Hi Friends,

This week, I’m deep in planning for Gigaparty 3 — where we’ll feature the first-ever VR-controlled humanoid fight live on stage 🤖⚡ plus an outdoor area with food trucks and live music.

One of the highlights will be our VC Pitch Session — where top investors pitch their fund on stage in just one minute. We already have an incredible lineup joining us, including:

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See you at Gigaparty 3!

Here are some events happening this week and the LinkedIn post about all the events.:

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Friday, September 26 - 6:00 PM - 2:00 AM

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​🔥 The WORLD'S FIRST VR-Controlled Humanoid Robot Fight 🤖🥊

For the first time ever, two humans step into VR rigs to control real combat robots in a live arena. Twitch founder Justin Kan will face off against UFC fighter Hyder Amil.

​Gamer vs UC fighter. Silicon Valley vs the Octagon. Two humans. Two machines. One winner! 🤯

September 18 at 1:00 PM until September 19 at 8:30 PM

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Two days. One iconic roof.
We’re gathering builders, visionaries and funders at the edge of what’s next.

On September 18–19, Frontier Tech Forum convenes at the iconic Hero City at Draper University in San Mateo - a two-day program at the edge of possibility in the heart of Silicon Valley. This is where Innovation Pioneers in AI, AGI, Robotics, Deep Tech, and Blockchain converge. Boundaries are being redefined through visionary keynotes, sharp technical breakouts, and fast-moving panels that put builders and innovators at the center. If you’re ready to step beyond the hype and into the conversations shaping the future, this is where you belong.

September 17-18, 2025 @ 8:00 AM

The AI Conference is a unique vendor-neutral event brought to you by the creators of MLconf and Ben Lorica, former Program Chair of The O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, the Strata Data Conference, and TensorFlow World. We’re focused on building a beacon of knowledge, innovation, and community to help shape the rapidly evolving field of AI technology.

Whether you’re a researcher, engineer or entrepreneur, you’ll find opportunities to learn, collaborate, and network with some of the brightest minds in AI. Topics will span a wide range of AI fields, including AGI, Foundation Models and Large Language Models, Generative AI, Neural Architectures, AI Infrastructure, AI Use Cases, Ethics and Alignment, Data Management tools for AI, AI Startups and Investment and much more.

Wednesday, September 17 - 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

​Join us right after The AI Conference for an evening of connection, conversation, and celebration. We’re bringing together founders, investors, builders, and AI enthusiasts for a relaxed but high-energy gathering where the ideas don’t stop when the conference ends.

Our very own resident DJ David Carvalho will be spinning amazing music!

Wednesday, September 17 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

​Scott Hanning will share practical tools and lessons from his experience guiding organizations through change. He’ll show how internal communications can create clarity, build trust, and keep teams aligned—even during busy or uncertain times.

Thursday, September 18 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

​Being a founder comes with big dreams and big responsibilities—but it can also bring stress, overwhelm, and burnout. In this interactive workshop, Sustainable Success: How Founders Can Thrive Without Burning Out, Allison Tibbs from Nourished Life Coaching & Consulting, will guide you through strategies to take care of both your business and your wellbeing.

Friday, September 19 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

​We’re excited to welcome Ellisha Blechynden, Principal Attorney at Blechynden Legal, as our featured speaker. Ellisha advises early-stage startups and investors on venture financings and deal structuring, and she’ll share actionable insights to help founders approach negotiations strategically.

September 22–23, 2025

It is with immense pride that we welcome you to the 27th Global Family Office Investment Summit in Cannes. This event represents not just a meeting of global capital but a fusion of forward-thinking leaders dedicated to uncovering groundbreaking investment opportunities. From blockchain and digital assets to fintech, Web3, healthcare, real estate, venture capital, private equity, and co-investments, we will explore a diverse range of transformative topics. Together, we are here to shape a sustainable and innovative future, setting the stage for growth and success for generations ahead.

Thursday, September 25 9:30 PM - 1:00 AM​

Join us for an inspiring evening as we celebrate the remarkable achievements of our Renaissance Entrepreneurs! Enjoy a delightful array of hors d'oeuvres and desserts, explore a vibrant marketplace featuring exclusive products from our talented community, and participate in an exciting raffle with unique prizes. This event is a wonderful opportunity to connect, network, and honor the entrepreneurial spirit that drives our community forward. Don't miss out on this night of celebration and impact!

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Are you a female founder building something bold? Apply to pitch at the Berkeley Female Founders & Funders Summit on October 24th at Berkeley Haas.

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👉 Accelerate Climate Innovation with Earth Data & AI (10AM-4PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hands-on workshop and showcase at AWS GenAI Loft on geospatial data, AI, and LLMs for climate innovation. Learn how data from satellites, IoT, and infrastructure fuels climate resilience at scale.

👉 Earth Data & AI: Builder Happy Hour (4PM-6PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Wrap up the climate innovation workshop with an evening of drinks, light bites, and networking. A chance to connect with innovators, spatial data enthusiasts, and AI builders.

👉 Startup Investing from the Inside Out (Palo Alto) (5PM-8PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Investors and founders share real tactics, red flags, and lessons from early fundraising. Perfect for founders raising capital or those exploring angel investing.

👉 The modern engineer’s toolkit: Tools and workflows in the AI era (5:30PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Fireside chats and live coding demos with the minds behind OpenAI Codex and Anthropic. Discover the modern AI tools helping engineers ship faster.

👉 Achieving Accuracy and Efficiency in AI Agents (6PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Talks on evaluation, prompt optimization, hardware trends, and efficient LLM serving. Evening includes food, drinks, and technical discussions on agent performance.

👉 Pantera Fund V Call (9AM-10AM)
📍 Online
💬 Learn about Pantera’s fifth venture-style fund, investment strategy, and market outlook. Exclusive call with Pantera’s investment team.

👉 2025 AI Conference Hack Day in San Francisco (10AM-7PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hack Day with lightning talks, demo challenges, and prizes to push AI into production. A fun day of building with leading AI companies and developers.

👉 Bay Area Gen AI Founders Meetup (4PM-7PM)
📍 Redwood City
💬 Meet founders and builders applying GenAI to real-world problems. Talks, demos, and networking to share insights and solutions.

👉 Reimagining IAM for an agentic world (4PM-7PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Explore challenges and solutions in AI identity management with AGNTCY experts. Panel and discussions on preventing fraud and securing autonomous agents.

👉 Taiwan for AI Teams: Your Asia Talent Hub (5PM-8PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Taiwan is becoming a top hub for scaling global tech teams. Hear expert insights on talent, policies, and opportunities for startups.

👉 Built on Bedrock Demo Night (5PM-7:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Evening of Agentic AI demos from startups using Amazon Bedrock. See the latest applications and network with GenAI enthusiasts.

👉 AI Builders Meetup: Evaluating Sessions & Scaling with Multi-Agent Systems (5:30PM-8:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Technical deep dives on evaluation techniques and scaling with multi-agent collaboration. Includes demos, talks, and community networking.

👉 Pitch Above the Clouds: All Star Global Pitch Battle - Silicon Valley Edition (5:30PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Early-stage founders pitch to top VCs from 46 floors above SF with stunning skyline views. A high-energy evening of big ideas and ambition.

👉 Mastering AI Agents with Qodo (7PM-10PM)
📍 New York
💬 Hands-on workshop teaching developers to build Python-based AI agents with MCP. Learn to integrate agents into your software development lifecycle.

👉 The AI Conference [FOUNDERSBAY for 15% off] (ALL DAY) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 San Francisco
💬 The AI Conference was established to embrace the potent capability of AI to revolutionize every facet of human existence, from daily living to broad societal structures.

👉 Founders Bay Virtual Workshop - From Chaos to Clarity: Internal Comms for Growing Teams (11AM-12PM) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 Online
💬 Learn practical tools to simplify and strengthen internal communication as your team scales. Discover how clarity builds trust and alignment during growth or change.

👉 HealthTech Hang's September Helpful (and Happy) Hour (2:30PM-5PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 A casual, supportive happy hour for HealthTech founders, builders, and enablers. Connect, share insights, and recharge with peers in the ecosystem.

👉 Building Blocks, presented by Notion (2:30PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 An invite-only half-day summit exploring startup building, monetization, and distribution in the AI era. Hosted at Notion HQ with talks, panels, and a happy hour.

👉 AI Took My Job... Now What? (3PM-5PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 A hands-on workshop on adapting to the future of work with AI. Gain strategies to innovate, lead, and build growth opportunities in your organization.

👉 Hack Night at GitHub (4PM-9PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 An evening of hacking, networking, and AI-powered innovation at GitHub HQ. Collaborate with developers and explore cutting-edge solutions.

👉 First Block Live - From Stealth to $1.5B Unicorn in a Year: Inside Decagon, hosted by Notion (5:30PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hear how Decagon scaled from stealth to unicorn in just one year. Learn practical lessons on product design, GTM, and scaling AI-powered solutions.

👉 The AI Conference After Party | Hosted by Founders Bay (6PM-9PM) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 San Francisco
💬 Celebrate after The AI Conference with founders, investors, and builders. Expect music, drinks, food, and plenty of networking with AI innovators.

👉 AI Agent Founder Dinner: 17th September (6:30PM-9PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 An invite-only dinner for AI Agent founders to share challenges, insights, and strategies. A candid space for building community and exchanging learnings.

👉 CTRL+ALT RESPAWN Film & Gaming ( AI x Crypto Expo Edition ) (ALL DAY)
📍 San Francisco
💬 ​CTRL+ALT RESPAWN returns with a special AI × Crypto Expo Edition, exploring frontier technologies into a two-day activation that blends premieres, panels, and investor-ready deal flow.

​Expect legendary technologists, pioneering founders, and industry visionaries exploring nanotech, cybersecurity, XR, decentralized AI, and the future of investment in California’s innovation economy.

👉 The AI Conference [FOUNDERSBAY for 15% off] (ALL DAY) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 San Francisco
💬 The AI Conference was established to embrace the potent capability of AI to revolutionize every facet of human existence, from daily living to broad societal structures.

👉 Pitch to the Valley (3AM-5:30AM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 A high-energy evening of rapid-fire pitches and live Q&A with 8 early-stage founders. Perfect for investors, founders, and community members to scout opportunities and celebrate innovation.

👉 TKM Capital Partners Live Webinar (8AM-9AM)
📍 Online
💬 Explore TKM’s innovative GP stakes strategy in the Israeli VC spin-out market. Learn how it enables higher returns with reduced risks for LPs.

👉 Founders Bay Virtual Workshop - Sustainable Success: How Founders Can Thrive Without Burning Out (11AM-12PM) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 Online
💬 Allison Tibbs will share strategies for founders to avoid burnout while building their companies. Learn how to protect your energy, focus, and joy while scaling.

👉 Startup Grind Oakland All-Star Pitch Battle (12PM-3PM)
📍 Oakland
💬 Early-stage founders pitch bold ideas to top VCs and tech leaders. Expect high-energy competition, networking, and insights into the next wave of startups.

👉 Frontier Tech Forum [18-19 Sept] (1PM-8:30PM) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 San Mateo
💬 Two days at Draper University with leading minds across AI, robotics, quantum, and cybersecurity. A rare chance to engage with global innovators redefining boundaries.

👉 Agentic AI: Killer Use Cases (4:30PM-7:30PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 Explore how autonomous AI agents are driving real business impact. Hear from VCs and founders on what separates hype from true market-shaping outcomes.

👉 Cracking B2B GTM w/ 12 Founders (5PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 A private roundtable for AI founders sharing B2B sales and go-to-market strategies. Designed for post-revenue and early-stage leaders scaling their businesses.

👉 Data Systems for AI: Multimodal Madness (5PM-8:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Industry leaders discuss next-gen data infrastructure powering multimodal AI. Expect practical insights into the future of AI data systems and analytics.

👉 DaVinci Cafe: AI & Virtual Cell (5PM-7PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 A spotlight on AI agents for science with Stanford’s James Zou. Panel explores the commercial and scientific potential of AI Virtual Cells.

👉 The Convergence Forum (5PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 A global dinner forum bringing together 25–50 investors, founders, and executives. Features curated conversations, fireside chats, and networking.

👉 The Horizon Forum (5PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hosted by Norton Rose Fulbright and Twill, uniting AI leaders worldwide. Expect candid dialogue, strategic insights, and powerful global connections.

👉 Stateful Agents Meetup: Networks (5:30PM-8:30PM)
📍 Sunnyvale
💬 Hands-on workshops and demos of stateful AI agents tackling network challenges. Includes Nokia showcases, Letta demos, and lightning talks.

👉 Skyfire Presents: Agentic Commerce (5:30PM-8:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hosted at Visa HQ, this event explores AI-powered payments and digital identity. Brings together top fintech and AI innovators shaping agentic commerce.

👉 Camp AI: Product Demos + Founder Insights (5:30PM-8:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Live demos from AI startups like CircleCI, Traversaal AI, and CodeAnt AI. Followed by a panel with AWS, GitHub, and Vercel on scaling AI applications.

👉 Navigating the AI Gold Rush (6PM-9PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 Investors share perspectives on opportunities and risks across the AI stack. Learn which markets are still worth pursuing and what’s overhyped.

👉 AI Agents Meetup: LangChain + Clay (6PM-8:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Clay’s CEO shares how they built Claygent, an AI-powered research agent. Learn about its impact on automating data workflows and scaling reliably.

👉 Docs to Data: AI in Insurance (6PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Fireside chat on building AI tools for insurance document processing. Hosted by founders from Reducto and Shepherd.

👉 Design × AI: From Ideas to Iconic Products (6PM-8:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Learn how design systems turn AI capability into defensible, market-defining products. Panel dives into frameworks that separate billion-dollar winners from failed experiments.

👉 Reliable Voice AI Systems Fireside Chat (6PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Coval engineers share insights from self-driving tech applied to voice AI. Expect deep technical discussion on scaling and reliability.

👉 San Francisco AI & Entrepreneurs Networking Event (7PM-9PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Networking event for AI founders, investors, and professionals hosted by Stellar Socials. A casual evening to connect, collaborate, and grow your network.

👉 Voice Agent Hackathon (9AM-5:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 A one-day hackathon dedicated to building cutting-edge voice agents with AssemblyAI, LiveKit, Rime, and Accel. Bring your skills, experiment with the latest tools, and create the next generation of AI voice experiences.

👉 Founders Bay Virtual Workshop - Term Sheets Best Practices for Founders (11AM-12PM) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 Online
💬 Learn how to navigate term sheets with confidence and avoid common pitfalls in fundraising. Featuring attorney Ellisha Blechynden, this workshop will cover key terms, negotiation strategies, and investor expectations.

👉 Scrappy Founders Play Beach Volleyball (+Picnic) (10AM-3PM)
📍 Santa Cruz
💬 Invite-only beach party with 12 AI founders and investors playing volleyball and enjoying a picnic. A fun, casual way to connect and recharge on the coast.

👉 Robot Build-a-thon (11AM-2:30PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Hands-on pre-event to assemble and calibrate SO-101 robot kits for the hackathon. A chance to get familiar with the hardware before diving into AI challenges.

👉 Taiwan Demo Day @ Taiwan Tech Summit 2025 (1PM-5:30PM)
📍 Santa Clara
💬 Showcase your startup to top investors, partners, and innovators at Taiwan Tech Summit 2025. Open to early-stage through Series B companies building in AI, robotics, and biotech.

👉 Swing for AI Golf Event + Dinner (3PM-9:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Bay Area Founders Club hosts its 13th "Swing for AI" golf outing at Half Moon Bay followed by a dinner. Founders will connect over AI applications and select pitches during the evening.

👉 Pickleball w/ 12 (scrappy) Founders (10AM-1PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Invite-only pickleball game and brunch for early-stage AI founders and investors. All skill levels welcome, with a coach on hand to make it fun and relaxing.

Building software is faster than ever—but with so many AI tools, it’s easy to get lost in the noise. At our recent Founders Bay Virtual Workshop, developers got an inside look at how to move beyond “vibe coding” and embrace hive coding: AI-powered, production-grade development at scale.

Our speakers, Mike Biglan (CEO) and Trevor Dilley (CTO) of DevSwarm and Twenty Ideas, shared how their teams are using AI coding in parallel to accelerate development while keeping engineers firmly in the loop.

The workshop explored how to build faster, safer, and smarter with AI—without sacrificing production quality.

Instead of waiting for an AI to finish a task, Dev Swarm lets you spin up multiple “builders” (branches + AI agents) simultaneously. You can add features, test infrastructure, and refactor code—all in parallel—without breaking focus.

Command-line AI assistants like Cloud Code, Gemini, Codex, and Amazon Q can now handle complex refactors, infrastructure-as-code, and PR reviews. With Dev Swarm, you stay in the loop at every change—just like managing a real engineering team.

High-velocity engineering isn’t about cutting corners. Tools like diff views, commit screens, and port variable management keep projects stable, reviewable, and production-ready.

The “best AI coder” changes monthly. Dev Swarm supports multiple agents, including local LLMs, so you’re never locked in—and can switch when performance shifts.

AI can generate diagrams, prototypes, and specs, helping teams de-risk features early. With parallel builders, you can test multiple unknowns at once, reducing surprises later in development.

Explore devswarm.ai and stay tuned for future Founders Bay workshops designed to help you leverage AI to code, build, and scale with confidence.

View the entire workshop video here: