Rally events, and the rest of AI SF

Mixer / networking

LlamaIndex is launching Doc Chai, an iced toasted brown sugar chai blending traditional South Asian spices with a modern twist, at Corgi Cafe with free drinks for the first 100, live DJ, and community builders. A casual celebration worth stopping by if you're in the scene.

Talks & panels

Agentic AI is breaking legacy databases built for single users, not thousands of parallel agent instances needing vectors, transactions, and analytics simultaneously. TiDB SCaiLE 2026 gathers engineers solving data infrastructure at scale with speakers from Atlassian, Affirm, Pinterest, and Databricks.

Talks & panels

Most production AI needs to layer agents onto existing workflows without blowing up what's already running. Orkes Shift brings engineers solving that exact problem to share patterns for durability, observability, and human oversight at scale.

Mixer / networking

Founders selling to enterprise and operators buying AI actually talk openly over pickleball and dinner, not across a demo call. Twelve vetted people on Treasure Island discussing what makes deals happen and what kills them.

Mixer / networking

Rooftop happy hour during Disrupt bringing together pre-seed-plus founders, investors, and tech media for actual deal conversations. Curated guest list means you're networking with people who matter, not random attendees.

Talks & panels

Tony Zhao built foundational imitation learning research at DeepMind and Tesla before starting Sunday Robotics to ship general-purpose home robots. Hear directly from him on what robotics needs to actually work in people's homes.

Mixer / networking

Private wrap-up for Ship attendees at Motoring Coffee with Vercel's exec team. Skip the formal keynotes and get straight to talking with the people actually building the platform.

Mixer / networking

Healthleap's engineering and data science teams are hosting a casual ping-pong night at SPIN with free drinks. Good chance to meet people actually shipping AI for hospital risk screening if you're exploring what's next.

Mixer / networking

Eleven top researchers and founders debating the hardest problems in AI over four courses in Mountain View. This VIP dinner targets decision-makers who own model training data, evals, or the companies building them.