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SF Deep Tech Week
Jun 21 - Jun 26
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Popular Event 
With Kevin Weatherman (Founder, Upscale AI), Ripple AI, Siena AI.
Jun 30 (Tue) @ 10:00 AM       FREE
Shopify HQ, 131 Greene St

 
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A day to get hands-on with AI, whether you are just starting out or ready to ship a working tool for your store.

If you can't make it, join the RSVP to get the post-event playbook!

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Agenda
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM | AI Open Office Hours Open to everyone. Bring your questions & leave knowing how to actually use AI tools. Built for beginners, no experience required.

12:00 PM to 4:00 PM | AI Shopify Hackathon An invite-only build session for up to 40 approved Shopify brands. Scope a real automation, connect Claude to your store, & leave with something that works.

Who the Hackathon Is For
Select Shopify brands in the $5M to $100M+ range. Founders & operators who own a growth, content, retention, or ops workflow & want to automate the parts that eat their week. No engineering background needed. Plain English is the only language required.

What You Will Walk Away Knowing
How to scope an automation by letting AI interview you, then writing a one-page PRD before you build

How to connect Claude Code to your store through the Shopify MCP for products, orders, customers, & analytics

Why frequency is the real design decision. If a daily report costs the same as a weekly one, run it daily

What to Bring
A rough idea of what you want to build (a doc, a short description, even a voice note works), your laptop, & Claude Code or Codex ready to go. We will have monitors on site to plug into.

Hackathon Approval Criteria
Open to active Shopify brands doing $2M GMV or more, subject to approval.

About the Hosts
Ripple AI is an AI-powered email marketing platform for ecommerce brands, creating on-brand marketing emails faster, from design to copy, without relying heavily on a designer. The platform is built for ecommerce workflows, with a focus on Shopify brands & integrations like Klaviyo for exporting & publishing campaigns.

Siena AI empowers brands with empathic AI agents that automate customer interactions, drive revenue, & turn conversations into actionable insights. Trusted by leading consumer brands like FIGS, HexClad, Kitsch, & Grns.

Upscale AI helps Shopify brands tap into streaming TV & video for performance advertising. Its flagship product, Upscale Studio, handles creative generation, script writing, programmatic media buying, & real-time optimization for Streaming TV & YouTube ads. Backed by top-tier VCs & led by ad tech veterans from Google, Twitter, Salesforce, Moloco, & MNTN.

Hosts & Facilitators
Kevin Weatherman, Co-founder at Upscale AI, Upscale AI engineers with one build partner per brand team, & alumni founders from the April hackathon sharing what they shipped.
 
 
 
 
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