SURREAL
An event series for creative technologists.
MANIFESTO
Surreal products are created when a research breakthrough rapidly meets a consumer behavior shift.
​The speed of this latent unlock creates a reality distortion field. ​
It's not just improbable, it seems impossible. ​
The premise is first questioned, then fought, and then shaken.
​But then a small group of people finds your work - and it's what they've been looking for their whole life.
​They fought and clawed for an answer despite the experts' heeding that it wasn't possible.
​And then they met you. Your research redefines what's possible. ​
​You make the surreal, real.
​“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke
Upcoming
April: Interfaces & Design
San Francisco | Apply
May: Consumer Social
Stanford | Apply
June: TBA
San Francisco
Past
March: Agents
San Francisco
Applicants hailed from ​Adept, Databricks, Orby, Retool, OpenAI, Assembled, WorkOS, Kumo AI, Tesla, Deepmind, 11X, Replit, Character AI, Alloy Automation, Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Stanford PhDs, and more.
2025: Stanford CS PhDs
Palo Alto
Applicants hailed from: Stripe, Turing, Character AI, Harmonic, Amazon, Mistral, Waymo, Groq, Deepmind, Meta, Anthropic, ​X.Ai, NavigateAI, Stanford Professors, Stanford Computer Science PhDs and more.
WHAT ATTENDEES ARE SAYING
"I feel like the quality of the folks you guys invited was amazing — and to be honest, rather rare for this kind of event."
"I met a potential co-founder, clients, and investors as well as potential startups to invest in as an angel investor."
Join Us
Surreal events are tightly curated,
with a focus on technical talent:
researchers, engineers, PMs, and designers.
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