Night 01
Airplane Mode
Build something with an AI model that runs on your own laptop. You won’t need an API key or a cloud account.
- when
- Thu, Dec 10, 2026, 6–9pm
- where
- New York, venue soon
- format
- Build night
- topic
- Local AI
- rule
- Demos run with wifi off.
- cost
- Free
Bring
- A laptop and charger
- A local model, downloaded at home (we send a setup note)
- If your laptop can’t run one, you’ll pair up with someone whose laptop can
The night
- Doors open, setup help
- Small tables: say what you can help with and what you need
- Intro to the topic, then pair up
- Build
- Two-minute demos
- Next date, then hang out
- Doors close
Someone helps you get a model running, and your table works out who can help with what. Most of the evening is building. At 8:15 the wifi goes off and people show what they made, two minutes each.
A local model works offline and keeps your data on your laptop.
Starter ideas
Ask questions about your own notes
Generate images on your laptop
Caption a video offline
Not an engineer?
Come anyway. You’ll pair up with someone who codes, and you don’t need to write a line.
Designers
Work out what it should do and how it should feel.
Product people
Pick the problem and keep the scope small enough to finish in one evening.
Writers
Try to break it, then tell its story in the demo.