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From Satellite to Signal: Building a Geospatial Agentic AI Stack
Tue, Oct 27, 5:00 PM***CROSS POST EVENT FROM WHEROBOTS.*** ***SIGN UP LINK:*** ***Sign up here:*** ***https://luma.com/m4bngiey*** **#** **A hands-on workshop with AWS and Wherobots, plus a fireside chat with HERE Technologies** **## Agenda** **10:00 to 10:30am: Doors open and check-in** **10:30 to 11:00am: Fireside chat: Precise answers from probabilistic AI** **11:00am to 12:30pm: Hands-on workshop** **12:30 to 1:30pm: Lunch and networking** **##** **Fireside Chat: Precise Answers from Probabilistic AI** [Ben Pruden](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benpruden/?utm_source=luma)**, Head of Go-to-Market at Wherobots, and** [Hervé Utheza](https://www.linkedin.com/in/utheza/?utm_source=luma)**, Senior Director, AI & Emerging Technologies at HERE Technologies, on what it takes for AI to give exact answers about the physical world.** **Large language models are probabilistic. Ask the same question twice and you get two different ballpark answers. Questions about the physical world, like which properties sit inside a flood zone or how many people live within a wildfire hazard area, need exact, repeatable results. Ben and Hervé discuss how AI agents get there by calling deterministic geospatial tools.** **## Workshop: Building a Geospatial Agentic AI Stack on AWS and Wherobots** **Build an end-to-end agentic geospatial pipeline in a single day. Bring your laptop, leave with a working pattern for turning raw satellite imagery and weather data into interactive risk dashboards, driven by natural language at every stage.** **This in-person workshop walks you through building an end-to-end geospatial AI pipeline. Raw satellite imagery and weather data go in, move through agentic data engineering and risk scoring, and come out as interactive map dashboards. You use natural language at every stage.** **By the end of the workshop you will be able to:** * **Work with Amazon Kiro for AI coding to build and interact with Wherobots and AWS.** * **Use the Wherobots MCP server as an agentic interface for exploring and processing geospatial data catalogs** * **Build a medallion data pipeline (Bronze, Silver, Gold) using spatial SQL, raster zonal statistics, and KNN spatial joins on WherobotsDB with Apache Iceberg** * **Score physical assets for natural hazard risk using wildfire, flood, and severe weather data** * **Connect Aurora PostgreSQL as a live data source to MapLibre as a visualization layer, so maps stay current as the underlying data changes** **##** **Who Should Attend** **Data engineers, ML engineers, and solutions architects working with physical-world data. Geospatial teams evaluating how agentic workflows layer onto existing GIS infrastructure.** **About Wherobots** **Wherobots is the AI Context Engine for physical world data, built by the original creators of Apache Sedona. An AWS Partner, the platform enables planetary-scale spatial compute and Earth intelligence, letting developers build and scale AI workflows on physical-world data using the SQL and Python they already know. Learn more at** [wherobots.com](https://wherobots.com/?utm_source=luma)**.** **Sign up here:** **https://luma.com/m4bngiey**
SF Bay Area Stationery Meetup - Click-clack Clipboards
Sun, Oct 25, 6:00 PMHi Stationery Friends! I'll just give it to you straight - we've been struck with a fever. Many of us are down bad for the satisfying clap of a sturdy, magnetic clipboard, and we're doing our best to spread the contagion. You might think you're safe, but have you ever really paid attention to the beautiful wood grain, the helpful clip, the convenience of writing or sketching wherever you want? On that note, whether or not you're a clipboard enthusiast, we'd love to see and hear about your on-the-go setup! Are you toting all your supplies around the house in a perfectly organized bag, or haphazard piles that leave a trail of markers behind you? Are you a steadfast hardcover notebook fan, so you can write anywhere without a separate surface, or dedicated to slim softcovers you can tuck in any bag or pocket? Do you buy duplicates of your favorite stationery so you can keep the perfect eraser in every bag, or keep everything in its place and never journal in a second location? Whether or not you can make it this month, [join us on Discord](https://discord.gg/TG8pK5BTkT) to talk stationery, learn about future meetups, and vote on themes. Rickshaw recommends the nearby Coffee Shop, Piccino Cafe, La Stazione, and Neighbor Bakehouse for coffee & pastries. Street parking is available but pay close attention to the restrictions - they're different on basically every street surrounding Rickshaw. The 48 & 55 buses drop off just about at Rickshaw's door, the Caltrain 22nd Street Stop is a short walk away, and so is the 23rd Street Stop of Muni's T Line.
Oct 28 - SF Physical AI Workshop and Meetup
Thu, Oct 29, 12:30 AMJoin us at Antler VC on Oct 28 for the SF Physical AI Workshop and Meetup, co-presented by Nebius and Voxel51. Seats are limited, **[Pre-registration is mandatory.](https://voxel51.com/events/san-francisco-physical-ai-workshop-and-meetup-october-28-2026)** **Date, Time and Location** Oct 28, 2026 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Antler San Francisco 144 Townsend St (3rd Floor) San Francisco, CA 94107 **Meetup Agenda** *5:30–6:30 PM* * Networking, food, drinks, and lightning talks **Workshop Agenda** This hands-on session uses DROID, a real-world robotics dataset loaded into FiftyOne as a native multimodal MCAP recording, and YOLO11n, fine-tuned live during the session. *6:30–7:30 PM* * Welcome + framing: from raw robot logs to a trained detector * Explore a real DROID robotics recording in FiftyOne's native multimodal MCAP viewer: camera, proprioception, and language on one synced timeline, no ROS install required * Curate: extract and browse frames from the recording, filter and deduplicate * Compute embeddings on the curated frames; explore via similarity search and embeddings visualization (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs) *7:30–8:00 PM* * Auto-label: open-vocabulary detection to generate bounding boxes for the robot gripper and target objects * Train: fine-tune a YOLO11n detector on the auto-labeled frames (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs) * Evaluate results and close the loop: view predictions back on the original MCAP timeline *8:00–8:30 PM* * What else Nebius offers: Token Factory walkthrough — chat/vision models, fine-tuning, credits
Monthly Game Night @ Madrone Art Bar
Sun, Nov 8, 12:00 AMCome solo or bring friends and choose from a mix of party games, strategy games, chess, puzzles, and more. The Gamescape crew will be on hand to help you find a game and get started. Every 1st Saturday of the month! Free, 21+, and outside food is welcome! 1st Saturdays of the month // 4–7 PM at Madrone Art Bar
The New AI Developer Stack
Wed, Oct 28, 12:00 AM**Sign up on Luma Please:** [https://luma.com/8r3itwhb](https://luma.com/8r3itwhb) The modern software engineering stack is undergoing its most radical transformation in decades. As software shifts from static CRUD architectures toward autonomous, agentic systems, forward-deployed and product engineers face an entirely new set of technical hurdles: non-deterministic execution, complex tool calling, customer-isolated cloud runtimes, and replacing traditional unit testing with continuous evaluations. Join **MobileMonday** and the **Applied Intelligence Forum** for an evening of engineering-focused discussion with the founders and builders shaping this transition. We’ll cut through the generative AI hype to examine what is actually running in production across enterprise VPCs and client deployments today. **Key Discussion Topics:** * **Orchestration Beyond Single Prompts:** Designing stateful, collaborative multi-agent architectures that balance deterministic software logic with autonomous execution. * **The New QA Layer:** Replacing rigid test suites with graded evals, OpenTelemetry-based tracing, and drift detection for non-deterministic model outputs. * **Enterprise Tooling & Protocol Standards:** Bridging agents to external enterprise APIs, managing OAuth/identity, and handling reliable execution across Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateways. * **Production Runtimes & Governance:** Managing model routing, low-latency inference, Kubernetes-native deployments, and strict enterprise security controls in private clouds. **Who Should Attend:** Software engineers, forward-deployed engineers (FDEs), technical founders, and engineering leaders building, benchmarking, or shipping agentic systems into complex enterprise environments.
20s & 30s Speed Friending : Emporium + Madrones Monday Night Groove!!
Tue, Oct 27, 2:00 AM**RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/wbIzNuebvJGCPYvR5Pdh **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later** WOW EVERYODY!! We had a huge turnout last time. So here we go for our 3rd Series!!! ;) EVENT WILL BE CAPPED AT 50 PEOPLE! Here, you'll meet someone new every 8 minutes! Literal speed-friending! Picture this: you walk up to the Emporium on a Monday night for their famous "Industry Night," and see some new faces, some old. Then, you spend an hour in quick one-on-one rounds, meet incredible new people, then you play games with your new friends at the Emporium and if you're wanting to afterwards, we're right next to Madrone's, so we can all go dancing together! Wow what a fun night! So, get ready for an hour of real one-on-one conversations with fellow industry professionals, paired up by the app so you always know exactly who you are talking to next. Then comes the fun part: you walk into the arcade bar and then head over to Madrones for Monday night dancing together. It all happens the same evening, with one shared plan, and everyone going together. By the time the music starts, you've already got a squad to hit the dance floor with. Maybe this becomes your weekly Monday night dancing crew. Maybe it's just a great evening you'll remember. Either way, you're rolling with a crew. Agenda 6:50PM - Check-In Follow the link to complete a quick profile setup on your phone. 7:00PM - 8:05PM - One-on-One Rounds Our app pairs you for focused conversations. Discover who shares your industry experience and your favorite dance moves. 8:05PM+ - Form Groups & go into the Emporium and then head over to Madrones to go dancing together Your new friend group leaves together - tonight. The Goal Don't just collect contacts. Actually go dancing with new people and see if this becomes your regular crew for new dancing spots to explore together. Want to stay in touch with someone? Use the app - it lets you connect without ever sharing your phone number. **RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/wbIzNuebvJGCPYvR5Pdh **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later**
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