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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We are celebrating all that is green today… the goddesses, the greenback, the globe! Please enjoy some discounts on behalf of the leprechaun bouncing around Venice. And no, that’s not Todd.

Progress on climate doesn't happen in a vacuum—it requires navigating competing priorities, building unlikely partnerships, and making difficult tradeoffs. This panel brings together leaders from water infrastructure, corporate sustainability, and climate science to discuss the real compromises behind meaningful action: balancing immediate needs with long-term goals, aligning incentives across sectors, and deciding what's worth fighting for when perfection isn't an option.

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From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.

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Join AILA’s 7th Earth Summit, to examine the technologies, policies, and ideas shaping our climate future. From artificial intelligence to breakthrough materials science, from state climate policy to investment strategies— explore the full spectrum of how we adapt to our changing planet.

​Can we innovate our way to a sustainable future? Earth Summit brings real data and diverse perspectives about how California addresses climate challenges through policy and technology. What are the actual costs and benefits? Where are the greatest opportunities?

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​Each quarter, AI LA will convene technologists, builders, and policy-curious professionals for a timely, grounded discussion on AI legislation—what’s passed, what’s coming, and what it actually means in practice. With a primary focus on California and clear line-of-sight to federal positioning, this forum is designed to move beyond headlines and political theater to unpack real consequences: how new laws shape product development, reporting obligations, corporate behavior, and public infrastructure initiatives like CalCompute.

Over the past year, tools like Claude Code have become incredibly popular for AI-assisted software development. These systems allow people to work with AI directly inside their projects—reading files, editing code, running commands, and helping build applications step by step.​​

This workshop introduces participants to this new wave of AI coding agents and shows how they can be used to build real applications faster. Led by Tejas Rajurkar, the session will walk through practical setup, demonstrate a live build using Codex, and give participants time to experiment with the tools themselves.

​In this small, limited-capacity working session, you won’t just learn about agents — you’ll design, build, and deploy them against your real workflows. We’ll audit your operations, identify where time and decisions get stuck, and turn those recurring tasks into autonomous systems.

​A light breakfast, coffee, and lunch are provided.

When predicting customer churn or loan defaults, standard ML models usually ask a binary question: "Will this happen within a year, yes or no?" But treating an event in Month 2 exactly like an event in Month 11 throws away your most valuable feature: time. This talk explores the paradigm shift from traditional classification to Survival Analysis. We’ll walk through the architecture needed to stop predicting "if" and start predicting "when." Drawing on real-world experience in credit risk modeling, we’ll walk through the use cases where survival analysis works better than traditional classifiers.

The AlphaPersuade AI Summit is back. One day. Big ideas. Real conversations about AI’s growing power to influence how we think and act. Join top minds across industry, policy, and research to explore what’s changed—and what comes next for persuasion in AI.

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The Newport Beach Investor Conference is a 1 - Day in person and live webinar conference. Join 500+ investors and industry professionals for an exclusive, one-day gathering showcasing cutting-edge investment opportunities across sectors like AI, Blockchain, Consumer Products, Entertainment, Longevity, Medtech, Real Estate, Space and Sports Tech.

This event is designed to connect accredited investors, venture capitalists, private equity firms, family offices, and other high-net-worth individuals with a curated lineup of presenting companies and entrepreneurs actively raising capital.

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By: Lauren Mansfield

AI strategy is easy to announce, but consistent execution is harder. Real value does not come from pilots or proofs of concept. It comes from embedding AI into core workflows and aligning incentives around outcomes that matter. The organizations pulling ahead build capability, mindset, and ecosystems in parallel to ensure AI becomes a sustained advantage, not a side initiative. Impact is not discovered. It is designed. In Beyond Adoption: How High-Performing Teams Turn AI into Enterprise Value, we explore the shifts required to move from experimentation to durable enterprise performance.

Join us for an AI Policy Mixer at a new location in Chinatown at the Highland Park Brewery! This event brings together professionals and enthusiasts from AI, policy, and technology to exchange ideas and explore emerging trends. Whether you’re a policymaker, technologist, researcher, or simply curious about the future of AI, all are welcome to join the conversation.

​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.

Calling all aerospace professionals, space dreamers, and anyone fascinated by flight! Join us at Rock & Brews in El Segundo for a relaxed evening of lively conversation about everything that soars—within Earth’s atmosphere and far beyond.

​Whether you’re designing the next aircraft or captivated by deep-space exploration, this meetup is for you.

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