Platforms for the AI Era

Platforms for the AI Era is a Platform Engineering AI Meetup landing in Silicon Valley with corporate co-hosts Nutanix, Mirantis, and Nirmata. The room targets platform, cloud-native, and AI-infrastructure practitioners: internal developer platforms, distributed inference, resilience patterns, and production stories rather than a generic founder happy hour.

Thursday, August 27, 2026, 5:30-8:30 PM PDT at Nutanix, 1740 Technology Drive, San Jose (Room 120-Cranium on the Luma listing). Capacity is capped at about 110 confirmed invites; complimentary food, drinks, and swag are listed. RSVP on Luma and expect host approval or confirmation limits.

Go if you build or run platforms that ship AI workloads and want South Bay engineering density the same evening as Step SF’s Midway day. Skip if you need investor matchmaking floors or pan-Asian membership socials. Same-night ACG SV C-Circle in Palo Alto is a deal-community graph; this is a builder room.

Bring a concrete platform or inference problem, not a pitch deck. Confirm building access instructions in the Luma confirmation before Technology Drive evening traffic.