Hi there 👋
There’s no shortage of great events in the Bay Area this fall, and we know your calendar is full. After looking closely at the speaker lineups, the strength of the community behind them, and the track record of past editions, we wanted to highlight two that we think are especially worth your time. We’re proud to partner with both, and we’ve secured an exclusive discount for the Walnut community.
🧠 SGLang Summit
Time: Nov. 12 - 13, 2026
Location: Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
One of this year’s top gatherings for AI infrastructure and research, with speakers from OpenAI, Perplexity, Intel, and Thinking Machines on one stage.
On the main stage: OpenAI’s Lilian Weng, Thinking Machines Lab CTO Soumith Chintala, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, plus founders from River AI, humans&, Harmonic, and Recursive. Main stage talks feature RSI, AI Hardware, AI agents, open models, neolabs, and more.
In the breakouts: Topics include reinforcement learning, evals, cloud infrastructure, robotics, world models and more. There are also hands-on workshops, a GPU expo, and community networking with 30+ partners.
Two days, 2000+ attendees, 100+ speakers, 30+ sessions.
Developers, students, and researchers can get 40% off with Developer & Edu passes. Early bird ends on October 20, so don’t miss it today!
Besides, Walnut community members can get extra 20% off with code
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🚀 DECODE Conference
Time: Nov. 14, 2026
Location: Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
A rare chance to get 1:1 time with execs from OpenAI, NVIDIA, NEA, Cisco, and Atlassian, people who are usually very hard to reach.
If your startup is stuck on something, bring it here. DECODE is built around tactical 1:1 advice from people who have scaled companies before.
Featured speakers:
Jeetu Patel, President & Chief Product Officer at Cisco
Lila Tretikov, Partner at NEA, former Deputy CTO at Microsoft
Anu Bharadwaj, Partner at ICONIQ, former President at Atlassian
Tashfeen Suleman, Director of Engineering at NVIDIA and former YC founder
Vaibhav Aggarwal, Head of Growth Engineering at OpenAI
Past attendees have raised pre-seed through Series A rounds from investors they met at DECODE, including a16z, Sequoia, Y Combinator and more. Others found advisors, mentors, and teammates there.
Join DECODE conference today, and Walnut community members can get 30% off with code
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If you’re going to either event, reply and let us know. We’d love to say hi in person, and we’ll help you get the most out of the room.
Walnut AI team ❤️