#SalesFriends 🤝 AI Circle | Sponsored by Ven
Sales meetup in San Diego!! 🤩
📍 Location: 550 West B Street 4th Floor, San Diego, CA, 92101
📆 Date: Thursday, May 28th, 2026
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where AI Meets GTM: Sales, Engineering, and the Blurring Lines Between Them
Engineers are getting closer to the customer. Sellers are getting closer to the product. And AI is accelerating the collision.
Join us at Downtown Works Little Italy for a panel discussion on the cross-pollination happening between AI/tech and sales, and what it means for the people working in both. We'll dig into how job families are evolving, what salespeople should know about how modern AI products actually get built, what engineers should understand about GTM and customer development, and where the real opportunities are for people who can operate across both worlds.
Whether you're an AE curious about what's under the hood, an engineer wondering how deals actually get done, or a founder/operator trying to build a team that bridges both, this one's for you.
Format: 1-hour panel + audience Q&A, followed by open networking When: 5/28, 5:00–7:00 PM
Where: Downtown Works, Little Italy (San Diego)
Refreshments: Pizza, beer, and sparkling water on us
Come for the panel, stay for the conversations.
About #SalesFriends:
San Diego sales community. Giving customer facing roles a shared space to meet in person and grow together. Most of us work in tech but we welcome other industries as well.
VPs of Sales, AEs, SDRs, CSMs, SEs and any other client facing acronym. An opportunity to share best practices and help each other get ahead in our careers. We don't like to exclude anyone... but no real estate agents allowed! We're here to network not get pitched to buy a house.
About San Diego AI Circle:
A curated group of highly technical builders working at the edge of deep learning and agentic systems. We meet in person to share what we’re building, trade notes on the latest advancements, and learn from / collaborate with other serious practitioners.
As AI tooling accelerates, small teams can increasingly outpace large organizations by shipping focused, niche products quickly. Meanwhile, much of San Diego’s best technical talent is distributed across large companies, labs, and teams—so finding the right collaborators can be difficult.
This Circle exists to solve that: a central hub for builders to learn from each other, get high-quality feedback, and meet potential collaborators and cofounders.
Our Partners:
Ven - https://ven.live/
Ven helps you discover people, groups, and events aligned with your goals — so reaching out feels natural, not cold.
Downtown Works - https://www.downtownworks.com/locations/san-diego/
Premier co-working spaces for visionaries and innovators. Committed to creating contemporary, hospitality-inspired, tech-rich work spaces that support the success of high-achieving professionals and entrepreneurs.