Date, time, venue, registration and both talks are locked. The demo list isn’t — it fills up on this page as people put their names down.
“Fake It Before You Make It: How Apple Designs AI Experiences Before the AI Exists”
How you design an experience around intelligence that does not exist yet — and why the prototype has to be convincing before anyone can judge whether the idea is worth building.
Mike ChopCo-Founder & CTO, Code Blue AI · ten years a designer at Apple, then Samsung
20 minutes
“I Built an AI Video Editor — HTCUT”
HTCUT is a free Mac app he calls “your AI video production team” — it cuts your own footage on your own machine, and Claude Code can drive the timeline. This is the build story, not a demo reel.
Hanley LeungCo-Founder, Taiso.AI and Lunatechs · software engineering leader at Apple, EA and Yahoo!
Built something? The first hour is yours.
Five minutes each, no slides needed — show the thing, not the deck. The full list is where you add yours, read every entry and send vibes on the night.
An evening for the people who make it worth using.
Product designers, brand and visual people, and the builders who care what happens after the mockup. AI will generate the thing. It won’t notice that the flow confuses people, that the empty state is bleak, or that it takes four taps where it should take one.
That noticing is the craft, and it did not get easier. Something genuinely good to use — quicker to understand, kinder when it breaks, occasionally even fun — is still a person deciding, over and over, what to take out. It is the difference between software that works and software somebody is glad to open.
Lunatechs is people who love this stuff — learning from each other, helping each other out, and building things that change the world. The work goes first here, basic questions are welcome, and nobody is selling you anything. No gatekeeping, no vendor pitch — just come design with us.
Demos first, then the keynote, then the room.
Three and a half hours, and the work goes first — you shouldn’t have to sit through an hour of slides before anyone shows anything real.
6:00
DoorsCome in, grab a seat, find someone you don’t know yet.
6:15
Welcome & lucky drawFifteen minutes. Who we are, what the night looks like, and a draw to open it — worth being on time for.
6:30
DemosLine-up TBDFifty-five minutes of them, five minutes each. Show the thing, not the slides — the room sends vibes as you go.
7:25
BreakFifteen minutes. Stretch, and go talk to whoever just demoed.
7:40
Keynote — Mike ChopTwenty minutes. “Fake It Before You Make It: How Apple Designs AI Experiences Before the AI Exists.”
8:00
Talk — Hanley LeungFifteen minutes. “I Built an AI Video Editor — HTCUT.” Co-Founder of Taiso.AI and Lunatechs.
8:15
SocialUntil 9:30. The part where the useful conversations actually happen.
Bring a laptop and something unfinished.
Designers
Product, brand, visual, motion — anyone whose job just got a new set of tools.
Builders
Engineers and founders shipping the things designers draw. First-timers welcome.
The curious
No portfolio required. Come and see what people are actually making.
Compass Offices, 9 Queen’s Road Central.
Right in Central, a few minutes from Central station. Free to attend. Exact floor and door instructions go out with your registration. No food or drinks this time — eat before you come.
Songqi SunGuest organizer · creative designer
An HCI researcher, UX designer and game designer. He has worked on
UX design for Universal Beijing Resort, with AI startups, and on serious game design
for the United Nations.
Hanley LeungLunatechs Hong Kong
Co-Founder of Taiso.AI and Lunatechs, and an ex-Apple software
engineering manager. He runs the Hong Kong chapter — and is speaking tonight.
Lunatechs Hong Kong hosts the night. Compass Offices gives it a room — they don’t co-present it.
Want to speak, or sponsor the night?
Built something? The demo list is open to anyone — just add yourself, no invitation needed. For a talk at one of these, or to put your name on the evening alongside Compass, tell us what you have in mind.
info@lunatechs.social