Events

Wednesday, 26 August 2026

Brad Morris will be covering https://elasticity.institute/rsi-paper.pdf ! Please preread https://bradley-rsi-explainer-2026.bradwmorriswork.chatgpt.site/ We also have two guests - Dan & Justin sharing their implementation of an RSI simulator built with the authors! https://www.paradigm.xyz/research/rsi/game --- we need YOU to volunteer to do rapid-fire recaps and explanations of our remaining papers on the board: https://app.sli.do/event/bNV6mo3BFGhe8Bqzb1tonb/live/questions please sign up in #llm-paper-club in https://www.latent.space/p/community discord recordings at https://www.youtube.com/@LatentSpaceTV

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

ABOUT EVENT The co-founders of Natoma (now Snowflake ) and Trust3 AI invite you to an educational session in which you will learn how to responsibly accelerate the deployment of AI systems for your organization. Most enterprises are running 3–10× more AI agents than their teams realize. For practitioners, that means a rapidly expanding attack surface that's difficult to discover, govern, and secure. Every agent touches data, takes actions, and may operate as part of Shadow AI. The critical questions are: Which agents are running? What can they access? What are they actually doing? And who is accountable when one goes off script? This session explores how you can discover every agent running in production, secure every action those agents take on enterprise data, and responsibly accelerate AI adoption. Expect candid talks, a live end-to-end demo, and direct conversation with the people building the security and observability layer for the agentic enterprise. SPEAKERS Paresh Bhaya , Co-founder, Natoma (now Snowflake). Co-built the enterprise MCP gateway Snowflake acquired to govern how agents connect, authenticate, and act across systems. Neeraj Sabharwal , Co-founder, Trust3 AI. Helps enterprises safely scale AI adoption with strong data governance and access control. Anish Menon , Founding AI Security Lead, Trust3 AI. Leads AgentDOS, the control plane for discovering, observing, and securing agents across any framework and cloud. Mark Castillo , Founding AI Solutions Architect, Trust3 AI. Partners with enterprises to design and deploy agentic governance systems in production. Trust3 AI, host and live demo team. WHAT TO EXPECT 5:00 to 6:00 PM | Welcome Reception & Networking Check in, grab a drink, and enjoy light bites as guests arrive. Connect with fellow data and AI practitioners & pioneers before the program begins. 6:00 to 6:05 PM | Welcome & the Agentic Reality Check (Trust3 AI) Enterprise AI is scaling; governance isn't. A quick look at shadow AI, rogue agents, and why this lands squarely on both the security team and the AI budget. 6:05 to 6:25 PM | Securing the Agentic Enterprise (Paresh Bhaya, Natoma, now Snowflake) Governing agents that act on data across Snowflake Intelligence and Coco: the Natoma MCP gateway, identity, and purpose-bound access, built from the data layer up. 6:25 to 6:50 PM | AgentDOS: Discover, Observe, Secure (Anish Menon, Trust3 AI) Picking up where the gateway ends. Finding the agents you're undercounting by 3 to 10x, tracing every prompt and tool call, token-level observability, and turning agent risk into measurable AI ROI. Security has to reach beyond the MCP layer to the data itself. A first look at the Policy Agent, Trust3's approach to fine-grained access control at the data layer. 6:50 to 7:10 PM | Live Demo: Policy Agent in Action (Mark Castillo, Trust3 AI) A live walkthrough on Snowflake: author an access policy in natural language, watch Trust3's Policy Agent generate and apply the underlying roles and grants automatically, and see that same policy govern what an agent is allowed to touch. 7:10 to 8:00 PM | Q&A + Open Networking Open Q&A with all speakers, followed by continued conversation over drinks. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Data and AI practitioners & pioneers LOCATION Snowflake Office, 135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Thursday, 20 August 2026

AI agents are only as good as the data they retrieve. In this 30-minute hands-on session, you'll learn how Pinecone's knowledge infrastructure powers accurate, grounded AI applications — from hybrid search to RAG-powered assistants.

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

paper tbd --- we need YOU to volunteer to do rapid-fire recaps and explanations of our remaining papers on the board: https://app.sli.do/event/bNV6mo3BFGhe8Bqzb1tonb/live/questions please sign up in #llm-paper-club in https://www.latent.space/p/community discord recordings at https://www.youtube.com/@LatentSpaceTV

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Join Pinecone developers and security experts for a practical discussion on managing identity, access, and governance in enterprise environments. The session will cover the different ways organizations can provision and deprovision users, automatically assign roles, and manage access at scale. You’ll learn how to use Pinecone’s Admin API and Terraform provider, as well as how to connect your identity provider through SAML assertions and SCIM. We’ll also examine Pinecone’s role-based access control system, including the available roles, the permissions each role grants, and how to select the right combination for your organization. The discussion will include common access-management patterns, security considerations, and approaches for keeping permissions aligned as teams and projects change. Additional topics will include audit logs, customer-managed encryption keys, and other controls that support enterprise security and compliance. This meetup is intended for developers, platform engineers, security teams, and administrators responsible for deploying or managing Pinecone in an enterprise setting.

Thursday, 13 August 2026

Join us for an evening of talks and community discussion about Apache DataFusion and its growing role in modern data infrastructure. This meetup will spotlight real-world applications, performance innovations, and evolving integrations NOTE: due to venue requirements, it is required to register with your actual name. We will provide the front desk with the names and you will need to show ID to get in. ​​Agenda 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Welcome, food, and networking 6:30 – 8:00 PM | Talks 8:00 – 8:30 PM | Wrap-up and mingling ​​Speaker Lineup Watch this space for more! We have room for speakers at the next event in December. Please contact the organizers if you would like to speak. Location SOMA — address provided upon approval. We can only admit guests with  approved registrations . Organizer Contact Info Divya Ranganathan divya@hotdata.dev Eddie A Tejeda eddie@hotdata.dev Andrew Lamb alamb@influxdata.com Amada Echeverría  amada@langchain.dev

Wednesday, 12 August 2026

paper tbd --- we need YOU to volunteer to do rapid-fire recaps and explanations of our remaining papers on the board: https://app.sli.do/event/bNV6mo3BFGhe8Bqzb1tonb/live/questions please sign up in #llm-paper-club in https://www.latent.space/p/community discord recordings at https://www.youtube.com/@LatentSpaceTV

Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Join Pinecone for an agentic AI meetup in Los Angeles. Our first meetup in May drew 70 people. The second in July brought 80. It'd be pretty cool to break 100 in August. We're pulling together agentic builders, engineers, founders, and the AI-curious for an evening of conversations, a few live demos, great energy, and drinks. It's a low-key crowd. Nobody's here to sell you anything. Just real people building in AI, sharing ideas, and connecting with others who care about where this space is going. Whether you’re deep into RAG systems, working on agentic workflows, or just starting to explore AI, this is a space to meet others doing the same. When Tuesday, August 11th, 5:00pm-7:00pm Where Gulp in Playa Vista Address: 13020 Pacific Promenade #1, Los Angeles, CA 90094 Agenda 5:00pm Meetup begins, drinks & networking 5:30pm Kickoff, brief intro to Pinecone 5:45pm Live demos 6:15pm Open networking 7:00pm Meetup concludes What to Expect Casual conversations with AI builders, founders, and engineers Live demos from members of the community A look at what folks are actually building Drinks and a relaxed vibe PS: Please sign up using your work email.

Wednesday, 5 August 2026

paper tbd --- we need YOU to volunteer to do rapid-fire recaps and explanations of our remaining papers on the board: https://app.sli.do/event/bNV6mo3BFGhe8Bqzb1tonb/live/questions please sign up in #llm-paper-club in https://www.latent.space/p/community discord recordings at https://www.youtube.com/@LatentSpaceTV

Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Calling all early-stage B2B founders and funders! 👋 Hi! We’re Dave Coen , Sruthi Sivanandan and Deirdre Clute from the Forum Ventures team. We're hosting a casual, no-pressure meetup designed to bring together founders & investors in the Bay Area over coffee. Whether you're based in SF or just visiting, it’s an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow founders, AI enthusiasts and VCs in a relaxed and welcoming setting. This gathering is designed for founders who didn't start with an idea—they started with deep firsthand knowledge of an industry and chose to build the solution they wished existed. Founders who built careers before they built companies. This breakfast is for experienced founders who left successful careers to solve problems they experienced firsthand. Whether you're building in healthcare, finance, legal, manufacturing, retail, or another industry, join fellow operators-turned-founders and the investors who believe deep domain expertise builds exceptional companies. Request a spot to join and get access to the location. IDEAL GUESTS Experienced Founders and investors focused on the early-stage (pre-Series A) B2B & AI landscape. For founders who've built careers before building startups. Especially those who are under-represented in tech, which can include (but are not limited to): Black, Brown, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Female + non-binary founders and funders. APPROVED GUESTS Application does not guarantee attendance. ​​Spaces for this event are limited to maintain the quality of interactions and aim to ensure every participant receives optimum value. Register now - we hope to see you there. Admitted guests will be notified via event approval (with a calendar invite). About Forum Ventures Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and AI venture studio for B2B startups. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. Forum is investing in 65+ SaaS companies this year.  Pitch Us here . We're also starting 8 companies in our venture studio. If you have an idea, have lived a pain point, and are ready to start a company with the support of a full stack team, tell us why you’d be a great founder for our AI Venture Studio. ​​Brought to you by JustWorks Simplify your Payroll, Benefits, Compliance, and Global HR with Justworks.  Our intuitive platform and human support make managing payroll, benefits, and compliance seamless. Access big-company benefits, EOR support in key markets, and transparent pricing—all designed to help you grow confidently. Monthly Client Rebates (potential $2,500 offer value) Eligible products and services for monthly client rebates include: Justworks Payroll Justworks PEO Justworks International Rebate Details : The monthly client rebate is applied directly to your invoice, starting 60 days after your Justworks services go live, and continues in perpetuity. Enjoy ongoing savings with each billing cycle for qualified referrals  (worth an average of $2,500 in the first year) . Available for new customers only. Steps to Redeem : Contact Nick Contrino from the Justworks Partnerships team at  ncontrino@justworks.com  to discuss your rebate and service options  or click the link to get started  www.justworks.com/lp/partner-page-forum