I build the rooms for AI.
Event producer and AI community builder. I make flagship conferences, monthly salons, and developer programs for the people actually building what comes next. Sold-out rooms, $1M+ ticket lines, 500-person speaker alumni flywheels.
Three things I'm building now.
The TED AI flagship.
Annual main stage, Bay Area. Speaker curation, run of show, partnership architecture. The room where developers, founders, and frontier researchers actually meet each other.
In progressSignals salon series.
100-person gatherings designed around practitioners building AI, not observing it. 50% net-new sponsor participation per cycle, 7 events deep and compounding.
RecurringFusion energy programming.
Curating thought leadership for Deep Tech Week's fusion track. National lab directors, frontier startup CEOs, and the policy people who decide what gets funded.
Multi-cityTED AI.
TED's first AI-focused conference, built from concept to flagship in six months. Annual main stage, monthly salon series, private speaker dinners, builder working sessions. Zero paid media, sold-out tickets, world-first announcements from the stage.
TEDxSF.
Six years scaling TEDxSanFrancisco from hundreds of attendees to 15,000. Owned the budget, the team, and the sponsorship engine. Built the playbooks that turned first-time sponsors into multi-year institutional relationships.
Colossus.
Built marketing and go-to-market from scratch for a seed-stage radiation-tolerant semiconductor startup. Designed conference activations that punched above the company's size — landing the rooms with defense primes and government buyers before there was a track record.
Deep Tech Week.
Shaped creative and strategic direction of a decentralized event series across San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Curated the fusion energy track with national lab directors and frontier startup CEOs.
Contramore.
Strategic communications consultancy serving 15 technology clients across AI, advanced manufacturing, and infrastructure. Notable: the Autodesk Research / Siemens generative-design race car project that secured Bloomberg coverage and informed CAD software roadmap.
The work, in figures.
Voices I've put on stage.
Five hundred speakers and counting. From the labs where AI is being built, the policy desks shaping how it's deployed, and the unusual edges where the most interesting work tends to live.
Three things I believe about events.
The room belongs to the builders.
Conferences for practitioners only work when the people doing the work feel like the program was made for them. Not for the press release. Not for the sponsors. For them. Everything else follows from that.
Signal over noise.
The job isn't to assemble the loudest names. It's to find the people doing the most consequential work and put them in the same room before everyone else figures out they should. Curation is the product.
Build for the second year.
The best event lines aren't built on big budgets. They're built on repeatable systems that turn one-time attendees into people who refer their friends, return as sponsors, and bring their employer with them.