Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into New York.
Pioneering Minds AI: Hack for Impact will bring teams together for a one-day hackathon to redesign real-world workflows as AI-native products, agents, and systems. Participants will tackle challenges including critical thinking and learning, with winning teams eligible for a Pitching Masterclass to refine their product story and pitch.
Explore eventNYU’s AI Innovation Accelerator will showcase five Seoul-based startups through live demos and interactive activations, giving attendees a firsthand look at emerging products and a chance to share feedback with founders. The evening will also feature Korean food and drinks, product giveaways, and networking with entrepreneurs, industry professionals, and the NYU community.
Explore eventTA and HR leaders will trade practical hiring insights over breakfast, with a roundtable on the hardest roles they’re trying to fill and time for peer networking. The conversation will be led by Fonzi AI co-founder Brett Martin, also managing partner at Charge Ventures, whose portfolio includes 70+ companies.
Explore eventZenity Labs’ AI Agent Security Summit will explore real-world threats, attacker tactics, AI agent architecture, and defenses beyond the perimeter, featuring local speakers and original security research. The program is designed for security engineers, senior practitioners, AI researchers and developers, and CISOs and security leaders.
Explore eventMonk will host Net30, an applied AI summit bringing together 150 CFOs, operators, founders, and researchers to explore AI-driven finance, cash flow as a growth metric, and the evolving strategic finance role. Speakers will include leaders from AI-native companies and established operators deploying agentic finance at Fortune 500 scale.
Explore eventVaultSpeed NEXT will bring data leaders together for a hands-on workshop on building governed, machine-readable data foundations for AI agents, followed by VaultSpeed product news, a Thomson Reuters customer story, expert talks, and a panel. Designed for CEOs, CIOs, CTOs and their teams responsible for data platforms, governance, or AI strategy, the complimentary one-day event will conclude with networking.
Explore eventAI and open-source practitioners will share practical lessons on bringing agents into production, from CI/CD loops and agentic code review to observability, security, and governance. CircleCI AI Lab Senior Developer and Community Lead Ryan Hamilton will present research on building agent loops that deliver green PRs, alongside a panel featuring experienced voices from Qodo, Port, and Isovalent.
Explore eventDouble Diamond will bring together Runway co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer Alejandro Matamala Ortiz, Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi, and Little Plains product lead Alex Leiphart to discuss designing and building with AI and emerging intelligence. The evening will feature conversations with leaders whose work spans creative AI tools, human-computer interfaces, and intelligence-native brand systems.
Explore eventTech Table Talk will bring together women shaping technology, media, commerce, and AI for an intimate dinner and candid conversations about what’s next. The evening will feature a fireside discussion with Randi Gray, Head of IT at MERIT Beauty, and Allie Joy Tsahey, CEO of Baddies in Tech, exploring how emerging technology is changing how people discover, create, shop, and engage.
Explore eventArtist Elaine Byrne will discuss PLAN C, her ongoing research project examining what’s missing from dominant accounts of our AI.
Explore eventAI Builder Night will bring together about 200 developers for hands-on conversations and a panel on building, shipping, and securing AI agents, featuring Marianne Bekker, 1Password’s Director of Developer Relations. Attendees will explore practical agent workflows and credential safety while connecting with builders from communities including Founders Bay, a 250,000+ member network, and The Builder Series, with 60,000+ members.
Explore eventThe discussion will explore what’s next in AI infrastructure, from GPU compute and Physical AI to governance, autonomous systems, and enterprise adoption. Speakers will bring expertise from NVIDIA, IBM, Deloitte, Verizon 5G Labs, and AI infrastructure consulting, alongside experience in enterprise governance and national AI readiness.
Explore eventWomen leaders in AI and business will explore how to manage teams with integrity as AI reshapes work, sharing practical lessons and perspectives on emerging tools and ethical challenges. The discussion will feature analytics leader Sarah Dorfmann of Affirm, product executive Melissa Hsu of Revinate, portfolio management head Jane Lee, MS, of Ethic, and moderator Samantha Provenza, Design Director at Ticketmaster.
Explore eventGet ready to dive deep into AI engineering with industry professionals exploring practical applications like long-running agents and sandbox environments, followed by networking over pizza with fellow builders and innovators in the space.
Explore eventObvious’s applied AI research team will lead a free, 10+ hour hackathon where teams build autonomous software factories, learning to coordinate agent swarms, automate QA, and ship larger features safely. Teams will compete for more than $30,000 in Obvious Fusion credits while working in an Obvious.ai workspace with unlimited tokens.
Explore eventAn upcoming event will be hosted by the DSI Foundations Center, Columbia University’s Department of Statistics, and Columbia Engineering, bringing together expertise in data science, statistics, and engineering.
Explore eventUgly Talk will bring founders together for candid discussions of costly mistakes, setbacks, resilience, and practical ways to respond when things go sideways. The program will feature a keynote from Ben McKean, Hungryroot founder and CEO and former Groupon vice president and general manager, followed by a founder panel and audience Q&A.
Explore eventvCluster and SemiAnalysis will bring AI infrastructure operators from cloud providers, labs, and financial services together for candid discussion on building reliable, isolated, multi-team GPU platforms, from bare metal to managed Kubernetes and Slurm. SemiAnalysis will share market insights as peers compare real-world infrastructure challenges.
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