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- 7 days, Oct 12 to Oct 18
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- Busiest Tue, Oct 13
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Apex Space Happy HourSold out
· Apex Space Technology, Jake Suster +1 · Playa Vista · 300 going
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Capital For Atoms - Finance Leader DinnerFeatured
· a16z, Erebor Bank +3 · El Segundo · 20 going
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Where the Physical Future is Gettting Built: AI, Infra, and Deep TechFeatured
· HSBC, a16z Speedrun · Santa Monica
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Building next-generation space infrastructureFeatured
· Vast · Long Beach
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Building AI for the Physical World - Inside Hadrian's Factory XFeatured
· Orrick, Bessemer Venture Partners +3 · Torrance
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Thank God for El Segundo
· Sift · El Segundo · 465 going
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Techstars Aerospace & Defense Happy Hour w/ US Space Force and NASA JPL
· Techstars Space, Allison Kitain +2 · Culver City · 343 going
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Apex Space Happy HourSold out
· Apex Space Technology, Jake Suster +1 · Playa Vista · 300 going
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AI Meets the Real World: Founder & Investor Mixer
· Sunstone Management, Inc, Circuit Launch +3 · Santa Monica · 279 going
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German Tech Meets LA: AI, Innovation & Oktoberfest
· NRW.Global Business, AI LA +1 · Venice · 244 going
Updated Sep 30 · from the official Tech Week calendar and each event’s own page
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| Time | Event | Host | Neighborhood | Access | Food | Price |
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| Monday, Oct 129 events | ||||||
| Wake up Hardware! Network & Fun Run Sponsored by Nominal & D. E. Shaw Ventures118 going | Nominal, D. E. Shaw Ventures | Santa Monica | Open RSVP | Soft drinks | ||
| Investors at the Cutting Edge - GP/LP Luncheon (Deep Tech)1 going | Actuate Ventures, Andrew Woodfield | Apply | Lunch | |||
| to 4 PM | AI Meets the Real World: Founder & Investor Mixer279 going | Sunstone Management, Inc, Circuit Launch, Sabrina Li +2 more | Santa Monica | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | Bots and Brews - Physical AI Meetup68 going | RiseLink, Tess Kassier | Arts District | Apply | Snacks, Drinks | |
| to 8 PM | German Tech Meets LA: AI, Innovation & Oktoberfest244 going | NRW.Global Business, AI LA, Joerg Rose | Venice | Apply | Drinks | |
| to 8:30 PM | Hardware Meets Intelligence: AI for Space and Defense217 going | Starburst Aerospace, Outpost Space, Felix Eid +4 more | Playa Vista | Apply | ||
| to 9 PM | General Purpose Robot Demos at Yondu Lab | Yondu, Michael Chen | Hawthorne | Apply | Snacks | |
| In The Arena | Transcend Mechanics, Vuecason, Sean Peters +1 more | El Segundo | Apply | Snacks | ||
| CAD + AI LA16 going | Raven CAD, Mo | Downtown | Apply | |||
| Tuesday, Oct 1318 events | ||||||
| Made in LA: Breakfast Burritos & Hardware | Trustbridge, Cullen Hilkene, Shreya Nischal +1 more | Venice | Apply | Breakfast, Soft drinks | ||
| What did our AI Agent do?! The Missing Runtime Authorization Layer for Agents and Physical AI28 goingwith Marina Piller | OtisLabs.ai, Marina Piller | Virtual | Apply | |||
| to 6 PM | LA's Hard Tech Renaissance: Robotics & Physical AI43 goingwith Robert Ravanshenas, Michael Broukhim | Maven Ventures, Deel, Fenwick +2 more | West Hollywood | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | Space Cities: A Gathering of Founders, Builders, and Investors21 going | LifeShip Ventures, Ben Haldeman | Playa del Rey | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | Where the Physical Future is Gettting Built: AI, Infra, and Deep Techwith Andrew Chen, Bridgit Mendler, Porter Smith, Austin Badger | HSBC, a16z Speedrun | Santa Monica | Apply | ||
| to 9 PM | Dinner & Drinks with Fearn + Matter Intelligence2 going | Fearn, Han, Angela +1 more | El Segundo | Apply | Dinner | |
| to 7:30 PM | Rooftop Party + Panel: Hollywood x Deeptech | Presented by Cake Equity, Voice Capital & Pilot | Cake Equity, Garrison Gowens, Gadiel Morantes | Venice | Apply | ||
| to 7 PM | Startup Spotlight: The Future of Aerospace & Defense3 going | La French Tech San Diego, Safran Corporate Ventures, Techstars Space Accelerator +3 more | Culver City | Apply | ||
| to 8:30 PM | Uncork's Frontier Builders & Investors Dinner | Uncork Capital, Belle, Rich Simmerman +1 more | Santa Monica | Apply | Snacks | |
| Building next-generation space infrastructurewith Megan McArthur | Vast | Long Beach | Apply | |||
| to 8 PM | Defense/ Space Tech Panelwith Dan Goldin, Stephen Cheung, George Whitesides, Richard Cook | Reitler Law, Deel, Citizens Bank +3 more | Santa Monica | Apply | Snacks, Open bar | |
| to 9 PM | Gundo Happy Hour1 going | 8090 Industries, 645 Ventures, Ryan Musto +1 more | El Segundo | Apply | ||
| to 9 PM | Hardware Renaissance & American Dynamism by Imagining Forward | Imagining Forward | Santa Monica | Apply | Drinks | |
| Physical AI: The Intelligence Comes Alive81 going | OpalAI, Srithanya Satish, Ryan Alimo +3 more | Santa Monica | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 8:15 PM | Software for Hardware: State of the Industry180 goingwith Michael Corr, Austin Spiegel, Brooke Harrington, Michael Finocchiaro, Nima Ashraf | Physical Fund, Nima Ashraf, Nate! +1 more | Downtown | Open RSVP | Snacks | |
| WEARABLES: The Future of Health/HAPPY HOUR (Free Food + Drinks)88 going | Lenn AI, Ryan | Open RSVP | Snacks | |||
| Factory Field Day at Flyby Robotics154 going | Flyby Robotics, Micky, Jason H. Lu | El Segundo | Apply | Dinner, Drinks | ||
| to 9 PM | FUTURE OF THE FUTURE: LA TECH WEEK DINNER.30 going | Digital Mind State, BeSkilled Academy | Hollywood | Waitlist or full | ||
| Wednesday, Oct 1417 events | ||||||
| FATHOMWERX Summit - Port Hueneme | Matter Labs, Kristine Fernandez | Apply | ||||
| LA Mornings: Investor Breakfast | Trustbridge, Shreya Nischal | Venice | Apply | Breakfast | ||
| to 11 AM | Hard Earned Lessons from Building Hardwarewith Kristie D'Ambrosio-Correll, David Jaramillo, Mike Pica | Hardware Velocity, Mike Pica | Virtual | Apply | ||
| to 12 PM | The Future of Autonomous Retail: AI & Robotics Modernization80 going | National Autonomous Retail Initiative (NARI), Manna Smart Retail Inc, Serge | Playa Vista | Open RSVP | ||
| to 7 PM | Pickleball, Sports Tech, and Recovery In Venice Beach75 going | Rally Pickleball Association | Venice | Apply | ||
| LA Tech Week Life Sciences Lunch | Reitler Law, Theophila Lee, EisnerAmper +1 more | Santa Monica | Apply | Lunch | ||
| to 2 PM | Robots Above LA54 goingwith Dr. David Crabb | Rovex Technologies Corporation, Luke Lee | Downtown | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 4 PM | USC ISI Lab Tours75 going | USC Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (USC), Jessica Madrigal +1 more | Marina del Rey | Open RSVP | ||
| to 7 PM | Mission Critical: AI Meets Aerospace & Defense at The BR-DGE x DTI240 going | AI LA, Goodfin, SpaceWerx +5 more | El Segundo | Apply | ||
| Highways in Space81 goingwith Justin Fiaschetti, Robert Carlisle, Mike Smayda, Rich Minford | Inversion | Playa Vista | Apply | |||
| Building AI for the Physical World - Inside Hadrian's Factory Xwith Neel Lilani, Trevor Burns, Jim Belosic, David Caputo, Jai Malik, West Owens | Orrick, Bessemer Venture Partners, Harmoni +2 more | Torrance | Apply | |||
| to 8 PM | LA's Deep Tech Ecosystem: Aerospace, Robotics, and Defense Startups96 going | Unlock Venture Partners, Mandala Space Ventures, Serve Robotics +3 more | Marina del Rey | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Techstars Aerospace & Defense Happy Hour w/ US Space Force and NASA JPL343 going | Techstars Space, Allison Kitain, Rebecca Poizner +1 more | Culver City | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | From Wakeboats to Workboats: Inside Arc's Commercial Programwith Mitch Lee, Ryan Cook | Arc | Torrance | Apply | ||
| PROOF L.A.™ - Build It. Prove It. Deploy It.3 going | HTCJ Venture Studio Inc, Hack The Concrete Jungle | Marina del Rey | Apply | |||
| Agentic AI Design & 3D Metal Printing - Precixion Dinner1 going | Precixion Inc., Bala Jeldi | El Segundo | Apply | |||
| The Real Founders Dilemma: Building vs Joining33 going | General Matter, Benson | El Segundo | Apply | |||
| Thursday, Oct 1517 events | ||||||
| to 7 PM | Pickleball, Sports Tech, and Recovery In Venice Beach60 going | Rally Pickleball Association | Venice | Apply | ||
| to 5 PM | Space: The Next Frontier of Technology100 goingwith David Barnhart, Talbot Jaeger, Michael Klug | USC Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (USC), Jessica Madrigal +1 more | Marina del Rey | Open RSVP | ||
| The City Hacks the State... Beach Edition!!14 going | InsureMEP, Inc., Casey Potenzone | Long Beach | Open RSVP | |||
| to 5:30 PM | Embodied AI Happy Hour | Uthana Inc, Izza Vivo, Viren Tellis | Venice | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Built in LA: The Next Era of Flight63 goingwith Daniel Baker | Moonware, Javier | Santa Monica | Apply | ||
| Miso Robotics Lab | Flippy Frying Live100 goingwith Rich Hull | Miso Robotics | Pasadena | Waitlist or full | Snacks | ||
| to 6 PM | Reindustrializing The Manufacturing Industry Robot mixer @ Launchpad HQ | Launchpad Build AI Inc, Keith Bevans | El Segundo | Apply | ||
| to 7 PM | The Future of Restaurant Tech & AI87 going | Sunstone Management, Inc, https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/easton-technology-management-center, Jasmine Jiang | UCLA | Open RSVP | Snacks | |
| to 7 PM | Hardware Engineering Happy Hour | MathWorks | Downtown | Apply | Snacks | |
| Hops & Hypercars: Hard Tech Happy Hour at Common Space Brewery | Revel | Hawthorne | Apply | Drinks | ||
| to 8 PM | Thank God for El Segundo465 going | Sift | El Segundo | Apply | ||
| Future of Logistics and Delivery31 going | Sobremesa, Sobremesa Events | Downtown | Apply | |||
| Your Defense Tech Unknown Unknowns Are Known in Ukrainewith Misha Rudominski, Justin Zeefe | Green Flag Ventures, Justin Zeefe | Santa Monica | Apply | |||
| Capital For Atoms - Finance Leader Dinner20 going | a16z, Erebor Bank, David Borecky +2 more | El Segundo | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 9 PM | Mach Engineering: After Hours @ Afterburner | Mach Industries, Tamara Diller | Long Beach | Apply | ||
| Consumer Tech Night/HAPPY HOUR (Free Food + Drinks)59 going | Lenn AI, Ryan | Open RSVP | Snacks | |||
| to 10 PM | The next wearble | evobeing LLC, evobeing, Shoshana @ girlgroup | Santa Monica | Apply | ||
| Friday, Oct 167 events | ||||||
| MOLTEN hackathon - build the space around you11 going | Field Lab, Iana Lin, Sissi Wang | Santa Monica | Apply | |||
| to 8 PM | The Future of Skiing78 going | SkyTechSport, Connor Bishop | Culver City | Apply | Snacks | |
| Get Wired with Senra Systems! | Senra Systems, Lowercarbon, Stifel +3 more | Open RSVP | Snacks | |||
| to 8 PM | Apex Space Happy Hour300 going | Apex Space Technology, Jake Suster, Holly | Playa Vista | Waitlist or full | Snacks, Drinks | |
| Hardware Hackathon | Sigma Eta Pi at UC Irvine, Kyle Spink, Victoria Hoang | Apply | Snacks | |||
| Loop - a supper on the physical economy | Allometry, Taylor Gendron | Sunset | Apply | Drinks | ||
| Tech Meets Couture50 going | Trapxart/Unity Match Development Project, Unity Match Development Project, Essence Spencer +1 more | Santa Monica | Apply | |||
| Saturday, Oct 172 events | ||||||
| to 5 PM | LA Traffic Crisis Hackathon: Build the Future24 going | Equity Learning, Brooke Li | East LA | Open RSVP | Snacks | |
| to 4:30 PM | South Asians in Space, Physical AI19 going | american south asian network | Downtown | Apply | ||
| Sunday, Oct 181 event | ||||||
| Future Builders : Family STEM Day21 going | Black L.A. Tech Week (Community Collective), Black L.A. Tech Week | South LA | Open RSVP | |||
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Questions
Which Robotics and hardware events can I join without applying?
15 of the 71 are open RSVP; the other 56 ask you to apply.
What do hosts ask when you apply?
Across 56 Robotics and hardware events with an application form, 56 ask for a job title, 56 for a company, 56 for LinkedIn and 29 for GitHub.
What are the main Robotics and hardware events on Tuesday, Oct 13?
18 Robotics and hardware events are listed for Tuesday, Oct 13, led by Where the Physical Future is Gettting Built: AI, Infra, and Deep Tech and Building next-generation space infrastructure.
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Where the Physical Future is Gettting Built: AI, Infra, and Deep TechFeatured
· HSBC, a16z Speedrun · Santa Monica
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Building next-generation space infrastructureFeatured
· Vast · Long Beach
- RSVP
Software for Hardware: State of the IndustryFood
· Physical Fund, Nima Ashraf +2 · Downtown · 180 going
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Factory Field Day at Flyby RoboticsFood
· Flyby Robotics, Micky +1 · El Segundo · 154 going
- RSVP
WEARABLES: The Future of Health/HAPPY HOUR (Free Food + Drinks)Food
· Lenn AI, Ryan · 88 going
What are the main Robotics and hardware events on Wednesday, Oct 14?
17 Robotics and hardware events are listed for Wednesday, Oct 14, led by Building AI for the Physical World - Inside Hadrian's Factory X and From Wakeboats to Workboats: Inside Arc's Commercial Program. Among them are Building AI for the Physical World - Inside Hadrian's Factory X (Wed 4:30 PM), From Wakeboats to Workboats: Inside Arc's Commercial Program (Wed 6:00 PM), Techstars Aerospace & Defense Happy Hour w/ US Space Force and NASA JPL (Wed 5:00 PM), Mission Critical: AI Meets Aerospace & Defense at The BR-DGE x DTI (Wed 3:00 PM) and LA's Deep Tech Ecosystem: Aerospace, Robotics, and Defense Startups (Wed 4:30 PM).
Which Robotics and hardware events have food?
25 of the 71 mention food (19 snacks, 2 dinner, 2 lunch).
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Apex Space Happy HourSold out
· Apex Space Technology, Jake Suster +1 · Playa Vista · 300 going
- Apply
Capital For Atoms - Finance Leader DinnerFeatured
· a16z, Erebor Bank +3 · El Segundo · 20 going
- RSVP
Software for Hardware: State of the IndustryFood
· Physical Fund, Nima Ashraf +2 · Downtown · 180 going
- Apply
Factory Field Day at Flyby RoboticsFood
· Flyby Robotics, Micky +1 · El Segundo · 154 going
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Miso Robotics Lab | Flippy Frying LiveWaitlist
· Miso Robotics · Pasadena · 100 going
Which Robotics and hardware events have drinks?
10 mention drinks: 1 open bar, 7 alcohol, 2 coffee or soft drinks. Near the top are Apex Space Happy Hour (Fri 6:00 PM), "complimentary beer, wine, food"; German Tech Meets LA: AI, Innovation & Oktoberfest (Mon 5:00 PM), "Beer, Bratwurst and Networking"; Factory Field Day at Flyby Robotics (Tue 7:00 PM), "Beer, seltzer, and dinner with the team"; Wake up Hardware! Network & Fun Run Sponsored by Nominal & D. E. Shaw Ventures (Mon 7:30 AM), "a coffee and networking session".
Which Robotics and hardware events have the most RSVPs?
Thank God for El Segundo has the most, 465 going. Near the top are Thank God for El Segundo (Thu 5:00 PM), Techstars Aerospace & Defense Happy Hour w/ US Space Force and NASA JPL (Wed 5:00 PM), Apex Space Happy Hour (Fri 6:00 PM) and AI Meets the Real World: Founder & Investor Mixer (Mon 2:00 PM).
Who hosts the most Robotics and hardware events?
AI LA hosts 2, Deel 2, Lenn AI 2.
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