Saturday, October 10. Race weekend. Invite-only.
The Singapore penthouse series continues.
Select founders, investors, and executives at a private brunch above the F1 circuit, overlooking Marina Bay.
Because one introduction can change everything.
Thank you to CoinRabbit for helping put this one together alongside The Best Event and Arcadia.
The address goes only to approved guests. Request to join 👇
Where You’ll Find Us
SF Tech Week. We’re NEAR(ly) there.
A16z crowd takes over SF. We’ll be at the room that actually matters.
NEAR Foundation is sponsoring a banger. If you know, you know.
Seoul: KBW2026 Closing Reception, Thu Oct 1
Tampa: Assets & Access @ The Copper Shaker, Thu Oct 1
Vancouver: Pudgy Canada x Introduction.com @ Activate Coquitlam, Sun Oct 4
San Francisco: NEAR x Introduction.com Happy Hour @ a16z SF Tech Week, Tue Oct 6
Singapore: VIP Penthouse Experience, Wed Oct 7
Miami: Assets & Access @ Better Days, Thu Oct 8
Singapore: The Penthouse: Trackside, Sat Oct 10
New York: Assets & Access @ Pubkey, Tue Oct 20
The Industry
New York
AI · AI Engineer New York, Oct 12-14
1,000+ engineers and finance leaders, speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs. (Midtown)
AI · AI Trailblazers Intelligence Summit, Sept 29
Senior marketing, tech and business leaders on intelligence in the AI era. (Midtown)
AI · MLcon New York, Sept 28-Oct 2
Happening now. Hands-on generative AI and ML engineering for the people shipping models. (Brooklyn)
Crypto · The Bridge, Oct 27
1,000+ executives from banks, asset managers, funds and exchanges on where TradFi meets digital assets. (Brookfield Place)
Crypto · Swell 2026, Oct 27-29
Ripple's flagship, 1,500+ attendees and 100+ speakers at The Shed. (Hudson Yards)
San Francisco
AI · The AI Conference, Sept 29-Oct 1
5,500 builders, researchers and enterprise leaders, 120 speakers at Pier 48.
Fintech · Fintech Week San Francisco, Sept 29-Oct 1
Three summits in three days: Fintech Summit, Fintech Is Femme, Fintech Security.
Venture · a16z SF Tech Week, Oct 5-11
Hundreds of founder, fund and company events across the city. Our NEAR happy hour is one of them.
Venture · TechCrunch Disrupt, Oct 13-15
Founders and VCs at Moscone West, home of the Startup Battlefield.
Los Angeles
Venture · a16z Tech Week LA, Oct 12-18
100+ events across the city: summits, pitch competitions, fintech and AI tracks.
Venture · Long Beach Tech Week, Sept 28-Oct 1
Happening now. Founders, investors and civic leaders, summit day Oct 1. (Long Beach)
AI · API & AI Summit by Kong, Sept 30-Oct 1
Engineers running AI agents and APIs in production. (Downtown)
Washington DC
Fintech · DC Fintech Week, Oct 13-16
Founders, regulators and investors at the World Bank, Amazon HQ2, Milken and FINRA. Free and open to the public.
Chicago
Enterprise · Snowflake World Tour Chicago, Oct 5
Snowflake's flagship data and AI roadshow for enterprise data leaders. (Loop)
Product · Mind the Product Chicago, Oct 6-7
The Midwest's largest product leadership conference, at Harris Theater. (Loop)
Europe
Venture · Sifted Summit, Sept 30-Oct 1
1,500 scaleup founders and 200 investors from 60 countries. (London)
Crypto · CV Summit, Sept 29-30
3,000+ attendees at Switzerland's largest institutional digital assets and AI conference. (Zurich)
Venture · Bits & Pretzels, Sept 28-30
Happening now and sold out. 7,500 founders and investors as Oktoberfest opens. (Munich)
Fintech · Fintech Meetup Europe, Oct 6-8
First European edition, about 2,500 senior attendees, 70% C-suite. (Lisbon)
AI · World Summit AI, Oct 7-8
10,000 attendees and 300 speakers at the tenth edition. (Amsterdam)
Middle East & Asia
Crypto · Korea Blockchain Week, Sept 29-Oct 1
Balaji, Lubin, Arthur Hayes and 300 speakers. We host the closing reception. (Seoul)
Enterprise · Tech Week Singapore, Sept 29-30
Five co-located cloud, AI, cyber and data center shows, 28,000+ expected. (Singapore)
AI · AI Everything Abu Dhabi, Oct 6-7
Government-hosted AI expo and summit, 350+ companies from 60+ countries. (Abu Dhabi)
Crypto · TOKEN2049 Singapore, Oct 7-8
25,000 attendees, the year's biggest crypto room. (Singapore)
THE MARQUEE SCORECARD
LAST WEEK’S VERDICT
Room of the week
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Korea Blockchain Week (60%)
🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ TOKEN2049 Singapore (20%)
🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ None of the above (20%)
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Sifted Summit (0%)
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ The AI Conference (0%)
Where you were
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 New York (33%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 London (33%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Seoul (33%)
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ San Francisco (0%)
ROOM OF THE WEEK
Which room will everyone be talking about next week?
ROLL CALL
Which city are you working this week?
YOUR TAKE
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