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September 23, 2026 - San Francisco Jay Kapoor opened the third Dirty Jobs Summit with a list of jobs: the 3 a.m. shift in the factory, the road crew pouring an underpass in the heat, the people working thousands of feet down in a mine, the harvest that has to
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September 3rd, San Francisco CA A few minutes into the workshop, Michael Raybman asked a man in the audience for his cup of water, and the man handed it over. "I'm in the middle of a talk," Michael said. "Why would you give me a
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August 26, 2026 - Lumafield Headquarters, San Francisco Haomiao Huang opened the panel with the Underpants Gnomes from South Park. Their business plan has three steps: collect underpants, question mark, profit. As a venture investor, he said, he hears the data version of that plan constantly. Step one, collect a lot
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July 16, 2026 - The Midway, San Francisco Deepak Pathak opened his keynote with archival footage: a robot arranging blocks to match an image, a teleoperation rig with a human puppeteering an arm behind a curtain. The block-stacking result dates to the 1960s. The teleoperation footage is from 1957. Colorize
INDUSTRY
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