Chicago AI Leader Dinner | Open source models in the Enterprise

​The Baseten team is coming to Chicago! To celebrate, we’re bringing together a curated group of technical leaders for a casual dinner, drinks, and conversation.

​This is not a sales pitch, there will be no presentations. It’s a chance to meet your peers at large companies who are incorporating AI into their stack.

​This event is invite-only and intentionally small.

​📍 Swift & Sons, Chicago
🗓️ August 10, 2026

​Schedule

• ​6:00 Arrival with drinks and snacks

• ​6:30 Dinner

• ​7:30 Discussion on deploying Open Source Models in the Enterprise, facilitated by Hunter Treschl, Director, AI Engineering at Cboe, and Philip Kiely, Author of Inference Engineering at Baseten - and former Chicago resident!

​This event is hosted by Baseten — the inference platform behind some of the most demanding AI workloads in production for companies like Abridge, Cursor, Notion, and OpenEvidence.