San Diego AI Showcase #3 + Builders Roundtable (North County) April 2026
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 6:00 PM PDT – 8:30 PM PDT
LVLUP USA · 1410 Vantage Ct, Vista, CA 92081, USA
Hosted by Pactto
Note: we are charging $10 just to help with food and drinks, we already have an awesome space. If you don't feel like paying, please choose the INVITEE ticket (free). Thanks! For our April event, we are joining forces with Builders Roundtable, an amazing San Diego Mastermind group for Making and Marketing Great Products. Supportive, safe peer discussions with local Product owners, managers, developers, UX/designers, marketers. San Diego AI Showcase (North County) A Homebrew-style night for AI experiments and demos. Safe space. No recordings. This is a monthly, in-person gathering for San Diego founders who are actively building with AI, and who are willing to show their work before it’s perfect. Inspired by the original Homebrew Computer Club, where builders like Steve Wozniak casually shared what they were experimenting with, this is a space for real demos, early prototypes, bold ideas, and honest lessons. No polished pitch decks. No sales. No pressure. This is about learning in public, helping each other think sharper, and accelerating progress through thoughtful feedback. The San Diego AI Showcase is designed to grow a tight, curious, builder-driven founder community in the region. What you’ll see • Early AI products, tools, agents, workflows, and experiments • Things that are half-working, just launched, or still a little rough • Lessons from what didn’t work (often the most valuable part) • Live demos, screen shares, short walkthroughs Format • 5–10 founders present for 10 minutes each • 3-minute Q&A and group discussion after every presentation • Hang out, meet other builders, and keep the conversation going Who this is for • Founders actively building with AI (pre-seed to growth) • Engineers, designers, and product leaders experimenting hands-on • People who value curiosity, humility, and substance over hype What this is not • Not a pitch night • Not an investor demo day • Not a sales event Just builders helping builders. 📍 Event Details When: April 7, 2026, from 6 pm to 9 pm Where: LVLUP USA (North County San Diego. Vista, California) Organizer: Demian Borba, Founder and CEO of Pactto (Stanford StartX S25, ex-Adobe, Intuit, PayPal, BlackBerry) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/demianborba/ If you’re interested in presenting, attending, or shaping the future of this meetup, please email Demian at demian@pactto.com. The goal is to create something long-lasting for San Diego — a place where meaningful work gets shared early, and momentum compounds over time. Presenters: 6:15 pm Demian Borba, Founder and CEO of Pactto (Stanford StartX S25, ex-Adobe, Intuit, PayPal, BlackBerry) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/demianborba/ Title: Pactto: a brand-new studio for teams to present, review and approve creative work Details: Zero-latency video playback, crystal-clear audio, high-quality assets, real-time annotations. All fueled by your company’s knowledge in a powerful intelligent canvas. ----------------------------- 6:30 pm Hussein Yahfoufi, Founder & CEO, Eventship (Mentor at Techstars, Investor, GPT Hacks founder) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/husseinyahfoufi/ Title: Eventship MCP Server - Let AI book or host your next event Details: We’ve been building an MCP server for Eventship that will allow AI agents find and book events for you or help you host your next event. I’ll do a demo of what we have working so far. ----------------------------- 6:45 pm Weslyn (Yare Ace NoK) Whitehead, Founder, MetaGaia.Co (Author, MaiiaM Physics Founder, Tech Lead, Unity3D Architect, EdTech, Musician) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weslyn/ Title: Modern AI and Ancient Wisdom. Building a Consciousness Platform Details: AsAManThinks is an AI-powered self-awareness platform synthesizing six ancient wisdom traditions into a single living system — not a meditation app, not a wellness tracker, but a new category entirely. The ecosystem spans MaiiaM Oracle, published books, a multiple lab environments, and practical tools (80+ apps) for deep exploration and learning of self, all unified by one premise: ancient wisdom and artificial intelligence belong together. As A Man Thinks so is he. ----------------------------- 7 pm Val Kucherenko, Founder & CEO, ValueViewpoint.ai (ex-Google, AWS, SAP, Oracle) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kucherenko/ Title: From AI Hype to CFO-Grade Business Cases: Turning GTM into an Economic Engine Details: Most AI-powered sales and GTM tools generate content — but lack economic grounding. I’ll demo how we use ValueViewpoint.ai (VVP) to turn early-stage conversations into quantified, CFO-ready business cases. This includes translating product capabilities into measurable financial impact, aligning stakeholders (CFO, Ops, Sales), and accelerating deal conversion. I’ll also show how this approach can be scaled across SDRs and AEs without requiring a full Value Engineering team. ----------------------------- 7:15 pm Vesh Thakker, PHD, MBA, Founder &…