AI Tinkerers Eastside Entrepreneurs / May 6, 2026
May Tech Night Meetup recap
9 demos shared and 1 photo from the room.
In the room
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Main stage
Jonathan E Olson
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Matthew deBord
A technology to make healthy, delicious wraps made from fruits and vegetables with multiple applications to improve every day items like sandwiches, sushi, snacks, tea and more. Meeting consumer demand for healthy, flavorful, convenient food options with proven foodtech products that are delicious, shelf-stable, gluten free, plus low c...
Connor Gray
Satellites which detect and mitigate small space debris (with lasers). There are an estimated 140 million space debris objects which are potentially mission ending, but only 50k total space objects are tracked today. In the last 4 months: 1 Chinese crewed spacecraft was damaged, 2 Starlink satellites were compromised, and a $2.3bn “com...
Jason Puracal
ZILA is transforming hard-tech manufacturing with drastically cleaner, greener chemistry, while supporting rural communities.
Jason Schwartz
Ecellix is building a new class of silicon anode material designed to solve the battery industry’s core trade-off: higher performance without higher cost or manufacturing disruption. Ecellix offers advanced silicon-dominant anode materials for Li-ion batteries with up to 50% higher energy capacity. Being scalable, cost-effective produc...
Joshua Hitt
Hitt Power develops hybrid power storage technology to eliminate lead-acid batteries and chargers
Kevin Jablonski
The Happener is a web-based application for performers and venue to find each other at a local level for the purpose of bookings and promotions.
Thayne Kollmorgen
Thoron manufactures a fully integrated drone system where the aircraft, controllers, specialized sensors, and software are engineered to work together natively. This operator-first design removes the technical friction common in traditional flight, making complex industrial inspections both viable and consistently reliable for enterpri...
Keith McCall
We built Omniris, a geospatial data platform that ingests data from drones, satellites, and IoT devices. It structures that data into governed, AI-ready pipelines with full chain of custody and metadata indexing. Think of it as the data layer for the physical world.
Thanks to the organizers who put this event together.
Keith McCall
Keith McCall