good morning, los angeles! ☀️
it’s day 4 of LA Tech Week. today brings agents with AWS, voice AI demos with Vonage and Deepgram, and a Kling filmmaking sprint. hard tech is having a big day too, from breakfast with Fenwick and Upfront to an egg drop from a Neros drone.
some events lined up for today, thursday, october 15:
coffee, brunch & resets
• 8am - Founder Wellness (Deel, Koah Labs, Verci)
• 8:30am - Morning Reset (1800DTC, Reserve)
• 8:30am - Hard Tech Breakfast (Fenwick, Upfront, AnySignal)
• 9am - Fuel & Focus (DoorDash, WeWork)
• 9:30am - Advisors & Angels Brunch (a16z speedrun)
• 12pm - Founder Lunch (Fin, Stripe, Ramp)
ai, agents & infra
• 10am - Build AI Agents (AWS)
• 10:45am - Claude Creator Summit (TechSpace, LA Claude Community)
• 11am - Voice AI Demos (Vonage, Deepgram)
• 5:30pm - Copilot w/ Microsoft (Black LA Tech Week)
• 6pm - YouCode AI Salon (You)
founders & company building
• 9am - AI & Law (SimpleClosure, Carta)
• 11am - Leading Through Change (PwC)
• 1pm - Video Marketing (Wistia)
• 2pm - Zero-to-One Growth (Mucker)
• 6pm - QueerTech Mixer (JPMorgan, Build Momentum)
• 6:30pm - Alliant Dinner (Deel, Alliant)
space, defense & robotics
• 2pm - Space Frontier (USC ISI)
• 3:30pm - Lab Tours (USC ISI)
• 4pm - Robot Mixer (Launchpad Build)
• 4pm - Flippy Live (Miso Robotics)
• 5pm - Gundo Rooftop HH (Sift, Castelion, AWS, Riot Ventures, Goodwin, JPMorgan)
• 5pm - Hardware Engineering HH (MathWorks)
• 5:30pm - Beyond Earth (Lux Capital, Obvious, Morgan Stanley, Orrick)
• 6pm - Engineering After Hours (Mach Industries)
• 6pm - Capital for Atoms (a16z, Erebor Bank)
• 6pm - Great American Egg Drop (Amca, Neros)
• 7pm - After SpaceX (Sovera, Argo Space, Ephemeris)
vcs & finance
• 1:45pm - Modern Finance (Pigment)
• 2pm - First Funding (Antler)
• 2:30pm - IPO w/ SpaceX, Nasdaq & Fenwick (PwC)
• 5pm - The IPO Window (Wells Fargo, March Capital, NYSE)
• 6pm - Investor Dinner (a16z speedrun, Overlook)
• 6:30pm - Dallas Dolen Dinner (PwC)
creativity, media & builds
• 11am - Generative Workflows (Magnopus)
• 4pm - Creativity Reimagined (Gap, fal)
• 4pm - AI Entertainment Marketing (TwelveLabs, TrackIt)
• 4pm - Hybrid Production (Luma)
• 5pm - Video Agents (Alibaba, Vizard)
• 5pm - Build a Better LA (Lovable, Pledge, LA2050)
• 6pm - Kling 4 GenJam (Kling AI, Machine Cinema)
• 6pm - AI & Public Storytelling (SAP, GACC West, Thomas Mann House)
games, drinks & nights out
• 6pm - Pitch Roast Live (Atlassian, TriNet, Forecastr)
• 6pm - Cocktails & Capital (Deel, DealMaker, Kingscrowd)
• 6pm - Flight Club (Vantora)