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Upcoming Tech Events: Must-Attend for August 11th - 17th
Pool, beach volley and highlighting top events (as always:)
Daria Kulachek
August 10, 2025
Happy Sunday,
Between pool parties, sun-soaked walks, and a calendar packed with events, there’s no shortage of reasons to get outside and soak up the season. This week, we’ve rounded up the best happenings, fresh updates, and can’t-miss opportunities — whether you’re networking under the sun or just here for the fun. Dive in, the water’s perfect!
Monday, Aug 11th
Join us for a casual evening AI meetup in the heart of Pasadena! This friendly get-together is the perfect opportunity for GenAI enthusiasts, hobbyists, experts, and newcomers alike to connect, share insights, and learn from each other in an informal setting.
Tuesday, Aug 12th
Pitch Global has long been a key player in the Southern California startup ecosystem, forging strong connections with institutions like Pepperdine, UCLA, Expert DoJo, Tie SoCal, and leading investors. While in-person events were disrupted in 2020, we reignited our presence three years ago with the Impact Investment Series at the Milken Conference. Now, we are thrilled to re-launch our signature events, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors in a dynamic setting.
Join us for our Fight Tonight Collider, a matchmaking event, between the SSC workforce and industry who will seek potential partners for the Fight Tonight competition. The submission window is open now through August 22, 2025.
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Join us for an exclusive evening at The Perch, one of downtown LA’s most iconic rooftop venues. We’ve booked The Perch exclusive space, Bar Thirteen, for a night that begins with a relaxed reception, followed by an insider look at Zendesk’s latest AI roadmap and innovations shaping the future of customer experience, and wraps-up with a dinner designed to spark meaningful conversations and new connections among CX leaders and decision-makers.
Join us for the WeAreLATech's Los Angeles Tech Community Beach Walk 🌊🚶 Santa Monica Edition with an optional happy hour to follow.
Where the waves meet the web, and the tech community comes to play. We'll be mixing and mingling for just an hour. It's the perfect chance to catch a stunning sunset with fellow startups and and make connections that go beyond the bandwidth.
All experience levels welcome! Grab a beer, some food from the food truck and come discuss all things Bitcoin with your fellow plebs.
Wednesday, Aug 13th
Join Lilian Wang and Gregorio Santiago in an insightful conversation designed for consumer founders looking to enhance their financial literacy, decision-making, and fundraising strategies. Gregorio will share lessons from his diverse entrepreneurial journey, provide essential financial insights, and offer practical advice on investment readiness.
This workshop is for builders in the AI era who want to move faster with clarity. You’ll learn how to design and sequence AI-powered experiments to test your product assumptions, validate real customer value, and scale with precision—not noise.
Let’s go on a walk at The Broad museum, take pictures, animate them with AI while we walk, and have lunch! Casual invite to folks in the Machine Cinema who want to get some steps in and play!
Join us for a powerful, in-person collaboration where government leaders, industry experts, academia, and acquisition professionals come together to shape the future of space innovation and defense.
Learn to build real applications using AI as your coding partner. Attendees will walk away with a working prototype of their app idea while mastering AI-native development workflows. 3-hour hands-on intensive covering AI-assisted coding, prompt engineering, and practical implementation techniques for immediate career application.
Ken Cavanagh - Industrial psychologist, AI developer, and co-founder of Agency42—an AI studio helping companies transform how they work with AI.
A dinner get together with Sigma Capital team to know more about the Web3 and Digital Assets space.
Thursday, Aug 14th
AI code editors promise faster builds and fewer bugs, but do they really deliver? I’ll share what I’ve learned using these "vibe-coding" tools on real web projects: where they shine, where they stumble, and the pitfalls to watch for.
What Would Nature Do? (San Diego)
An immersive workshop for B Corps and changemakers to explore how biomimicry methodology and living systems thinking can unlock creativity, innovation, and regeneration in business and can be applied to solve problems / processes (beyond product development) to embed sustainability within corporations.
Join us for a Demo Day featuring Spring 2025 LA Blue founders powered by Braid Theory.
What to expect:
- Pitches from 8 Blue Economy teams
- Opportunity to connect with founders, industry leaders, and investors
- Insights into innovations and opportunities in the Blue Economy
- Networking with drinks and light bites
Stand With Crypto x Wendy O are calling on YOU!! Join us for a high impact Crypto Day of Action with Stand With Crypto and our special guest Wendy O, the queen of daily crypto updates we can’t live without, who still hasn’t had a proper community birthday celebration!
Bits in Bio: TechBio Startup Showcase (San Diego)
Join the Bits in Bio San Diego community for a high-energy evening spotlighting the region’s most exciting TechBio startups. Hosted at Aquillius, this pitch-focused event will feature rapid-fire presentations from founders building at the intersection of biology and technology.
Framer and tonik are teaming up to bring founders together for a laid-back evening in Venice.
Join us on Thursday, August 14 for drinks, good conversation, and a chance to connect with other LA-based builders.
Whether you’re deep in product, fresh off a launch, or just looking to swap stories with other founders, this is a great excuse to hang out and meet new people in the startup scene.
NEW AUGUST LOCATION: Join us as we discuss all things Bitcoin related with the common goal of seeing massive Bitcoin adoption.
This bitcoin meetup began in early 2024, on is typically on the third Tuesday of the month.
Join AAF Los Angeles for an inspiring evening celebrating the leadership, impact, and voices of women shaping the future of advertising.
MedTech Connect brings together leading innovators, founders, and industry professionals driving the future of healthcare technology. Join us for an evening of high-impact networking, collaborative discussions, and interactive brainstorming designed to spark meaningful connections and accelerate innovation. Whether you’re a founder looking to scale, an investor scouting the next big idea, or a healthcare professional passionate about technology, you’ll find a vibrant community here dedicated to advancing human health.
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Friday, Aug 15th
Regenerative Roundtable - communicate, cultivate, and collaborate on health and ecological projects.
An opportunity to build bridges with incubators, accelerators, investors, and solutionaries. Short presentation about the Earth
Come play with us beginner friendly volleyball
This is a special invite for you and some friends to join us at the First World Flagship Location in West Hollywood. Join the conversation around Identity, Privacy and the Future of Connectivity in a room full of likeminded industry leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, investors, trailblazers and change-makers.
Join Red Rug Edutainment and San Diego NFT Friends for an evening beach screening of “How the World Went Apesh*t” — the film that captures one of the internet’s most iconic digital communities - The Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the Future of Technology and Finance, where innovation meets investment and startups thrive! Our event is meticulously curated for tech enthusiasts, finance wizards, entrepreneurs, and professionals eager to explore the dynamic intersection of technology and finance.
Join us in a casual meetup every Friday in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Our mission is centered around Entertainment and AI in the crypto space.
Saturday, Aug 2nd
☀️ Run 5k w/ like-minded ppl in LA
Take a break from your screen for a couple of hours, exercise outside in our lovely LA weather, and meet some great founders, operators, investors, and more in the LA startup ecosystem.
Hosted by The Friday Brunch Club founder, The Saturday Flow Club is a space for high-achieving entrepreneurs and big-hearted leaders to pause, breathe, and return to themselves.
Turn your startup idea into a custom AI-Assistant ready to launch your business or passion project. Weekly AI News and Updates, followed by a workshop building with ChatGPT, Gemini Gems, or Copilot.
Come out and grab a coffee and pastry with a bunch of other Tech Founders and Investors.
Looking for good vibes and meaningful conversation? Join us for HeyClimate Coffee ☕️! Our monthly, friendly hangout where members connect, catch up, and share about our lives and the future we want to build.
Venture Social Club is StartupStarter’s private community of founders and investors. It’s a series of invite-only, curated experiences bringing founders and investors together to skip the small talk and make genuine connections.
Join us for a private Pool Party day high in the Hollywood Hills, where ambition meets elevation and every connection could be your next big break.
Sunday, Aug 17th
Take a hike with a great group of smart Founders & Investors 🥾
FLOW & CONNECT W/ RECESS FOR CREATIVES X ODD is a fresh take on networking for female leaders in creative fields. In partnership with Recess For Creatives, female entrepreneurs – from small business and large business to startup and solopreneurs – come together to flow, connect through thoughtful prompts, and find inspiration, ideas, and a side salad of networking without the stress of a networking event.
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