Tech Leaders Fine Dining Series: Ernest (SF) Edition

Fourteen seats. One table. No stage, no slides, no pitches.
A private dinner for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and founder-CEOs who are building and scaling engineering teams right now. The room is capped at 14 and approval-required for one reason: small enough to be candid, senior enough to be worth it. What's actually working in AI-era engineering orgs, hiring and scaling under pressure, the trade-offs nobody puts in a blog post — the conversation you can't get at a conference.
The table happens to be one of the best in San Francisco. Ernest is chef Brandon Rice's Mission District supper club — live-fire Californian cooking with Japanese influence from a 2026 James Beard Award semifinalist (Best Chef: California) and Rich Table alum. The Infatuation rates it a 9.0 "Best of the Best" and calls it "one of the most exciting places to have dinner in SF." Dinner and drinks are on us.
The Tech Leaders Fine Dining Series is a set of curated, high-trust gatherings for technical leaders across North America — small rooms, elevated settings, real conversations. In an AI-saturated landscape, human connection is the premium asset.
Presented in partnership with Founder's Bay, You.com, and the AI Collective.
Request your seat — once the table's full, it's full.