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On the sidelines of AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026, Infinum co-hosted an invite-only AI Leaders Dinner. Over 100 guests came together for an evening away from the conference floor – and a reminder that behind every AI product, there’s a human reason it exists.
San Francisco is the epicenter of the AI industry, and it was hard to miss that energy last week. Fresh off AI Engineer World’s Fair, the city was thick with founders chasing the next breakthrough – some building genuinely transformative products, others still finding their footing, all of them inspiring.
James Cole, CEO of Infinum North America, sees the Fair as an opportunity to learn, but also a strong signal of where the industry and world is headed. We’re shaping Infinum to best support clients with their AI transformation efforts – helping redefine their processes from the ground and upskilling their internal teams to best utilize these advancements in technology.
As Infinum evolves our service offering for this new chapter, our focus is on helping companies build great digital solutions, and providing consulting and strategy to drive their AI transformation.
JAMES COLE CEO, INFINUM NORTH AMERICA
Two days into the Fair, we stepped off the Expo floor and into Taksim SF for an evening of good food, drinks, and talk. Infinum co-hosted the AI Leaders Dinner alongside Daytona, Aikido Security, Coder, and Arize. Over 100 guests gathered for a night built around conversation rather than a slide deck.
Over 100 guests came together for an evening away from the conference floor.
Talk ranged widely – the conference, shared projects, the latest trends in AI: what enterprises actually need to move AI from pilot to production, or the ever-present question of managing token costs at scale.
For Adam Kurzawa, Head of Strategic Growth, North America at Infinum, the dinner conversation kept returning to something the Expo floor rarely makes room for.
It’s the ‘why’, and even more importantly, the ‘who’ we’re all building these products for, that shows the underlying humanity of our work – a fact that too often gets lost in the haze of regular AI discourse.
ADAM KURZAWA HEAD OF STRATEGIC GROWTH, INFINUM NORTH AMERICA
Evenings like this one are a reminder that behind the noise of a city full of pitch decks and product launches, the AI conversation is still, fundamentally, a human one – about who these tools are really for, and what it takes to build them responsibly.
Those are the conversations worth having again.
Same format, different skyline – see you this fall somewhere new.
