Join us for an exclusive dinner in London where senior decision-makers explore and discuss how AI strategies diverge, where AI fits, and where it doesn’t in their companies.
Good People Dinners series brings together a community of tech leaders to exchange experiences, challenge assumptions, and think more deeply about business decisions.
Capacity is very limited. Register now and claim your seat for a warm evening of meaningful insights with fellow C-level executives.
Why attend?
Fine Dining and Networking:
Enjoy a private, chef-curated dinner with opportunities to connect and network with peers facing the same calls as you do.
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 personalization matter more as machines improve.
Exclusive Peer Insights:
Hear how companies are building for the long run: profitable, fair, and a net positive for the world. Leave with a sharper sense of what success looks like a decade from now.
Agenda
6:00 – 6:45 PM – Cocktails & Networking
6:45 – 7:15 PM – Welcome & Speaker Presentation
7:15 – 8:30 PM – Chef-curated Dinner
8:30 – 9:30 PM – 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.
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