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| A Night with AI Builders, Startup Stories & Community -- Celebrating One Year Of The SVAI Hub
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| With Victoria Duan (OrchestrAI | Llama Lounge Hackathon), Jeremiah Owyang (VC, Blitzscaling Ventures), Grace Gong (Founder, Smart Venture Media), Swagata Ashwani (AI Tech Lead & Manager, Boomi), Sheena Tu (Founder, TechEquity Ai), Evan Powell (Founder/CEO, DeepTempo), Ivan Lee (Founder/CEO, Datasaur). |
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Sep 22 (Tue) @ 05:00 PM
FREE
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The Lowdown
One year ago, we opened a hub where AI builders could show up for each other. On September 22, we're celebrating everyone who did - & everything that got built because of it!
Join us for a night of real conversations about AI, community, & what comes next. We will have:
A panel with AI builders, community leaders, & founders moderated by Jeremiah Owyang
Builders who came here for a hackathon weekend & are still shipping
Stories from startups who built their companies right inside these walls
Plus food, music, a photo booth, community trading cards, & more!
The SVAI Hub was built on one conviction: the best AI doesn't get built in isolation. It gets built by communities - developers leveling up together, founders stress-testing ideas with peers, researchers colliding with practitioners in the same room. In September 2025, we opened our space in the heart of Silicon Valley. Not for vendor pitches. Not for product demos. For the conversations & connections that actually move the field forward.
One year in, the numbers tell part of the story:
100+ AI community events
10,000+ developers, founders, & executives through our doors
6 hackathons that launched real projects & real careers
The numbers tell part of the story. The conversations tell the rest.
Come for the milestone. Stay for the momentum, connections & networking!
Registration requires approval & space is limited. If this sounds like your room, request your spot now!
The Humans at the Mic
Built Here. Still Building. - Hackathon Winners Spotlight
Victoria Duan - OrchestrAI | Llama Lounge Hackathon, 1st Place
Victoria built the core agentic framework for OrchestrAI, took first place, & hasn't stopped building since - she's now deep in AI developer tooling & exploring how AI changes the way software gets made.
Abraham Bhatti, Rishit Sai & Yash Sanghvi - ToolForge | Llama Lounge Hackathon, 2nd Place
They built an AI agent that creates its own tools, won together, kept competing together, & are now in early customer discovery to turn it into a real product.
Panel: Build Together - The Advantage of Community in AI
Jeremiah Owyang (moderator) - VC at Blitzscaling Ventures, global keynote speaker, & founder of Llama Lounge - the Bay Area's most popular AI startup event series, drawing hundreds of founders, investors, & builders every month.
Grace Gong - Founder of Smart Venture Media, host of two top-ranked VC podcasts (Smart Venture Podcast & Venture with Grace), angel investor, & founder of Smart AI Summits - a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance with a front-row seat to where AI & venture capital intersect.
Swagata Ashwani - AI Tech Lead & Manager at Boomi, co-lead of the Women in Data SF chapter, & a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI - a technical builder who brings a practitioner's view of how community helps people stay sharp, learn faster, & grow with AI.
Sheena Tu - Co-founder of TechEquity Ai, a Silicon Valley nonprofit that has built a community of 10K+ subscribers & 5K+ annual attendees through forums, workshops, & an annual Summit dedicated to making AI accessible to everyone.
Startup Showcase - Stories from the Hub
Every week, a group of startup founders work from the SVAI Hub. Two of those companies will share what they're building, how this community changed how they built it, & where they are now - in three minutes, no pitch deck.
Evan Powell - Co-founder & CEO, DeepTempo
Evan co-founded StackStorm & helped pioneer event-driven automation before SOAR was a category. Now at DeepTempo, he's building the first transformer-based log language models trained on large-scale network telemetry - models that adapt to polymorphic threats in real time & give security teams behavioral context instead of alert noise. His thesis: the future of security looks like data engineering, & the tools should finally match.
Ivan Lee - Founder & CEO, Datasaur
Ivan sold his first startup to Yahoo, built AI systems at Apple, & has spent the last seven years focused on the problem most AI vendors don't want to talk about: what happens to your data after you hand it over. At Datasaur, he helps enterprises in financial services, healthcare, legal, & government deploy fully air-gapped private LLMs - frontier-model capability, zero data leaving the building. His version of the future: the most powerful AI is the one you fully control.
The Rundown
5:00 PM: Doors open. Grab some food & drinks, hit the photo booth, & make your own trading card
5:30 PM: Welcome & Year in Review
5:45 PM: Built Here. Still Building. - Hackathon builder spotlights
6:00 PM: Panel: Build Together - The Advantage of Community in AI
6:30 PM: Startup Showcase - Stories from the Hub
6:40 PM: Closing remarks & community toast
6:45 PM: Open networking, happy hour, & community booths until 8:00 PM
Is This Your Crowd?
This event is designed for the AI community - & that means all of it. If you are an engineer or developer actively building with AI, a researcher pushing the field forward, a founder scaling an AI startup, or an executive figuring out where AI fits in your organization's future, you will find the conversations & the people in the room directly relevant. We also welcome those who are earlier in the journey - someone looking to break into AI, learn from practitioners, or understand what is actually happening beyond the headlines.
Whether you are shipping AI products in production, growing a company you started at a hackathon, running community programs that bring builders together, or just getting serious about AI for the first time - this is a room for people who believe the best AI gets built by people who show up for each other.
How to Get Here (and Get In)
Venue | Hosted at the Silicon Valley AI Hub at the Snowflake offices in Menlo Park
Location | 135 Constitution Dr., 8th Floor, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Parking | Free, convenient self-parking is available in the garage directly adjacent to the 135 Building
Arrival Guide | For seamless entry & navigation, please download our arrival guide
SVAI Arrival Guide.pdf
4.8 MB
About the SVAI Hub
The SVAI Hub is a dedicated community for the AI ecosystem to learn, collaborate, & push the boundaries of what's possible. From hands-on workshops to expert fireside chats, we bring together startups, developers, & executives for high-signal programming in the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission is simple: no pitches, no pretense, just AI builders focused on technical depth & a thriving community.
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