Good People Dinner | NY

Join us for an exclusive dinner in New York as senior tech leaders explore and discuss the shift to AI strategies. Good People Dinners series brings together a curated community of tech leaders to exchange perspectives, compare strategies, and discuss how to stay ahead of the shift. Capacity is very limited. Register now and claim your seat for a candid evening of meaningful dialogue, insights, and connection with fellow C-level executives navigating the future of technology. ​​Check out our Good People Dinner sizzle video from our previous events.  WHY ATTEND?  Fine Dining and Networking: Enjoy a private chef-curated dinner in a refined setting, with opportunities to connect and network with peers as you discuss the AI shift together. Master the Skills AI Can't Copy: AI can optimize anything, but it can't taste, judge, or make something truly original. Chad Dickerson, who scaled Etsy nearly 14x, shows why creativity, craft, and deliberate practice matter more as machines improve. Exclusive Peer Insights: Hear how other executives are adopting AI without losing the human spark that no tool can replace. Leave with practical ideas to prepare your organization for what comes next. AGENDA  6:00 - 6:45PM - Cocktails & Networking 6:45 - 7:15PM - Welcome & Speaker Presentation 7:15 - 8:30PM - Chef-curated Dinner 8:30 - 9:30PM - Discussion over Dessert INVITED SPEAKER Chad Dickerson is best known as the former CEO of Etsy, where he grew revenue nearly 14x and took the company public. He scaled Etsy from a 50-person startup into a global marketplace - and one of the few companies to go public as a certified B Corp. Before Etsy, he ran new-product incubators at Yahoo!, building the kind of teams that turn ideas into shipped products. Today he's a sought-after executive coach to CEOs and CTOs, blending fiscal discipline with purpose - a "strong back and open heart." He also teaches product development to the next generation of leaders at Cornell Tech. Away from work, Chad is a serious musician - he plays piano and guitar, and has his own band, Humbled by the Void. He even built an AI tool to help guitarists find their own sound, without letting the machine do the playing. As he puts it: "I believe in human creativity" - and doesn't expect the robots to take over art any time soon. DINNER CHEF Bagus Ruswandi | Our new friend chef Bagus Ruswandi is the founder of Studio Bumi, a New York culinary studio designing belonging through communal dining. Born and raised in Indonesia and now cooking in New York, his food draws from the archipelago's home kitchens, street stalls, and celebration tables, translated for a communal setting where every dish is meant to be passed, torn and spooned over rice! His project, Studio Bumi, is known for a dinner series that runs on a flywheel: guests become hosts. People who sat at one table come back to cook, host, photograph or bake at the next, and the series has never repeated a menu, because each dinner is shaped by whoever showed up to the last one. What gets cooked is a consequence of who has been in the room. That has made the studio less a restaurant with a point of view and more an ongoing conversation that happens to be edible. ***