Monday, August 17, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Miami GILD AI Forum x Tecla: AI and Engineering Leaders Dinner
About this event
A small, curated dinner in Coral Gables where CTOs, VPs of engineering, and heads of AI compare notes on building and scaling AI inside their companies. Opens with a practitioner talk, then breaks into open discussion.
The GILD AI Forum is deliberately not a conference or a panel. It gathers a small room of senior technical leaders for candid conversation about what is actually working when shipping AI, what is not, and the architectures and tradeoffs behind those calls.
Each forum opens with a Conversation Starter, a practitioner describing what their team is building with AI, followed by open questions. The room then breaks into smaller discussions where every attendee is expected to contribute from their own experience. The organisers explicitly rule out pitches and performative networking.
The Conversation Starter for this session is Alex de Aranzeta, a former startup founder, advisor, ex-regulator, and compliance leader who now leads data and AI governance policy at Boeing. She previously hosted The Culture of Machines, a responsible AI podcast, and has spoken at Georgia Tech and the Women in Product Conference.
The session is presented in partnership with Tecla Labs. Attendance is aimed at senior technical leaders, and the exact Coral Gables venue is shared with confirmed guests after approval.
Organized by
Organizers of the GILD AI Forum, a small-format dinner series convening CTOs, VPs of engineering, and heads of AI for candid discussion of what is actually working inside their companies. Runs a Miami and Coral Gables chapter.