Off the Record: AI in Marketing

TiE Silicon Valley’s November Off the Record lands Wednesday, November 11, 2026, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at 480 South California Avenue, Suite 201, in Palo Alto, with a live Zoom option. Snacks start at 5:30. The conversation is scheduled about 6:00 to 6:45, then open Q&A and a short mix-out. Register on the Luma link from the TiE page. In-person seats are capped. Chatham House Rule applies: no recording, no naming who said what. Come ready to listen without a quote-ready Slack thread.

TiE Silicon Valley is the Indus-entrepreneur chapter that has run founder and operator programming on the Peninsula for years. This session puts Azul Systems CMO Andrew Savitz and Shield AI CMO Chandra Rangan across from curators Smita Hashim (Disruptive Ventures; formerly Zoom CPO) and Shivani Govil (McKinsey). The brief is blunt: where marketing teams are actually getting ROI from AI, and where they are wasting cycles. It is a working conversation, not a pitch night, and it is separate from TiE’s invitation-only Angels Office Hours later in November.

Founders, marketing leads, and operators who want CMO-level candor will get the most from the room. If you only needed a courthouse brown-bag or a Saturday philanthropy gala, pick those instead. Zoom works for Q&A; the hallway intros still favor people who make Suite 201 by 5:30.

South California Avenue is walkable from downtown Palo Alto transit with a short stroll. Confirm the suite on your Luma ticket. If the in-person list fills, take Zoom rather than showing up cold.