TC MONTHLY

June '26

10 June 2026

SARATOGA · TECHNICAL CONSULTING COMMUNITY

Welcome to TC Monthly Meetup

Connecting ideas, inspiring innovation

Today is about sharing knowledge, sparking creativity, and fostering our community.

We're here to learn, collaborate, and grow together.

Agenda

01Updates & what you said last month10 min

02Lean Coffee30 min

03Pick next presenter2 min

04Code Crunch Challenge15 min

05Wrap-up & feedback5 min

SkillsBase

A quick nudge

Do your self-assessments

Keep your profile current. It's the basis for your competency journey and mentoring.

Book a session with your Mentor

Don't wait for the year-end push. Get 30 minutes in the diary and use it.

URL app.skills-base.com/o/saratogasoftware

Updates

01

Anthropic Claude Partner Network

22 Saratogans enrolled in CPN training; 8 completed Technical stream in May. Analyst stream rolling. Talk to an early completer if you're getting started.

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Industry pulse

Four stories from the past month worth knowing

Google I/O 2026

Gemini 3.5 — the agentic era

Frontier model launched specifically for agents and coding. Agentic is now the platform race, not a niche.

Karpathy

'Agentic engineering'

Karpathy rebranded 'vibe coding'. The discipline now has a name with rigour attached.

Airbnb

60% of new code is AI-written

Public benchmark from Airbnb's engineering org. The hypothetical just became measurable.

Strategic

AI labs in consulting

Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly buying engineering shops. The partner ecosystem just got more strategic.

What you said last month

Closing the loop

Average rating

3.6

out of 5

Keep doing

The quiz and the dad jokes.

What we're trying differently

Easier quiz questions this round — you said it, we heard.

Lean Coffee

Topics on the floor — you pick what we talk about.

01

Pitch a topic

Drop a sticky on the Whiteboard (link in chat). A few starter topics are already there to get us going.

02

Dot-vote

Three votes per person. Vote on the topics you want to hear about — your own counts.

03

Discuss

Top topic first, ~5 minutes. Thumbs up to keep going, sideways to wrap, down to move on.

04

Next topic

Repeat until time's up. We won't get through everything — that's fine.

Next presenter

Random selection. Can take any form.

Presentation

Like this one. Slides optional.

Lean coffee

Topics on the floor, dot-vote, discuss.

Demo / walkthrough

Show something you've been building.

Wildcard

Let your imagination run wild.

Developer Quiz · June '26

Code Crunch Challenge

15 minutes. Bring it.

Three ways to join

Scan the QR →

or visit menti.com/al6nbxqws4q6

or enter code 6631 4758 at menti.com

Scan to join

Warm-up question

One thing you've learned this month worth sharing?

One sentence each — go around the room.

Dad joke

Why did the developer go to therapy?

Too many unresolved promises.

THAT'S A WRAP

Thanks for being here.

See you next month.