Before AI Council officially kicked off, we did a Day 0 pull request: The Initial Commit at Novela, co-hosted with Bessemer Venture Partners and Zetta Venture Partners.

Open to the whole community — not just conference badge holders. Anyone in town for the week came out to meet people before the sessions started. No agenda, no pitches, just engineers, founders, and operators building real AI systems, plus good drinks.

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