Name: 🧠 Scaling AI That Works: Real-World Architectures & Success Stories
Start: 2025-06-18T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-06-18T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Intuit Bldg 6, 2750 Coast Ave

**Silicon Valley AI Think Tank Presents:**

🧠 **Scaling AI That Works:** Real-World Architectures & Success Stories

📍 June 18\, 2025 \| 5:30–8:30 PM \| Intuit Building 6\, Cook Campus Center \| 2750 Coast Ave\, Mountain View

AI isn't magic. It’s infrastructure. It’s culture. It’s architecture.
And if you’ve ever hit a wall going from pilot to production, you’re not alone.

Join us in the heart of Silicon Valley for an evening of Connections, Empowerment, and Wisdom. From Fortune 500s to nimble startups, we’re gathering those who’ve cracked the code—and those hungry to learn how.

🔧 **What to Expect:**

* Real-world architectures deployed at scale
* Strategic frameworks that align AI with business outcomes
* Interactive exercises to connect thinking with doing
* An elite lineup of speakers shaping the AI frontier

Whether you’re building, managing, stewarding or learning about AI systems, this is your space to learn, connect, and grow with others committed to a future that works—for everyone.

🍷 Free entry. Free food. Infinite insights.
Come ready to expand your thinking, build meaningful alliances, and co-create the future of intelligent systems.

💥 RSVP now. Spaces are limited.

💡 Brought to you by Silicon Valley AI Think Tank / [AI Quick Byte](https://aiquickbytes.beehiiv.com)s – Guiding the future of AI to unlock human potential.

**Meetup Agenda:**
5:30 - 6:00 PM Registration, Food, Drink, Refreshments
6:00 - 6:10 PM Welcome & Introductions - Rob Franklin
6:10 - 6:30 PM Member Introductions - What do you hope to learn tonight ?
6:30 - 6:55 PM TBD - From Zero to Foundation Mode, John Kanalakis, Head of AI/ML, Infactory
6:55 - 7:15 Interactive Exercise
7:15 - 7:40 TBD - Scaling AI That Works, Darius Emrani, CEO, Scorecard
7:40 - 7:50 PM - Sponsor
7:50 - 8:15 PM - Old-school PMO. New-school AI. This is the bridge, Robert Franklin, Founder, Silicon Valley AI Think Tank
8:15 - 8:30 Minute - Wrap Up - Thank You's - Rob Franklin

**Presentation Overviews**

**John Kanalakis**, Head of AI/ML, Infactory

🚀 **From Zero to Foundation Model:** Scaling AI on a Startup Budget
Think building a foundation model is only for Big Tech? Think again. John Kanalakis, shares how he’s architecting a scalable AI system on a lean budget—with nothing but ingenuity, 20+ GPUs, and a whole lot of strategy. Discover how he secured cloud resources, generated synthetic data, and broke the build-train-evaluate cycle into tactical, fundable phases.

This talk is a must for builders, founders, and engineers who want to punch above their weight and ship real AI products—without the burn. Learn how to scale with brains over budgets.

**Darius Emrani**, CEO, Scorecard

🔥 **Scaling AI That Works:** From Simulation to Real-World Reliability
Join us for a rare behind-the-scenes look at how cutting-edge startups are cracking one of the biggest challenges in AI today: building reliable systems that actually perform in the wild. Darius Emrani, former Waymo engineer and co-founder of Scorecard, will reveal how his team is bringing self-driving car-grade simulation and evaluation tools to the world of LLMs and enterprise AI. If you've ever shipped a model only to wait weeks for bug reports—or worse, silence—this is the talk for you.

Learn how industry leaders are using simulation-based evals to prevent AI hallucinations, reduce risk, and accelerate time to trust. Whether you're an engineer, PM, or tech leader, you'll walk away with a smarter playbook for shipping AI that works—not just in the lab, but in the hands of your users. Don’t miss it.

**Robert Franklin,** Founder, Silicon Valley AI Think Tank
**Old-school PMO. New-school AI: This is the bridge**
What do you get when you mix deep enterprise PMO discipline with bleeding-edge AI ops? You get Robert Franklin’s roadmap for AI success. This isn’t theory. This is the real framework being used inside financial giants, scaleups, and product orgs to operationalize AI responsibly — and at speed.

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