A free live hour with Yash Thakker covering the AI safety concepts every builder and operator needs: the core failure modes to know before hitting them, a live look at AgentBeam catching an unsafe agent trajectory, and a checklist of best practices for running agents safely. Free with email registration; a recording is included.
A bimonthly virtual series from The Privacy Center at Georgetown Law and Tech Policy Press launching October 22 on Zoom. Rather than another "AI governance" conversation, the dialogues dig into questions upstream of tech policy — power, labor, war, justice, privacy, art, community and human consciousness. The kickoff features remarks from Dr. Alondra Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Study; free registration.
Free virtual conference on 9 December 2026, 8:30am to 2:00pm Pacific, on running streaming data and AI agent systems in production. Sessions cover streaming plus SQL and agents on one platform, locking down agent access with an agentic data plane, streaming at scale, and open Q&A with the product and engineering teams. Speakers are engineers, architects, customers and industry experts.
Details: Worth a morning if you work with data pipelines and want to hear how agents are actually being governed in production rather than demoed. Two honest flags: it is the vendor's own event, so the answer to most architecture questions will be Redpanda, and registration asks for your job title, company and work email, and signs you up for their marketing email. Use a filterable address if that matters to you.
A free series of afternoon Build Days in New York City where nonprofit and social sector leaders sit down with technologists to work on practical ways to use AI in their organisations. Run by Decoded Futures, a Tech:NYC program. Sessions run from Thursday 24 September 2026 through 22 October 2026, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM, in person in New York.
Details: Free and in person, and the point is that you leave with something built rather than notes from a talk. Register on the event page and check which individual dates still have spaces, since the series runs across several afternoons. It is aimed at nonprofit teams, so go with a real problem from your own work.
A free four-week online business competition starting 24 October 2026, with over $1 million in prizes, live expert support, tools and business playbooks for people starting or growing a business.
Details: Free to enter and the four weeks of playbooks and live sessions are worth it even if you never place. Sign up early so you get the pre-work.
A free, two-day virtual summit on AI in education. Designed for educators at community colleges, public schools and other broad-access settings, with keynotes and participatory workshops on teaching, learning and AI policy.
Details: Free virtual AI education summit with practical workshops for educators. Useful if you teach or train people on AI tools and want classroom-ready guidance.
