Dinner & Debate: Build or Buy in the AI Age
🍽️ Dinner & Debate: Build or Buy in the AI Age
An invite-only evening of good food, sharper hot takes, and actionable AI strategy from AI founders themselves.
When & where
July 10, 2025 | 6 – 9 PM • Location is revealed to guests once confirmed.
6-7:30PM - Cocktails + sushi flowing 🍣 🍸
7:30-8:30PM - Main panel talk + Hot takes
8:30-9PM - Breakout huddles
Feel free to stay a while afterwards to chat and mingle.
What to expect
In a market where tooling updates every week and budgets tighten every quarter, the classic Build-versus-Buy debate has never been hotter—especially for leaders tasked with shipping reliable AI products and keeping internal teams efficient. Over dinner and drinks, four founder-operators will trade playbooks and spicy opinions on:
Trends they’re seeing as enterprises wrestle with build/buy choices in the pre-AI and post-AI era
How to spot a vendor who will still be around (and affordable) in three years
Turning a vibe-coded prototype into a reliable production-grade system
Which AI tools can genuinely cut dev cycles in half
Worst advice they ever got about building with AI
You’ll leave with concrete frameworks, tool recommendations, and new founder-level contacts you can tap the next time your roadmap hinges on make-or-buy.
Panel Guests
Raunak Chowdhuri – CTO, Reducto
Daksh Gupta – CEO, Greptile
Wei-Wei Wu – CEO, Momentic
Ben Hylak – CTO, Raindrop AI
Who should attend: Anyone technical who is curious about or steering AI adoption at companies from Series A to Fortune 500.
How to join
Apply via our Luma page — limited capacity available. Make sure to RSVP!