Updated: Sep 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM PT # AI infrastructure events at LA Tech Week 2026 > LA Tech Week 2026 has 36 AI infrastructure events from Oct 12 to Oct 17, and all but 4 need host approval, so apply early. Chancity tracks 800 LA Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 36. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/la) and each event's own page. ## At a glance - Almost entirely gated: 32 of 36 require approval from the host. - Front-loaded: Tuesday, Oct 13 has 11 of the 36. - Only 39% start in the evening, so most sessions fall in working hours. ## Subscribe - Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/ai-infrastructure/calendar.ics - Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/ai-infrastructure/calendar.ics ## Events Columns: Time is Pacific time. Access: RSVP means a plain RSVP, Apply means the host approves each guest. Status: open, waitlist, closed or sold out, from the official Tech Week calendar. Food and Drinks: the host's own words ("mentions", not a promise). Price: only where the listing shows a price; a dash means no price listed. Featured: featured on the official Tech Week calendar. | Date | Time | Event | Host | Area | Access | Status | Food | Price | Featured | RSVP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Mon, Oct 12 | 4 PM to 7 PM | Founder Fest LA - Opening Party | Kamp | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/SKe73xFzSVZKO0M8FCB6?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 12 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Reliable Agents Need Evals: A Scale AI Workshop | Scale AI | Arts District | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FUFgzDzglxJi7JVLewaL?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 12 | 7:30 PM to 10 PM | Climate Tech Unsolved: Powering the AI Boom Cleanly | Society of Clean Energy and Technology at UCLA, Niteesh, Alex Bartolomei | Westwood | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/VEHdsfYGvxIV1CCsLedj?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM | AI IRL | PwC, Amanda Ritchey, Matthew Albert, Honey Gonzaga, Sayantani Sarkar, Salome Toppo | El Segundo | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/VFBMKDxXCicfggY9npuU?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 9 AM to 5 PM | Builders & Brews LA | Tavily, Greta Ernst | Santa Monica | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/qYHujLy57sBp0836g3W3?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 9 AM | Claude Code Workshop | Zartis | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/DeapkICHPDcpg3L83zQM?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 10 AM | AI Got Faster? We Audited our own PRs & Tickets - it wasn’t pretty! Yours Probably Won't Be Either | CXAI, Michael Young, Mark Maravilla, Chris Wiegand | Santa Monica | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/eOZbyOqyTqS5DiUrnKug?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 10 AM to 4 PM | Self-Improving Agents Hackathon | USC Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (USC), Jessica Madrigal, Karen Rawlins, Karl Jacob, Mayank Kejriwal, Sabrina Sun, Philip Zeng | Marina del Rey | RSVP | waitlist | Snacks | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/WPPQCW6joDGsGTWXHsaL?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM | Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWS | Dynatrace, AWS, Judy Breedlove | Santa Monica | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RwQ9uiWjoXt1nSF54ApQ?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 4 PM to 7 PM | B2B Bo$$es (GTM x Building Community For Top Execs) | Kamp | Downtown | Apply | open | Dinner, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/96hfKvIGqiTz4h8YH5Zs?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Where the Physical Future is Gettting Built: AI, Infra, and Deep Tech | HSBC, a16z Speedrun | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/dfrFnswWKhBP8bizmOX5?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Athletes & Icons: Investing at Scale | Family Office Group, Nancy Coblenz | Beverly Hills | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NIgPtabZkGtfF9scDWOs?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 5 PM to 9:30 PM | PitchLive.LA | Alpha Edison, Amplify, B Capital, Katie | Venice | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/wUH0TYSs80py16n0C7HQ?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 13 | 6 PM | Human-in-the-loop for AI agents and automated workflows | Workflow Builder, Mateusz Masiczak, Mateusz Jagodziński | Marina del Rey | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uAmOr0I44LlWuN31fJjq?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 14 | 9 AM to 5 PM | Google Codelabs at | Google for Developers, Marty, Brittney Glass | Venice | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uhrRUGdyFEPqH8eGTAiG?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 14 | 10 AM to 12 PM | Quantum: From Research to Real-World Impact ⚛️ | USC Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (USC), Jessica Madrigal, Karen Rawlins, Karl Jacob | Marina del Rey | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/jM2OWddM5naAQMmv7d3b?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 14 | 11 AM | Don't Give Your Agent the Keys: Put a Check-Blocker Between Your Apps and the LLM | Outhora AI, Michael Walker | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/TH9cb0hMd8siGAp5LwFr?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 14 | 5 PM | GO Scout Hackathon: Your Production Cheat Code to Reduce Costs and Maximize Efficiency | Global Objects, ISS Studios, Microsoft, Justin DiSandro, Jess Loren | - | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ajwQu9cd2GqV734HBsdn?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 10 AM | Build AI Agents on AWS | Amazon Web Services, Sunil Paramel | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ux1I2xzFU6XivS22muFG?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM | Five Layers of Agentic Voice: From Design to Governance | Cloudonix, Inc, Eric Klein | Virtual | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/cdj9CXeowqoMrPIKddfB?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 5 PM to 8 PM | AI & Infrastructure World Congress: Summit & Soiree | Family Office Group, Nancy Coblenz | Beverly Hills | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FTkLw7Kb41CcsAy1dM0N?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 5 PM to 7 PM | Verifying AI-authored code: Teaching your agents how to correct their own output | Anithesis, Anithesis Events, Uwe Lieckfeldt | South LA | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4dg1qei3QVCjyGlKlndU?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 6 PM | VERIFY YOU ARE HUMAN // Art, Chess, DJs, Drinks @ Beamlink HQ | Beamlink, Rookie Chess League, Mateo Abascal | Culver City | Apply | open | Open bar | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/8ib9k72z4Z4CkRy3TJ3F?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 6 PM to 9 PM | YouCode AI Salon | You.com | Culver City | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/vJBfckYeIs9zhGyvPyPp?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Meta-Harness and AI App Build Day | RocketRide, Mansi More | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FOdvZaSs588qxH1ZAQOf?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 15 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Sip & Startup with ProtoLive.xyz | ProtoLive.xyz, ProtoLive | Santa Monica | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/mRhp5WswNb4DWTeMCIPP?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 16 | 10 AM to 6 PM | AI LAX Summit - Culture meets AI | Governlayer.AI, AILAXSUMMIT.com, Google, Emi Wayner, Sarah Katyal | Playa Vista | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/VDWgSKRvAkhwn7AhH3gW?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 16 | 10 AM to 5 PM | AWS Expert Booth - Startups@AWS | Amazon Web services, Sunil Paramel | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/cJIIYDK0Z3LkijrrAakv?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 16 | 10 AM | Gen AI Observability for Engineering Leaders | Amazon Web Services, Sunil Paramel | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/5LRoanQ1sdaNDZrAMUWB?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 16 | 1 PM | Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWS | Amazon Web Services, Sunil Paramel, Bailey Cho | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mTKAkgCuYkCLn9tkoTem?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 16 | 3 PM to 6 PM | Reinventing AI Infrastructure | Karmel Capital, The University of Michigan Ross School of Buisiness | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Lw1ZPH79OwxHSXbHMhXA?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 16 | 6 PM | Token economics for AI-assisted engineering | Tentaro, Aleksandra Bury | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/JuW3SdmtEiDLtZtsuEWf?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 17 | 10:30 AM | touch ./SAND - The Voice Agent OUTDOOR Hackathon | Openbase, Zoky Zhou, Gabe Montague | Venice | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/i612VPqpD5glFJcIo1Ln?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 17 | 1 PM | Wafer, Print, & the Entertainment Business | Tallaris Partners, Emmanuel Asante | Culver City | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HJEgJ5llRMbqB77wKWj3?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 17 | 4 PM to 10:30 PM | Build a voice agent in 3 minutes | Guava | Culver City | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/U1GHA0ZkKdgLTZXRGyGJ?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 17 | 6 PM | Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angular | Workflow Builder, Mateusz Masiczak | Marina del Rey | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zYpQyYK67Anpp2VAp59u?ref=chancity) | ## Who is there - Hosting: Amazon Web Services (4); Sunil Paramel (4) ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilpadmanabhan/)); Family Office Group (2); Jessica Madrigal (2); Kamp (2) ([X](https://x.com/kampevents)); Karen Rawlins (2); Karl Jacob (2) ([X](https://x.com/karl)); Mateusz Masiczak (2); Nancy Coblenz (2); University of Southern California (USC) (2); USC Information Sciences Institute (2); Workflow Builder (2) - Speaking: Max Tuchman; Bunim Laskin; Brad Kenstler; Ryan Kappedal; Jacquie Capur; Mayank Kejriwal; Andrew Chen; Bridgit Mendler; Porter Smith; Austin Badger; Nancy Coblenz; Itay Hen ## FAQ ### Which AI infrastructure events can I join without applying? 4 of the 36 are open RSVP; the other 32 ask you to apply. ### What do hosts ask when you apply? Across 32 AI infrastructure events with an application form, 32 ask for a job title, 32 for a company, 32 for LinkedIn and 24 for GitHub. ### What are the main AI infrastructure events on Tuesday, Oct 13? 11 AI infrastructure events are listed for Tuesday, Oct 13, led by Where the Physical Future is Gettting Built: AI, Infra, and Deep Tech and Self-Improving Agents Hackathon. Where the Physical Future is Gettting Built: AI, Infra, and Deep Tech (Tue 4 PM, HSBC); Self-Improving Agents Hackathon (Tue 10 AM, USC Information Sciences Institute); Builders & Brews LA (Tue 9 AM, Tavily); Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWS (Tue 12:30 PM, Dynatrace); AI Got Faster? We Audited our own PRs & Tickets - it wasn’t pretty! Yours Probably Won't Be Either (Tue 10 AM, CXAI). ### What are the main AI infrastructure events on Thursday, Oct 15? 8 AI infrastructure events are listed for Thursday, Oct 15, led by Build AI Agents on AWS and VERIFY YOU ARE HUMAN // Art, Chess, DJs, Drinks @ Beamlink HQ. Among them are Build AI Agents on AWS (Thu 10:00 AM), VERIFY YOU ARE HUMAN // Art, Chess, DJs, Drinks @ Beamlink HQ (Thu 6:00 PM), Meta-Harness and AI App Build Day (Thu 6:30 PM), Verifying AI-authored code: Teaching your agents how to correct their own output (Thu 5:00 PM) and Five Layers of Agentic Voice: From Design to Governance (Thu 12:30 PM). ### Which AI infrastructure events have food? 11 of the 36 mention food (6 snacks, 2 lunch, 2 breakfast). Self-Improving Agents Hackathon (Tue 10 AM, USC Information Sciences Institute); Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWS (Tue 12:30 PM, Dynatrace); Build a voice agent in 3 minutes (Sat 4 PM, Guava); AI Got Faster? We Audited our own PRs & Tickets - it wasn’t pretty! Yours Probably Won't Be Either (Tue 10 AM, CXAI); touch ./SAND - The Voice Agent OUTDOOR Hackathon (Sat 10:30 AM, Openbase). ### Which AI infrastructure events have drinks? 7 mention drinks: 1 open bar, 5 alcohol, 1 coffee or soft drinks. Near the top are Builders & Brews LA (Tue 9:00 AM), "Come for the coffee"; GO Scout Hackathon: Your Production Cheat Code to Reduce Costs and Maximize Efficiency (Wed 5:00 PM), "Networking + Cocktails"; VERIFY YOU ARE HUMAN // Art, Chess, DJs, Drinks @ Beamlink HQ (Thu 6:00 PM), "an open bar"; Verifying AI-authored code: Teaching your agents how to correct their own output (Thu 5:00 PM), "Beer, Wine, Pinball & Video Games". ### Which AI infrastructure events have the most RSVPs? Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWS has the most, 180 going. They include Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWS (Fri 1:00 PM), Build AI Agents on AWS (Thu 10:00 AM), Self-Improving Agents Hackathon (Tue 10:00 AM) and Quantum: From Research to Real-World Impact ⚛️ (Wed 10:00 AM). ### Who hosts the most AI infrastructure events? Amazon Web Services hosts 3, Family Office Group 2, Kamp 2. ## Same page at the other tech week - At SF Tech Week (Oct 5 to 11): 195 AI infrastructure events: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/ai-infrastructure Both weeks: https://www.chancity.ai/events/tech-week/ai-infrastructure --- HTML version: https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/ai-infrastructure Full LA Tech Week schedule: https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/schedule For AI agents: https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/agent