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Monetizing your AI product fast
Hands-on session for founders & product leaders building AI products
🎯 What You'll Get:
• Framework for pricing AI agents that adapt as fast as your product evolves
• Real strategies from a founder who scaled to Series A
• Collaborative problem-solving with fellow builders
• Food, drinks & networking
💡 The Challenge:
Launching an AI agent is only half the battle - scaling it into a revenue engine is where most founders struggle. Traditional SaaS pricing models fall short when your product shifts from "enabling work" to "producing outcomes."
🛠️ Workshop Format:
This is an interactive working session - come prepared to share your monetization challenges and workshop solutions together. We'll dive deep into why conventional pricing strategies fail for AI agents and how to monetize with speed, intelligence, and flexibility.
🎤 Featured Speaker:
Zach Barney, CEO of Mobly - Zach will share his journey scaling Mobly (event marketing platform that captures leads instantly and syncs to CRM) from startup to Series A.
👨💼 Workshop Leader:
Michael Hoy, CEO of Atlas - pricing, packaging and billing platform for AI products
Perfect for: AI startup founders, product managers at AI-first companies, business leaders optimizing AI product revenue strategy
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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Thank God for El Segundo
El Segundo is where rockets get built a mile from the beach, where polished concrete floors meet stainless and 7075, where machinists, engineers, and founders trade notes under the LAX glide path.
Join us for a rooftop party to swap war stories and remember why this pocket of SoCal is the home field for hard tech.
Presented by SIFT X CIV: 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/
Participation from: Manufacturo, Revel, Hyperstition, Magenta AI, Gallantin, Goodwin, JP Morgan Chase, and Roots
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Investor Tip-Off @ Intuit Dome
Join us for an afternoon that blends networking, investing, and sports under one roof. Connect with fellow investors, founders, and operators from San Francisco and Los Angeles while enjoying community-driven activities. Included will be:
1. Networking & community: mingle with like-minded funds, brands, and startups across tech, venture, and sports in a casual setting
2. Basketball highlights: a free throw contest plus a 5-on-5 game between SF and LA investors!
Inclusive fun: you don’t need to play to join—come for the connections, conversations, and energy!
Food & beverages provided throughout the event.
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.
Workday, Globalization Partners, Boston Consulting Group
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The New Growth Playbook: Lessons from the World’s Most Vital Companies
Marina del Rey
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Workday, Globalization Partners, Boston Consulting Group
Join Workday, BCG, and Globalization Partners at Tech Week 2025 as we sit down with C-suite Tech & Media leaders from the Fortune Future 50 – the world’s fastest-growing companies. We’ll explore how they are adapting their strategy, technology, people, and culture to dominate their categories, drive long-term growth, and deliver outsized returns to stakeholders.
Speakers:
Alejandro Mayer, Chief Strategy & Business Officer, Workday
Ketil Gjerstad, Global Strategy Leader, BCG;
Kevin Chung, Chief Strategy Officer, Writer AI; Mark Troughton, Chief Operating Officer, Chime Financial;
Adam Dix, Head of Finance Operations, Anthropic
Nicole Sahin, Founder and CEO, Globalization Partners
By attending you will learn:
• What lessons Future 50 have learned along their growth journeys
• Why planning for global complexity, overinvesting in your people infrastructure, and prioritizing the internal employee experience are essential to SMB success
• Why founder-led cultures are the most important capability to get right and scale successfully
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.
AWS, Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Celebrating the Cyber60: Where Cybersecurity Innovation Meets Investment
FiDi (SF)
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AWS, Lightspeed Venture Partners
[SF]
[LA]
Consumer AI Pitch Fest | hosted by Maven Ventures
Join consumer-focused VCs, Maven Ventures, Pear VC, and Forerunner to hear 10 lightning pitches from founders building at the forefront of Consumer AI.
Judges:
*Robert Ravanshenas, Partner, Maven Ventures
*Warren Shaeffer, Partner, Pear VC
*Fawzi Itani, Investor, Forerunner Ventuers
Pitches will begin by 6:30p. Please arrive on time to secure your spot. We had hundreds of founders apply to pitch last year - you won't want to miss it! There will be plenty of time for networking with founders, VCs, and builders in AI. Light bites and drinks will be served.
Founders — please apply to pitch in the event RSVP. 10 founders to pitch will be notified on a rolling basis.
Presented by: Maven Ventures, Inworld and Hubspot.
Hosted by Maven Ventures and Inworld.
◾ Maven - Consumer Tech VC
Details: mavenventures.com
◾ Inworld - AI products for Conversational AI applications.
Details: inworld.ai
◾ Hubspot - Unified marketing and sales platform
Details: hubspot.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.
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Female Founders and Funders Walk
Feathr, Los Angeles Fun Events
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Investor x Founder Speed Pitches
Santa Monica
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Feathr, Los Angeles Fun Events
🚀 Investor x Founder Speed Pitches @ Wearies
📍 Wearies Santa Monica
🗓 Saturday, October 18th | ⏰ 7:00 PM | 💵 $25
MUST PURCHASE TICKET ON EVENTBRITE:
Where capital meets creativity. Join us for Investor x Founder Speed Pitches, a high-energy networking experience designed to connect early-stage founders with active investors.
Using our Feathr Speed Networking software, founders will deliver quick, focused pitches in timed one-on-one sessions, while investors get a chance to discover fresh ideas and talent in an efficient, curated format. The evening blends the energy of speed dating with the strategy of deal-making—fast, dynamic, and full of opportunity.
✨ What to Expect:
Structured 1:1 pitch sessions powered by Feathr Speed Networking
Direct access to investors, founders, and key players in L.A.’s startup ecosystem
A curated, professional environment inside the stylish Wearies Santa Monica
Opportunities for follow-up connections after the event
If you’re a founder looking for funding—or an investor seeking the next breakout idea—this is where meaningful conversations start.
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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Optimizing LLMs for Contact Center Automation
Join this hands-on masterclass to explore the practical applications of hyper-realistic voice technology in call centers.
We’ll cover:
Fine-tuning LLMs for fast, accurate responses in customer interactions
Deploying AI voice agents with low latency for real-time use cases
Reducing hallucinations to improve reliability and business impact
Handling complex inquiry handoffs and integrating with existing call center tech
Through live coding and real-world case studies, you'll gain the technical skills to build production-ready solutions for the future of agentic customer experiences.
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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The Predictive CFO: Finance Leadership in the Age of AI
Finance is entering a new era. Today’s CFOs and FP&A leaders are expected to be strategic drivers of growth, risk managers, and technology adopters all at once. With the rise of predictive analytics and AI, finance teams have an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond static budgets and reactive reporting into a future of real-time insights, smarter forecasting, and more confident decision-making.
Join us for The Predictive CFO: Finance Leadership in the Age of AI, a forward-looking panel featuring CFOs and FP&A executives from leading enterprises. Together, they’ll explore how finance leaders are leveraging AI and predictive models to balance cost discipline with growth, improve forecasting accuracy, and build agile teams.
This session will highlight both strategic perspectives from the C-suite and tactical lessons FP&A teams can apply today.
About Elements:
Elements is an AI-powered platform designed for companies to maximize the ROI of business travel. Seamlessly integrating with your CRM, TMC, expense, and revenue intelligence tools, Elements helps you boost revenue, focus sales/marketing efforts on high-impact opportunities, and eliminate wasted expenses by up to 40%. Contact edo@elementsworld.io for more details.
About Trinet:
Trinet provides small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. Trinet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll, all enabled by industry leading technology. Trinet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most - growing their business and enabling their people. For more information, please contact michaela.toohey@trinet.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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Charting Tomorrow: AI, Investment, and Healthcare
Fr8qu8ncy, All In One Entertainment
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Shaping Stories: Journalism, PR, Tech in a New Era
Long Beach
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Fr8qu8ncy, All In One Entertainment
Shaping Stories: Journalism, PR & Tech in a New Era
A fireside chat to explore the intersection of media and tech — from how stories are told and distributed, to how women founders and innovators can gain visibility in a crowded space.
The conversations will also highlight how women in journalism, public relations and technology are redefining influence.
We’re curating a room full of brilliance—and the lineup is almost ready to announce.
From editorial architects to PR disruptors, AI storytellers to media founders, our panels will feature women and industry leaders who are rewriting the rules of tech, journalism and storytelling.
We are meeting with tech partners — contact hello@fr8qu8ncy.com for sponsorship, marketing and collaborative opportunities.
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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Building What's Next: AI-Native Infrastructure Lessons from the Trenches
Behind every AI demo are months of hard engineering. The reality: today’s infrastructure wasn’t built for the demands of what's possible ahead. Those on the frontlines are discovering what works, what breaks, and what needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
This session brings those hard-earned lessons into the open. Expect candid insights from teams like Aperture Data who are rethinking data systems, scaling architectures, and solving problems most of the industry hasn’t hit yet.
If you want to understand where AI-native infrastructure is actually headed—not just on slides but in production—this is the room to be in.
Presented by:
Future | Futures
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, Autonomy, and the Future of Delivery Mixer
Venice
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Curbivore, Coco Robotics
Coco Robotics and Curbivore present an LA #TechWeek happy hour at Coco’s beautiful Venice Beach HQ, bringing together investors and technologists who care about how AI is shaping the real world — from food delivery to the future of urban life.
We’ll kick things off with a panel discussion on “AI, Autonomy, and the Future of Delivery”, featuring George O'Brien - VP Product at Coco, Bolei Zhou - Professor at UCLA Computer Science, and Amit Gupta - Partner at SNR Ventures.
Coco has spent the last five years transforming into one of the country’s leading autonomous delivery services — a company that’s transforming how goods move in cities and has already expanded from Los Angeles to Miami, Chicago, and Helsinki. Backed by investors including Sam Altman, Founders Fund, Pelion, Outlander, and SNR, Coco has raised over $110M to make clean, efficient delivery a reality.
Expect a candid, real-world look at how AI and robotics are creating immediate business impact — powering Coco’s delivery fleet, enabling restaurant partners, and building the foundation for the cities of tomorrow.
After the discussion, stick around for food, drinks, and networking with investors, innovators, and future teammates passionate about building sustainable, AI-driven urban infrastructure.
This event is 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.
