Hey, Dmitry Spodarets here, editor-in-chief of Data Phoenix. It's been a while since we published an event digest, and I'm excited to bring it back. We're relaunching our events in three new show formats: Tech Talks (weekly deep dives into technologies under the hood), Demo Stage (weekly live product demos from founders and engineers), and Research Talks (monthly sessions where researchers present their latest papers live). On top of that, DataPhoenix now supports tech events across the Bay Area with professional live streaming and video production.
🔴 Quick note: DataPhoenix is beta-testing live streaming for select events. Stream availability depends on venue internet. When streaming is live, you'll find it at dataphoenix.info/live.
Here's what's on the DataPhoenix radar for April and early May.
🎤 Organized by DataPhoenix
From Black Box to Trusted Systems: Explainable AI for Enterprise and Government with 3A Agents
📅 April 16, 2026 | 📍 Virtual (Online)
DataPhoenix hosts a session on one of the most pressing challenges in enterprise and government AI: making powerful models transparent and trustworthy. Speaker D. R. Sara, founder and CEO of Vidamonti, will introduce the 3A Agent framework (Agentic, Adaptive, and Autonomous) designed to embed explainability and governance directly into AI decision systems. If you work with AI in regulated or mission-critical environments, this talk offers practical strategies for aligning intelligent systems with compliance requirements.
Your AI Agent Isn't Crashing. It's Bleeding Tokens.
📅 April 30, 2026 | 📍 Virtual (Online)
DataPhoenix presents a hands-on technical session with Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Developer Advocate and AI agent specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), tackling the three silent failure modes that kill production AI agents: context window overflow, hanging MCP tools, and reasoning loops. Each fix comes with a live demo showing before-and-after metrics, and all code is open source and framework-agnostic. If you're shipping AI agents and noticing unexplained token burn or mysterious slowdowns, this one's for you.
🎥 Supported by DataPhoenix
Built Here. Built for What's Next: College Student & Grads Pitch Night & Industry Insider Panel, The AI Collective × Startup Tri-Valley
📅 April 22, 2026 | 📍 Dublin, California 👥 Organized by: The AI Collective · Hosted by Jessie Chen and Yolanda Fintschenko
College student founders and recent grads building with AI take the stage to pitch viable product ideas, get real-time feedback from judges, and compete for cash prizes. This event brings together aspiring builders, mentors, operators, and investors supporting the next generation of founders. DataPhoenix will be on-site with video and photo coverage. Live stream availability depends on venue connectivity, follow DataPhoenix for updates.
SF | Claude for Technical Founders
📅 April 27, 2026 | 📍 San Francisco, California 👥 Organized by: The AI Collective & G2C Ventures · Sponsored by Anthropic · Hosted by Vik Ghai, Sunil Grover and Amar Chokhawala
A curated evening for developers and technical founders building with Claude. Expect hands-on time with Claude, opportunities to meet co-founders and collaborators, and invite-only office hours with G2C Ventures on founder-market fit and seed readiness. DataPhoenix will be on-site with video coverage. Live stream availability depends on venue connectivity, follow DataPhoenix for updates.
Raisable: Invite-Only VC × Founders Pitch Night at SVB
📅 April 30, 2026 | 📍 Silicon Valley Bank HQ, 222 2nd St (17th floor), San Francisco 👥 Organized by: Raisable · Hosted by Vasyl Dub , Maria K. & Dmytro Shevchenko
An invite-only evening of curated startup pitches, a live VC panel on AI startup fundraising trends in 2026, and real introductions at Silicon Valley Bank's iconic 17th-floor office in SoMa. The panel features Manan Mehta (Unshackled Ventures) and Lu Zhang (Fusion Fund), followed by 10 founders pitching in 2-minute rounds. Timed during Startup Grind Week and Stripe Sessions Week. DataPhoenix will be on-site with video and photo coverage. Live stream availability depends on venue connectivity, follow DataPhoenix for updates.
AI INFRA SUMMIT 5
📅 May 1, 2026 | 📍 Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, California 👥 Organized by: IgniteGTM · Hosted by Bill Barry
The fifth edition of AI INFRA SUMMIT brings together founders, operators, VCs, and infrastructure leaders powering the world's AI factories, data centers, and agentic systems. Expect visionary keynotes, technical deep dives into hardware and software intersections and GPU scaling, operational playbooks from hyperscalers, and live startup demos. DataPhoenix is a featured partner and will be on-site with video and live streaming coverage. We have a limited number of Builders Passes for qualified builders actively working in AI. Apply through our link below.
🤝 Partner Events
Small Models Club Dinner by Distil Labs
📅 April 14, 2026 | 📍 Private dining room, San Francisco 👥 Organized by: Catalyst Bay · Hosted by Selim Nowicki, Jacek Golebiowski Yurii Filipchuk
An intimate, off-the-record dinner for AI infrastructure leaders working in inference optimization, model distillation, and on-device deployment. Hosted by Distil Labs, whose platform trains task-specific small language models from as few as 10 examples, matching frontier model accuracy at 10 to 100× lower inference cost. No presentations, just candid conversation over dinner and drinks. Recommended by DataPhoenix for anyone deep in the SLM and inference optimization space.
Looking for professional event coverage? KROK PRODUCTIONS by Data Phoenix provides photo, video, and live streaming production for tech events across the San Francisco Bay Area. From speaker recordings and highlight reels to real-time streaming for remote audiences, the team has you covered. Have an event coming up? Get in touch to discuss coverage.
That's the April to May lineup. Subscribe to the DataPhoenix calendar on Luma so you don't miss new events. See you at the events!
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