Curated gatherings for people who get it.
The Bay Lights return. @illuminatethearts brings back 50,000 LEDs after three years dark.
San Francisco is relentless. The capital of people building the future, burning out trying, starting over. When it gets too loud, I step onto my terrace. I've stood there a thousand times. 2am when my brain is spiraling. 5am on weeks where sleep is optional. Fog. Rain. Didn't matter. The bridge just glows and moves and reminds me that beautiful, massive art exists and is worth protecting.
Illuminate kept that alive. Now they're bringing it back. I want to share that view. A moment. You step out, the lights come on, we watch something beautiful together. 22nd floor. Unobstructed. Direct sightline.
A room where founders practice saying the true thing out loud.
No slides. No pitches. Just the story underneath the story — the five-second moment when everything changed.
Most founders can pitch. Few can make you feel something. This is practice for that.
300 founders, operators, and investors. 50% at $1M–$50M ARR.
Previously sponsored by Google. The conversations that don't happen at regular conferences — because the rooms are wrong. We fix the room.
For PhDs in ML, fastest deployes, vibe coding or overthingking and people who think like them.
Tech debates. Unvarnished truths about deploying models in production. The kind of conversation where someone says "wait, go back to the attention head thing" and we do.
It's a whiteboard session or a it's vibecoding until 2am. Sometimes we argue about whether RLHF is actually working or we're all just pretending.
Mostly passionate nerds (like me).
The event that doesn't exist until it does.
Past iterations: A 4am hike where no one could talk about anything but passions. A dinner where you could only ask questions. A room where everyone can not introduce themselves with titles or labels or logos.
You don't apply. You get tapped.