LA Tech Week 2026
OCT 15 · 2PM · MANHATTAN BEACH, CA · 2026 · a16z
The City Hacks the State: Beach Edition — October 15, 2026 at LA Tech Week

Coming to Manhattan Beach, California for LA Tech Week 2026: a high-stakes 4-hour sprint hosted by InsureMEP, the makers of CriticalAsset. Teams will move between OT and IoT experiences across the city — from the Pier and comfort stations to the water treatment plant and police & fire station — and architect resilience directly on the CriticalAsset infrastructure graph.

Presented by the makers ofCriticalAsset by InsureMEP
DateOCT 15
Kickoff2:00 PM
Challenge tracks05
Team slots24
Manhattan Beach shoreline seen from the sand at blue hour
Manhattan Beach Shoreline / Edge Nodes
Aerial view of the Manhattan Beach coastline and city grid at dusk
Grid / Shoreline Corridor

OT / IoT Experience Sites

Teams will rotate through live operational and sensor environments across Manhattan Beach — bridging physical infrastructure with digital twins on the CriticalAsset graph.

Manhattan Beach PierComfort StationsWater Treatment PlantPolice & Fire Station

Partners & Presenting Credits

This sprint is made possible by partners investing in coastal resilience, civic infrastructure, and the next generation of beach-city engineering.

Presented by the makers of

CriticalAsset by InsureMEP — event host

Hosted by InsureMEP, makers of CriticalAsset — the infrastructure graph powering every digital twin in the sprint.

With support from

  • The City of Manhattan Beach
  • AWS
  • a16z
  • LA Tech Week
  • + more to come

Partner slots are still open for the October 15 edition — civic, cloud and OT sponsors welcome.

Coastal Digital Twins

Every submission will carry a CriticalAsset graph JSON — a live twin of the systems beneath the sand.

Predictive Tide Intelligence

Traversal, cascade and risk propagation will be first-class signals. Spot the rip current before it pulls.

Resilience Evidence

Evidence coverage and defensibility will sit inside the workflow — proof that holds up in any storm surge.

Critical Control

One command interface for every asset across the CriticalAsset infrastructure web — unlocking on event day.

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