🌟 The Ai Salon Community Newsletter
April events, announcing our Berlin chapter, and more 🌟
Dear Ai Salon community,
The Ai Salon has a busy April ahead! We’re excited to share upcoming events, new chapter updates and ways for you to get involved:
📅 Upcoming Events
Ai Salon Symposium: The Last Shall Be First — Africa’s Practical Path to Leading the AI Revolution [Nigeria] | April 4, 4:00pm. What if Africa’s greatest challenges are actually its strongest assets in the AI age? Join this first Ai Salon Symposium in Nigeria to discuss how we might turn historic disadvantages into a blueprint for AI leadership.
Ai Salon: The future of software engineering [SF] | April 10, 5:30pm. AI is changing how we architect, code, and debug – the very essence of software creation itself. In this salon, we will dive into the realities facing software engineers in the face of coding agents and automated development tools.
Ai Salon: The Anime Series #1 [SF] | April 12, 5pm. What can anime teach us about this technological moment? This is the first event in a new series that will examine how anime allows for imaginative storytelling that provides unique insights into our AI future.
Ai Salon: Mother Earth [SF] | April 14, 5pm. AI is often framed as a solution to climate change — but it is deeply entangled in environmental harm. Join this conversation in the lead up to SF Climate Week to explore how we might balance the innate, natural intelligence of the Earth with the artificial.
🌐 Ai Salon Updates – We’re excited to share that The Ai Salon is now live in Berlin! The Ai Salon Berlin held its first event on Friday night about AI x Love & Relationships. Look out for events in Berlin and our other 6 chapter cities on our regular calendar.
💫 Host Highlight This month, we're featuring The Ai Salon Vancouver Chapter Lead Mikhail Klassen, who is an AI engineer at Planet Labs and a crucial part of the Ai Salon team. Learn about why Mikhail joined The Ai Salon below and connect with him on X.
🤔 Continuing the Conversation We believe in the power of continuing the conversation, even after the salon finishes. These resources have been hand-picked to help facilitate reflection after our past events:
💭 Our HumanX AI Salon sessions explored how AI will reshape work, governance, and our future. Couldn’t make it to HumanX? Don’t worry - read our summary insight report of the conversations.
“How Software Engineers Actually Use AI” in WIRED - Go deeper into how AI is transforming software engineering before or after our Ai Salon on the future of software engineering on April 10.
Don’t forget to:
💬 Join our Whatsapp group for events and real-time connection
📖 Can’t make it to a salon? No worries – we’ll be publishing summaries of our conversation right here on the Ai Salon Archive.
🗓️ Follow the Ai Salon calendar for upcoming events
Interested in launching an Ai Salon chapter in your city or leading a conversation? Let us know by filling out this form - we’d love to hear from you.
Best,
The Ai Salon Team