AI Engineering Summit + NVidia GTC is upon us

Engineers packed in deep dive discussions on AI, get your arms deep with us

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Mala Ramakrishnan
March 10, 2025

AI Engineering Summit
March 28 12-5:30pm PST | Palo Alto, CA
https://lu.ma/engsummit
Join us for a CxO fireside chat, panels on Foundational Models and DeepSeek, AI Engineering Execution and Ethics, and Autonomy with AI Agents.
Network with engineers from top companies to acceleratr your career track.

AI Engineering Executive dinner (10 spots left)
March 28 6:30-9pm, Los Altos, CA
https://lu.ma/ozotworp

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AI Innovators Forum: Nvidia GTC by The Agentic & Progressive Ventures
March 19 6-9pm PST | San Jose, California
Register: https://lu.ma/innovators3
Limited seats left, early bird registration ends shortly

Limited spots for dinner and networking
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The Agentic and Progressive Ventures partner together for an evening of action, free dinner, and networking at the AI Innovators Forum: Nvidia GTC in San Jose.

Upcoming Events Highlights

Venture Capital Events

Curious about what’s ahead for venture capital in 2025? Join the partners from Progressive Ventures to explore trends, growth opportunities, and strategic insights for the year ahead. Get a front-row seat to what’s next in the evolving market.

Session with a VC: Investing in Startups [Online] · Tues March 11 . 1-2pm PST

Join Founders Creative for a live session on investing in AI startups hosted by Progressive Ventures.

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Making a break into AI Venture Capital: Live Networking in San Francisco · Thur March 13 . 10:30-12pm PST

Join Founders Creative for a live session on investing in AI startups. We will discuss the state of the industry and investing, how to evaluate startups with partners from Progressive Ventures.

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Making a break into Venture Capital: Live Networking · Mountain View . Fri March 13 10-11:30am PST

Join the partners from Progressive Ventures for a deep dive into Venture Capital and how to make a break with the venture fellowship program.

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Deep Dive Council sessions

Are you ready to find your tribe and increase your domain expertise, find a peer council, and advocacy that helps you land your next role?

AI Go-to-Market Salon · Lunch & Learn | March 21 12-1:30pm PST

In the new era of AI, the go-to-market function is being redefined on multiple levels. The traditional models for lead generation are being revolutionized by AI. Join other GTM leaders to explore how this impacts your career.

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AI Product Salon: Agentic AI - Practical Use Cases · March 28 5-7pm PST

Event hosted by Founders Creative in collaboration with UX Reactor. ​​In the new era of AI, the Product Management function is leading cutting edge innovation, weaving in the latest technologies into products.

https://lu.ma/productsalon2

Health and Wellness Events

Art of Living Premium Course
When: March 21-23, Friday 3-6pm, Saturday 4-7pm, Sunday 8-11am PST
Where: Online
Register: aolf.co/March2025
Teachers: Mala Ramakrishnan, Faculty of the Art of Living Foundation. Sri Sri Ravishankar, the founder of the organization, will be teaching one of the sessions live.
What: You'll learn a powerful breathing technique called Sudarshan Kriya as well as an advance technique called Sahaj Samadhi Meditation both in this program! You’ll have a daily practice for the rest of your life!

Yoga and Networking [Women only] · March 16 5-6:30pm PM

Join us for light yoga and meditation followed by networking. Bring a yoga mat and water. Wear loose, comfortable clothes. Led by an Art of Living teacher, Mala Ramakrishnan, with 19 years experience teaching and practicing yoga and meditation.

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Blog of the week

Automating Prompt Engineering with DSPy: An Overview

Prompt engineering can be a manual, time-consuming process. DSPy is an open-source framework developed at Stanford University that solves this.

founderscreative.substack.com/p/automating-prompt-engineering-with

Video of the week: Robert Chandler, Founder & CTO Wordware, on building first ever prompt-first programming language

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High-Tech Executive Panels

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AI Product Leadership Track

Are you in the product management leadership track looking to be part of a community of fellow passionate product leaders? We are a group of over a 100 product management executives in Silicon Valley who meet regularly staying up to speed on innovation and networking.

Join our leadership track! Includes our monthly salons and 20% off our bi-annual AI Product Management Summit.

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Sponsors this week

TheAgentic

The AI Agent Infrastructure Company. We believe that the future of AI needs to be owned and driven by thousands of innovative AI founders and not big tech. At TheAgentic we are out to change that. TheAgentic provides a complete suite of agent infrastructure— reasoning LLMs, a digital worker framework, and web automation—enabling startups, AI founders and SaaS companies to build, deploy and scale with ease, and at the lowest possible cost.

www.theagentic.ai

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