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Data + AI meetups in the Tri-Valley

A small Data + AI meetup for people who live or work in California’s Tri-Valley. Every experience level is welcome. Join on Luma to hear about new dates!

  • Meet and chat
  • One deep dive
  • Lightning talks
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What you get

Small on purpose, so everyone gets to talk.

  • Meet people nearby

    Data + AI folks from around the Tri-Valley. The kind you grab coffee with next week.

  • See real work

    Every batch, someone walks through what they built, the numbers behind it, and what they learned.

  • Show what you’re working on

    Share a project, a tool, or a lesson learned in a five-minute lightning talk. Whatever your level, the room wants to hear it.

How a batch runs

Each meetup is a batch: free, about two hours, the same rhythm every time, so all you do is show up and join in.

  1. Meet and chat

    30 min

    Grab a drink, say hi, and get to know each other.

  2. One deep dive

    35 min

    One member walks through real work for about 20 minutes, then takes questions.

  3. Lightning talks

    15 min

    Five minutes each: share something cool you’ve been working on. No prep needed!

  4. Hang out

    After

    Keep the conversation going, and stay in the cafe as long as you like.

Who’s invited

Data engineers, platform and infrastructure folks, analytics engineers, and anyone wiring AI into real data systems. If you live or work in Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin, San Ramon, or Danville, this is your room. Students, career changers, and seasoned engineers are all welcome, and “I haven’t used that yet” is a perfectly good thing to say.

Expect practical, vendor-neutral talks on how teams move, store and query data and connect AI to it: pipelines, lakehouses and warehouses, RAG (AI that answers from your own documents), agents that query databases, and what all of it costs.

Give a talk

Lightning talks happen on the spot: anyone can take five minutes to share something cool they’ve been working on or want to talk about. No prep needed!

  • a tool you tried
  • a bug you fixed
  • a dashboard you’re proud of
  • a paper you liked
  • something you’re learning

Want to give a deep dive at a future meetup? Just let us know!

Offer a deep dive

Why Small Batch

Meetups have grown my knowledge and experience more than almost anything else. With so much work now remote and AI reshaping the field, meeting face to face matters more than ever. I enjoy the meetups in San Francisco and San Jose, and I wanted one close to home too, a place where we can swap stories, see familiar faces, and make friends who care about the same things. Hope to see you there!

Jordan, organizer

Join Small Batch Meetup

Join on Luma for new dates by email. Join the Discord to talk shop between batches: introductions, jobs, and the slides and photos after each batch.

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