Silicon Valley · Quarterly · Invitation only · Since 2024
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.
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Quarterly Clubs
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
Past clubs
Senior healthcare and life sciences leaders met at Microsoft in Mountain View to work through AI governance in practice: who owns it, where the guardrails live, how models are validated and monitored in production, and how organizations earn the trust of clinicians and patients.
On stage
Moderator
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
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.
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.
How vibe-coding, co-pilots and autonomous coding agents are reshaping the software development lifecycle, and what engineering leaders are changing in response.
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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
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
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 5:30 to 8:00 PM
Hosted at Microsoft, Mountain View
Date to be announced
Date to be announced
Hosted at Robert Half, San Francisco
Inside the room
Dinner, a frank panel and small-group sessions, across host venues from Palo Alto to Sunnyvale.
Past speakers
From the companies building, buying and funding AI at scale.
Where our speakers lead
Sponsorship
Sponsors help convene substantive conversations among senior technical, product, and business leaders, while building meaningful relationships with the community.
Interested in partnering with us? Write to team@aileadersclub.org and we will share the details.
Get involved
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
Leadership
Jay ChodagamPresidentEx-Splunk, ex-IBM. Former monk. National champion sailor.
Daniela Busse, PhDCo-chairVP Strategy and Innovation in AI and Product. Former Head of Incubator Research, Meta.
Sendil ThangaveluCo-chairHead of Engineering, Amazon Lens AI. Ex-Toyota.
Sam HamiltonCo-chairBoard member and investor. Former SVP and Global Head of Data and AI, Visa.
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.
