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Past events.

Full house for the VC judging panel at pitch night Founder pitching on stage at demo night Group photo at the Agentopus hackathon Hackathon floor at the Windsurf AI Collective hackathon Hacking in progress at the AI for Good hackathon Kickoff audience at the SensAI hackathon Team forming at the RocketRide hackathon Team sprint at the AI for Good hackathon Builders working on couches at the Windsurf AI Collective hackathon Audience question at the AI for Good hackathon Team matching at the SensAI hackathon Opening talk audience at the RocketRide hackathon Hallway conversations at the AI for Good hackathon Teams across the floor at the Windsurf AI Collective hackathon Awards audience at the AI for Good hackathon
Final demos at the SensAI hackathon Working session at the AI for Good hackathon Judges scoring at the AI for Good hackathon Laughs mid-build at the AI for Good hackathon Winners announced at the AI for Good hackathon Team room at the AI for Good hackathon Crowd during finals at the AI for Good hackathon Watching demos at the AI for Good hackathon Teams listening at the AI for Good hackathon Speaker on stage at the AI for Good hackathon Mentor session at the AI for Good hackathon Applause for a demo at the AI for Good hackathon Closing session at the AI for Good hackathon Floor discussion at the AI for Good hackathon Judging panel at the AI for Good hackathon

What’s at stake.

114,000

California creative jobs gone since 2022, across film, sound, design and media

AI’s share of arts job postings doubled in 12 months

$300K+

what Anthropic pays AI engineers; Adobe posts creative technologists to $250K

AI is rewriting the jobs that remain toward oversight and judgment. We train people for that work, one certified seat at a time. 6 roles with sourced salary ranges.

Sources: Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, 2026; Indeed Hiring Lab via The Hollywood Reporter; Levels.fyi, Anthropic Applied AI Engineer ($300K to $1.2M); Adobe job posting, Principal Creative Technologist, Video and Generative AI ($142,700 to $250,000). Experienced-hire bands, not starting salaries.

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Taste without the tools stalls. Tools without taste ship noise. The era belongs to people fluent in both.

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The Multimodal Academy

8 weeks. Every week ends in a graded deliverable. The last one is a capstone defended live. Sliding scale, scholarship seats.

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Sponsoring companies bring the capstone brief. You deliver it and the credit is yours. Starts with the fall cohort.

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Next up Sep 13 · San Francisco

AI Filmmaking Masterclass + Hackathon

Roan Weigert, director of 1,600+ videos and author of a book on generative AI video, teaches the craft. You make an AI short the same day and watch it on the big screen that night. Application only. Early bird seats are free, then $49.

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Tech Talk Night

Frontier engineers and industry leaders on what they are building next. A talk, a demo, and a Q&A that runs long.

Hackathon

One day, mixed crews. You leave with a finished film, screened that night.

Demo Night

Members demo what they made. Industry leaders give notes; the room votes.

Benchmark Night

The benchmark behind the credential, argued in the open. No vendor’s money touches it. First report publishes in September.

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Multimodal event invites, new GenAI course launches, mentorship openings, and the benchmark report the day it drops.