The night before Advancing AI - kicking things off with the builders who make GPUs earn their keep. Join a select group of founders, engineers, operators, & investors who are Advancing AI. Meet the people you'll be sitting next to all week, a night early, in a more relaxed & intimate setting.

It's the kickoff: an evening on value maxxing, getting the most out of every dollar of inference & every hour of infra. Expect a few lightning talks with live demos from teams shipping real AI-native workloads, then drinks, bites, & the good kind of hallway conversation.

Tonight, we gather the builders. Tomorrow, we continue Advancing AI.

Speakers & Demos

Bradley Kammerer, Member of GTM Staff, OpenAI - value-maxxing through token efficiency

Samyak Mehta, Senior Product Manager, DigitalOcean - "Model Routing for How Teams Actually Build"

Richard Chen, Technical Staff, RadixArk - "SGLang in 5 Minutes: What It Is & Why It's Fast"

Victor Su-Ortiz, Global Product Marketing Manager & Developer Relations, MiniMax - talk on native multimodality

Agenda

6:00 PM - Doors, drinks, bites & arrivals

6:30 PM - Lightning talks + live demos: value-maxxing your inference & infra

7:30 PM onward - Open bar, bites & conversation

9:00 PM - Doors close

Note: 111 Minna is a 21+ venue - please bring ID.

Registration:

This one's for the people building & backing AI-native companies - founders, engineers, operators, & investors. Space is limited. Request to join below, we're confirming early RSVPs first.

Hosted by: DigitalOcean, AMD, RadixArk, MiniMax, & Weaviate

More co-hosts & speakers to come - RSVP now & we'll keep you posted.