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San Francisco Founder Dinner

Name: San Francisco Founder Dinner
Start: 2026-08-26T19:00:00.000-07:00
End: 2026-08-26T21:00:00.000-07:00
Location: San Francisco, CA

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About Event

We're hosting a small X26 dinner for a handful of established ex-McKinsey founders in San Francisco.

The format is intentionally small: a relaxed dinner with founders actively building, designed for thoughtful conversation and meaningful connections.

About your hosts

Zain Shaikh is part of the founding team at OpenCoreOS, an AI-native fintech reimagining core banking for large financial institutions, where he leads growth across sales, marketing, partnerships, and deployment.

Zamir Akimbekov is founder and CEO of Cayu AI, building an agentic platform that turns plain language into working enterprise software. Ex-C3 AI (enterprise AI pilots with Fortune 500s) and ex-McKinsey. PhD from UC Davis.

Quan Han Wong is founder of Erand. He spent nearly three years at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, where he built the firm's first agentic workflow, before that working as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey implementing ML at large enterprises. Master of Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

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