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Ai Filmmaking Masterclass + Hackathon
SPC Post-Training Forum: Mercor CEO, Brendan Foody
September 16, 2026 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
New frontiers in modeling, architecture, algorithms, and infra are often the loudest advancements in AI. But beneath all of it is a fundamental layer without which no models would exist: data.
Join SPC's Post-Training forum for a technical and product-focused conversation with Mercor's CEO, Brendan Foody. We'll dig into what it takes to design data and environments at the frontier, and the unique challenges of sourcing the expert human intelligence required to power the post-training and RL recipes of tomorrow's models.
When (updated): Wednesday, September 16th, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Where: SPC SF
Moderated by Nick Mecklenburg (CTO, Whitney AI; prev post-training at Microsoft Superintelligence)
About South Park Commons (SPC)
SPC is a technical community and venture fund dedicated to helping founders, researchers, and technologists figure out what to work on next—what we call the -1 to 0 stage of your career. We believe this is best accomplished in the most talent-dense community possible. Apply to SPC here.
Date:
September 16, 2026
Time:
3:00 PM
4:00 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/spcforummercor9-16
Event type:
Community
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