Sponsors & Partners

Put your product in front of the people who ship AI.

The AI Runtime runs Boston's practitioner-first AI community: a weekly newsletter, monthly meetups in Cambridge, and the FDE Talks podcast. Sponsors reach the engineers and architects who decide what their teams adopt.

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  • 2,000+ newsletter subscribers
  • 700+ in-person attendees
  • 1 flagship event per month
  • Readers at IBM · Amazon · Meta · Google · NVIDIA · OpenAI · MIT · Harvard

Current sponsors

Your logo joins this wall on the events site, the Luma page, and the event recap.

Who's in the room

The audience

Senior and staff engineers
The people who evaluate tools hands-on and decide what their teams adopt.
AI architects and platform leads
Owners of the inference, eval, and agent infrastructure at Boston companies.
Founders and founding engineers
Early teams choosing their AI stack for the first time, with no procurement layer in the way.
Researchers and graduate engineers
MIT and Harvard people moving between the lab and production.

Who sponsors, and why

Dev tool companies
Adoption and honest feedback from practitioners who ship.
AI startups
Hiring senior engineers who are visibly building in this space.
Infra and cloud providers
Influence over where real workloads land.
VCs
Technical deal flow and a diligence network of practitioners.

Events we've run

Ways to partner

  • Food & drinks sponsor

    Cover food and drinks for one monthly meetup. We take one food-and-drinks sponsor per event.

    • logo on the event page and Luma
    • a thank-you from the stage
    • credit in the recap and newsletter mention
    • your team in the room

  • Space partner

    Host the meetup at your venue. Microsoft currently hosts in Kendall Square.

    • recurring logo placement
    • a welcome slot at each hosted event
    • your space in every recap photo

  • Newsletter sponsorship

    A sponsored slot in the weekly newsletter read by 2,000+ practitioners.

    • one clearly labeled slot per issue
    • plain-text, practitioner-grade copy
    • a link and UTM of your choice

  • Speaker / demo slot

    A technical talk or live demo, paired with an event sponsorship. Talks clear the same quality bar as any speaker.

    • a practitioner audience in the room
    • the recording and slides in the recap
    • a speaker page on the site

  • FDE Talks podcast

    Sponsor FDE Talks, The AI Runtime podcast on forward deployed AI engineering.

    • a sponsor mention on the episode
    • a link in the show notes and episode post
    • reach beyond the Boston room

We take one food-and-drinks sponsor per event.

What people say

  • The structured networking is the difference. I walked in knowing nobody and left with a working group of AI practitioners I still compare notes with.

    Senior engineer, meetup regular

  • I brought a production problem that had been stuck for weeks and left with three concrete approaches from people who had already shipped through the same wall.

    AI platform lead, Boston

  • We demoed our tool and got the kind of blunt practitioner feedback you cannot buy: what worked, what broke, and what they would actually pay for.

    Founder, AI dev tools startup

  • The model and cost conversations are power-user grade. People trade real numbers: what they run, what it costs per call, and what they switched away from.

    Staff engineer, attendee

  • I shared our roadmap with the room and came away with a requirements list written by the engineers who would use the product.

    Founder, AI startup

Start a conversation

Tell us what you have in mind. We reply within a week.

Prefer email? Write to info@theairuntime.com.

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