Announcing 2 New AI Events for Marin
Here's what's coming for North Bay AI in August and September
Hi everyone, and welcome back from Summer break. I hope it was a great one.
📅 Events and Meetups
🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 Marin AI Aug Co-Working
Thursday, August 22 - 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Same format and venue as before - our friends at AvantSpace Marin are again kindly donating their wonderful space for open co-working.
I’ve really enjoyed how casual and collaborative these events have been. Simply show up, share ideas, listen, feedback, demo, feedback and have a good time.
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/lmhjca2d
🧠 GenAI Collective Marin 🧠 The Scaling Salon
Thursday, Sep 5 - 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
If you're beyond the idea/prototype stage, and working on scaling an AI product, platform, or service, this event is just for you.
This night is about bringing the SF North Bay community together to help each other scale-up.
Apply now, tell us what you're scaling and at what level and we'll match you with other Marin & Sonoma innovators working at similar scale, so you can share your pains and gains with local peers.
For this event, we encourage authentic discussion and knowledge sharing over basic networking. Through this, you'll create more valuable connections too.
There will be an optional open-mic demo opportunity to share your work, and impromptu demos are welcome.
So bring your laptops, demos, problems, questions, and ideas and work and collaborate together with other Marin & Sonoma folks working in AI.
RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/lgcgvywy
Important Note For All Events
I always encourage you to tell your smart friends about this community and encourage them to apply for attendance.
However to be fair to all applicants, and to manage headcount with the venue, it is imperative that everyone registers and requests a ticket in advance.
Please don’t bring unregistered friends, even if they are awesome!
If you need someone admitted last minute, just email or text me
🗞️ Community news (and brags)
🏆 DXM wins “Most Creative” award at Gen AI Collective SF Demo Showcase
Congratulations to Marin AI member Rix Kramlich, Founder of DXM, who just won the “Most Creative” award in front of hundreds of AI enthusiasts at Shack 15 in the city tonight! 👏👏👏
DXM is a generative AI platform for brands, enabling businesses of all sizes to produce agency-level quality and consistent on-brand content across all brand touchpoints, efficiently and at scale.
If you are interested in showing your products to hundreds of AI makers, investors, journalists, and executives, let me know.
🤑 Member Offers
🏠 1 Month Free at AvantSpace
We are super grateful to Josh and Mike at AvantSpace for donating their beautiful downtown San Rafael space as a regular home base for the North Bay AI community.
I’m pleased to pass on their offer of 1st Month Free for members of this community. Their prices are super reasonable and flexible considering how nice the place is, so please email Mike and mention Gen AI Collective Marin to learn more.
🤖 10% off AI Hardware & Edge Summit
The AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit (9-12th September, San Jose) is the ultimate destination for the entire AI/ML ecosystem with a collaborative mission to train, deploy, and scale ML systems that are fast, efficient, and affordable.
Whether it’s forging new partnerships, staying ahead of the ever-changing semi-conductor landscape, learning how to build, train, and deploy efficient systems, meeting peers, learning from AI luminaries, or simply gaining exposure to the world of AI infrastructure, you’ll find over 1,200 likeminded people at our event. Don’t miss exclusive luminary keynotes from Andrew Ng (Founder & CEO, Landing AI) and Mark Russinovich (Technical Fellow and CTO Azure, Microsoft).
Quote code: GENAICOLLECTIVE10 for 10% off your pass. Register your interest here to learn more!
🤝 Introducing Lean Category Design
Do you ever feel that your product is being sucked into competing in the wrong market?
Maybe customers are comparing you to products that you shouldn’t be compared to at all? Or maybe investors don’t understand the potential of your market, because they only see the past, when you plan to create the future?
The more innovative your AI product is, the less you can simply “go-to” the market. You actually need to create the market and bend it to your vision.
This is where I can help with my new service: Lean Category Design.
Lean Category Design is the only rapid, affordable, and testable approach to the increasingly popular positioning technique that is Category Design.
My process is purpose-built for Startups and Scale-ups and gives you a category design strategy in just a few workshops over a few weeks.
Learn more and book a free office hours consult at https://www.tractiondesigner.com/lean-category-design
Get More Involved
💬 SF North Bay AI Whatsapp Group
Did you know we also have a Whatsapp group for members?
If you would like to join, simply hit reply and tell me your numbers and I’ll pull you in.
To keep the quality of conversation high and spam-free, I decided to start by only admitting people who have been accepted for and attended one of our events.
So if you wish to invite friends, please ask them to apply to an event first.
How You Can Help
💰 Seeking Sponsors and Partners
We missed out on a potentially amazing event for next June because I could not arrange a sponsor in time.
I am therefore now open to speaking with any companies or orgs that might be interested in partnering with this curated, rich, and wonderful community to help us take flight.
If you know of someone, please hit reply and let me know.
👫 Invite Your Smart Friends
The best thing about our events is the awesome people that attend them. (That’s you, by the way.)
And the best way we can gain more awesome members is if you all invite more great people that you know.
So if you know an interesting person who is working or interested in AI and is based in Marin or Sonoma, please forward this email and tell them to hit this Subscribe button:
OK that’s it for now.
Thanks for being with us so far, I hope to see you at an event soon.
Best regards. Chris.
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Chris Guest
Founder: Gen AI Collective Marin
The Traction Designer // Lean Category Design Coaching