Most AI conversations still happen at demo stage, where everything works and nobody has had to explain a failed deployment to a customer. The harder and more useful conversations start once a product leaves the lab, when hardware limits begin deciding what a team can ship and failures in production get quieter and more expensive. This October, Techscaler is opening seats at two sessions with Cloud Combinator and AWS built around that moment, one for founders taking Edge AI and robotics into the real world and one for technical leaders running AI inside live software.
Edge AI & Robotics: A Technical Breakfast with AWS
Techscaler and CodeBase are teaming up with Cloud Combinator, with support from AWS, to host a practitioner-level breakfast for a small group of founders and technical leaders building at the intersection of AI and the physical world.
Why it matters for founders
Building AI that interacts with the physical world means solving problems a cloud-only product rarely meets, and they tend to arrive together when a pilot starts to scale. The gathering gives you direct access to AWS Edge AI specialist Chris Wood and Cloud Combinator's engineering team, with discussion covering on-device inference, model optimisation, hardware trade-offs, fleet deployment, observability, device lifecycle and sim-to-real, alongside the technical and funding support available through AWS. It's a room where you can bring the exact problem your team is stuck on and hear how others working at the same stage are approaching it.
Who should apply
The breakfast is open to Techscaler members in founder or senior technical roles, including CTOs, who are building AI-enabled products that interact with the physical world. Priority goes to companies past concept stage that are working through real challenges around edge compute, latency, connectivity, power, hardware integration or fleet deployment.
To register your interest in Edge AI & Robotics: A Technical Breakfast with AWS, complete the form below and we’ll guide you through the next steps:
Closed Door Dinners: AI in Production
The October edition of Closed Door Dinners, hosted by CodeBase and Cloud Combinator alongside AWS, brings senior technical leaders (and one humanoid) together for an open, high-trust evening on the realities of running AI in production.
Why it matters for founders
As AI becomes more embedded in software development, engineering risk is changing in ways that are hard to discuss openly on a stage or in a sales conversation. Held in Edinburgh, the dinner gives CTOs and technical founders space to compare notes candidly on what's working with AI in production and what's quietly failing, with no panels or pitches getting in the way of an honest conversation between peers.
Who should apply
The dinner is open to Techscaler members who hold a senior technical role or lead an established growth-stage business, such as CEOs, CTOs, Technical Founders, Heads of Development, or Senior Engineering and Product Leaders.
To register your interest in Closed Door Dinners: AI in Production, complete the form below and we’ll guide you through the next steps:
Key dates and how to apply
Techscaler is offering a minimum of five member seats at each event, and applications for both close at the same time.
- Closed Door Dinner: Wednesday 28 October 2026, a private, curated dinner with networking
- Edge AI & Robotics Technical Breakfast: Thursday 29 October 2026, breakfast followed by a technical roundtable
- Application deadline for both: 9am, Wednesday 7 October
- Decisions: applications will be reviewed shortly after the deadline, and you can expect to hear back by Monday 12 October
If your team is working through the gap between a promising AI build and one that holds up in the real world, register your interest through one or both of the forms above.
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