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👉 Applied AI Agents Hackathon (9AM-9PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join a one-day hackathon focused on building real, shippable AI agents that automate workflows and create content. Bring your idea, and use provided tools to rapidly move from concept to demo. Collaborate with other builders to solve practical problems in the wild.

👉 Breakpoint: War stories of Agents Breaking in Prod (5:30PM-8PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Breakpoint is a hands-on gathering for engineers scaling AI agents in production. Learn from no-fluff discussions about failures, recovery strategies, and building reliable systems. Meet engineers and platform teams shaping how agents operate at scale.

👉 AI Meetup with Award Winners Meta | EY | IBM | Uniphore | Informatica | Stanford | UCB | Columbia | Harvard (6PM-10PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Celebrate and dialogue with AI pioneers across industries. Explore how AI and human stewardship can coexist for ethical, sustainable innovation. Gain opportunities for 1:1 interactions with leaders and award winners.

👉 90/30 Club (ML reading) #30: Modern OCR: Efficient Recognition in the LLM Era (7PM-9:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Examine OCR as a unified vision-language task and its impact on generalization across diverse documents. Discuss how structural decoding improves model resilience to adversarial text. Engage in hands-on learning at Mox with peers in the ML community.

👉 BioML Seminar 3.5 - Recent progress in generative methods for protein structure modeling and design (7PM-8:30PM)
📍 Berkeley
💬 Join Stanford Professor Brian Trippe to explore generative ML methods in protein structure modeling. Learn about recent progress, limitations, and new approaches from his group. Discuss advances and challenges in designing and predicting protein interactions.

👉 7th Peninsula Economy, Climate, Tech / AI, Co-Working day - Vibe, Agentic (10AM-4:30PM)
📍 San Carlos
💬 Explore AI, climate, and tech at a collaborative co-working day. Participate in interactive sessions, networking, and team activities. Finish the day with a community happy hour nearby to connect informally.

👉 Networking, Team Formation and Live Q&A (12PM-3PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Connect with XR and AI enthusiasts to form hackathon teams. Watch live workshops on mixed reality, AI wearables, and collaborative prototyping. Gain insights and practical skills before the SensAI Hackathon.

👉 SensAI Pitch Night - Hacker Hangout (3PM-7PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Experience the Frontier Tower transformed into a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Explore presentations from labs in AI, biotech, robotics, and human flourishing. Network with innovators pushing the boundaries of post-AI-singularity tech.

👉 🧠 The AI Collective Member Meetup | Marin County (4PM-6PM)
📍 San Rafael
💬 Join founders and AI enthusiasts for a relaxed evening of conversation. Enjoy happy hour specials and open networking. Meet like-minded individuals in a casual, informal setting.

👉 24th Peninsula Economy, Climate, Tech / AI Happy Hour (5PM-9PM)
📍 San Carlos
💬 Socialize and engage with professionals from all sustainability domains. Partner and collaborate on innovative projects. Expand your network and exchange ideas in a friendly, open environment.

👉 AI Engineer SF Meetup: AIE CODE++ (5:30PM-8:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Attend a replay of swyx’s top AI engineering talks and learnings. Hear from additional speakers and contributors. Connect with the NYC-based AI engineering community locally.

👉 Thanksgiving Founders Dinner: Women in AI x Okta Ventures (6PM-9PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join an intimate dinner for post-seed AI founders and investors. Discuss the future of enterprise AI, security, and infrastructure. Network with leaders shaping AI-driven enterprise solutions.

👉 GTM at the Edge: Scaling AI, Crypto, Robotics & Deep Tech Products + Start Up Pitches (6PM-9PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Explore the Frontier Tower hub showcasing frontier technologies. Attend presentations on AI, Ethereum, biotech, and human flourishing. Meet innovators redefining the limits of post-AI-singularity tech.

👉 ASIMOV DevLabs #3: Building Verifiable AI Together (6PM-8:30PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Join a hands-on developer workshop on ASIMOV Platform 25.0 for verifiable, privacy-first AI. Build living knowledge graphs and explore transparent AI systems. Learn to replace opaque models with auditable machine intelligence.

👉 TechWalk | Silicon Valley, 11/26 (4PM-5PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Participate in a mindful networking walk through Silicon Valley parks. Meet tech and SaaS professionals while sharing ideas outdoors. Build meaningful connections in a refreshing alternative to typical happy hours.

👉 SensAI Hack - Public (11PM-2:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Explore a 16-floor tower transformed into a hub for frontier technologies and creative arts. Engage with labs working in AI, Ethereum, biotech, neuroscience, and robotics. Meet innovators pushing human potential in a post-AI-singularity world.

👉 Dinner Cooked by a Robot - Live in SF (5PM-6:30PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Witness Posha, the world’s first fully autonomous cooking robot, prepare a full meal live. Meet the founders and ask questions about the technology. Enjoy a unique evening blending food, tech, and conversation in an intimate setting.

👉 $250K+ ARR or pre-seed+ AI Agent Founders & Investors (5PM-7PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join a community of AI agent builders, VCs, and security experts focused on trust and industry standards. Attend weekly meetups, hackathons, and invite-only mixers. Collaborate to build robust AI agent ecosystems across organizations.

👉 Gemini Event (5PM-7PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Celebrate with welcome activities, “Magic Moments,” and the main Gemini event. Connect with peers while enjoying light refreshments and community discussion. RSVP is required to secure your spot and join the Discord community.

👉 Scrappy Founders Go Kayaking (10AM-3PM)
📍 Santa Cruz
💬 Network and kayak along the Santa Cruz coast with a vetted group of AI founders and investors. Participate in intros, kayaking, and casual networking with snacks. Enjoy a fun day blending outdoor activity and professional connections.

👉 Level-1 Game Jam: Can't Stop Moving (12PM-6PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Turn ideas into complete video games using a natural language platform. No coding experience is required to participate. Collaborate, learn, and share in a supportive, creative environment.

👉 Multi Agent Systems Hackathon - SF (2PM-7PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Build autonomous multi-agent systems that solve real problems and communicate across complex workflows. Collaborate with top AI startups and innovators. Accelerate your career while designing intelligent ecosystems of AI agents.

👉 the nature of code - kickoff (1PM-2PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Begin an 11-week series exploring The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman. Study how simple rules create complex behaviors like particle systems, fractals, and neural networks. Pair reading and discussion with hands-on coding to simulate life-like digital systems.

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At our previous Founders Bay Virtual Workshop, we were joined by Monica Isgut, PhD — a scientist and founder operating at the intersection of AI, drug discovery, aging biology, and longevity biotech.

With a background spanning bioinformatics, deep learning, omics-scale datasets, pharmaceutical research, and aging science, Monica offered a rare, founder-friendly breakdown of why longevity biotech is exploding—why now—and what’s actually driving the scientific breakthroughs behind the hype.

Below are the top insights founders should walk away with.

The belief that aging is an unavoidable decline is outdated.

As Monica explained, the first evidence came as early as 1935, when caloric restriction was shown to extend lifespan in mammals.

Over time, researchers uncovered additional aging levers — from cellular senescence (malfunctioning “zombie cells”) discovered in the 1950s to telomerase, the enzyme capable of extending chromosomal end caps linked to aging.

This set the stage for longevity biotech as we know it.

Aging is the world’s biggest risk factor for chronic disease.

Monica emphasized a crucial distinction:

Even one extra year of global healthspan would be worth $38 trillion in economic value due to reduced chronic disease burden.

This is the core mission of longevity biotech.

There’s no formal definition yet — but a leading view is:
Longevity biotech develops therapies that prevent or treat multiple age-related diseases by targeting the cellular mechanisms of aging itself.

This is a major shift from single-disease drug development.

Longevity biotech barely existed 10 years ago.

Yet today:

This remains tiny compared to the $5.4T biotech industry — meaning significant upside remains.

We’ve hit a three-way inflection point:

1. AI Breakthroughs

Deep learning, model interpretability, and LLMs now make it possible to analyze biological complexity at levels impossible a decade ago.

2. Massive Biological Data

Electronic health records, omics, imaging, lab automation, and sequencing have created unprecedented datasets.

3. Longevity Science Booms

Stem cell reprogramming (Yamanaka factors), senolytics, and aging biomarkers have created actionable biological targets.

Longevity AI exists because these three trends finally converged.

Monica outlined the most common playbooks founders are using today:

1. Platform Therapeutics

Get one age-related indication approved → expand into others.

2. Pet Longevity (e.g., dogs)

A fast-moving regulatory and commercial path.

Validated supplements or skincare targeting aging pathways.

AI platforms, aging clocks, and measurement systems that enable trials and accelerate drug discovery.

This sector isn’t monolithic — and founders don’t need to build therapeutics to be in longevity.

Longevity is becoming a movement:

The field is shifting from fringe curiosity to mainstream ambition.

Monica’s core message was clear:

We are at the beginning of a new era — where aging biology, AI, and drug discovery intersect for the first time in human history.

And for founders, this opens enormous opportunities:

Just as early internet founders shaped the modern world, today’s longevity founders will shape the next century of medicine.

As Monica put it, we’re standing at a once-in-human-history inflection point — and the field is only getting started.

View the entire workshop video here: