AILA Fun for Funds Festival

Plug and Play 1027 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

The “Fun for Funds Festival” is a chance for you to meet and play with the other participants in this ecosystem. Join us to help raise funds for AI responsibility and literacy programs in the Greater Los Angeles area while making meaningful industry connections. Whether you are an AI practitioner or just AI-curious, we are...

NASA Minority Serving Institutions Space Accelerator Demo Day

Cross Campus South Bay 840 Apollo St., El Segundo

NASA MSI Space Accelerator is an inaugural NASA innovation program that brings together diverse scholars to advance the agency’s goals for improving its future science missions. The program is run in partnership between the Agency’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD), its Minority University Research Education Project (MUREP), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and Starburst. Hybrid FormatPhysical...

#LATechWeek: The Founder’s Guide to LA with dot.LA

​Join dot.LA for a relaxed evening of food, drinks, and friends - featuring a special presentation of "The Founder's Guide to Los Angeles" with dot.LA Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Spencer Rascoff (also of Zillow, Pacaso, 75 & Sunny, and more). Since its launch in January 2020, dot.LA is the definitive source of news and community...

LA Tech Week

A Week of events hosted by VCs and startups to celebrate the growing LA ecosystem! Register your email with LA Tech Week's organizers for event updates and more information. Check out a sampling of the events below.   Tue Evening (08/16) @Santa Monica The Founder's Guide to LA by dotLA SPEAKER Spencer Rascoff Cofounder of...

Startup World Cup -Southern California

Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA, United States

Partnered event between Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, Startup World Cup & Los Angeles Venture Association. Startup World Cup offers innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities for startup ecosystems around the world. This platform consists of a global series of startup conferences and competitions that bring together phenomenal startups, VCs, and world-class tech CEOs. Startups worldwide will first...

Bioengineering Research Symposium and Biotechnology Industry Showcase

UC Santa Barbara Corwin Pavilion, Santa Barbara

UC Santa Barbara will host this 3-day, in-person symposium featuring a Biotechnology Industry Showcase on 8 August and Bioengineering Research Focus. The Showcase will connect industry representatives with students and faculty for professional development and opportunities for careers and collaborations with industry.

Care in Space

UCLA Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

Care in Space is the first of its kind program leveraging the extreme conditions of space to not only drive innovation but also to build viable businesses at the intersection of commercial space and biomedical science. A collaborative effort between Boryung, Axiom Space, and Starburst Aerospace, the challenge will provide winning entrepreneurs and their startups...

Long Beach Accelerator Tech Ecosystem Mixer

Long Beach Accelerator 245 E 3rd St, Long Beach

Join the Long Beach Accelerator for a Tech Ecosystem Mixer bringing togther our community. Attend for the opportunity to engage with our current and previous cohort members, LBA staff, Board of Director, Advisory Team, investors, and ecosystem partners.

Crypto at the Clocktower

Clocktower Ventures 225 Santa Monica Blvd, Floor 10, Santa Monica

This event is an invitation-only, intimate gathering of SoCal leaders and is the most recent of the Alliance’s on-going LEAD series which engages and leverages the collective wisdom of SoCal’s most innovative and forward-looking leaders. 3:00-5:30 Panel discussion moderated by Greg Smith, SVP Digital Channels and Innovation for City National Bank. Joining him will be...

Sustainability and Innovation: Startups Tackling Global Issues

Virtual via Zoom

Glendale Tech's monthly Virtual Tech on Tap Series as we explore opportunities in tech for advancing a sustainable world. Learn about the growing need for innovators and startups to tackle global sustainability issues and the local resources available to founders in this field. Guest speaker: Judy Hsieh, Program Director – LARTA

Free

American Seed Fund Week – SBIR

Virtual via Zoom

Calling all innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs who want to see your research change the world! 2022 America's Seed Fund Week is a virtual, collaborative outreach effort connecting entrepreneurs working on advanced technologies and the organizations that support them to the country’s largest source of early-stage funding – the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small...

Air Mobility Symposium

The Cove @ UC Irvine

The Alliance for SoCal Innovation and Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC) presented a symposium on Air Mobility at the UC Irvine. It was a unique opportunity to collaborate with leaders in the field of air mobility. Participants came from varied backgrounds - corporate leaders, VCs, startups, universities and organizational leaders - providing a one-of-a-kind brainstorming...