The Future of Work Pitch Night + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI
Deadline for startup pitches: Saturday, April 18th, 23:59 PT
Decision emails: Monday, April 20th
Join us in downtown San Francisco for yet another edition of our Future of Work-themed pitch night + open demos!
This is the "origin story" edition. We'd love to hear your "why" — not just your pitch.
Presented by
Ontology of Value® by Natalia Bielczyk, PhD is a high-end career incubator and talent intelligence platform for managing careers and teams in the AI-first economy. We build lighthouses and telescopes for the leaders of the future.
Watch Natalia’s recent TEDx to learn more.
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When & Where
📍 San Francisco (venue TBC)
📅 Thursday April 23 2026
🕔 5:00-9:00 PM
📅 Agenda:
5:00 - 6:30 PM | Opening Networking
6:00 - 6:15 PM | Short intro from Organizers & Sponsors
6:15 - 6:30 PM | Blitz Pitches
6:30 - 8:00 PM | Time for Demos!
8:00 - 9:00 PM | Open Networking, music, greetings, farewell
How Does It Work?
We are a community focused on building (and disrupting!) the future of work — sharing and promoting innovation in work tech, agentic AI, and robotics so that humans and AI can happily cohabitate in the labor market and build a wonderful economy together.
This time around, we are putting together a social mixer.
This isn’t your standard pitch night.
This gathering is for founders, operators, investors, and builders who want to shape how humans and AI collaborate in the workplace of tomorrow.
It's a tiny festival of bold, cross-disciplinary innovation, surrounded by art and music (and good wines!).
It’s your chance to connect authentically, get feedback for your project, talk to investors in powerful, intimate one-on-one conversations, and see where the future of work is headed.
🍀 My project is not in worktech. Shall I still submit my pitch?
The Future of Work is a broad category, with a variety of tech projects influencing the job market, either directly or indirectly. When in doubt, just give it a try and we will get back to you!
The Demos
We will open several demo tables. If you'd like to pitch, choose the "Pitching Startup" ticket type during registration and bring your laptop! It is that simple.
Previous events in the series:
The Future of Work Pitch Night #4: Social Mixer & Open Demos (LongHouse SF, 83 Minna St): https://luma.com/pgvpc0sl
The Future of Work Pitch Night #3: Social Mixer & Open Demos (Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St): https://luma.com/mgnddbk4
The Future or Work Pitch Night #2 (Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St): https://lu.ma/qzgpv6kw
The Future of Work Pitch Night #1 (JLL, 1 Front st): https://lu.ma/lrt26pot