Eat A Walnut#003: GDC Week Is Here — Don't Miss Out
8 recommended events in SF this week, plus 10 curated AI roles worth your attention.
Hi there 👋
GDC has a funny way of turning SF into a giant hallway — everywhere you go, someone’s demoing something. Whether you’re building in AI or just adjacent to it, this week’s calendar is unusually stacked. Here’s what I’d keep on my radar.
Walnut AI has hosted a curated networking event powered by our match making system, with which you could connect with your next partner 👇
📅 Events Worth Your Time
Grace Gong x Lightfield x Sequoia x SVB Dinner
Date: Mon, March 9
Location: San Francisco
Highlight: An intimate dinner for Seed–Series B founders and select VCs. If you’re actively fundraising or want warm introductions in a small-room setting, this is the kind of evening worth clearing your calendar for.
Investor & YC Founders Pre-Demo Day Happy Hour
Date: Thu, March 12
Location: San Francisco
Highlight: A low-key warmup before Demo Day madness — active local VCs, YC founders, and a venue worth the commute. Good signal-to-noise ratio for meeting investors before the formal circus begins.
Harvard & MIT AI Series: Robotics & Physical AI
Date: Thu, March 12
Location: San Francisco
Highlight: Part 2 of 3 in this alumni series, focused on physical intelligence — robotics, sensing, and autonomy. Live demos included. Strong for founders building in or adjacent to the hardware/embodied AI space.
Infinite Worlds: AI, Generative 3D & Game Dev
Date: Thu, March 12
Location: San Francisco
Highlight: Panel and hands-on demos from Tripo AI on how generative AI is reshaping 3D asset pipelines for game studios. Particularly relevant if you’re building tools for creators or game developers.
Date: Thu, March 12
Location: San Francisco
Highlight: Fast demos from South Park Commons members — new AI behaviors, mechanistic interpretability, steering. Always a good room for early technical work and honest feedback.
StartX Fireside with Sam Yam, Co-founder of Patreon
Date: Thu, March 12
Location: Palo Alto
Highlight: Exclusive to StartX founders and alumni. Sam Yam talks serial entrepreneurship and building creator-led businesses — worth the trip down to the Peninsula if you’re in the network.
Date: Thu, March 12
Location: Mayes Oyster House, SF
Highlight: Roblox, UEFN, Minecraft, Horizon Worlds — if you’re building for virtual worlds or the creator economy, this is your crowd.
AI Agents SF #11 — AI Assistants
Date: Fri, March 13
Location: Digital Jungle SF, 972 Mission St
Highlight: Focus on OpenClaw and the state of self-optimizing agents in 2026, including a talk on running a company with 100% agentic workflows. A strong close to the week.
💼 Jobs on WalnutJobs
Curated picks from WalnutJobs this week:
Product Manager, Google: https://x.com/gabor/status/2028630794793824561
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind: https://x.com/scychan_brains/status/2029258459833876929
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind: https://x.com/songyoupeng/status/2029237273490084032
Research Scientist, Anthropic: https://x.com/logangraham/status/2028956007565787467
Research Engineer, Anthropic: https://x.com/xiaoyiz_uw/status/2029319374365220923
Research Intern, Meta: https://x.com/hu_hsu/status/2030055918105411910
Research Intern, Apple: https://x.com/zhaisf/status/2030002462552424907
AI Researcher, Mercor(Raised $480M): https://x.com/BrendanFoody/status/2030712801812168754
AI Engineer, LangChain(Raised $160M): https://x.com/bracesproul/status/2030422552087285801
Product, Lila Science(Raised $550M): https://x.com/benkompa/status/2030416686369608063
Content Writer, fal.ai(Raised $580M): https://x.com/katiekirsch/status/2030754729479823579
R&D, Turing(Raised $225M): https://x.com/jonsidd/status/2030721509879402987
Developer Advocate, Mistral AI: https://x.com/sophiamyang/status/2028887174536466769
Engineer, Raindrop AI(Raised $15M): https://x.com/benhylak/status/2029024539850752393
Designer, Discord: https://x.com/hyumankind/status/2029403760846618840
Agent DX Researcher, Modal(Series-B $87M Raised): https://x.com/michaelwaskom/status/2029255355436294337
Head of Community, Lovable: https://x.com/cecistalls/status/2029948540630487502
👉 Browse 2000+ AI related roles at WalnutJobs
See you next week,
Watt
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