Invitation-only. No vendors on the floor. No recruiters. No observers. If you run AI systems in production and can talk about what broke last quarter, this is your room.
City-based groups of 20-30 operators. Monthly working sessions on a real production problem one member brings in. Chatham House rule, so people can be honest about what actually happened.
Long-form pieces from operators inside DataCaffe and across the community. No product marketing. No aggregation. No filler. We miss a month before we ship filler.
Every quarter, five members publish something they built or broke in production. Long-form, uncredited if requested. The pieces you can't find in vendor blogs because the vendor is the villain in the story.
Small, opinionated tools we open-source from our own product engineering — evaluation harnesses, lineage exporters, incident templates. The kind of thing you'd otherwise write badly on a Sunday.
Not the marketing kind. Three lightning talks. Hard Q&A. Working groups after where nobody is selling anything. We run ten of these a year across APAC, EMEA, and North America.
