Claude Meetups Across Southern California

Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. Free events run by Claude Ambassadors and local hosts — conversations, meetups, workshops and impact labs. Anyone can come.

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Attendees working together at a Claude workshop in Orange County.

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22Events

4Metros

2,452Registrations

6Ambassadors

Events

Twenty-two since December 2025, every one free, all on Luma. Three published a street address; nineteen keep theirs behind Luma’s approval step, the host’s own setting. Every card names the city, and the neighbourhood when the listing gives one.

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Impact Lab

Claude Impact Lab

Saturday

August 8, 2026 · 10 AM–4 PM PT

City: Los Angeles — Palms
Venue: Address shared on approval
Registered: 90

Hosted byTravis Johnson & Evan Grenda

The people running it

Claude Ambassador is a title Anthropic confers. Three people hold it in Southern California, and they run most of what is on this calendar — alongside local hosts and venues who have opened rooms of their own.

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Evan Grenda

Los Angeles

6 events 362 registrations

Travis Johnson

Orange County

6 events 657 registrations

Michael T. Brown

Orange County

No SoCal event yet

Max Krueger

San Diego

9 events 719 registrations

Dhruv Kanetkar

San Diego

Co-hosted the 2025 opener, before he was appointed

Brian Westpoint

San Diego

No SoCal event yet

Four ways we get in a room

Conversation

One hard question at the centre of the table. Mixed tables, and every table reads its answer out loud. You do not need to be technical — you need an opinion.

~40 seats · one evening

Meetup

Demos of real work, lightning talks from people who shipped something this month, and the hour afterwards that is usually the actual reason to come.

Open RSVP · one evening

Workshop

Laptops open. Bring something real you are stuck on and leave with a better version of it. No prep, all levels.

Limited seats · half day

Impact Lab

Nonprofits and government teams bring a problem they actually have. Volunteer builders spend the day on it and hand back something that runs.

Teams of 3–5 · one day

Two ways in

Speak

Built something with Claude? Show the room. First-time speakers are welcome and we will help you shape it.

Demo — 5 minutes, screen up, two questions
Talk — 20 minutes, a real workflow or a lesson learned
Workshop — 60 to 90 minutes, laptops open

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Host or sponsor

Open your space to the builders who fill these rooms — 2,452 registrations across twenty-two events — or cover food for a night. It is not advertising; it is being in the right room.

Venue — 30 to 120 people, weekday evening or Saturday
Co-host — your name on the event alongside ours
No pitching from the stage. No attendee list. Ever.

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The Luma calendar for dates, WhatsApp for the day-to-day, and one email when something is worth showing up for.

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Claude Meetups Across Southern California

Events

Upcoming

Claude Impact Lab

Every one so far

Claude Impact Lab

Claude Code for Beginners

Claude Impact Lab

Claude Conversation

Claude Cowork Workshop for Transitioning Veterans

Claude Conversation

Claude Code for Founders

Claude Code Meetup

Claude for the AEC Industry

Claude Code for Design

Claude Coffee Meetup

Claude for Everyone

Claude Code for Everyone

Claude Cowork for Everyone

Claude Impact Lab

Claude Code for Everyone

Claude Meetup Orange County

Claude Code Meetup Los Angeles

Claude Cowork Meetup

Claude Code Meetup San Diego

Claude Code Meetup San Diego

The people running it

Evan Grenda

Travis Johnson

Michael T. Brown

Max Krueger

Dhruv Kanetkar

Brian Westpoint

Four ways we get in a room

Conversation

Meetup

Workshop

Impact Lab

Two ways in

Speak

Host or sponsor

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