SF AI Engineers: January w/ xAI Presenting

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 6:00pm – 8:00pm House of AI, 40 Boardman Pl, San Francisco, CA 94103

Every month, we bring together SF's AI engineering community for an evening of technical talks, real problems, and real solutions. No sales pitches. No high-level buzzword bingo. Just engineers sharing what they've actually built, the gnarly challenges they hit, and how they solved them.

This month, we're especially excited to welcome Pavan Trinath Vutukur, Member of Technical Staff @ xAI, along with two additional speakers (to be announced soon).

Why You Should Come

Whether you're neck-deep in prompt engineering, building RAG pipelines, fine-tuning models, or just trying to figure out how to get LLMs to do something useful in production, this is your crowd.

Every talk is designed to give you something you can actually use: architectural insights, debugging techniques, lessons learned the hard way, or just a "huh, I didn't know you could do that" moment.

What to Expect

The Evening:

• 6:00–6:45pm: Grab pizza, beer, and wine (on us) and meet other engineers

• 6:45–6:50pm: Quick welcome and intros

• 6:50–7:35pm: Three 10-minute technical talks with 5-minute Q&A after each

• 7:35–8:00pm: Hang with the speakers and keep the conversation going

This Month's Speakers:

• Pavan Trinath Vutukur - Member of Technical Staff @ xAI

• Two additional speakers (coming soon)

Each presenter will walk through a real-world AI engineering project, complete with code, architecture decisions, things that broke, and what they'd do differently.

Who You'll Meet

The room is typically a mix of ML engineers, software developers getting into AI, data scientists who build production systems, and technical founders working on AI products. It's casual, but high-signal. The kind of people who get excited about discussing inference optimization and context window management over pizza.

About the Community

San Francisco AI Engineers has a 4.8 rating from 48 reviews because we keep it real. This isn't a networking circus or a vendor showcase, it's a space for engineers to learn from each other's work and build genuine connections in the SF AI scene.

Sponsored by Fonzi AI.

Space Is Limited

These events fill up fast. RSVP to secure your spot.