AI Native Summit - SF Tech Week #SFTechWeek

Friday, Oct 9

10:00am – 5:00pm

Hosted by PAI Palooza Presents – Build With AINative Studio 2026

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https://builder.ainative.studio

Code. Build. Compete. 📍 San Francisco Tech Week📅 Friday, October 9, 2026🕙 10 AM–5 PM PDT🎟 Tickets go on sale Friday, September 25 AINative Summit is where builders become champions. Join engineers, founders, AI researchers, infrastructure teams, and startup operators for one packed day of technical talks, hands-on build labs, and the AINative Hack Champion 2026 Finals. Learn from people shipping real systems. Build alongside them. Help fuel what comes next. 🏆 $50,000 already committed—and we’re building from here Our partners have contributed credits and services to help the winners keep building long after the competition: Partner Prize value What winners can put to work: Salt & Ledger $5,500 (Bookkeeping and accounting services 1 year, plus 2026 tax preparation) Osto $5,000 (Managed Security and compliance) Open Cap Stack $2,500 (Cap Table management, Founder SAFEs, and 409A services) Builder by AINative $25,000 (Builder credits to build with Cody, your autonomous CTO cofounder agent) AINative $12,000 (AINative platform credits (includes Agent Cloud, Zero DB, Cody CLI, Inference) Total committed so far: $50,000 Credits and services for the winners Now we’re growing the cash prize pot. 100% of cash collected from ticket sales, build-lab sponsorships, and other branded event sponsorships will go into the prize pot for the winners. Every ticket adds to the pot. Every cash event sponsor raises the stakes. Additional contributions of tools, credits, and services give winning teams more resources to keep building. The community determines how big the prize pool gets. Attendees also get a FREE pass to Shotwell's Speakeasy 2026, the official after party! 🧠 Track 1 — Nonstop UnConference Style Technical Talks Practical sessions for people building AI-native systems: AI-native development workflows Multi-agent orchestration GPU optimization and inference strategies Vector databases and agent memory Model fine-tuning and evaluation Open-source AI tooling Infrastructure scaling Lessons from real AI-native startups Come ready to ask questions, compare approaches, and take ideas back to your own stack. 🛠 Track 2 — Hands-On Build Labs Bring your laptop. Leave with something you built. Planned labs include: AIKit rapid UI builds and A2UI experiments ZeroDB vector memory AINative API integrations Agent Cloud orchestration workflows Builder Track (Vibe Coders, Product Managers, Designers) Infrastructure optimization Partner-led product challenges and build sessions Work directly with the tools, explore real use cases, and get into the code. 🥇 The AINative Hack Champion 2026 Finals Winning teams from regional AINative hackathons in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Detroit advance to the championship finals in San Francisco. They’ll compete for a prize pool that already includes $50,000 in committed credits and services, with cash from ticket sales and event sponsorships added for the winners. Come build. Come compete. Come back the teams taking AI-native systems forward. 🤝 Work at a company that should be involved? Make the introduction. We’re welcoming companies that want to: Sponsor a build challenge, starting at $1,000 Lead a hands-on lab around tools builders can use Contribute prizes, including services, software, cloud credits, GPU access, or hardware Create a branded sponsorship that supports the championship Bring technical mentors to help teams build Cash collected from build-lab and branded event sponsorships goes directly into the winners’ prize pot. Tell us what your company brings and what you want builders to experience. We’ll help shape a relevant opportunity. Bring your company into the prize pool → Email developer@ainative.studioSubject: AINative Summit Sponsorship — [Company] 🎙 Shipping something worth teaching? Take the stage. We’re inviting proposals for: Deep technical AI talks AI-Native startup use case studies Infrastructure breakdowns Open-source showcases Live build sessions Send your proposed topic, three audience takeaways, and a short bio. Pitch your talk or build lab → 📣 Be part of what happens next Attend. Compete. Speak. Sponsor. Join us on Friday, October 9, in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 25—and every ticket adds to the winners’ prize pot. Want to compete, contribute a prize, volunteer or connect us with your company? 📧 developer@ainative.studio Send your name, company or team, and how you’d like to participate. $50,000 committed. A cash prize pot powered by the community. Help us make the next win bigger. All Summit attendees get a FREE pass to Shotwell's Speakeasy 2026, the after party!