Run of Show · Samar

AI Engineer
World's FairSan Francisco · Jun 29 – Jul 5

Expo Explorer access. Floor by day, side events by night. Pick the ★, skip the rest.

Expo Hall Welcome Reception lu.ma side events Talks / tracks VIP suites
MondayJUN 29
Land SF · go light

You flew in from NYC. One event, then sleep — it's a 4-day marathon.

4:00 – 7:30 PM
Expo + Welcome Reception
📍 Moscone West
Your first floor time. Expo access covers it — meet teams before the crowds.
7:00 – 9:30 PM★ Pick
Qodo Opening Night VIP
📍 Grand Hall, Ferry Building
Founders + senior eng, AI code-quality crowd. Your FDE pool.
RSVP · lu.ma
7:00 – 9:00 PMAlt
Cafe Compute · Multi-Modal
📍 Cerebras & Google DeepMind
RSVP · lu.ma
TuesdayJUN 30
Day 2 · first full expo
Daytime · Expo Floor
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM · Moscone West
Work the booths. Direct line to hiring startups — arrive with a target list of which ones.
2:00 – 6:00 PM★ Best ROI
All-Day World Cup Lounge
📍 The Harlequin, 68 4th St
Baseten · Reducto · LangChain. Long dwell, low pressure, three FDE-hiring infra cos. The week's best room.
RSVP · lu.ma
5:15 PM
GitHub HQ · Future Code
📍 GitHub HQ
Rare on-site GitHub / Copilot access. Worth the detour.
RSVP · lu.ma
5:00 PMIf approved → wins the slot
A Leadership Dinner
📍 Small, senior rooms · CTOs + heads of AI
If you got into either, take it over everything else tonight.
G2i · lu.ma AI Leaders · lu.ma
WednesdayJUL 1
★ Your big night
Daytime · Expo Floor
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM · Moscone West
Second sweep — catch the booths you missed Tuesday.
6:00 – 9:00 PM★ Early
Stripe × Metronome Startup Night
📍 SPIN, 690 Folsom St
Founder-dense. Exactly the visa-flexible startups you're hunting.
RSVP · lu.ma
7:30 – 10:00 PM★ Late · marquee
Vercel · AI Engineer After Dark
📍 SFMOMA, 151 3rd St
Browserbase · Factory · Fireworks — partners all hire FDEs. The big one.
RSVP · lu.ma
6:00 – 11:00 PMMarquee alt
Warp × Sequoia · After Hours
📍 Novela, 662 Mission St
RSVP · lu.ma

Send it tonight. Hydrate. One easier day left.

ThursdayJUL 2
Day 4 · final, shorter
Daytime · Expo Floor
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM · closes early
Last pass + any "grab 5 min" follow-ups from people you met.
4:30 – 8:30 PM★ Pick
AI Engineer Trivia Night
📍 Standard Deviant Brewing, Pier 70
Sanity · Temporal · OpenAI · Entire. Rare casual OpenAI eng access; trivia breaks the ice.
RSVP · lu.ma
6:30 – 11:00 PMClose out
Rooftop Afterparty
📍 461 Bryant St
Apify · Massive · TopK. Startup-heavy, founder-accessible. Close the week.
RSVP · lu.ma
FridayJUL 3
Fair over · SF day

Morning: send every follow-up to people you met — while names are fresh. That's what turns chats into relationships.

Then one 2-hr AWS prep session, explore SF + food, start tapering.

Sat – SunJUL 4 – 5
July 4th · then home

Sat: July 4th in SF — fireworks, parties, yours. Sun: travel home, recover, re-enter the prep block.

Three locks

01Gated events need approval. Dinners, Warp, Vercel — confirm your RSVPs are in and your lu.ma bio is filled so hosts wave you in.
02Daytime expo floor is work, not filler. Booths = direct access to hiring companies. Bring a target list each day.
03You can't do every event. One or two per night, done well. Don't bounce between five parties and network none.
Go be a menace · then crack the loop