TiE Silicon Valley Off the Record: Adding AI to Your Product

Off the Record is TiE Silicon Valley’s candid practitioner series. The Wednesday, October 14, 2026 edition runs 5:30 to 7:30 PM PDT at the TiE SV office, 480 South California Ave, Suite 201 in Palo Alto, with hybrid seats for remote guests. The session title is Adding AI to Your Product: What Worked, What Flopped. Featured voices on the live listing include Anthony Maggio, Chief Product Officer at Runway and formerly CPO at Airtable, and Stef Corazza, Head of AI Research at Canva. Curators Smita Hashim and Shivani Govil keep the Chatham House Rule format: nothing recorded, nothing attributed, so the room can stay frank.

The agenda is networking and snacks from 5:30 to 6:00, moderated conversation from 6:00 to 6:45, open Q&A from 6:45 to 7:15, then closing networking from 7:15 to 7:30. In-person seats in Suite 201 are limited; remote guests join by live video with interactive Q&A. Where Funding Fridays is deal-flow theater, Off the Record is the chapter’s conversation format: operators and founders trading what stuck and what got rolled back without a pitch stack. That is useful when you want peer density on AI product adoption rather than a fundraising ask this week.

This is right for TiE members and aligned AI product and research operators who can bring a real implementation question about retention, feature rollback, or creative-tool workflows. Skip it if you need investor meetings or a public gala. Confirm hybrid versus in-person before you commute down 101, and treat the 5:30 block as the soft open so you are seated before 6:00. Parking near California Avenue tightens after 5:00 PM; remote guests should test login early.

If you are choosing between this night and October Funding Fridays two days later, stay here for practitioner conversation and use Funding Fridays for curated 1:1 VC time. RSVP on tiesv.ai and re-check speaker notes closer to October 14 if the chapter swaps a featured voice. Leave the fundraising deck at home unless someone asks for a follow-up after Q&A.