Updated: Sep 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM PT

# Engineer and developer events at LA Tech Week 2026

> LA Tech Week 2026 has 90 events for engineers and developers from Monday, Oct 12 to Saturday, Oct 17, and 88% of them need host approval, so apply early.

Chancity tracks 800 LA Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 90. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/la) and each event's own page.

## At a glance

- Heaviest on Tuesday, Oct 13, with 22 events that day.
- Nothing on Sunday: listings run Monday, Oct 12 to Saturday, Oct 17.
- Santa Monica hosts 19, more than any other neighborhood.

## Subscribe

- Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/engineers-developers/calendar.ics
- Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/engineers-developers/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 | 3 PM to 5 PM | Hands-on workshop: build an MCP app | Myop, Keren Fanan | Arts District | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lkklfcZEmhlVWVHw5bDw?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 4 PM | The Hidden Cost of Legacy Software: When to Modernise, Migrate or Leave it Alone | Modstar, Anastasiia | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Om6ZmWNcfFACJwJzd1Eg?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 5 PM to 11 PM | Playable Worlds: The Future of Games, 3D and Interactive AI | Tripo, Aiko Dai | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/PMkNtkyb6GGnX8TN64ZX?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 | 6 PM | AV design leaves Visio: a browser tool your studio owns | Workflow Builder, Mateusz Masiczak, Mateusz Jagodziński | Marina del Rey | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/DBr8qBPGBLoXqCc5L8gO?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 6 PM to 8:30 PM | South Asian Mixer | Open Atlas, americansouthasiannetwork, Anushk | Long Beach | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/S6lBDp57L2b1C4cLvAOC?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 6 PM to 10 PM | Swift Angels: iOS & Swift developer meetup - @USC | iOSC, Om Chachad, Marina Lee | USC | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/LCnL5D0GuOWGR3ePdswW?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 8 PM | CAD + AI LA | Raven CAD, Mo | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/9NRRMl95XU4is57yF325?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 6:15 AM to 10 AM | Science x AI Breakfast | Endpoint Arena, Michael F | Downtown | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3aQg9EqWLbdEaUMYrJRi?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 | 9 AM | Made in LA: Breakfast Burritos & Hardware | Trustbridge, Cullen Hilkene, Shreya Nischal, Divyansh Agarwal | Venice | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lPdW2hHWPwvydUdWVSfH?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 | 11 AM to 12 PM | EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): Automating CI/CD Compliance with AI | Packablock, LLC, Aaron Bronow | Venice | RSVP | waitlist | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/dv9qSGilcF1gjVTMmYfh?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 11 AM to 2 PM | Software founder’s go to market strategies and networking | Aim-Hi, Mojave cloud, Tuljai Parkar | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/L3nax31E4hs5rdEBwWhp?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 12 PM to 4:30 PM | Build-A-Bachelor Workshop: Bring AI characters to life | CG Pro, Fermata, Machine Cinema, Matthew Hayden, Cam, Jacqueline Cooper | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/2wI0hW3QFXONzG4V73T7?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM | Agentic Voice AMA | Cloudonix, Inc, Eric Klein | Virtual | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/gVF4Mr4SZLPS0GnCgAIm?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 | 2 PM | What did our AI Agent do?! The Missing Runtime Authorization Layer for Agents and Physical AI | OtisLabs.ai, Marina Piller | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Rsj02AcVSl8SLD92Y8wq?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 3 PM to 7 PM | HubSpot & Blackbird Collective's Hands-on AI Agent Lab for Real Work | HubSpot, Jennifer Nixon, Samuel Siskind, Sarah Jane (sj) Morris, Chris Riley | Culver City | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/5WtkAZ49TdyXbiQ4X4zz?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 5 PM | AI Agent Tech Talks | TriggerWare, Dave Nielsen, Matt Ramage, Swamy Narayanaswamy | El Segundo | Apply | open | Snacks, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NYxIFsEnvF9W3Y0vPymC?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 5 PM to 7 PM | From Pixel to World | multimodel club, Ella Lu | Culver City | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/bP9MZlUjTUxMPFIFWadk?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Dinner with the author of The Variational Book | Variational Meida, yuri | Venice | Apply | open | Dinner, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/jy2J2Iv1Wc5Z3U5naAwa?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 6 PM to 8 PM | F**kup Night: AI-Native Across 150 Engineers. Here's What Broke | Ardas, Andrii Ryzhokhin | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/n8o5DrDZLbfx2jqWHptd?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) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Long Beach Builder Social | Tech by the Beach, Nic Moe, Drew, Chris | Long Beach | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/XQ1RqT5s5s7OHfsAwGNB?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 6 PM | Physical AI: The Intelligence Comes Alive | OpalAI, Srithanya Satish, Ryan Alimo, Alison Olmstead, Arya Hosseini, Paniz | Santa Monica | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tC79wm8JsEUfTO9Tf0af?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 6 PM to 8:15 PM | Software for Hardware: State of the Industry | Physical Fund, Nima Ashraf, Nate!, Robert Woo | Downtown | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/NLoLuVk5asS9kfJK86Wy?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 7 PM to 9 PM | Design, Aerospace, and Storytelling: How Fiction Hardens Into Infrastructure | Fuser, Dalena, Hirad, Laure Michelon, Alice Scope | Arts District | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tyunzveLsYF5g1ISB6aD?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM | Revel Runtime: Beach Run + Breakfast | Revel | Santa Monica | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RxTCgSg2PzNbIXXz0EFI?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 | The Rise of AI Security Agents: Defend at Machine Speed | Amazon Web Services, Sunil Paramel | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NTmbscw9OZsdt39Frxfj?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 | 11 AM to 12 PM | From Noise to Knowledge: A Free Generative AI Deep Dive | Variational media, yuri | - | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/W29dLpY8i4cHySW34GLc?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM | Scaling Long-Form AI Video with MCP | GMI Cloud, Nicole Gong | Malibu | Apply | open | Lunch, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/sQB8h2N0yOMyFPfw8KFx?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 12 PM to 2 PM | Robots Above LA | Rovex Technologies Corporation, Luke Lee | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RG7nOeM935ujYEUBD9Qw?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 1 PM | Building Better Trading Strategies with AI | AI Velocity Trading | Westside | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tk0X8xIDzltwkX7Q6zJN?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 3 PM to 7 PM | Mission Critical: AI Meets Aerospace & Defense at The BR-DGE x DTI | AI LA, Goodfin, SpaceWerx, Sarah Katyal, Heather Sit, Connor Caproni, Sophia Devlin, Sarah Barbod | El Segundo | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/P9dozRBsKzJIur8qZO5j?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 4 PM | Highways in Space | Inversion | Playa Vista | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/8up55w56GOpmOJa9Zuez?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Burbank Tech Talks | Rising Tide Partners, Neal Bloom | Burbank | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/PUMPTQQVVu2xXqNi6R15?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 6 PM to 9 PM | AI Agents Speakeasy with LiveKit & Modal | LiveKit, Modal, LiveKit Events | Santa Monica | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4K1RcwGixzueNO9eVyiV?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 6 PM to 8 PM | From Wakeboats to Workboats: Inside Arc's Commercial Program | Arc | Torrance | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WAHSESiiTCX01bGVKAz8?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 6 PM | GENERATIVE VS. AGENTIC AI What's the Difference & How Builders Are Using Them Today | TutorD LLC, Stripe, The Kinn, Brandon Bailey | South LA | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/D43jCb29LUxYA1JMuG3P?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 6 PM | PROOF L.A.™ - Build It. Prove It. Deploy It. | HTCJ Venture Studio Inc, Hack The Concrete Jungle | Marina del Rey | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NF5ZMadQ5GEvf9gaDjtw?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 6:30 PM to 9 PM | OpenClaw LA Meetup | Emarketed, Kainotomic, GovClaw, Matt Ramage, Andrew Peltekci | Echo Park | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/bVsCtFtB4bh6DE8fFLf7?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 7 PM | Ugly Talk: Tech Founders and Builder Open Mic and Mixer | Ugly Talk, UGLY TALK - AMY | Marina del Rey | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/LW0OdRO44tyw7Ji3lOVb?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 7:30 PM | The Real Founders Dilemma: Building vs Joining | General Matter, Benson | El Segundo | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EBSuCP5pD556jcrBtHFS?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 | 11 AM to 2 PM | Voice AI @ Innovation Summit w/ Vonage & Deepgram @ The Kinn | Vonage, DeepGram, Yannick Daly, Autumn Moss Peñaloza, Rachel Sunderland | Venice | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/QDDv3ACtgXrsw2MIabXB?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 | 2 PM | "Prove It Wasn't the AI": A Live Agent Incident Post-Mortem | Outhora AI, Michael Walker | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/TgzLxv2l7D6lqnqaDJbi?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 4 PM | Founders & Funders Tennis | ALAi, Bumo, Sene Studio, Elijah Kim, Joan Nguyen, Ray Li | Los Feliz | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/GqjgRVvSmqmQfcA3oROk?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Reindustrializing The Manufacturing Industry Robot mixer @ Launchpad HQ | Launchpad Build AI Inc, Keith Bevans | El Segundo | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ehr8L8QureSS51yeQG4i?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 5 PM to 7 PM | Hardware Engineering Happy Hour | MathWorks | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/kZVZwL5wQHLMxeZkPWjD?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 5 PM | Hops & Hypercars: Hard Tech Happy Hour at Common Space Brewery | Revel | Hawthorne | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MkuB2WuBycxOmJ3UznFd?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Thank God for El Segundo | Sift | El Segundo | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MlKkweWNiEz2TG2prEmn?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 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Bring a Bottleneck, Leave With a Claude Workflow | CrowdBoost Marketing, Perry Aston | Burbank | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/7Xq6YyqdaiUeSqDfeUJz?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM | Can AI Have Taste? | Skyveil AI, Galya, Angela Song, Mia Yang, Marcella Faingold Jacob, Maayan Barsade | Santa Monica | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/eWyj63P4rbTFpMFKmY6u?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | The State of AI in Medical-Legal | Workflow Labs, Dean Singh | Westside | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Sc6mAOdTOBMgGhkLrnuI?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 10 PM | The next wearble | evobeing LLC, evobeing, Shoshana @ girlgroup | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/bxs3OgJTJn3UZIYgetLT?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 7 PM to 11 PM | Tech Industry Speed Networking Pasadena | Los Angeles Fun Events, LosAngelesFunEvents | Pasadena | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/k95NUj9z1NSMBGGB0rwj?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 7:30 AM to 9 AM | Run Tech Club / Signal Run | Run Tech Club, Rich Simmerman, Gus, Primal Moves Venice | Venice | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/c6fAqqybYaP8mDu0xDi1?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 | 10:30 AM | MOLTEN hackathon - build the space around you | Field Lab, Iana Lin, Sissi Wang | Santa Monica | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/AgP5K9z8FR9TTWVMJIVC?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 12:30 PM | Rocket Launch: A USC Builders Night by TroyLabs | TroyLabs - USC's premier startup accelerator, Pola Malkowska, Anastasia Ramirez | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/AK0FMV5lu2PmfSyxuXwY?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 | 5 PM | SEP Hacks | Sigma Eta Pi @ USC, Adhish Chakravorty, Ava Rathenberg, Rodin S, kari wu | USC | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/IINM0gR38HKBmgtDJ3kK?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | LA Founders X Product Showcase | RocketRide, Mansi More, Shashidhar Babu Pasupuleti Venkata Durga, Joshua Phillips | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/LQCTbBbpdezKkknJbmM6?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 6 PM | The Builder's Lounge - Jazz Bar with VEST x Cognition | VEST at UCLA, Kiersten, Shloak Rathod, Ashley Varghese | UCLA | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MgJzE7z90rQQUWn1rILY?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 6 PM | The Music AI Can't Hear: What's Actually Missing from the Future of Sound | Motif, Jad Al Masri | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WtQYdB7WwxbNV5RD9QvG?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) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 7 PM to 10 PM | Defense Tech Social | Picogrid, Neros Technologies, Rangeview, Caroline Berg, Jennie Kim, Michelle Morales, Alex Querna | El Segundo | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/r5vz8oHxnXNINh5yRlWT?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 7 PM | Hardware Hackathon | Sigma Eta Pi at UC Irvine, Kyle Spink, Victoria Hoang | - | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/oZbC6xMY6fyEe18U79V3?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 7 PM to 10 PM | Tech Industry Speed Networking Marina Del Rey | Los Angeles Fun Events, LosAngelesFunEvents | Marina del Rey | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/8TuF7CE9hhnTSE8KxeLZ?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 11 PM | CLAUDE CREATOR SUMMIT | Anthropic, Evan Grenda | Venice | Apply | closed | - | - | yes | [View](https://partiful.com/e/7uMkZMDqesuJrBb2XR1B?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 17 | 9 AM | ACM@USC TrojanHacks | ACM@USC, Dominic Woetzel, Alethea 🤩 | USC | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/IRjknl6D3rnw5catDmK3?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 | 11 AM to 6 PM | Community Build: Tech 4 Good Hackathon | The Sameritan Project, Val Wimes | Venice | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/1ZeubF1a2wvnbfPj3S3o?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 17 | 11 AM | The 10x Engineer Showed Up. The 10x Organization Didn't. | Workflow Builder, Tentaro, Mateusz Masiczak, Aleksandra Bury | West Hollywood | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/OgNwWTFggLXS3nvslzpQ?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 17 | 12 PM | Behind The Product: How Great Products Get Built | Rita Sargsyan | Westwood | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/BEkQEBMzSJXEqWQe4Azv?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 17 | 2 PM to 4:30 PM | South Asians in Space, Physical AI | american south asian network | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nSA5U7V2nidTFc4gYMqP?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 | 5:30 PM | [WARDROBE DEBUG] | Soullink AI, Yingdi xiong | Arts District | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HDZZBerWqedKc9g4v4MN?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 (5); Sunil Paramel (5) ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilpadmanabhan/)); Mateusz Masiczak (4); Workflow Builder (4); Aleksandra Bury (2); Cloudonix, Inc (2); Eric Klein (2); Los Angeles Fun Events (2); LosAngelesFunEvents (2); Mansi More (2) ([X](https://x.com/mansimore99)); Mateusz Jagodziński (2); Matt Ramage (2) ([X](https://x.com/ramagetime))
- Speaking: Brad Kenstler; Ryan Kappedal; Jacquie Capur; Mayank Kejriwal; Aaron Bronow; Marina Piller; Swamy Narayanaswamy; Ella Lu; Reema Bhagchandani; Alexandra Stone; Yuri Plotkin; Andrii Ryzhokhin; Michael Corr; Austin Spiegel; Brooke Harrington; Michael Finocchiaro; Nima Ashraf; Danica Vallone; Dr. David Crabb; Justin Fiaschetti; Robert Carlisle; Mike Smayda; Rich Minford; Mitch Lee; Ryan Cook; Perry Aston; Yolanta Petrofsky; Negar Matian; Ravi Dev; Dean Singh; Alex Monahan

## FAQ

### Which Engineers and developers events can I join without applying?

11 of the 90 are open RSVP; the other 79 ask you to apply. Among them are Software for Hardware: State of the Industry (Tue 6:00 PM), Self-Improving Agents Hackathon (Tue 10:00 AM), GENERATIVE VS. AGENTIC AI What's the Difference & How Builders Are Using Them Today (Wed 6:00 PM), Tech Industry Speed Networking Marina Del Rey (Fri 7:00 PM) and Five Layers of Agentic Voice: From Design to Governance (Thu 12:30 PM).

### What do hosts ask when you apply?

Across 79 Engineers and developers events with an application form, 79 ask for a job title, 79 for a company, 79 for LinkedIn and 56 for GitHub.

### What are the main Engineers and developers events on Tuesday, Oct 13?

22 Engineers and developers events are listed for Tuesday, Oct 13, led by Software for Hardware: State of the Industry and Build-A-Bachelor Workshop: Bring AI characters to life.

### What are the main Engineers and developers events on Wednesday, Oct 14?

18 Engineers and developers events are listed for Wednesday, Oct 14, led by Google Codelabs at and From Wakeboats to Workboats: Inside Arc's Commercial Program. Google Codelabs at (Wed 9 AM, Google for Developers); From Wakeboats to Workboats: Inside Arc's Commercial Program (Wed 6 PM, Arc); Mission Critical: AI Meets Aerospace & Defense at The BR-DGE x DTI (Wed 3 PM, AI LA); The Rise of AI Security Agents: Defend at Machine Speed (Wed 10 AM, Amazon Web Services); Highways in Space (Wed 4 PM, Inversion).

### Which Engineers and developers events have food?

22 of the 90 mention food (11 snacks, 7 breakfast, 3 lunch).

### Which Engineers and developers events have drinks?

10 mention drinks: 4 alcohol, 6 coffee or soft drinks. The Builder's Lounge - Jazz Bar with VEST x Cognition (Fri 6 PM, VEST at UCLA); Builders & Brews LA (Tue 9 AM, Tavily); Verifying AI-authored code: Teaching your agents how to correct their own output (Thu 5 PM, Anithesis); Scaling Long-Form AI Video with MCP (Wed 11:30 AM, GMI Cloud); Dinner with the author of The Variational Book (Tue 6 PM, Variational Meida).

### Which Engineers and developers events have the most RSVPs?

Thank God for El Segundo has the most, 465 going. Thank God for El Segundo (Thu 5 PM, Sift); Mission Critical: AI Meets Aerospace & Defense at The BR-DGE x DTI (Wed 3 PM, AI LA); Software for Hardware: State of the Industry (Tue 6 PM, Physical Fund); Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWS (Fri 1 PM, Amazon Web Services); Build AI Agents on AWS (Thu 10 AM, Amazon Web Services).

### Who hosts the most Engineers and developers events?

Amazon Web Services hosts 4, Workflow Builder 4, Cloudonix, Inc 2.

## Same page at the other tech week

- At SF Tech Week (Oct 5 to 11): 348 Engineer and developer events: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/engineers-developers
  Both weeks: https://www.chancity.ai/events/tech-week/engineers-developers

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