gatherings. hackathon →
session 001 · the builders' table

An evening
for the people
building AI in Milan.

Twenty seats. One long table. A guest from the frontier, a room of builders, and a conversation that doesn't fit on a stage.

~/gatherings/session-001/manifest.txt
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> date tuesday  ·  10 june 2026
> time 19:30 — 22:00
> venue natura inc.  ·  milan
> seats 20  ·  hand-seated  ·  waitlist thereafter
> guest to be announced  ·  one week before
> language english
> dress come as you build
> price free  ·  application required

There is no place in Milan where Italian AI engineers, founders, and visiting builders from San Francisco actually meet — not at a panel, not at a logo-on-stage conference, but at a real table with real food and a real conversation.

So we're making one.

// who shows up

A hand-mixed room of engineers, founders, and researchers shipping AI between Milan and the Bay.

→engineers shipping agents in production
→founders of SV-backed Italian AI startups
→researchers home from FAIR Paris, DeepMind, Stanford
→visiting builders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Mistral
$ ls ./network/
anthropic openai stanford deepmind fair-paris meta-fair cursor mistral inception poolside elevenlabs black-forest-labs y-combinator lightning-ai magicpath bending-spoons indigo domyn italian-founders-fund
// about the guest

Each gathering is anchored by a guest — founders shipping at frontier labs, researchers passing through from California, people whose work the room already respects. The guest for session 001 will be announced one week before.

> tip: applications opened with “what are you building right now?” tend to land harder.
$ apply for a seat →

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