Seattle VC Roast & Comedy Night

We're back at Pioneer Square Labs, timed to the Art Walk right after. Three short talks, a panel, and drinks on us. Ana Marini is an education-focused product designer who's been building Lumi, a personal language-learning project, with AI as a design partner. She'll walk through the messy middle of that: what actually happens to your thinking, your judgment, and your creative process when AI becomes part of how you learn and make. Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent is a design engineering leader who has spent fifteen years building design systems at Shopify, Salesforce, Intuit, and the Financial Times, and co-chairs the W3C Design Tokens Community Group. He'll show how Claude Design, Claude Code, Storybook, and Playwright combine into one agentic workflow that revamps a product's UI from head to toe, design system included, walking through the OpenID Foundation's Conformance Test Suite redesign from user research to the shipped UI. Shuyuan (Sylvia) Ding is a product designer at PenChecks Trust who spent this year going from designer to design engineer, owning both the design and the implementation. She's built a component end to end the way that job works now; AI, engineering collaboration, and QA feedback all in the loop, set against the old model of a detailed handoff and stepping away. Then we open it up. Madison Joslyn moderates a panel with all three presenters, built on your questions. Bring some. Want to present at a future Volume? Get in touch.

Explore the psychology behind AI and its influence on human judgment with Seattle University Marketing Professor Mathew Isaac, Ph.D.

Join us for an evening at Stoup Brewing. We'll welcome back old faces and welcome new ones. This is an informal format -- feel free to bring a laptop if you want and work on projects or use this event as an opportunity to catch up and meet new people. Stoup serves mainly beer and some cider, hard seltzer, slushies and a selection of non-alcoholic beverages including coffee. They also welcome you to bring in your own food if you want. All attendees are required to abide by the PuPPy Code of Conduct, you can read the Code of Conduct here: https://www.pspython.com/code-of-conduct/ Join our slack channel: http://slack.pspython.com

Join us for the first Grok Bot meetup in Seattle! Grok Bot Seattle is part of a Grok Bot meetup series in coming weeks. It's a workshop and a meetup in one evening: first we'll explain Grok Bot and set it up hands-on together, then builders will demo their own Grok bot setups and templates. You will: Learn what Grok Bot is and how it works in a hands-on workshop Set up and build your own bot with Grok See live demos of real Grok bot setups and templates from other builders Get credits to follow along. Bring a laptop! Who is this for? Engineers, PMs, designers, builders, founders, architects, teachers — anyone who wants to learn how to build bots with Grok is welcome. 🎫 Entry is free — bring your curiosity and good vibes! 🗓️ Event Agenda 6:00 - 6:30PM: Doors Open + Food / Drinks Part 1: Workshop 6:30 - 7:45PM: Grok Bot explained + hands-on setup workshop Part 2: Meetup 7:45 - 8:30PM: Demos: Grok bot setups and templates from the community 8:30 - 9:00PM: Open Networking Running order may change slightly as we approach the event date 🎤 Want to show your Grok bot setup? ➡️ Apply here We are looking for builders to walk through their Grok bot setups, templates and workflows. No product pitches, just show how it works. By registering or attending this event, you consent for the hosts and its affiliates to use your name, image, and likeness in any marketing related to the event. This consent includes, without limitation, an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable, non-transferable license to use any photographs or video recording on you taken while in attendance at the event. You also consent to receiving emails from the event hosts.