300 Main · AI & Applied Innovation
The Creative Futures™ Brunch powered by The Down Market
Espresso, brunch and DJ Novasoul on the 25th floor, plus two live conversations with the people building here. Ninety seats, RSVP with Creative Futures.
- Date
- Thursday, October 1, 2026
- Time
- 7:30 AM – 11:30 AM
- Location
- 300 Main, Skylounge + Rooftop Patio
90 seats
AI & Applied Innovation circuit, sponsored by
Powering the deep tech and emerging technology conversation at SASTW — AI, cyber, quantum, and what's coming next.
The morning
Come for the coffee.Leave with something to build.
Start Startup + Tech Week twenty-five floors up, espresso pulled fresh, brunch on the table, a DJ easing the morning open, and downtown San Antonio stretched out below.
The Skylounge seats ninety, and the good seats go early. Creative Futures hold the list on Eventbrite, and that RSVP is what saves your seat — it does not stand in for your Startup + Tech Week registration, so do both. The 25th floor at 300 Main, Skylounge and rooftop patio.
7:30
The Wake-Up — coffee, sound, skyline
Doors. Pulp Coffee’s mobile espresso experience, brunch service, and DJ Novasoul setting the tone inside and out on the rooftop.
8:45 – 9:30
The Fifth Degree Live
The Collision: AI, Design, and What Gets Built Next
Co-founder, Rackspace · Product design · Engineering · Data + AI
Family office advisor · Product design + Data + AI
Will and Nate of The Fifth Degree podcast host a conversation at the intersection of AI, product design and engineering — and what it takes to build what comes next.
9:45 – 10:30
The Down Market Conversation
Keep the Doors Open: Tech for the Places Culture Lives
Daniel Trevino
Box Street Social · Maitre
Ben Hodge
EEVET
Madison King talks with two builders solving real problems for real places — Maitre, built to help restaurants open smarter and last longer, and EEVET, built to help venues, artists and promoters book better. Different rooms, same mission: giving creative businesses the information they’ve always deserved.
10:30
The Reveal
From The Creative Futures, before the morning closes. You’ll want to be in the room for this one.
10:35 – 11:30
The Coffeehouse Set
DJ Novasoul takes it home. Stay, refill, meet the person next to you. That’s the point.
The Creative Futures Brunch has been bringing this city’s creative and tech communities to the same table since 2019. This year it opens Thursday morning with a simple idea: creativity and technology aren’t two different industries. They’re one economy — and some of the people building it live here.
Community all morning.