design, and ethical guardrails are driving the next generation of AI.
📍 1 Sansome St, Skybar Penthouse
📅 Thursday, Oct 9 | 6–9pm
6–7pm: Networking & Food/Drinks
7–8pm: Panel Discussion
8–9pm: Networking & Food/Drinks
Drinks & light bites provided
Panelists include:
Ali Ansari (Founder of micro1)
Arjun Desai (Co-Founder of Cartesia)
Kevin Huang (Applied Scientist, Microsoft)
Rob McGrorty (Product Lead at Amazon AGI Labs)
Moderated by:
Jules Qiu (Radical Ventures)
Only people approved and on the list will be allowed in - tight security!
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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HackSC x Lovable Hackathon
NOTE: This event is ONLY for current USC students as you need to be able to attend our opening and closing ceremonies on campus. In the RSVP, please write "USC" for your company and "student" as your job title.
Join HackSC and Lovable for a weeklong virtual hackathon! Multiple competitive tracks and multiple prizes; in-person Opening Ceremony and Project Demos. Food and energy drinks will be provided!
Follow us @hackscofficial to keep updated.
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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Stealth AI Founder Exclusive Rooftop Dinner
An approval-only rooftop dinner for founders working below the radar - actively building in stealth and preparing for their first fundraising milestones.
Hosted on a private rooftop with sweeping views of the San Francisco skyline and the ocean at sunset, this intimate dinner offers a rare setting to share candid experiences, compare notes, and build trusted relationships with peers over dinner and drinks.
Seats are intentionally limited - the view, the company, and the conversations are ones you won’t want to miss.
If you're not a Stealth AI Founder, make sure to check out if one of our other two dinners might be more fitting:
Day Zero: https://partiful.com/e/9AIZi81ycjOm0N8mKocm
Pre-Seed/Seed: https://partiful.com/e/i4jCnIHC1ZSzLHEcOd7R
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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AI Founders and Funders Happy Hour
Leader Connect is a way to engage with fellow leaders from the tech community in a relaxed, after-hours setting in San Francisco.
We're featuring Brian Bell, CEO of FusionAuth.
It will be a short, deck-free conversation, packed with wisdom and insights, and most importantly, introductions to peers in your area. We’ll also have plenty of time for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and catching up
This event is intended for Senior Leaders (Founders, CFOs, CHROs) at Tech Companies.
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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