Reframing AI Dev as a scalable, revenue-generating platform at the center of the AI builder ecosystem — and a category waiting to be owned.
Treat AI Dev like a product, not a project. The event is the artifact; the business is the system around it.
Within three years, AI Dev becomes the default place where developers learn, ship, and launch — and the most important convening in the category.
The major events serve research, theory, and platform launches. None of them serve the people actually shipping.
Sharp ICP. Sharp value prop. Everything else flows from this.
Three streams. One compounding platform. Built for recurring revenue, not one-off events.
The conference for AI builders should itself be operated with AI. Lean team. Higher output. Scalable globally.
AI-driven segmentation across the builder community. Personalized outreach by role, stack, and shipping stage — not generic email blasts.
Identify emerging voices through GitHub, papers, podcasts, and product launches. The next great speaker isn't on a list — they're shipping right now.
AI-assisted track design based on registration signals, survey data, and topic momentum. Build the agenda the audience is actually asking for.
Live engagement dashboards. Lead capture and attribution at the booth. Sponsors see ROI during the event, which is how renewals happen.
AI handles comms, schedule changes, attendee Q&A, vendor coordination. Production team focuses on the moments AI can't.
Every session becomes searchable, summarized, clipped, and distributed. The event ships content for twelve months — not just three days.
The format is the differentiator. Builders pay for environments where they leave with something working — not a notebook full of quotes.
Phases on top. The operating system underneath is what makes them possible.
Multi-event partnerships. Renewals, not cold pitches.
A bench of builders, not one-off outreach.
Documented model. Same system, different city.
Less talking. More framing, structuring, and pricing. The first ninety days are about getting the operating system on paper.