Event concept
We shape the theme, angle, and guest list so the night has a clear point of view.
What is coming up
Rooms we are running next.
Sun, Oct 11 · San Francisco, CAAfter Abundance: What Makes AI Content Worth Making
Founder panel · Creator showcase · Open meetup · #SFTechWeek
Thu, Oct 29 · San Francisco, CAAgentic AI Day: From Models to Systems That Act
10 Demos · Keynote · Panel · 80 people in the room
Already hosted
Past events.
- Sep 24, 2026Recap
AI Product GTM Session
San FranciscoA small, hands-on GTM evening for early-stage founders and growth operators — three lightning talks on paid ads, press, and cold outreach, then a one-hour workshop with Unify. Supported by AWS.
- Sep 12, 2026Event page
AI Infra Signal
Sunnyvale · 100 in the roomOpenStages designed, curated, and ran a 100-person flagship room for the people who build, operate, and monetize the AI stack — an application-only afternoon in Sunnyvale where GPU economics, inference, agents, and enterprise adoption were argued by the investors, researchers, engineers, and operators who each own a different part of the answer.
- Aug 26, 2026Case study
Scaling Beyond the Founder
San Francisco · 116 in the roomGTM Series No. 2 put 116 founders and operators in a closed San Francisco room with four operators who had already taken a product past its first ten customers. One question all night: once founder-led sales stops scaling, what actually decides the next stage — the channels you pick, the budget you commit, and the price you charge. Cohosted with Numix.
- Aug 6, 2026Case study
AI Tech Salon Night
Redwood City · 106 in the roomAI Tech Salon Night put ten AI-native companies in front of a screened room of 106 researchers, founders, and investors in Redwood City — three minutes each, across creative media, AI infrastructure, human-centered AI, and enterprise AI. Cohosted with Inference.ai.
- Jul 31, 2026Case study
Beyond Founder-Led Sales
San Francisco · 150 in the roomBeyond Founder-Led Sales put 150 founders in a closed San Francisco room with four GTM operators to work through stuck deals, pricing, channel math, and the handoff past founder-led sales. Closed-door by design, so the panel could talk about what had not worked.
Want one of your own?
Everything the night needs, handled with you.
Speaker curation
We bring credible founder and operator voices matched to your audience and topic.
Moderation
We run the room — firesides, panels, and salons that stay honest, not performative.
Invite strategy
We help you get the right people through the door, not just a big RSVP list.
Content capture
We turn what's said into recaps, clips, and Startup Stories that help the right follow-ups happen after the night.
Logistics
Venue, format, and run-of-show — we help make the evening feel effortless.
In their words
What audiences and partners say.
Public reflections from people in the room, alongside the outcomes partners took away from it. Linked cards open the original post.
Audiencein
“The power of unexpected conversion channels — like placing a physical letter with a QR code inside Amazon packages — really stayed with me.”
Alisha Cheng · Event attendee
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“Repeatable GTM is not simply more outbound. It starts with a tighter ICP, clearer deal signals, and a motion the team can run without sacrificing conversion or margins.”
Jake Z · Event attendee
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“OpenStages converted 30% of the people we met through the room into our startup program.”
GMI Cloud · Ecosystem partner
Partner
“Through OpenStages, we met a strong group of AI researchers we would not have reached through a typical founder event.”
Beta Fund · Investment partner
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