“Step Forward” networking
My role: presented the Go4Future AI Lab
I was invited to the first open networking of the Go4Future business club — not with a sponsor pitch, but with a short talk about what the AI Lab will be inside the club. Below is what I showed and what was happening around it.
- When
- 8 November 2026 · Sunday · 3–6 pm
- Organiser
- Go4Future business club · hosted by Valery
My part: the Go4Future AI Lab
The slot was short, so I went straight to the point: the AI Lab is not “neural-network magic”, it is a working space for residents’ tasks. I showed three things that describe the format.
- What it offersWhat the lab gives a club member: take apart routine work, build your own tool, test a hypothesis before investing — from a single request to a small product.
- School inside the clubLearning is built on your own tasks: not slides about AI, but practice on a real member case, with a review and a clear result at the end.
- How we approach problemsFirst break the task into steps and understand where AI is actually needed — only then pick tools. Sometimes an honest “AI is not needed here” saves more than the trendiest service.
- Course announcementAt the end I announced the lab’s next course and invited attendees to join the waiting list right at the event.
- Course prototypesThe vibe-coding course prototypes are open and public — you can look through the programme, modules and practice before the cohort starts. Open the course prototypes →
What happened at the meeting
Go4Future started not with a pompous presentation but with a dense working test drive. Three hours without sponsor talks or selling from the stage.
- Facilitated networkingInstead of chaos at the coffee point — facilitation: state your strength briefly, surface the real request, calibrate positioning and find mutual solutions right at the table.
- Live business teardownA working project was taken apart on stage: architecture, systemic constraints, blind spots and growth hypotheses. Methodology in action on a real example, not a textbook case.
- The club ecosystemSix tracks were presented: sales school, systems marketing school, AI Lab, speakers academy, business accelerator and mindfulness school.
People either shift awkwardly by the coffee point, hand out business cards blindly, or listen to whoever talks loudest about themselves. In the end they leave with a stack of useless contacts and a feeling of wasted time.
The venue
“Antresol i Perets” at 1/71 Marata — a top floor with a stained-glass skylight, a stage and velvet armchairs. An intimate room for a few dozen people: you can see everyone and the conversation does not break into separate groups.
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