🚀 1,000+ Builders Later, The Tech Week Was Just a Warm Up, (Builder Loft, Oct 14–23)
Last week was one for the record books: 1,000+ builders came through the Builder Loft for Tech Week. 🎉 Thank you to every community, organizer, and builder who made it the biggest week of the year. And this week picked up right where we left off, kicking off with AWS Community Day Bay Area, organized by John Varghese, AWS Hero 🌟 a packed day of AI talks, networking, and community spirit.
The momentum isn't slowing down. Here's everything on deck from today through Oct 23. Grab your spot early 👇
This Week (Oct 14–16)
🔬 AWS San Francisco Research Summit
Wednesday, Oct 14, 9:30 AM–3:30 PM
Wednesday, Oct 14, 9:30 AM–3:30 PM
A no-cost day for research teams working at the intersection of science, data, and AI — a CZ Biohub keynote, an open data & open science panel, sessions on AI and cloud for research co-hosted with Anthropic, and time to connect with other research teams. Built for research leaders, platform engineers, and data/ML scientists.
(Summit) - Register Here.
(Summit) - Register Here.
🤖 Humanoid Hub Conference
Thursday–Friday, Oct 15–16, 9:30 AM–8:30 PM
Two days of live humanoid robot demos, technical talks, and panels on embodied AI, with builders from 1X, Skild AI, Dyna Robotics, Physical Intelligence & more. Powered by HackerSquad.
(Conference) - Register Here.
Thursday–Friday, Oct 15–16, 9:30 AM–8:30 PM
Two days of live humanoid robot demos, technical talks, and panels on embodied AI, with builders from 1X, Skild AI, Dyna Robotics, Physical Intelligence & more. Powered by HackerSquad.
(Conference) - Register Here.
Next Week (Oct 19–23) 🚀
🛠️ Universal Hackathon - Create Your Own AI Workforce
Monday, Oct 19, 9:30 AM–8:30 PM
Monday, Oct 19, 9:30 AM–8:30 PM
Build an AI-native company run by a team of 5+ collaborating AI agents, each with its own role, voice, and avatar; tackling a real-world mission across tracks like climate, health, education, and commerce. 10K+ in credits and cash prizes. Hosted by the AI Collective, GenAI Assembling & AdaL.
(Buildathon) - Register Here.
(Buildathon) - Register Here.
🏆 AI Startup Challenge Hackathon: The Pre-Event of SF AI Summit
Tuesday, Oct 20, 9:30 AM–7:00 PM
A one-day startup-focused hackathon for teams building the next generation of AI products — agents, dev tools, enterprise solutions, and AI infrastructure. Build a working prototype in a day, demo to judges, and network with founders and investors. The official pre-event of the SF AI Summit.
(Hackathon) - Register Here.
Tuesday, Oct 20, 9:30 AM–7:00 PM
A one-day startup-focused hackathon for teams building the next generation of AI products — agents, dev tools, enterprise solutions, and AI infrastructure. Build a working prototype in a day, demo to judges, and network with founders and investors. The official pre-event of the SF AI Summit.
(Hackathon) - Register Here.
🧬 The Next Frontier in AI x Bio: Panel Discussion and Selected Startup Pitches
Thursday, Oct 22, 5:00–8:00 PM
A panel with leaders from BigHat Biosciences, Benchling, LatchBio, and AIX Ventures on biological scaling laws, autonomous scientific agents, and self-improving research systems — plus live showcases from teams at the Self-Accelerating AI for Drug Development hackathon.
(Panel) - Register Here.
Thursday, Oct 22, 5:00–8:00 PM
A panel with leaders from BigHat Biosciences, Benchling, LatchBio, and AIX Ventures on biological scaling laws, autonomous scientific agents, and self-improving research systems — plus live showcases from teams at the Self-Accelerating AI for Drug Development hackathon.
(Panel) - Register Here.
🤖 Beta Fund X AWS X OpenAI Multi-Model Hackathon
Friday, Oct 23, 9:30 AM–7:00 PM
A one-day build-first hackathon for products that reason across images, video, audio, voice, and documents — not just text. Build multi-modal apps, agents, or infrastructure, and leave with a working demo. Standout teams may be invited to interview for Beta Fund's Fellowship.
(Hackathon) - Register Here.
(Hackathon) - Register Here.
Themes We're Watching 👀
It's a frontier moment at the Loft: humanoids and embodied AI, AI x bio and drug discovery, AI-native design, multi-modal building, and two flagship days with the SF AI Summit and its startup challenge. All rolling off the back of our community coming together for Community Day with AWS Hero John Varghese. The builder energy from Tech Week is very much still here.
RSVP 🙌
Heads up: no matter where you first spot an event, the only registration that counts at check-in is on our official platform. Space fills fast, so grab your spot early:
Heads up: no matter where you first spot an event, the only registration that counts at check-in is on our official platform. Space fills fast, so grab your spot early:
See you at the Loft! ☕🛠️
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