merge(happy_hour) -> advancing_together
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, and investors who are Advancing AI. Meet the people you'll be sitting next to all week, a night early, in a more relaxed and intimate setting.
It's the kickoff: an evening on value maxxing, getting the most out of every dollar of inference and every hour of infra. Expect a few lightning talks with live demos from teams shipping real AI-native workloads, then drinks, bites, and 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
Vasily Prokopov, Senior Solutions Architect, DigitalOcean — "Model Routing for How Teams Actually Build"
Richard Chen, Technical Staff, RadixArk — "SGLang in 5 Minutes: What It Is and 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 and backing AI-native companies — founders, engineers, operators, and investors. Space is limited. Request to join below, we're confirming early RSVPs first.
Hosted by: DigitalOcean, AMD, RadixArk, MiniMax, & Weaviate
More co-hosts and speakers to come — RSVP now and we'll keep you posted.