Sunday, June 21, 2026
I'm working on one of my favorite parts of running Rally: lining up presenters for our Speaker Series. The talks so far have covered a lot of ground, from AI infrastructure to agentic systems design to benchmarks for human flourishing.
If there's something you've been building or thinking about that you'd want to share, or you know someone who would be a great fit, I'd love to hear about it.
Luke Bechtel's talk on designing agent systems is now up on our YouTube channel, and if you're working with agents, it's well worth your time.
See you tomorrow at Builders Night, and on Tuesday at Claude Code Demos: Building the State of the Art.
- Lee
Coming up at Rally
Builders Night
2026-06-22 · 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
A weekly coworking session where builders show up with projects and work side by side through focused sprints and share-backs. The antidote to solo building: momentum, accountability, and the particular energy of making things real alongside others.
Claude Code Demos: Building the State of the Art
2026-06-23 · 6:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Most builders using Claude Code, Cursor, or custom agents are figuring out workflows in isolation. BSOTA fixes that. You'll see live walkthroughs of real setups from active users.
Around SF this week
Monday, Jun 22, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Sridhar Ramaswamy brings 15 years of Google leadership and Neeva's founding directly into conversation about Snowflake's AI direction.
Wednesday, Jun 24, 5:15 PM - 7:45 PM
A hands-on lab on shipping faster with OpenAI's Codex, led by OpenAI services partner Eliza. Bring a laptop with Codex and credits.
Wednesday, Jun 24, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A Config-week design night from Harvey and Decagon for designers, researchers, and AI product builders. Currently full, with a waitlist open.
Wednesday, Jun 24, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
LangChain's Ben Tannyhill demos LangSmith Engine, an agent that reads your traces, spots failure patterns, and suggests fixes.
Thursday, Jun 25, 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
What does software engineering become when AI writes the code? A panel with super{set}'s Vivek Vaidya, NVIDIA's Mochamad Asri, and Ketch's Kimber Robbins.
Thursday, Jun 25, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Six hand-picked AI founders pitch their boldest ideas to investors and the Bay's sharpest operators, with the crowd voting for champions live. Sharp demos, expert judges, and real momentum on the line.
Thursday, Jun 25, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Women shipping production AI agents share talks and demos, with DevRel leads from Temporal, Render, Telnyx, and Nooks. Open networking after.
Friday, Jun 26, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Voaige, a neuroscience-meets-AI lab, on getting more from frozen models at inference. They say their test-time methods pushed GPT-5.2 past GPT-5.4-level performance.
Friday, Jun 26, 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Engineers from MongoDB, Voyage AI, Tavily, and Mastra on context engineering for long-horizon agents, then co-working. Panel plus build time, food and drinks.