📅 September 11, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Nebius × NVIDIA 🎤 Guan-ru Huang, Cloud Solutions Architect at Nebius · Dhruv Diddi, Physical AI at Nebius · Andy Lee, APAC Head of Physical AI and Inception at NVIDIA · Yu Been Park, CBO of Diden Robotics 📍 Woomul, Hapjeong, Seoul 🎟️ Event page A round of applause for Nebius and
📅 2026년 9월 11일 🤝 Bloom × Nebius × NVIDIA 🎤 Guan-ru Huang, Nebius 클라우드 솔루션 아키텍트 · Dhruv Diddi, Nebius 피지컬 AI · Andy Lee, NVIDIA APAC 피지컬 AI & Inception · 박유빈, 디든로보틱스 CBO 📍 합정 우물 🎟️ 행사 페이지 보기 Bloom과 함께 서울에서 멋진 행사를 만들어준 Nebius와 NVIDIA에 박수를 보냅니다. 글로벌 AI 해커톤이 한국에서 막 시작됐습니다.
📅 September 10, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Datadog × LG CNS × D.CAMP 🎤 Changwon Jeon, Lead Researcher at LG CNS AI Center · Woodu Son, Sales Engineer at Datadog 🎟️ Event page Building a demo with AI is now something anyone can do. Running AI as a real service, reliably, at an organizational scale, is a
📅 2026년 9월 10일 🤝 Bloom × Datadog × LG CNS × 디캠프 🎤 전창원, LG CNS AI센터 Lead Researcher · 손우두, Datadog Sales Engineer 🎟️ 행사 페이지 보기 요즘 AI로 데모 하나 만드는 건 누구나 할 수 있습니다. 하지만 조직 차원에서 AI를 실제 서비스로 안정적으로 굴리는 건 완전히 다른 차원의 이야기입니다. 왜 이렇게 어려울까요? 비용, 보안, 협업
📅 September 8, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Level Five Group × Cafe Curious 🎤 Frederick Chung, Co-founder and Group CEO of Level Five Group 🎟️ Event page We ran a Bloom meetup with Fred on financial security and fraud in the AI era. Level Five Group, the company he leads, is a Singapore firm that
📅 2026년 9월 8일 🤝 Bloom × Level Five Group × Cafe Curious 🎤 Frederick Chung, Level Five Group Co-founder & Group CEO 🎟️ 행사 페이지 보기 Fred님과 함께 AI 시대의 금융 보안과 사기 범죄를 주제로 Bloom 밋업을 진행했습니다. Fred님이 대표로 있는 Level Five Group은 태국, 말레이시아, 인도네시아, 캄보디아 같은 동남아와 일본, 중국에서 금융 보안
Bloom is a community that builds offline rooms where people and technology meet. We run events every week, and we publish a full record of every conversation. Good rooms are built with good partners, and we are always looking for the next one. Who we have worked with We have
Claude Blue is a term I coined, but it names something real: the AI depression now spreading through Silicon Valley. A conversation with a senior AI engineer at Meta, and with a Silicon Valley founder. In 2025, AI hit the coding world. Two camps argued fiercely: hand coding entirely to
The evening held two very different conversations. One came from a person who turned taste, the vaguest of standards, into a business on Instagram. The other was about why enterprise data is so stubbornly hard. Two sessions with no apparent overlap met at the same point: good judgment comes from
Friday, 7 a.m. The second Bloom Mixer opened with breakfast. This time I attended as a guest myself. I am usually the one opening the room, and sitting down as a participant was a first. Reading the applications tells you who wants to be in the room. This breakfast
📅 July 2, 2026 🤝 Bloom × MARU × KEEPKWAN 🎤 AI creator KeepKwan 🎟️ Event page Anyone can make something with AI. Turning what you make into a business is a completely different skill, and the key, as this evening made clear, is originality and story. Putting Keep in front of his own name The
📅 June 30, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Classmethod Korea × AWS 🎤 Hyunseo Lim (attorney) · Haeon Park (CTO, AIM Intelligence) · Yongho Choi (AWS) The era where execution, not intelligence, is the edge The theme of the night was blunt: intelligence no longer matters the way it did. High IQ, deep knowledge, long careers, AI has
The battleground of AI-era marketing is not learning new features. It is the ability to define problems and explain them precisely to AI. 📅 June 18, 2026 🤝 Bloom × AB180 × Reply Marketing 🎤 Sungpil Nam (CEO, AB180) · Jehim Choi (Reply Marketing) The person who defines the problem wins, not the person who
Set the goal at 10x rather than 10 percent and it actually gets easier: great people gather around big goals, and few competitors attempt challenges that bold. 📅 July 21, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Fieldguide × D.CAMP × ex-Google 🎤 Jin Chang, CEO of Fieldguide · Kibum Kim, Terminal X 10x is easier than 10
📅 June 11, 2026 🤝 Bloom × EF × Playco × Tiro 🎤 Teddy Cross, CPO of Playco Insight is not at the conference The speaker was Teddy Cross, co-founder of Playco, the global gaming unicorn valued around one trillion KRW with cumulative funding of 230 billion KRW from Sequoia and others. The biggest message
Samsung Electronics built an environment that runs Claude Code with confidential code on in-house GPUs and everything else on Bedrock, and a grade-8 civil servant at the Gwangjin District Office quietly built a statutes MCP that became a public-sector innovation case. 📅 June 12, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Yonsei MBA
Jihoon Park of AWS calls it TITO, Trash In Trash Out: what decides a proposal is not the 20 to 30 percent written in the RFP but the 70 to 80 percent dug out of the field. Cliwant CEO Junho Cho: the essence of a winning proposal does not change
Joseph Kim, who passed through Google DeepMind, xAI, and Thinking Machines Lab, unpacked the real working intensity of the frontier labs, how they operate, and the competing definitions of AGI. 📅 May 14, 2026 🤝 Bloom × AB180 × xAI Macrohard 🎤 Joseph Kim, ex-xAI · Thinking Machines Lab The speaker carries a rare resume:
MyRealTrip halved its support headcount and scaled product registration from 25 a week to 5,000 a day, by layering a chatbot on top of existing systems instead of replacing them. Jocoding has run a static service with no servers and no operating costs for five years of monthly revenue,
Instead of bolting one more AI feature on, MyRealTrip spent four years changing its execution structure and org structure, and became an AI-native company. 📅 April 25, 2026 🤝 Bloom × AB180 × MyRealTrip 🎤 Donggun Lee, CEO of MyRealTrip Inspiration comes from people Sungpil Nam, CEO of AB180, said he spends 90 percent
📅 April 23, 2026 🤝 Bloom × Cluely × t'order × Tiro 🎤 Daniel Min, ex-CMO of Cluely Bloom invited Daniel Min, former CMO of Cluely, for a fireside chat. It started with a single Instagram DM. Daniel, whom our founder had followed for a long time, posted a story asking what he
Why they are not afraid Talking with people who work in sales, an interesting pattern emerged: they are not particularly afraid of AI. AI clearly assists the work, and the gap between those who use it and those who do not will widen. But the essence of sales is understanding
The next career is not development He decided late last year that if there was a next career, it would not be as a developer. The usual path for a career like his leads to an engineering executive seat or a lab director title, and becoming an executive is its
Four hours a day in the office, the rest spent networking, collecting data that does not exist online. Maybe that is the real AI-native daily life. What this meetup was We attended a thirty-person meetup in Gangnam with a structure unlike the usual panel talk or keynote. Four
AI that edits genes In Boston we met a researcher who builds AI tools for biology research at a life sciences institute, with published work related to gene editing, someone who lives daily at the intersection of biology and AI. Asked about the potential of AI in bio, the answer
What five years bought He spent five years at the financial management platform most used by small businesses in America. The main customers were service businesses: cleaning, landscaping, HVAC. Five years of direct contact taught him their workflows inside out. The important part: what those years built was not technical
The reason for moving from a stable org to the AI search team was clear: to survive five more years. Survival competition inside big tech He was originally on the operations side of a Google service. Stable, important work, but he grew anxious about how much it would help his
The largest, most multilingual qualitative study ever run For one week, Anthropic had its own AI interview its users. Four questions: what did you recently use AI for, if you had a magic wand what would you want AI to do, has AI ever come close to that vision, and
Every company runs at a different AI temperature The surprising part: everyone at the table works at a household-name tech company, and yet the temperature differs this much from company to company. Company A rolled Claude out company-wide and actively encourages it, wired into the messenger, the issue
Koreans are not like this only with AI. It was the same with Bitcoin, the same with real estate, the same every time a new platform opened. People were not excited because they were curious about Silicon Valley trends. The feeling of falling behind if they skipped this was already
We woke up and all 85 people we had requested were contacted, precisely. For people we had talked to before, the messages continued the earlier context. A world where AI does almost everything We needed to send LinkedIn messages to overseas buyers. We gave the agent little more than target
A PM who is closer to a mini CEO He works as a PM at a public tech company in New York, though PM undersells it: at this company the role is closer to a mini CEO, owning the P&L and running a small business unit end to
Most of the questions were about philosophy, not technology. Why choose the painful path? If the people building the future of AI are depressed, is that future okay? How the interview happened We never expected a post on Reddit to reach the United States. A journalist from an independent outlet
📅 September 3, 2026 · Maru180, Gangnam 🤝 Bloom × Higgsfield × Maru180 🎤 Minsung Kim (Country Manager, Higgsfield Korea) · Dasol Kim (HAXAI) · Host: Junsu Kim (Bloom) 🎟️ Event page We ran a filmthon: make a video with AI, post it, and whoever records the highest view count over one week wins Higgsfield credits. Participants are still
📅 2026년 9월 3일 · 마루180(강남) 🤝 Bloom × Higgsfield × Maru180 🎤 김민성(Higgsfield 한국 지사장) · 김다솔(HAXAI 대표) · 진행 김준수(Bloom) 🎟️ 행사 페이지 보기 AI로 영상을 제작하고, 1주일 동안 가장 높은 조회수를 기록한 분께 Higgsfield 크레딧을 드리는 해커톤을 진행했습니다. 지금도 참여자분들이 직접 만든 영상을 각자의 SNS에 올리며 열심히 바이럴을 만들고 있어요. 김민성 지사장님,
📅 September 1, 2026 · Uncommon Gallery, Gangnam (venue sponsor) 🤝 Bloom × Dev Korea × Genspark × Social Series 🎤 Chanyoung Ryu · K Choi · Madhav Mistry · Seulgi Kang 🎟️ Event page Our Bloom event with Dev Korea, Genspark, and Social Series wrapped up with a full room. We wanted a more international night than usual, so we
📅 2026년 9월 1일 · 언커먼 갤러리(강남, 공간 후원) 🤝 Bloom × Dev Korea × Genspark × Social Series 🎤 류찬영 · K Choi · Madhav Mistry · 강슬기 🎟️ 행사 페이지 보기 Dev Korea, Genspark, Social Series와 함께한 Bloom 행사가 성황리에 마무리되었습니다. 이번에는 조금 더 international한 분위기를 만들고 싶어서 해외 개발자 커뮤니티와 특별히 협업을 진행했는데, 그 덕분에 평소 Bloom
📅 August 28, 2026 · d.camp Seolleung (venue sponsor) 🤝 Bloom 🎤 Brian Jin (engineer and founder, Antler Canada alum) 🎟️ Event page I recently stumbled on an Instagram channel that collects startup failure stories, where once high-flying founders share their rise and fall in the open. I found it admirable: telling your
📅 2026년 8월 28일 · 디캠프 선릉(공간 후원) 🤝 Bloom 🎤 Brian Jin(엔지니어·창업가, 전 Antler Canada) 🎟️ 행사 페이지 보기 우연히 인스타그램에서 실패 모으기라는 채널을 발견했습니다. 한때 잘나가던 스타트업 대표들의 흥망성쇠를 투명하게 공유하는 곳이었습니다. 보면서 존경스러웠습니다. 자기 실패를 솔직하게 꺼내는 일에는 성공을 말하는 것보다 훨씬 큰 용기와 자존감이 필요하니까요. 그래서 거창하지 않더라도
📅 August 27, 2026 · COEX, Snowflake World Tour Seoul 🤝 Bloom × Snowflake 🎤 Juwon (Next Challenge School) · Wonjun Han (Bloom) Snowflake invited six of the leading tech communities in Korea to its biggest annual event, the Snowflake World Tour at COEX in Seoul. Sharing the floor with communities from AWS and Microsoft was
📅 2026년 8월 27일 · 코엑스, Snowflake World Tour Seoul 🤝 Bloom × Snowflake 🎤 주원 님(Next Challenge School 창업가) · 한원준(Bloom) Snowflake의 가장 큰 연례 행사인 World Tour에 대한민국 대표 커뮤니티 6곳이 초청되었습니다. AWS, Microsoft 등 쟁쟁한 커뮤니티들과 함께한 자리라 더욱 영광이었습니다. 커뮤니티별 모객 경쟁도 있었는데, 감사하게도 저희가 1위를 차지해 50만 원 상당의
It started with a confession: I built hundreds of things and use none of them. Then a hundred people opened their laptops and practiced building assets instead of slop.
몇백 개를 만들었는데 지금 쓰는 건 하나도 없다는 고백에서 시작한 밤입니다. 백 명이 노트북을 열고 슬롭이 아니라 자산을 만드는 법을 연습했습니다.
A Korean startup CTO heading to Japan and the Workato Korea lead working from Singapore made the same bet: the threshold others refuse to cross is the moat.
한국에서 일본으로 나가는 창업자와 글로벌 기업에서 한국을 연 총괄이 같은 답에 도착했습니다. 남들이 넘기 싫어하는 문턱이 해자입니다.
아침 7시 조식 테이블에 다섯이 모였습니다. 무슨 모델을 쓰는지, 지방 공장은 왜 AI를 원하면서도 사람을 못 구하는지, 한 사람이 어디까지 책임져야 하는지. Bloom Mixer 2회차 금요일 조식에서 나온 이야기.
A founder whose deal collapsed the day before signing and a Toss engineer preparing a YouTube channel reached the same conclusion: what lasts is not the ability to build, but the ability to reach.
투자 계약 전날 판이 뒤집힌 창업자와 유튜브를 준비하는 토스 개발자가 같은 결론에 도착했습니다. 만드는 능력이 아니라 닿는 능력입니다.
A founder who spent fifty days in the US and a Wall Street trained career coach reached the same conclusion: stop thinking and move.
50일간 미국을 다녀온 창업자와 월스트리트 출신 커리어 코치가 같은 결론에 도착했습니다. 생각만 하지 말고 움직여보라는 것입니다.
A curated dinner for 4 to 6 people, matched by interest. No speakers, no sessions, only conversation. Free weekly meetups continue as always.
연사도 세션도 없이 대화만 있는 4~6인 저녁 모임입니다. 무료 밋업은 그대로 두고, 그 위에 하나를 더합니다.
We opened twenty seats with no agenda and thirty-five people came. Four months of members told us, honestly, where this community should go.
연사도 아젠다도 없이 모이자고 했더니 스무 명 자리에 서른다섯 명이 왔습니다. 넉 달을 함께한 멤버들이 이 커뮤니티에 대해 가장 솔직하게 한 말들입니다.
감도라는 모호한 기준을 사업으로 만든 사람과, 기업 데이터가 왜 안 풀리는지 아는 사람이 같은 자리에 앉았습니다. 두 대화가 같은 곳에서 만났습니다.
People in Washington do not read the Washington Post. What a16z worked out about new media, and why we decided to stay unpolished instead of getting slicker.
워싱턴 사람들은 워싱턴 포스트를 읽지 않습니다. a16z가 말한 뉴미디어의 규칙을 듣고, 행사를 더 매끄럽게 다듬는 대신 날것 그대로 밀고 가기로 했습니다.
빗썸은 어떻게 사내에 Claude Code를 들였을까요. 前 OpenAI 개발자가 말한 협업의 병목, 그리고 지갑을 든 에이전트에게 사람이 끝까지 쥐어야 할 것들.
목표를 10퍼센트가 아니라 10배로 잡으면 오히려 쉬워집니다. 유니콘 Fieldguide의 Jin 대표가 말한 성과 기반 가격과 미국 진출의 조건.
More than 1,500 people applied and the seats were gone in a day. The night turned on a single reframe: stop asking which business is safe from AI, start asking which business grows because of it.
인사이트
미국 대기업에서 AI 도입이 느린 이유를 물었더니 답이 너무 단순했습니다. 보안도 문해력도 아니고 시간이 없다는 것이었습니다.
인사이트
AI에 전적으로 위임한 개발자들이 가장 빨리 끝냈지만 평가에서는 가장 낮은 점수를 받았습니다. 감독하려면 필요한 능력을, AI가 먼저 잠식합니다.
인사이트
한 창업자는 마케팅 비용을 한 푼도 쓰지 않고 누적 300만 유저를 모았습니다. 비결은 마케팅을 잘해서가 아니라, 제품 구조 자체가 퍼지도록 설계돼 있었기 때문입니다.
실리콘밸리
메타 시니어 AI 엔지니어와 실리콘밸리 창업가, 하루 두 번의 대화. 그리고 Bloom이라는 이름이 시작된 글.