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Pitch Please Series

Founders pitch their AI startups to builders, operators, and investors—and get candid live feedback. Come to sharpen your story or watch strong founders take hard questions.

Founder Showcases

Work from Pier 70 for the day alongside AI founders and engineers. Bring your laptop, meet the community, and see if AI House feels like home.

Vibe Coding Sessions

Build a real app or prototype with the latest AI tools, alongside others doing the same. Less lecture, more keyboard—leave with something you made.

Affinity Groups

Small, recurring peer groups for founders, go-to-market leaders, and technical leads. Trade practical insights with people navigating the same work in real time.

Build Days

See what leading AI startups across Seattle have actually shipped. Meet the builders shaping the region’s next wave of applied AI.

Ask Me Anything

Unscripted conversations with founders, operators, and investors who have been through it. Ask the questions that usually stay behind closed doors.

Annual Community Summer BBQ

Seattle’s AI community gathers on the Pier 70 waterfront for an annual summer celebration. Join 1,500+ builders, founders, operators, and investors.

Featured Speaker Series

Candid conversations with the people shaping AI and company-building. Hear real questions and hard-won perspective from leaders at the frontier.

The Weeks That Matter

During Seattle’s biggest tech weeks, AI House becomes the hub. Find your home base for the conversations, events, and people moving the city forward.

Female Founder Happy Hours

A relaxed gathering for women building AI companies in Seattle. Share what’s working, make meaningful connections, and enjoy a drink together.

Founder Roundtables

A private forum for Incubator founders to discuss the hard things: pricing, fundraising, boards, cofounders, and more. Go deeper with your cohort.

GTM Deep Dives

Practical working sessions on go-to-market—from first customers and pricing to sales cycles and ideal customers. Leave with tactics you can use right away.

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Resident experts

Our community is anchored by Resident Experts who bring real technical and operating depth. They include applied AI research leaders, founders, builders, engineering executives, product and design leaders, and startup operators who have built through the problems others are still figuring out.

  • Aaron Goldfeder

    Director, CEO, Founder

    AZX

  • Abhinav Shukla

    Applied Scientist

    Amazon Fulfilment Technologies & Robotics

  • Adam Burgh

    Founder and CEO

    Stealth Startup

  • Adam Tratt

    Founder / CEO / CMO

    Haiku Deck

  • Ajit Banerjee

    Architect

    Hugging Face

  • Alex Maestretti

    Co-Founder

    Twnstr

  • Alexandra Taylor

    Co-Founder & COO | Author

    Sphere

  • Amirsina Eskandarifar

    Senior Data & Applied Scientist

    Microsoft

  • Andy Peng

    Builder at Amazon | NeurIPS25 Co-Chair

    Amazon Web Services, NeurIPS

  • Angela Steffens (Thomas)

    Founder, Full Stack Engineer

    Alternate Futures

  • Anh Nguyen

    Senior Researcher

    Apple

  • Anna Fuller

    Head of Product

    Big Sur AI

  • Anthony Anderson

    Scientist-Engineer / Wearables at FDA

    FDA, University of Washington

  • Archis Gore

    Senior Staff Production Engineer

    Meta

  • Arvind Vivekanandan

    Software Development Engineer

    Amazon

  • Ash Bhoopathy

    Co-Founder and CEO

    Poseidon

  • Ashish Sinha

    AI Strategic Growth Leader

    AWS

  • Brewster Stanislaw

    Product Leader, Entrepreneur, Investor

  • Brian Fioca

    Founder, Advisor

    RescueTime

  • Bridget Perry

    Chief Marketing Officer and Advisor

    Tola Capital | Hexus

  • Bruce Brewington

    Founder

    Korgo

  • Camron Lee

    Manager of Product Management

    Valant

  • Choong Ng

    Engineer | Principal

    Gumshoe AI | Transitive LLC

  • Cole Krumbholz

    Founder, Head of Product

    Formspree

  • Corbin Cunningham

    Senior Staff UX Research Manager

    Google

  • Courtnie Paschall

    Founder | PhD Neural Engineering + Data Science

    Invirtualis.ai

  • Dan Koch

    CTO, Advisor

    Tomo

  • Daniel Kang

    Head of Organic and Agentic Search

    Expedia

  • Daryn Nakhuda

    Head of Software

    Waabi

  • David Pitman

    Co-Founder

    Stealth Startup

  • David Uvalle

    Lead Machine Learning Engineer | AI, ML, Search

    Adobe

  • Desney Tan

    Corporate VP and Managing Director

    Microsoft Research

  • Diego Oppenheimer

    Head of Product | Co-Founder

    Hyperparam | Guardrails AI

  • Dirk Groeneveld

    Principal Software Engineer

    Ai2 Research Institute

  • Dwight Ware

    Founder

    MindCycle

  • Edward Zhang

    Chief Technology Officer

    Nuance Labs

  • Eran Megiddo

    CEO and Co-founder

    Maximal Learning

  • Eric Aderhold

    Software Engineer IV

    Code.org

  • Eric Burns

    Head of AI Partner Strategy

    Anthropic

  • Eric Chen

    Director, Head of Engineering

    SpruceID

  • Erik Selberg

    CTO & Co-Founder

    Wild Zebra

  • Erin Torgerson

    Product Manager | Quality Engineering

    Schemantic.io | Storytellers.ai

  • Ethan Shen

    PhD Student | Research Intern

    Ai2 Research Institute

  • Fangchang Ma

    Co-founder & CEO

    Nuance Labs

  • Gaurav Oberoi

    VP of Product

    Docusign

  • Ghazaleh Saniee Monfared

    Senior UX Researcher

    Microsoft

  • Greg Young

    Senior Director of Product Management

    Collectors Universe

  • Henry Tan

    Principal Engineer

    Amazon

  • Hetu Kamisetty

    Co-founder & CTO

    Xaira Therapeutics

  • Himanshu Tayal

    Head of Product | Generative AI for Developers

    Amazon Web Services

  • Huong Ngo

    Member of Technical Staff

    Vercept

  • Ian Wong

    Co-founder & CEO

    Summation

  • Jared Roesch

    Distinguished Engineer

    NVIDIA

  • Jeff Kramer

    Lead Applied Research Scientist

    Microsoft

  • Jiayi (J.L.) Liang

    Product Leader, Reality Labs Research

    Meta

  • Joe Belfiore

    Vice Chairman of the Board

    Kahoot!

  • Joe Braidwood

    Co-founder & CEO

    Yara AI

  • Joe Heitzeberg

    Founder

    AI Tinkerers

  • John Alioto

    Startup Evangelist

    Google Cloud

  • Jonathan Tice

    Founder & Fractional CRO

    Fit to Scale

  • Joseph Sunga

    Director of Product Management

    Waabi

  • Julia Schwarz

    Software Engineer | Co-founder of PlayScout

  • Justin Ith

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Alpyne Labs

  • Kai Chen

    Engineering Executive / Technology Entrepreneur

    Angel Investor

  • Keith Trnka

    ML | Engineering Leadership | Co-founder

    Stealth Startup

  • Kiana Ehsani

    CEO and Co-founder

    Vercept

  • Larry Arnstein

    CTO & Co-Founder

    Augmented AI Labs

  • Lee-Ming Zen

    CTO

    Yahoo

  • Leon Gatys

    Machine Learning Researcher

    Apple

  • Liza Ray

    Head of Operations

    Synthesize Bio

  • Luis Salazar

    Co-Founder | Data Scientist

    Sobek.ai | Nucleate | AI4SP

  • Mariano Gabitto

    Assistant Investigator

    Allen Institute

  • Marius Ciocirlan

    CEO and Co-founder

    MarkOS

  • Mark Buckler

    Founder & CEO

    Soundry AI

  • Matt Deitke

    AI Researcher

    Meta

  • Matt Hocking

    Chief Product Officer

    Type

  • Matt Lerner

    Executive Coach

  • Max Kleiman-Weiner

    Assistant Professor

    University of Washington

  • Meng Wang

    CEO and Co-founder

    Artly AI

  • Mike Fridgen

    Venture Partner

    Madrona

  • Mike Mortensen

    Investor and Advisor, Enterprise AI

    Mortensen Ventures

  • Milav Shah

    Head of Engineering

    Amazon

  • Mohammad Rastegari

    CEO and Co-founder

    Elastix.AI

  • Musa Ozdem

    Principal Tech Lead

    Carnival Corporation

  • Nikesh Parekh

    CEO and Co-founder

    Provn

  • Nimisha Sharath

    Product Manager

    Uber

  • Nirav Shah

    Partner | Advisor

    Physician on FIRE | Carbon Health

  • Oussame Elachqar

    Co-founder

    Oumi

  • Oyvind Tafjord

    Research Scientist

    Google DeepMind

  • Patrick Ellis

    CTO & Co-Founder

    Snapbar

  • Pierre Brunelle

    CEO and Co-founder

    Pixeltable

  • Ramya Jayaraman

    AI Strategy Leader | CTO

    OrthoBerry

  • Ranjay Krishna

    Assistant Professor

    University of Washington

  • Ricardo Martin

    Researcher & Engineer / Co-Founder

    SpAItial AI

  • Rob Gruhl

    Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

    Nordstrom

  • Rodney Kinney

    Principal ML Engineer

    Ai2 Research Institute

  • Ronan Le Bras

    Research Scientist

    Ai2 Research Institute

  • Ross Finman

    CEO and Founder

    Augmodo

  • Ryan Turner

    Founder, CTO

    Cielara AI

  • Sarah Andrabi

    Co-founder & CTO

    Liminary

  • Saranya Selvamani

    Building AI x Commerce | Ex-Amazon

    Stealth AI Startup

  • Satya Singh

    Co-founder, CPO & President

    Scispot.io

  • Scott Ransom

    Senior Director, Industry and Innovation

    HAND ERC

  • Selvan Senthivel

    Chief Technologist/Advisor

    GE Healthcare

  • Shihong Liu

    Software Engineer

    Amazon

  • Shubhkarman Singh

    Machine Learning / Automation Engineer

    Nokia

  • Siddhant Sahu

    Product Management

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Somesh Khandelwal

    Product and Systems Engineering Leader

    Menlo Ventures | Stealth Startup

  • Sonu Aggarwal

    Entrepreneur

    TiE Seattle

  • Srujan Jonnadula

    Principal Software Engineering Manager

    Microsoft

  • Steve Hall

    Venture Partner

    Cercano Management

  • Tanmay Gupta

    Senior Research Assistant

    Ai2 Research Institute

  • Trevor Crosby

    Applied Machine Learning

    John Deere, City University of Seattle

  • Tyler Shimko

    Applied AI Scientist - Drug Discovery

    NVIDIA

  • Vijay Gaikwad

    Staff ML Engineer

    Meta

  • Woody Floyd

    Vice President, Solutions R&D

    Launch by NTT DATA

  • Xuchen Yao

    CEO and Co-founder

    Seasalt.ai

  • Yangxue Deng

    Senior Product Designer

    Aspect Software

  • Yucheng Low

    System Architect

    Hugging Face

  • Zeeshan Zia

    CEO and Co-founder

    Retrocausal

Where to find us

Pier 70

2801 Alaskan Way,
Seattle, WA 98121

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