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Dev Workshop & Mixer: Prompts to Pints with Reka
Kick off your Tech Week evening with Reka! Join us for an interactive session where developers and builders will get hands-on with multimodal agents in a focused workshop, followed by an early happy hour mixer.
We’ll dive into how Reka’s latest tools can power real-world workflows, then shift gears to casual networking over drinks and bites, with fellow devs, founders, and partners.
Designed as a pre-game to the busy Tech Week nights, this 4–7 pm gathering gives you the best of both worlds: learn something new, connect with the community over drinks and light bites, and still make it to your evening plans (we know how exciting things can get during the #SFTechWeek)
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.
Optional: Bring your own laptop if you’d like to follow along during the workshop. We’ll walk through building simple multimodal agents together, and having your own device means you can try the tools live, experiment with prompts, and leave with something you built yourself. If you prefer to just watch the demos and enjoy the conversation, that works too!
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Tech Week Happy Hour Social @ Wearies
🍸 LA Tech Week: Happy Hour @ Wearies 🍸
Kick back, connect, and raise a glass with LA’s tech community! On Tuesday, October 14th at 5:30PM, join us at Weary Livers Bar in Santa Monica for a relaxed evening of drinks, conversations, and new connections.
🍹 Happy Hour Specials until 7PM – handcrafted cocktails, local beers, and plenty of fuel for good conversation.
🤝 Meet Founders, Builders & Investors – the perfect low-key way to expand your network during Tech Week.
✨ Unique Atmosphere – Wearies’ gothic-Victorian vibe meets LA Tech energy for a night you won’t forget.
No pitches, no pressure – just good drinks, good people, and a chance to connect outside the conference hustle.
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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LA Tech Week Afrobeats Party
Join us for an unforgettable night where tech meets Vibes, Fun, Networking & culture!
On October 16, 2025, we're bringing together 300+ tech professionals, founders, creators, innovators, investors, and industry leaders for a great time of music, games, fun, networking, and collaborations.
Ditch the traditional conference setting and immerse yourself in an atmosphere where connections are made on the dance floor, and innovation meets rhythm and art.
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.
Hosted by www.travelbayonline.com
Come for the networking, stay for the vibes, leave with amazing connections that power future business and personal growth!
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Energy to Build: Navigating the U.S. as a Global Founder + Padel Free Play
[UPDATE: We’ll have immigration attorney Sophie Alcorn join us to answer all your questions about visas and green cards.]
👋 Moved to the U.S. to build or work in tech? This event is built for you.
You know how much energy gets drained on visas, housing, credit, healthcare, all the basics. That's the real opportunity gap.
Oyster is reshaping it with AI + community, so you can protect your most valuable resource: your focus & energy.
📅 ABOUT THE EVENT:
At Oyster, we believe the best hacks come from each other. That’s why our first event for #SFTechWeek is all about building energy together.
This night isn’t just Oyster → you. It’s people <> people: peers sharing hacks, stories, and energy while connecting on and off the padel court.
We’ll share insider tips, play some padel (all levels welcome), and connect with people who truly get the journey.
✅ ATTENDEE TAKEAWAYS:
• Learn what sets back global founders & hires in the U.S.
• Walk away with hacks to save time, energy, and resources.
• Experience Oyster’s community-first approach: the power of people helping each other.
• Play padel at Bay Padel — Silicon Valley’s “new hotspot for tech networking” (SF Standard & CBS). All levels welcome.
• Close the night with a relaxed brewery hang in Dogpatch.
Space is limited (30 spots). RSVP fast to save your spot!
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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Remote Leaders Happy Hour: Tips, Tools & Tequila
Join fellow remote team leaders and startup founders for a casual happy hour on the future of remote work. Connect, swap stories, and share tools and strategies for building productive, happy teams from anywhere.
Running a remote team comes with unique challenges — from staying productive across time zones to keeping teams engaged and avoiding burnout. We’re bringing together startup founders and remote team leaders to share what’s working (and what isn’t) when it comes to running remote teams.
This isn’t a panel or a pitch — just good drinks, good conversation, and a room full of people who get what it’s like to build and lead remotely. Whether you’re scaling your first team or refining how your company works across borders, you’ll leave with fresh ideas, new connections, and maybe even your next favorite tool for running remote.
Come for the community, stay for the conversations that help you (and your team) work smarter from anywhere.
Hosted by:
WeekWize, a time planning and tracking tool that helps teams plan better, reduce burnout, and boost profitability. www.weekwize.com
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.
Headlamp Health, The Good Science Fund LLC
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How Digital Technologies are Improving Mental Health
Downtown (SF)
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Headlamp Health, The Good Science Fund LLC
Headlamp Health and The Good Science Fund are inviting accredited investors and Angel investors to a panel event followed a light happy hour. The panel will feature Headlamp and others to discuss the role of data and precision mental health interventions in preventing adverse events in psychiatry.
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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TECH WEEK AFTERHOURS
PLOTS is putting together a special after hours event in Beverly Hills to close off Tech Week. No panels, no pitches.
Get off your phones, undo that top button, and experience a night with the finest Los Angeles has to offer.
Who's invited?
Investors, Founders, Tastemakers
Guest list by approval only
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.
USC Information Sciences Institute
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New Space Race
Marina del Rey
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USC Information Sciences Institute
New Space Race: Inside the Minds Fueling Humanity
The race to space is no longer confined to government agencies—it’s an arena where visionary companies, startups, and researchers are redefining what’s possible for humanity’s future beyond Earth. Join this thought-provoking panel, moderated by Dave Barnhart, as industry leaders share how they are tackling the technological, commercial, and ethical challenges of the new space age. From satellites to sustainable exploration and interplanetary ambitions, this conversation will dive deep into the innovations and bold ideas shaping humanity’s next giant leap.
Panelists:
Dr Rahul Rughani, Chief Systems Engineer, Arkisys
Dr Keenan Alba, Professor of Astronautical Engineering, USC
Beth Dean-Pope, VP of Commercial Partnerships, VAST
Panel moderated by Dave Barnhart.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-a-barnhart-30887157/
See all USC ISI Tech Week events: https://linktr.ee/usc_isi
Location: USC, Information Sciences Institute
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way Marina Del Rey Ca 90292
Check in at Reception: 10th Floor
Recommended Marina Del Rey Lots, $6 per day/vehicle:
Lot 4 : 13500 Mindanao Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LPdBxT6rZvJxvjpf7
Visitor parking at USC, ISI, $25 per day/vehicle
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey Ca 90292
Questions? Email us at events@isi.edu
#LATechWeek
This event is a part of #LATechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem
https://www.tech-week.com
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Startup Social Club
Will your next milestone come from one more line of code, or a handshake?
Startup Social Club is your excuse to ditch the calendar and hang with other founders, operators, and VCs.
No pitches, no panels — just good people and better convos.
Brought to you by Caladan (www.trycaladan.com) — turning companies into AI-Powered machines.
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.
Come join 3D animators, riggers, technical animators, animation engineers and anyone else touching the 3D animation pipeline for a chance to meet peers and chat about our industry. Enjoy cocktails, mocktails, and beer in a casual environment with others building like you.
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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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.
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Mobility Investors x Founders : After Hours
Join our exclusive happy hour for a special gathering for select mobility founders and investors.
🍸This will be an open forum with drinks to exchange ideas and connect with a room full of people who act, decide, and build bravely in mobility.
🚀 Expect candid conversations, sharp ideas, and connections that matter. If you are investing or building in mobility, electric vehicles, autonomy, manufacturing or hardware infrastructure, you would want to join us.
• Hosted by Olympian Motors (YC W22) & Reunited Ventures.
• Space is limited. Please RSVP.
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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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Swiss Watch AI: The $7B Opportunity - Mexican Brunch in the Presidio
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HIIT & Hustle : LA Tech Week Launch
This Is Rally. The investor and founder network that prefers sweat over small talk.
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We're kicking off LA Tech Week in style with our biggest event yet!
Join 100 VCs and founders for an epic morning workout, and experience what one attendee called 'the next generation of investor and founder collaboration"
⬆️ Top VCs and founders
🏋🏻♀️ Expertly programmed workout
🧢 Rally merch
🥤 Healthy giveaways
🔊 Big tunes
Demand is high and space extremely limited. So sign up quick, you don't want to miss this one.
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Meet Others at Rally With Boardy
We’re all in on IRL. But recently we've been thinking, could AI take the experience to new levels?
That’s why we’re partnering with Boardy – the world’s AI superconnector – to help you meet the right people before the event even starts.
Here’s how it works:
Click on the link and send Boardy the pre-filled WhatsApp message
👉 https://whatsapp.boardy.ai/rally-la-tech-week
Once you provide your LinkedIn and email, Boardy will give you a quick call to learn about you, what you’re working on, and who you’d love to meet.
Boardy will then suggest relevant attendees to connect with. If you both say yes, he’ll make a warm intro via email and WhatsApp — and even give you some context to spark the conversation.
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Thanks to our partner: Fidelity Private Shares
Fidelity Private Shares is committed to supporting the startup and venture capital ecosystem. They help companies prepare for their next round of funding with our cap table management and data room platform and offer educational content, events, and opportunities for community connections.
No matter where you are in your journey – from idea to exit, and beyond – Fidelity has the solutions to support you.
To find out more, visit: www.fidelityprivateshares.com or email Kelsey.Doorey@fmr.com.
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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Lawrence Harvey - Emerging Tech Specialists, Lawrence Harvey
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Emerging Technology
Santa Monica
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Lawrence Harvey - Emerging Tech Specialists, Lawrence Harvey
A calm, great environment to network and meet other local people in this space!
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.
