🎉 WE'RE MAKING SF TECH HISTORY!! 🎉
Join us as we gather together the entire Bay Area tech community and its most brilliant creators for a night of mind-blowing demos that push the boundaries of what's possible! From cutting-edge tech to groundbreaking ideas, these 10 showcases will leave you speechless and eager for more!! 😮
Hosted by the GenAI Collective, Product Hunt, and SHACK15 with key sponsors Graphite and Predibase and in partnership with Design Buddies and the MLOps Community, we are uniting the ENTIRE SF TECH COMMUNITY in a way never seen before!! 🤩
Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a curious onlooker, or a seasoned builder, you’ll leave inspired and amazed, wondering if you just attended a tech showcase or a mind-bending magic show! 🤹
Previous demo night recaps: March, May, June, August 🎞️
On this special evening, we’ll be selecting 10 demoists – the best of the best – to show off their products and technology to the world!
If you would like to demo and receive feedback from the SF tech community, please click the button below and fill out the form! Submissions close the Thursday before the event at 11:59pm (Thanksgiving day! 🦃)
Note: we want attendees to get the exclusive scoop – things that the rest of the industry will only see months down the line! Therefore, we ask that all demo applicants are pre-series B.
This event is a first-of-its-kind experience! With the demo night app, everyone at the event is an active participant!
The demo night app makes it easy for anyone and everyone to learn more about the demoists, provide feedback, sign up for early access, and much more! 🙌
Finally, everyone in the community will help select winners through open voting at the end! Winners will be memorialized forever in the SF Demo Night Hall of Fame! 🏆
6:00pm: Open mingling 🤝
6:30pm: Welcome 👋
6:45pm: Demos + live feedback 🧑💻
8:00pm: Audience voting + demo open floor 🗳️
8:10pm: Winner announcements + trophy presentation 🏆
8:20pm: open mingling 🤝
9:00pm: Doors close
As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
Please be advised: Shack15 imposes a hard cap on the number of event attendees. To be fair to everyone, we strictly enforce the guest list and cannot allow plus ones. If you would like to attend, please ensure you sign up and are accepted!
The GenAI Collective is a non-profit, grassroots community of 25,000+ founders, researchers, operators, and investors representing the global forum for AI and technological progress. Through world-class events, workshops, and online forums, members leverage their diverse perspectives and innovative minds to foster meaningful relationships, solve challenging problems, and define the future of AI.
Product Hunt is a platform where product enthusiasts discover and share new mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech innovations. Community members can submit, browse, vote, and comment on daily product launches, and engage with creators, investors, and journalists. It fosters a passionate community eager to explore and discuss the latest in tech.
Graphite is a fast, simple code review platform designed for engineers who want to write and review smaller pull requests, stay unblocked, and ship faster.
Predibase is the developer platform for productionizing open-source AI. Predibase makes it easy for engineering teams to cost-efficiently fine-tune and serve small open-source LLMs on state-of-the-art infrastructure in the cloud—without sacrificing quality.
SHACK15 is a community for founders, innovators and changemakers. Located in the iconic San Francisco Ferry Building with panoramic views of the Bay, SHACK15 provides the stage for a diverse global community to gather and connect. We’re located on the 2nd floor of San Francisco's Ferry Building. Please use the elevator to come to the 2nd floor in the Ferry Building’s “Office Lobby” - located underneath the giant clock tower, on the left side of the main market entrance. Please review our House Rules and Guest Code of Conduct.
MLOps Community: swiftly growing need to share real-world Machine Learning Operations best practices from engineers in the field. While MLOps shares a lot of ground with DevOps, the differences are as big as the similarities. We needed a community laser-focused on solving the unique challenges we deal with everyday building production AI/ML pipelines. We’re in this together. Come learn with us in a community open to everyone. Share knowledge. Ask questions. Get answers.