Spring is usually when everyone exhales. Not us.
This quarter, Chalk is showing up everywhere that matters: conferences, around the streets of San Francisco, hackathons, dinners, and a few stages we've been working toward for a while. We're calling it Spring Fling because the team will not let it go. (I tried to land on something more grown-up. I lost.) The most ambitious stretch of events we've ever run, packed into eight weeks.
Why now? Because the category is moving faster than at any point since we started this company. Our team has doubled in the last year. We just had our best pipeline quarter ever. And the buyers we care about, the people building production AI and ML at scale, all show up in person this season. So we will too.
It all kicks off today.
Welcome Home, West Coast
Tonight, we're hosting our official San Francisco HQ Office Warming Party. The Bay Area tech and ML infrastructure community is invited. Come for the food, stay for the people, get a look at the new place. If you're building in AI or data infra and you're local, come find us.
April also marks the opening of our new Los Angeles office, Chalk's third location, joining San Francisco and New York. Three cities feels a little surreal for a company that started with three co-founders crammed into one room. But here we are.
Taking the Stage
In May, we step onto the conference stage as a Bronze Sponsor of AI Council (May 12–14), a premier gathering for the AI and data leaders defining where this category goes next. It's an audience we've been wanting to be in front of for a while. We're proud to be there.
Same week, keep your eyes open around San Francisco. You'll be seeing us in a few unexpected places. Keep an eye on in May and June.
Center of the Universe
Come June, the Bay Area becomes the beating heart of the data and AI world, and Chalk will be right in the middle of it.
Snowflake Summit (June 1–4)
This is our first year as an official sponsor, and we're not phoning it in.
We've also been heads-down for months on a set of product announcements we're saving for Summit. Big things. That's all I'll say for now. The week of, you'll see.
Snowflake Summit is one of the biggest GTM moments of the year for us. A lot of our customers already run Snowflake as their offline store and Chalk as the real-time inference layer on top. Snowflake is the analytical and training backbone. Chalk is what powers production AI on top of it: features computed in milliseconds, federated queries against live data, point-in-time correct training sets, sub-5ms inference. If you've heard us talk about that architecture, this is where we plant the flag in person.
Here's where to find us all week.
Booth #2611, Moscone South. Live demos with our engineering team every day of the conference. Real code, real queries, real latency. If you've been curious about how teams compute features in milliseconds against Snowflake data, come watch us do it.
Two speaking sessions from our co-founders.
The first is a 45-minute customer talk: "The Infrastructure Behind Grindr's AI Transformation" with Marc Freed-Finnegan (CEO, Chalk) and AJ Balance (CPO, Grindr). It's the story of how Grindr rebuilt their AI infrastructure, what changed, what they learned, and what's now possible that wasn't before. The kind of customer talk we don't usually get to give in public.
The second is a 20-minute technical deep dive from Elliot Marx, our co-founder, on building a real-time feature store in the Snowflake ecosystem. Federated queries, point-in-time correctness, sub-5ms inference, and why the gap between offline and online is still the hardest problem in production ML.
Kickoff Party, evening of June 1. Drinks, food, our team, our customers, the people building real-time AI on Snowflake, all in one room. Invite-only. Send me a note if you want on the list.
Time with our co-founders and exec team. Marc, Elliot, Andy, and the rest of our leadership will all be at Summit and available for 1:1s with technical and business leaders throughout the week. If you're evaluating a feature store, replatforming off legacy infrastructure, or trying to figure out whether Chalk fits your stack, this is the most concentrated chance you'll have to talk to us in one place.
If you're building AI on Snowflake, this is the conference to find us. We'll be there all four days.
Databricks Data & AI Summit (June 15–18)
Two weeks later. We have something cooking. For teams that need to go fast. That's all I'll say. You'll enjoy it.
The Big Picture
Spring Fling isn't just a marketing calendar. It's a statement. Chalk just had its best pipeline quarter ever, our team has doubled in the last year, and the category around real-time AI infrastructure is moving fast.
We're not slowing down. We're planting a flag.
If you're heading to any of these events, let's find time. I'll be at all of them. Shoot me a note at alexandra@chalk.ai, or grab a coffee, drink, dinner, whatever's easy.
See you out there.
