Preserving Craft While Building with AI - Leadership Dinner
Join us for an intentional, small-group dinner for product builders who want space for real connection and deep, focused conversation about preserving craft while building with AI.
Our guests: Julie Zhuo (Co-Founder, Sundial) & Kanjun Qiu (CEO of Imbue) will share candid learnings on product craft, excellence, agency, and what great product design looks like in the age of AI.
With the rise of AI and agentic automation, we’re shifting towards a new chapter of building products, one where systems no longer just answer questions, they are active partners, agents that uncover data & insights, help us make decisions & accelerate craft.
Some of the topics we’ll cover:
What AI can do well and what it can’t.
How to use data well to unlock deep analysis.
The shift toward greater human agency in building and decision-making.
AI’s potential beyond simple agentic assistance and how we preserve craft that defines great work.
How we design products that empower humans to retain and grow their agency.
What to expect?
One table, one conversation - A unique dining experience, designed to facilitate new connections and conversations.
A 3-course meal courtesy to our partners
Meaningful discussion and connections with people facing similar challenges like yours.
Request your invitation today. Space is limited.
The event is free, but application is required. We review all requests and we will notify confirmed attendees by email.
Who’s in the Room:
A diverse group of senior product builders (Design, PM, Growth, Data, Engineering, Founders) working in high-growth companies.
This is a private, thoughtfully curated group brought together to create space for depth, focus, and meaningful conversation.
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About Julie Zhuo
Julie Zhuo is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sundial
Sundial is building tools to help teams make better decisions with data. She is a product leader, bestselling author, and entrepreneur. She served as VP of Product Design at Meta, where she helped shape core experiences used by billions of people. Julie’s book The Making of a Manager became a Wall Street Journal and Amazon leadership bestseller. She also writes widely on design, leadership, and the future of work, sharing insights from her experience building teams and products in fast-growing tech environments.
About Kanjun Qiu
Kanjun Qiu is the Co-Founder & CEO of Imbue.
Imbue is a radically different AI company. Imbue believes that the ability to create, modify, and control software and agents gives us a voice in the computational world. Kanjun is also a partner at Outset Capital, where she invests in early-stage startups. Kanjun founded Sourceress, a machine-learning recruiting startup backed by notable investors, and served as Chief of Staff at Dropbox, helping scale the company during a period of rapid growth.
Thank you to our partner Imbue.
Imbue is on a mission to empower humans in the age of AI by creating powerful computing tools for people. Their first product, Sculptor, is an environment for safely running coding agents in parallel.