The Activation Room: Stop Drifting, Start Building
A monthly founder-led accountability lab at Ansir Innovation Center where we:
- turn intentions into concrete actions,
- break down resistance,
- starting, and finish, the things we say we will.
Each month, we’ll focus on clarity and surfacing our most important goals, do a short guided drop-in, and break our goals into specific, doable actions. You’ll share with the group, get support narrowing it down, and commit to what you’ll actually do next.
Between sessions, we’ll host light-touch weekly check-ins in Slack so you’re not doing it alone.
This is for founders, builders, and operators in the San Diego area who seek community, accountability, and a safe space to move from intention to execution.
Perseverance Accelrator Onboarding Session with Make
Accelerator, Startups & Founderscomma_hack (six)
Demo, Hackathon, HackersThe hackathon that brought you ChatPID is back! Join us at comma HQ for a weekend of hacking on the present and future of openpilot — cars, bodies, and anything else you can strap a comma four to.
We’ll have comma fours, prototype body v2s, eGPUs, and food. Just bring a laptop, your favorite agent, and some good ideas.
Schedule
I want to attend
We’re handpicking 30 people. Rolling invites, so apply early. Great GitHubs, leaderboard submissions, and openpilot contributions are a plus. Apply here.
Want us to fly you out?
We like winners, so we’ll cover flights for the first two people who get a top 3 score on any active leaderboard challenge.
Hackathon Prizes
ISACA San Diego Workshop: Demystifying AI
AI, WorkshopDemystifying AI: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Paradigm Shift
This workshop is a 3-hour event hosted by 5 AI professionals and a career coach.
It is a guide to understanding AI from the perspective of its:
The presentation will dive in depth into each area to offer clarity on these often-confusing topics. A live presentation of “Vibe Coding” will also be demonstrated.
The Career Paths segment will discuss how the job market has shifted and what a beginning, mid-level, or seasoned professional can do to navigate and succeed in the career in the age of AI.
SPEAKERS:
March 5 – AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup
AI, Computer Science, VirtualJoin our virtual meetup to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision.
Date and Location
Mar 5, 2026
9 – 11 AM Pacific
Online. Register for the Zoom!
MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
Enabling virtual humans to dynamically and realistically respond to diverse auditory stimuli remains a key challenge in character animation, demanding the integration of perceptual modeling and motion synthesis. Despite its significance, this task remains largely unexplored. Most previous works have primarily focused on mapping modalities like speech, audio, and music to generate human motion. As of yet, these models typically overlook the impact of spatial features encoded in spatial audio signals on human motion.
To bridge this gap and enable high-quality modeling of human movements in response to spatial audio, we introduce the first comprehensive Spatial Audio-Driven Human Motion (SAM) dataset, which contains diverse and high-quality spatial audio and motion data. For benchmarking, we develop a simple yet effective diffusion-based generative framework for human MOtion generation driven by SPatial Audio, termed MOSPA, which faithfully captures the relationship between body motion and spatial audio through an effective fusion mechanism. Once trained, MOSPA can generate diverse, realistic human motions conditioned on varying spatial audio inputs. We perform a thorough investigation of the proposed dataset and conduct extensive experiments for benchmarking, where our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on this task.
(Doing) Business For Good Summit
Business & Professionals, SummitJoin us for the 4th annual (Doing) Business For Good Summit on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies.
Who Is This Summit For?
Online Summit Registration is now closed. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door from 8 am – 9 am on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at USD Kroc School.
9th Annual Reversing the Arrow Conference 2026
Conference, EntrepreneursThe Knauss School of Business’ Ahlers Center for International Business is proud to host the 9th Annual Reversing the Arrow Conference, bringing together a distinguished group of leading scholars from around the world.
The conference, to be held March 6–7, 2026, in San Diego, California, will explore the theme “Entrepreneurialism Beyond Borders – The Societal Influence of Entrepreneurial Ideology,” examining the transformative role of entrepreneurship through the lenses of management, sociology, political economy, organization theory, public health, and science and technology studies.
Conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of the California Management Review, edited by Robert Eberhart (Knauss School of Business, University of San Diego), Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta School of Business) and Violina Rindova (UC Irvine).
The Exchange: Beyond the Portfolio
Community Building, Events & ConferencesThe Exchange is an invite-forward gathering for individuals shaping ideas and elevating lifestyles.
No stage, no panels, and no pitches, just a carefully curated room where conversations unfold naturally and introductions are made with intention.
The evening is designed to feel immersive yet effortless. Guests will be welcomed with a selection of complimentary passed appetizers, thoughtfully curated to enhance the experience, while the bar will operate as a cash bar offering craft cocktails and other beverages for purchase. A rotating showcase of exotic automobiles will create an atmosphere that is both refined and quietly energizing. The space is relaxed and deliberately intimate.
Attendance is capped and selected for alignment, not scale. The room brings together people looking to grow not only in business, but in meaningful relationships rooted in trust, curiosity, and long-term perspective.
Come to connect, not transact.
Leave with momentum, fresh perspective, and a handful of relationships worth investing in.
DRESS CODE: Business casual and fashion forward.
The Why of Money – How to Leverage Other Peoples Money
Economics📍 Old Town — San Diego
🧠 Featuring Eric Mitchell, author and financial strategist whose work focuses on how incentives, leverage, and policy shape economic outcomes. His research examines the structural forces behind wealth creation, showing how systems reward certain behaviors while quietly penalizing others. By breaking down the mechanics of leverage, ownership, and the U.S. tax system, Mitchell offers a clearer view of how money actually moves and why understanding the system matters as much as effort.
The Activation Room: Stop Drifting, Start Building
Community Building, Innovation, Startups & FoundersA monthly founder-led accountability lab at Ansir Innovation Center where we:
Each month, we’ll focus on clarity and surfacing our most important goals, do a short guided drop-in, and break our goals into specific, doable actions. You’ll share with the group, get support narrowing it down, and commit to what you’ll actually do next.
Between sessions, we’ll host light-touch weekly check-ins in Slack so you’re not doing it alone.
This is for founders, builders, and operators in the San Diego area who seek community, accountability, and a safe space to move from intention to execution.
Recent Advancements in Image Generation and Understanding
Engineering & Developers, Seminar, Virtual– 2nd lecture of the 2026 Invited Seminar Series (Virtual) organized by IEEE Computer Society San Diego Chapter. Previous lectures: 2023, 2024, and 2025 invited seminar series.
2nd Lecture of IEEE CS San Diego’s 2026 Invited Seminar Series (Virtual)