AI x Hardware Engineering Dinner 🍽️

Building Robust Data Pipelines for Physical Product Development

About the Dinner Event

AI in hardware engineering is notoriously challenging to execute effectively. We’re bringing together Bay Area CAE engineers and hardware leaders to move past the hype and discuss the critical infrastructure that makes AI for physics actually work.

Still treating simulation data like a collection of files? We’ll be discussing the specific data governance, lineage, and reusability frameworks that separate AI-curious teams from AI-enabled competitors.

The Schedule

• 5:00 PM: Welcome & Casual Networking

Open discussion topics:

• Building Robust Data Pipelines

• Breaking the "File Server Trap"

• Overcoming the "Data Janitor" Trap

• Scaling Beyond Proof-of-Concepts

• 7:00 PM: Event Wrap-up

No product pitches or demonstrations.

Why Attend?

In the engineering world, "bad data" is rarely obvious; it’s often sneakier—simulation results separated from setup details or historical data locked in closed formats. This workshop focuses on topics such as:

• Breaking the "File Server Trap": Moving from fragile folder paths to queryable metadata.
• Scaling Beyond Proof-of-Concepts: How to build production-grade pipelines that don't collapse when they leave a laptop.

The format of the meeting is casual, and we talk over a nice dinner. The number of participants is capped at 10 to keep the discussion organized and to provide a valuable networking opportunity.

Details

• Location: Il Fornaio, Mountain View, California
• Food: Dinner and beverages provided by our hosts at Simr
• Capacity: Limited to maintain high-signal conversations.