scorch your way to strike,

As the actors and writers hit the streets this week, the streets of LA are almost on literal fire. Interestingly enough, at the same time, there are plenty more AI events this week than before. It seems LA’s tech scene got the memo on AI events! It’s unclear how this intersection will play out as the entertainment industry changes, maybe you’ll find out if you go to one of the events listed this week?

It feels like LA (& California at large) are on the precipice of massive changes to media, entertainment, and tech, and who knows what this will look like by next year? In either case, stay out of that heat and keep that SPF50 on!

Thanks for reading, Minh Do

P.S. Btw, please feel free to share this newsletter with your friends in LA!

WHAT'S POPPIN IN LA

monday (7/17)

• Hide from that sun and get some work done!

tuesday (7/18)

• Nerd Nite Los Angeles - Nerd Nite is back! Hear presentations from other nerds and learn new things.

• Expert DOJO presents: Innovators in AI, decoding the future of AI/ML in the startup ecosystem - What’s happening in AI?!

wednesday (7/19)

• TECHNICALLY ?! | Tech Speaker Series | - Ruby Mountain & Normtronics - Learn about where music and NFT’s interesect!

• Los Angeles Film & NFT Web3 Wednesday Meetup at Nova3 Studios Hollywood - I wonder what people in web3 are saying now that the strike is in full force?

• Startup Cafe - Meet other startup folks over coffee!

• Startup Arena (Presented by Startup Coil) - This is the semifinals! One more round and it’s the finals!

• Tech in LA #2: Meet, Mingle and Fireside Chat - It’s all in the title. Cool crowd.

thursday (7/20)

• Comedians vs. AI: For Sh!ts & Gigs - Featured recently in KCRW, Comedians vs AI is back!

• Women Founders Entrepreneurship | The Future is Now - Network with other women in the OC entrepreneur scene.

• LA Tech Networking Happy Hour - Drink a drink in Redondo with other tech heads.

• SVRN Symposium | Behind the Scenes of Gaming, AI, and Web3 - AI just might be the thing that supercharges web3 into gaming. Let’s see.

• New Liquidity, a Web3 Cocktail Mixer - Meet other web3 folks over cocktails. Easy peasy.

friday (7/21)

• 805 Startups VIP Lunch #49 - Pay a big ticket, but you’ll get to network with big investors and/or invest in a startup. It’s a cool format to encourage more innovation.

• DEFORUM @ BRIGHTMOMENTS - AI art gallery? This is only going to get more intense!

saturday (7/22)

• Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival - After all that AI, tech, and web3, why not go all the way back in time to the era of Shakespeare. Et tu, Brute?

sunday (7/23)

• The Great Gatsby at the Rooftop Cinema Club - Or come check out a film this weekend and hide from the heat.

monday (7/24)

• This is going to be one of the hottest days ever, so my recommendation is stay inside, keep the AC on, and get some ice cream!

WEATHER

Look at that. Thursday we hit 90, and we’re basically increasing by 1 degree everyday into Monday.

WHAT'S COMIN UP

I'll be updating this as a dynamic list of events that are coming up throughout the year, so keep an eye out as I'll bigger events throughout the world as they pop up.

• 2023 IDEAS Global AI Conference - Oct - Finally, an AI conference in LA.

• Web Summit - Nov 2023 - The biggest tech conference in Europe is back in November.

• DSS LA: AI and Machine Learning in Media & Entertainment - Dec 2023 - AI, Media and Entertainment? Is this the most LA event of 2023?

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