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The AI Inner Circle: Connecting the Valley’s Top Technologists
Hackathon | Women’s Council Workshop | CxOs Chats | AI Workshops
Mala Ramakrishnan, Namrata Shah & Founders Creative
March 02, 2026
Building Tomorrow: Where Ambition Meets Creative Ecosystems
Founders Creative Event Snapshot:
Hackathon: March 6th, 9-10am PST | 100% Virtual YouTube
Women’s Council Workshop: March 6th, 4-7pm PST | Palo Alto, CA
AI Innovators Forum: March 18th, 3-6pm PST | San Francisco, CA
From Demo to Revenue: Operating GTM in the AI Era: March 27th, 1-3pm PST | 100% Virtual Zoom
Hackathon | March 6th
Founders, Creators, Builders — Ready to Ship in 24 Hours?
We’re hosting a 24-hour, fully virtual Founders Creative Hackathon — designed for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to stop thinking and start building. Fully virtual, so entrepreneurs globally are invited to participate.
Why a Hackathon?
⚡ Accelerate your idea to entrepreneurship.
Idea → prototype → pitch in 24 hours. The winning pitch gets to join the Founders Creative Accelerator and access to exclusive resources and credits.
🤝 You meet your future team.
The best co-founders aren’t found — they’re forged under deadlines.
🛠 You test yourself as a builder.
Are you the visionary? The operator? The product mind? You’ll find out fast.
📈 You leave with proof.
Not “I want to start something.”
But “We built this.”
No startup required. No polished idea needed. Just curiosity and action.
Timing of the Event as follows:
Friday 03/06 9:00 AM Pacific: Hackathon guidelines revealed.
Friday 03/06 10:00 AM - Saturday 03/07 10:00 AM Pacific: Hackathon!
Saturday 03/07 4:00 PM Pacific: Winners revealed.
Our event is completely online, with engagements in discord: https://discord.gg/Xetdc6aj and YouTube.
Top 3 winners/teams will get a private audience with the Managing Partners at Progressive Ventures. Stay tuned for additional prizes to be announced!
Women’s Council Workshop: 2026 Economic Outlook and Investment Strategies | March 6th
Happy International Women's Day!
🔒Limited seats | Small-group setting
✨ Come ready to reflect, share, and leave with a renewed mindset — and a personal playbook for building wealth, power, and purpose.
✊Join the Movement:
These sessions create a collective space where women can learn from each other’s journeys and build the confidence, strategy, and networks needed to grow.
AI Innovators Forum | March 18th
Pop AI Innovators Forum is where founders, executives, and investors come together to share hard lessons, bold ideas, and practical insights from building and scaling with AI.
This edition’s theme — “From Idea to Impact” — highlights founder journeys and the pivotal moments that turned ambitious ideas into products that matter.
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What to expect?
Panel Discussion: Gain insights from a panel of experienced entrepreneurs and industry experts.
Innovative Pitches: Hear from dynamic founders as they present their unique business ideas.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded professionals, investors, and mentors.
Q&A Session: Engage with the founders and ask your burning questions.
Operating GTM in the AI Era | March 27th
AI has never been easier to build and never harder to sell.
Every week new copilots, agents, and AI products launch with impressive demos. Yet many teams are discovering the same reality: adoption stalls, pilots don’t convert, and customers struggle to trust or operationalize AI inside real workflows.
The challenge is no longer capability. The challenge is commercialization.
From Demo to Revenue: Operating GTM in the AI Era is a candid, operator-led conversation about what actually happens after you ship an AI product. This salon brings together founders, product leaders, enterprise operators, and GTM practitioners to discuss how AI products move from excitement to measurable business value.
The Founders Creative Team
Join us at Founders Creative: a volunteer run community by executives in the valley connecting 30,000+ AI Founders, Investors and Operators through exclusive Bay Area events. https://www.founderscreative.org/
