A packed room of AI leaders at the Q3 2026 club at LinkedIn

Silicon Valley · Quarterly · Invitation only · Since 2024

The evening the Bay Area's AI leaders compare notes.

Four times a year, 150-200 senior engineering, AI and product leaders clear an evening for one room. A frank panel, dinner, and small-group working sessions on the problems you are actually solving. No booths. No badge scans. No pitches.

  • 150-200leaders per evening
  • 1,700+member network
  • 34speakers to date

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Quarterly Clubs

Built for people who already know the basics.

Each club takes one hard problem that few companies discuss in public and puts the people who have solved it on stage. Then the room breaks into small groups to work on each other's real challenges.

By invitation only for

  • Senior Directors and above in Engineering, AI and Product
  • Staff and Distinguished Engineers and equivalent senior ICs
  • Investors at Principal and above at AI and deep tech funds
Panel discussion at Google Cloud
Small-group breakout at LinkedIn
Conversation after the panel
  1. Check-in
  2. Dinner and networking
  3. Panel discussion
  4. Small-group working sessions
  5. Open networking

The Perspective Pivot

Bring the Pivot to your team.

The small-group game at the heart of every club: leaders draw a seat card and solve a real problem from a perspective that is not their own. It is now available for your leadership team, as a free overview, a facilitator kit or a facilitated session.

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Past clubs

The archive

Building Continuously Improving AI Systems
Highlight reel in production

Q3 2026Oct 7, 2026Hosted at LinkedIn

Building Continuously Improving AI Systems

Shipping an AI system is now table stakes. The teams pulling ahead built the machinery of improvement: the harness, the evals, the quality metrics, the feedback loops, and regression testing for systems that refuse to be deterministic.

Club recap, panel and photosRead Field Notes № 01: The Harness Is the Product

  • Harness designInstrumenting AI systems so improvement is measured rather than felt.
  • Evaluation frameworksEvals that survive contact with production.
  • Quality metrics beyond accuracyWhat leaders track when outputs are probabilistic.
  • Feedback loopsTurning user signal, human review and failures into an improvement flywheel.
  • Regression testingShipping with confidence when the same input can produce different outputs.

On stage

Moderator

  • Sam Hamilton Club Co-chair. Former SVP and Global Head of Data and AIVisa

Q2 2026SAP HQ

AI Agents in Production: Autonomy, Accountability and Control

Where autonomous agents may act alone and where humans stay in the loop. Governance, observability and accountability for agent behavior, runtime guardrails and rollback, the real economics of always-on agents, and agents as a stress test for enterprise architecture.

Q1 2026Google Cloud HQ

Beyond the Pilot: Lessons in Scaling AI Across the Enterprise

From 'should we use AI?' to 'how do we make it work?'. How leading companies put AI into production where it changes decisions, execution and outcomes. Sold out a month ahead with 180 attendees.

Q4 2025Menlo Park

The SDLC in the Age of Software Development Agents

How vibe-coding, co-pilots and autonomous coding agents are reshaping the software development lifecycle, and what engineering leaders are changing in response.

Enterprise AI and Operational EfficiencyView photo album

Q3 2025Robert Half / Protiviti

Enterprise AI and Operational Efficiency

How enterprises are navigating AI transformation to drive operational efficiency. Panel with leaders from Google Cloud, Twilio, Salesforce and Intel Capital, moderated by Jaya Gali of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Inner Circles

Thirty to fifty leaders, one industry, one hard question.

Inner Circles are an invitation-only series that goes deeper than the quarterly club. Each edition is co-hosted with a partner organization and focuses on one sector or problem, with a moderated discussion and plenty of time for direct exchange.

To be considered for an invitation, write to team@aileadersclub.org

Two leaders in conversation at a club evening

Inside the room

What an evening looks like

Dinner, a frank panel and small-group sessions, across host venues from Palo Alto to Sunnyvale.

Q2 2026 at SAP, Palo Alto
Q2 2026 at SAP, Palo Alto
The taco bar
The taco bar
Q3 2026 panel at LinkedIn
Q3 2026 panel at LinkedIn
December 2025 panel
December 2025 panel
Lemon meringue tarts
Lemon meringue tarts
September 2025 panel in San Francisco
September 2025 panel in San Francisco
Grilled vegetable platter
Grilled vegetable platter
Dinner conversation, December 2025
Dinner conversation, December 2025
Breakout circles at SAP
Breakout circles at SAP
Reeny Sondhi addressing the room
Reeny Sondhi addressing the room
Sliders and small plates
Sliders and small plates
Small-group working session
Small-group working session
Opening remarks
Opening remarks

Past speakers

34 leaders have taken the stage

From the companies building, buying and funding AI at scale.

Where our speakers lead

Get involved

Shape the next club.

The best club topics and speakers have come from members. Tell us what the room should take on next, who should be on stage, or where we should meet.

The co-chairs read every submission before each planning meeting. For anything else, write to team@aileadersclub.org

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Leadership

Run by operators, for operators

The AI Tech Leaders' Club volunteer team at LinkedIn, Q3 2026
The volunteer team. Every club is run by volunteers who handle check-in, AV, photography and the breakout sessions.

The AI Tech Leaders' Club is a program of FutureTech Alliance, a U.S. nonprofit (EIN 33-5039448) that convenes leaders across AI, cloud, semiconductors and sustainability to accelerate responsible technology adoption. Club activities are educational, mission-aligned and non-political.