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Monday, October 12, 2026
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AAAI-27 brings the annual artificial-intelligence conference to Montréal
February 16–23, 2027, in Montréal, Canada. AAAI lists papers, special tracks, workshops, tutorials, competitions, posters and exhibits.
Source: aaai.org
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ACM IUI 2027 explores AI and human-computer interaction in Helsinki
February 8–11, 2027 at Helsinki Congress Paasitorni. Poster and demonstration submissions remain open through November 10, 2026.
Source: iui.acm.org
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ACM TRUST 2027 examines trustworthy and responsible AI systems in Washington
March 7–9, 2027 in Washington, D. C. , with full virtual participation available.
Source: eigtrust.acm.org
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ACM/IEEE HRI 2027 brings human-robot interaction research to Silicon Valley
March 8–12, 2027 in Santa Clara, California. The conference combines interdisciplinary HRI research with an industry day, workshops, demonstrations and student participation tracks.
Source: humanrobotinteraction.org
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AGENT 2027 opens a research forum for engineering autonomous software systems
AGENT 2027 is an official ICSE workshop on engineering foundations for autonomous, tool-using systems, with active paper deadlines. Its exact workshop day within ICSE 2027 in Dublin remains unresolved on the workshop page.
Source: conf.researchr.org
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AGENTVERIFY 2027 focuses ICSE attention on infrastructure for trustworthy software agents
AGENTVERIFY 2027 is an official ICSE workshop on evaluation, observability, reproducibility and safe deployment infrastructure for software agents. It falls within ICSE’s April 25–May 1, 2027 Dublin program; the exact workshop day remains unresolved.
Source: conf.researchr.org
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AGNTCon and MCPCon pair agent engineering with interoperability and security
October 22–23, 2026 at San Jose McEnery Convention Center. The organizer lists 11 tracks and seven workshops included without an additional workshop charge.
Source: events.linuxfoundation.org
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AI Builders Lisbon explores an agent operating system inside a working agency
October 28, 2026, 6–9:30 p. m. at IDEA Spaces São Sebastião in Lisbon.
Source: luma.com
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AI Builders London schedules a technical community night on agents, authorization and AI tools
November 10, 2026, 6–9 p. m. at Civo Tech Junction in London.
Source: luma.com
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AI Engineer Code Summit brings production coding-agent practitioners to San Francisco
November 10–12, 2026 at Hilton Union Square, 333 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco. Attendance is application-only, and the speaker program remains in development.
Source: ai.engineer
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AI Engineer New York focuses on production AI in financial services
October 12–14, 2026 at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. Workshops lead into two days of talks, breakouts and expo programming; schedule times are Eastern.
Source: ai.engineer
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AROB 2027 gathers artificial-life and robotics researchers in Beppu
January 19–22, 2027 at B-Con Plaza in Beppu, Japan; the main program runs January 20–22 and abstracts are due October 28.
Source: isarob.org
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Agent Engineering HQ examines the shift from coding agents to software factories
October 27, 2026 at AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market Street, San Francisco. The technical evening covers agent harnesses, persistent memory, evaluation and self-improving software factories.
Source: luma.com
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Agent Engineering London brings production-agent builders together for a single-track technical program
October 16, 2026 at Everyman Canary Wharf, London. The single-track technical conference is sold out; the organizer lists ten sessions for people who build and operate agent systems.
Source: agentengineering.world
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AgentCamp opens an unconference on memory, loops and agent engineering in Menlo Park
November 2, 2026, 2:30–7 p. m. at Snowflake Silicon Valley AI Hub, 135 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park.
Source: luma.com
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Agentic AI Day hosts production-agent demos in San Francisco
October 29, 2026, 1–7 p. m. OpenStages plans ten technical demos covering agent runtime, context, inference and permissions.
Source: openstagesai.com
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Agentic Business Forum gives Paris decision-makers a one-day execution roadmap
March 31, 2027 at Maison. A Verso by Victoire in Paris. The forum runs from 9 a.
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Agentic Engineering Day New Zealand brings production AI workshops and technical talks to Auckland
October 20–21, 2026 workshops lead into an October 22 conference at Aotea Centre in Auckland. The official program covers agents, MCP, evaluation, observability, security, memory and software factories.
Source: agenticengineering.day
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Agentic Internet Workshop brings identity and authorization builders to Mountain View
November 6, 2026, from 8 AM to 4:30 PM at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. A related interoperability day takes place November 5 alongside the Internet Identity Workshop.
Source: eventbrite.com
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Agentic and AI Night examines agents across the application stack
November 19, 2026, 3:30–9 p. m. Pacific at Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street, San Francisco.
Source: luma.com
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AgenticCon brings enterprise AI platform teams to San Francisco
February 25, 2027 in San Francisco. The one-day conference combines platform architecture, organizational design, hands-on workshops, roundtables and enterprise matchmaking.
Source: agenticcon.com
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Agentics Day connects MCP implementers at KubeCon Europe in Barcelona
March 15, 2027 in Barcelona, Spain. The CNCF-hosted co-located event covers Model Context Protocol architecture, security, tooling, enterprise integration and production operation.
Source: events.linuxfoundation.org
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Bavarian AI in Medicine conference opens research submissions ahead of its Munich meeting
November 30–December 1, 2026 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich. Abstracts are due October 9, and attendance registration is separate.
Source: events.hifis.net
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Bay Area Robotics Symposium brings faculty, students and industry to Berkeley
October 30, 2026 at Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley. Registration is now open; keynote speakers remain to be announced.
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CoRL brings robot-learning research to Austin with a dedicated workshop day
November 9–12, 2026 in Austin, Texas. The main conference runs November 9–11, followed by workshops November 12; registration is open.
Source: corl.org
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Databricks meetup turns agent traces into evaluation and debugging loops
October 13, 2026, 5–8 p. m. at the Databricks San Francisco office.
Source: luma.com
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Daytona AI Builders NYC examines forkable sandboxes for long-running agents
October 28, 2026, 5:30–8:30 p. m. Eastern in New York City.
Source: luma.com
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Daytona schedules a San Francisco AI Builders gathering for December
Daytona’s official calendar lists an AI Builders event in San Francisco for December 2026. The exact day, venue, agenda and individual registration page were not yet exposed, so those details remain unresolved.
Source: lu.ma
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Deepgram Speak brings voice AI builders to San Francisco on October 29
October 29, 2026, 8 a. m. –6:15 p.
Source: deepgram.com
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Durable AI meetup tests how long-running agents survive failure and stay observable
October 21, 2026, 5:30–8 p. m. at 500 Sansome Street in San Francisco.
Source: luma.com
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Frontier Build puts software-factory controls to work inside participants' own codebases
October 14, 2026, from 10 a. m. to 8 p.
Source: obvious.ai
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GitHub and Hugging Face host Training Agents IRL in San Francisco
October 22, 2026, 6–9 p. m. Pacific at GitHub, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr Street.
Source: luma.com
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Hugging Face hosts Open Together with 36 community demos and an evening party
October 16, 2026, 6 p. m. –midnight Pacific at The Midway, 900 Marin Street, San Francisco.
Source: luma.com
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HumanX returns to Las Vegas for its 2027 US AI conference
March 7–10, 2027 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Registration is active and the organizer says current rates increase October 12.
Source: humanx.co
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ICRCA 2027 convenes robotics, control and automation researchers in Aizuwakamatsu
March 26–28, 2027 at the University of Aizu in Japan. Paper submissions are due November 10, 2026, with presentation-only abstracts also accepted.
Source: icrca.org
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IEEE MedAI 2026 convenes medical-AI researchers in Zhengzhou
November 20–22, 2026, in Zhengzhou, China. Camera-ready papers and author registration are due October 15.
Source: medai2026.zzuli.edu.cn
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IEEE SSCI 2027 convenes computational-intelligence symposia on Australia's Gold Coast
February 14–17, 2027 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The program includes sessions, panels, workshops, tutorials and competitions.
Source: attend.ieee.org
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Long Horizon brings physical-AI deployment leaders and working robots to Fort Mason
October 20–21, 2026 at Gateway Pavilion, Fort Mason, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco. Day one covers robotics and embodied AI; day two covers autonomy.
Source: encord.com
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MIT AI Conference centers its 2026 program on the age of agency
October 17, 2026 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. The in-person conference lists more than 50 speakers, workshops, demonstrations, an AI challenge and a student hackathon showcase.
Source: mitaiconference.org
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Mindstone Lisbon’s October meetup puts agent skills and advertising data into practical demonstrations
October 27, 2026, 6–9 p. m. at IDEA Spaces Saldanha in Lisbon.
Source: luma.com
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NTU turns AI-agent research assistance into a five-day Singapore workshop
November 15–19, 2026 at Nanyang Executive Centre, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The official program combines keynotes, agent architecture tutorials, evaluation work and a collaborative research hackathon.
Source: agentforgeworkshop.github.io
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NVIDIA GTC 2027 returns to San Jose with agentic AI, physical AI and accelerated computing
March 15–18, 2027 in San Jose. NVIDIA's current official page says registration is not yet open and highlights agentic AI, AI infrastructure, AI for science, industrial AI, cybersecurity, inference, robotics and physical AI.
Source: nvidia.com
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NVIDIA GTC Berlin spans accelerated computing, agentic AI and robotics
October 20–22, 2026 at STATION-Berlin, with Jensen Huang's October 21 keynote at Tempodrom. NVIDIA lists more than 100 sessions.
Source: nvidia.com
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NeurIPS uses Sydney, Atlanta and Paris sites for its fortieth conference
December 6–12, 2026 in Sydney, with Atlanta and Paris satellite programs December 9–13. Registration planning is site-specific; the early registration deadline is October 30.
Source: neurips.cc
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NousCon returns to New York with a focus on Hermes and open intelligence
Nous Research announced NousCon for October 30, 2026 in New York City. Doors open at 6 p. m.
Source: luma.com
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Open Infra Night maps filesystems, sandboxes and inference for agent builders
October 22, 2026, 5–8:30 p. m. in San Francisco, with the venue to be announced.
Source: luma.com
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Open Source AI Week connects Bay Area agent and model communities
October 16–25, 2026 across the Bay Area. Independently hosted workshops, hackathons and meetups share an open-source calendar.
Source: opensourceaiweek.com
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PAgE 2027 brings formal methods and AI researchers together on safe agentic engineering
January 11, 2027 at Hilton Mexico City Reforma, during POPL 2027. The workshop connects formal methods and AI researchers around specifications, verification, runtimes, evaluation and security for tool-using agents.
Source: conf.researchr.org
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Paris AI Agent Summit focuses two days on engineering and operating agentic enterprises
March 9–10, 2027 at Espace Saint Martin in Paris. The organizer expects more than 1,200 attendees, 80 speakers and a program of case studies, workshops and networking.
Source: parisagentsummit.com
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Pinecone hosts an LA Tech Week meetup for agent builders in Playa Vista
October 13, 2026, from 5 to 7 PM at Gulp, 13020 Pacific Promenade #1, Los Angeles. Organizers request registration with a work email.
Source: partiful.com
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PortCon gives engineering leaders a two-day playbook for the AI software factory
November 17–18, 2026 at Shack15 in San Francisco. Port’s two-day event focuses on infrastructure, operating models and delivery patterns for agentic software engineering.
Source: luma.com
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PyTorch Conference connects framework contributors with production AI teams
October 20–21, 2026 in San Jose, California. The PyTorch Foundation event offers technical talks, workshops and posters across the open-source AI stack.
Source: events.linuxfoundation.org
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San Francisco forum examines autonomy, evaluation and permissions in agentic engineering
October 15, 2026, 10 a. m. –5 p.
Source: luma.com
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San Francisco platform meetup tackles validation bottlenecks created by coding agents
October 27, 2026, 5–7 p. m. at 130 Sutter Street, seventh floor, San Francisco.
Source: luma.com
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San Francisco summit brings production AI infrastructure leaders into peer working sessions
October 15, 2026, from 8:30 a. m. to 3:30 p.
Source: clutchevents.co
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 brings startup builders and investors to San Francisco
TechCrunch Disrupt runs October 13–15, 2026 in San Francisco. The official event page centers founders, investors, product launches, startup lessons, and the Startup Battlefield competition.
Source: techcrunch.com
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TechEquity AI Summit devotes a full day to agentic systems and open infrastructure
November 3–6, 2026 at 135 Constitution Drive in Menlo Park, with in-person and online access. The November 4 track concentrates on data, agentic AI and open source.
Source: luma.com
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Trustworthy Agentic Systems symposium organizes working groups on agent reliability and governance
November 5–7, 2026 at the Westin Arlington in Arlington, Virginia. The AAAI Fall Symposium combines technical assurance, human oversight and collaborative research outputs.
Source: tas2026.github.io
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case 2027 convenes developers around agentic software engineering in Berlin
February 24–25, 2027 at Hotel AMANO Grand Central in Berlin. The first day is a conference on agent collaboration; the second adds a full-day technical workshop.
Source: case-conf.com
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AI Agents Summit brings builders, enterprise buyers and agent investors to Las Vegas
December 8–10, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the venue still to be announced. The application-only summit organizes its program around building, deploying and scaling production agent systems.
Source: aiagentssummit.com
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Agent Meetup Trondheim brings Norway’s agent builders together for a free community evening
November 12, 2026, 4:30–7:30 p. m. at Digs in Trondheim, Norway.
Source: luma.com
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Agentic AI Summit London focuses on the engineering work required to run agents in production
December 1, 2026 at InterContinental London – The O2. The official program combines agent engineering, generative AI and chief-AI-officer tracks with workshops on reliability, evaluation, orchestration and governance.
Source: agenticaialliance.com
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Mindstone Lisbon’s November meetup pairs practical AI demonstrations with a community panel
November 24, 2026, 6–9 p. m. at IDEA Spaces on Avenida Defensores de Chaves in Lisbon.
Source: community.mindstone.com
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AI Agents Hackathon 2027 brings logistics software teams to Hamburg
January 20–21, 2027 at Digital Hub Logistics & Commerce in Hamburg. Cargonerds lists in-person tickets and two full build days focused on freight, trade and commerce.
Source: eventbrite.de
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AI Hack for Freedom IV pairs activist-led teams with privacy and decentralized-tech problems
AI Hack for Freedom IV runs December 2–4, 2026 in San Francisco. Applications are open for developers and activists building freedom, privacy, and decentralized-technology projects around a $25,000 BTC prize pool.
Source: aihackforfreedom.org
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AMD Developer Hackathon ACT III opens cloud and Italian build sites to AI teams
Online building runs October 12–18, 2026, with approved in-person teams in Rome, Milan and Imperia on October 17–18. The official page lists more than $11,000 in prizes.
Source: lablab.ai
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AWS Community Day hackathon opens a remote build sprint with San Francisco finals
Remote agent-building challenge with October 13, 2026 finals at AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco. Organizer pages disagree on registration, build-start and submission times; confirm these deadlines with the host.
Source: luma.com
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Airwallex opens a global agentic banking competition with a San Francisco demo day
Applications close October 23, 2026; building runs October 25–November 13, followed by finalist selection and a November 19 demo day. Participation is global and online, with optional in-person demonstrations in San Francisco.
Source: airwallex.hackerearth.com
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Ambasada turns agent-run companies into a live shared economy in Romania
November 13–15, 2026 at ThePlace in Mamaia, Romania. The three-day program combines a developer hackathon with a November 14 conference and Sunday demonstrations.
Source: hackaton.ambasada.pro
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Anything Applied Agentic Hackathon challenges San Francisco teams to ship working agents
November 29, 2026, 9 a. m. –8 p.
Source: luma.com
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Box and AWS bring an invite-only enterprise agent hackathon to Seattle
The Devpost header lists October 15–17, 2026, while its detailed Seattle schedule lists October 16–17 at Amazon Day 1. Registration requires confirmation, participation is limited to eligible US residents, and submissions were not yet open.
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CCA’s Design Project Hackathon teaches designers to ship AI-assisted code
November 14, 2026, 5–7 p. m. at California College of the Arts, 145 Hooper Street in San Francisco.
Source: eventbrite.com
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CraftifAI Physical AI Hackathon puts firmware and edge vision agents on real hardware
EMBEDDED SF runs October 13, 2026 in San Francisco, with ESP32 hardware, sensors, cloud GPUs, and two tracks for firmware and computer-vision deployment. Registration requires organizer approval.
Source: luma.com
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DeveloperWeek 2027 runs a hybrid challenge hackathon with Santa Clara finals
Online building runs January 25–February 11, 2027, with in-person activity February 9–11 at Santa Clara Convention Center.
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Devnovate stages an AI startup challenge before the SF AI Summit
October 20, 2026 at AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco. The official page starts at 9:30 a. m.
Source: luma.com
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ExecuTorch Hackathon brings on-device AI builders to San Francisco in October
October 17–18, 2026 at Founders, Inc. , 2 Marina Boulevard B300, San Francisco. Teams of three to five must submit proposals by October 4; registration is an application, not guaranteed admission.
Source: luma.com
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Google opens Gemma 4 coding-agent competition and companion paper track
Entries close November 25, 2026. Kaggle lists $65,000 for the main Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition and $35,000 for its companion paper track, a combined $100,000.
Source: kaggle.com
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Hack for Social Impact brings civic technology builders to San Francisco
October 24–25, 2026 at Wefunder HQ, 1885 Mission Street, San Francisco. Registration requires host approval for the two-day event, which expects more than 200 builders.
Source: hackforsocialimpact.com
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Hack.dev opens cloud, local and physical AI tracks for its October build
October 10–11, 2026 at UCSC Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. The event is free, but its published September 30 final application deadline has passed; the live site still says 'now accepting,' so late applicants should confirm eligibility.
Source: hackdev.org
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HackerSquad and Akamai host a San Francisco build day for agents that control inference
The latest official page lists October 12, 10 a. m. to 7 p.
Source: luma.com