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| 🤝 Our NY Tech Week Event | It was great to see so many familiar faces at our NY Tech Week event last week on Scaling Communities with AI! We had over 500 registrations and 120 participants joining in, mixing and mingling and sharing best practices and success stories on communities and AI. | Thanks to all of you who came! I hope you had a great time! | What I heard is that you want more events - so stay tuned and check out below for some first next events and soon to be more. | 📅 Upcoming Events in Town | Here you learn all about our own upcoming events as well as additional events in town with a focus on Artificial intelligence and how it can enhance your work and make it more productive. | Our own upcoming Events: | Fri, 13th Jun - 3 Tools, 3 Websites with AI in 1.5 hours - This is for non-technical professionals that want to gain knowledge into available tools of how to quickly build themselves a website with AI (online) Sun, 15th Jun - Women in AI Breakfast - Join us for a relaxed breakfast where we peer-share our learnings and best practices of how to use AI in our day-to-day to be more productive Tue, 17th Jun - June Summer Tech Mixer - Join us for a relaxed mixer where we bring founders, investors, operators and enthusiasts in the AI space together to share best practices, connect and grow together
| Other Events → Next Week: | Mon, 9th Jun - Negotiating a Future with AI and Us - This event is all about choices and perspectives. It asks questions of when and how we should interact with AI and how it shapes how we think, act and experience the world around us Mon, 9th Jun - Contrary NYC Tech Talk - Learn from early-stage startups on what they work on, including Graphite, Hebbia, Clay and Moment - some of NYC’s hottest AI startups Mon, 9th Jun - Going Beyond Hyperacceleration: AI Mixer - Have the feeling AI is moving too fast? Especially in regulated industries that base on trust and safety? Then this lightly moderated event sharing insights and learnings building in these spaces is for you Mon, 9th June - CryptoMondays (NYC) DeAI Featuring A Fireside Chat w/ Autonomys' Amik A. - This event is all about decentralized AI agents and features a fireside chat on AI scale data Tue, 10th June - AI Made Simple: 5 Steps to Smarter Business Growth - Learn how to use AI paired with Canva and co to boost your sales and attract more clients (in Queens, morning) Tue, 10th June - #NYTechWeek Post-NY AI/Tech Week Dinner - For all of you who have 10k+ followers on socials, this is a free ticket to a dinner event to connect without a specific agenda per see Wed, 11th June - Beyond The Frontier: Pioneering the Future Summit in NYC - A day of innovations including in and with AI and Robotics with various panels and speeches by industry experts from Google, Microsoft and co. (two days, $200+) Wed, 11th June - AI Safety Book Club - Reading the Alignment Problem - Are you interested in AI Safety and love reading? Then this event os for you, reading and discussing the Alignment Problem book by Brian Christian Wed, 11th June - Open Source AI in NYC - this is a technical event for developers including demos and talks from people at LM Studio and more Wed, 11th June - So You Have an AI Idea? What Founders Wish They Knew Before Launching【ERA × NEC X】- This event is for you if you want to pitch your startup, learn about accelerator programs and network in town - not specifically about AI, but pretty sure at least one startup is an AI one 😉 Wed, 11th June - Scaling Beyond Meta - Visit the Shopify NY Office to gain insights into new channels and tools to keep customer acquisition costs down in increasingly competitive markets for Shopify users and anyone else growing a business Wed, 11th June - From Models to Meaning: Quants @ Perplexity - This is for you when you are currently working in quantitative research, trading and data science and ant to explore how to move to AI, with speeches and networking Wed, 11th June - Doppel's Housewarming - Doppel just closed their series B round and celebrates with insights on how to detect malicious content across the web, insights and learnings fro the space plus some light bites Thur, 12th June - Scaling LLM Inference with RayServe and AWS Trainium - It’s getting technical in a hands-on workshop with AWS on scaling inference with networking afterwards Thur, 12th June - AI Agents NYC: Practical Insights & Strategies from Industry Leaders - Meet industry experts on AI agents and learn more on Multi-Agent systems, evaluating AI agents and the agentic enterprise through various presentations and networking opportunities Thur, 12th June - GenAI Salon: The Private Equity Value-Creation Playbook - This is only open for private equity leaders and leaders at PE-backed companies diving into real-world GenAI use cases from due diligence to generating new revenue streams Thur, 12th June - AI Meetup (June): Agentic AI - These are technical talks, this time about how to build AI agents for Customer support and making them reliable Thur, 12th June - Meetup "Exploring Agentic AI Together" in NYC - NY Tech Week is not fully over with this event with speakers of among others Google and the question of how to use Agentic AI best in our day and age Thur, 12th June - 🧠 AI Collective 🧠 NYC Demo Night 🚀 - It becomes increasingly difficult to decide which event to go to with this lineup of events - Experience up to 8 demos of innovative and cutting-edge AI products and companies paired with networking opportunities Fr, 13th June - ComfyUI Official NYC June Meet-Up - ComfyUIs meetups are all about video and AI and this time, it’s about image to motion with FLUX and WAN 14B Sat, 14th June - Deep tech and AI Power walk / part of Creators and Founders Power Walk - Join staaakes Powerwalk and burn some calories along the way paired with talks about the topics of the walk
| Week After: | Mon, 16th June - NYC Data Exploration with Plotly Python - This is a hands-on session (bring your laptop) for data visualizations with Python on a NYC dataset paired with discussions on members current AI and Python projects Tue, 17th June - Spark Meetup NYC - Present and future! - You enjoy big data and AI? Then this is for you with presentations on the future of big data engines, Spark and AI, networking and mingling Tue, 17th June - dbt Global Circuit: New York - This is for data professionals to learn about the latest tools for builders and to connect to peers in the field Wed, 18th June - The coolest Figma-less AI design workflow and fundraiser party of 2025 - You need to be a designer or UXler to attend, learning how to design AI-first and skip Figma altogether as well as playing some table tennis at SPIN afterwards ($45) Wed, 18th June - AI Circle x The Collective: Mentor Meet Up - This event brings young professionals interested in entrepreneurship and AI/ML with mentors in the field together to ask questions, learn from each other and network Wed, 18th Jun - 🧠 AI Collective NYC 🧠 x Justwork NYC: June Research Roundtable - Join in if you are interested in the latest research in GenAI, this time with university researchers in the fields of unexpected phenomenon in AI, vector embeddings and de-noising Wed, 18th June - June 2025 Video Tech NYC Meetup with Dolby OptiView - This event is all about video tech, including two speeches about AI Video Workflows for Content Personalization and Lessons Learned in the SGAI space
| After That: | Mon, 23rd June - Akash Accelerate 2025 - This all-day event is all about decentralized infrastructure with a long list of speakers from i.e. Softbank and Bagel AI and a Rooftop Happy Hour after the more formal part of the event Mon, 23rd June - A Night Of AI (8 speakers) Mini Tech Conference - This event features eight speakers from Google, Vercel and Okta on real-world AI implementations plus plenty of networkig opportunities Tue, 24th June - Google NY Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tech Talks, 24 Jun 2025 - If you in DevOps or an engineer and interested in vibe coding, human-computer interaction and incident handling automation, then this event and their interactive talks is for you Wed, 25th June - Women in AI and Data Science NYC: Dinner, Drinks, and Mingle - As the name suggests that is a mix and ingle event for women in AI and data science to connect and share best practices - open to all levels Thur, 26th June - AI Meetup (Asana): Agentic AI, LLMs Evaluation - Join when interested in how to evaluate LLMs response quality for Asana dev tools and expect a technical talk Fri, 27th June - 🧠 SignalFire Presents: Musa Labs Borough Blitz — NY vs The World - This is a 3-day hackathon for vibe coder, developer, founder, VCs and family offices building AI agents and pitching them to VCs, prices inlcuded Tue, 8th July - AI/ML Conversations Meetup: Production-Ready GenAI - These are more technical disucssions about AI, this time about how to deploy customer-facing LLMs paired with networking opportunities Tue, 8th July - The Fundamentals of Machine Learning - This is a technical discussion and learning session about AI processing of images, videos, time-series and classification Mon, 14th July - Vectors: Best Practices for a Nasty Data Type - If you ever wondered what vector databases are and how to use them jointly with PostgreSQL databases, then join for a deep dive into this theme and the implications for your AI and RAG systems
| 💡 The 3 Tools & 3 Steps that give you a personalized website in the blink of an eye | AI tools are everywhere, but the speed of new tools entering the market that help you to create your own websites is phenomenal. You focus on a deeper-dive project and a second later, another tool entered the market - and it often is better than the ones we saw before. | So here are 3 Tools and 3 Steps for how you can build our personalized website in the blink of an eye - almost 😉 | 3 Steps - Write - Create - Improve | Step 1: Write - From Broad to Specific | The first step is all about writing what you want. Write in an AI tool like Claude, DeepSeek or else, what you want to build and ask for a technical deep-dive implementation and user flows for what you want to build. | Review the technical implementation plan of the AI model of your choice and make edits where necessary. You can also include colors, fonts, content and co. When done, save your technical implementation plan. | Step 2: Create - Choose your Tool and get started | For your second step, choose your implementation tool (wait a second for ‘which one’), paste your implementation plan and see the magic happen. | Step 3: Improve - Make it better till you are happy | The third step is often the longest, but gets shorter the better you write down what you want to achieve in step 1. Here you talk to the model of your choice to fix what is not working as you wanted it and add more features - those that you did not include in your initial plan but realize that they are important. | Don’t overdo that step. You can easily end up in rabbit holes. Focus on the main minimal outcome you are happy with and then share your result with friends and clients. Only if there is traction, continue to fine-tune your website. | | 3 Tools - Manus, Lovable, Cursor | Manus - the latest tech stack addition | Manus came to my tech stack lately when I realized that they become strong in presentation creation that they can then easily turn into websites with the click of a button. Manus is great if you want to create a quick and easy visual website with little extra add-ons needed. | Lovable - the easy and yet powerful website builder | Lovable works great if you do not want to code yourself but still have a powerful stack, that allows you to not only create frontend (what you see as a user) websites, but also backend functionality (databases storing your data, functions to turn data into insights and more). When you are done with your website, you can either give the code to a developer to fine tune your website or you leave it as it is. Can handle a wide range of websites including member login, marketplaces and co. | Cursor - more powerful but less smooth design and steeper learning curve | Cursor is effectively a place where developers write code. But it has two effective additions that make it usable for non-techies that are willing to look at code. These are the Cursor AI agent and as a second add-on Claude Code. With these two, you have two powerful AI agents helping you create your website. And you make sure they build what you want to build. More powerful in its functionality, full control, but takes some time to not get overwhelmed with code everywhere 😉 | | | 🧠 AI Innovation Insights | Sharing insights and learnings from the last week on AI and what is going on in the space, new tools, ideas and learnings. | A paper that received widespread interest | Apple just published a paper that shows that AI models are excellent in pattern-finding, but fail miserably in reasoning and thinking - seems we are further away from AGI than often described - good news and my view: AI enhances our work, it does not take our work away - and yet, some view that paper also as a barrier soon to be overcome - let’s see how we view that paper and it’s reasoning in a year from now
| AI Tools I stumbled across that deserve a closer look | Hebbia - automates work in the finance industry. Takes tables and turn them into AI workflows. Graphite - for techies, shipping products faster to simplify the technical teamwork Momentic - Testing for building AI Apps - I learned the last weeks that testing is everything and troubleshooting can take very long, so that is super valuable Better Auth - Creating an authentication system/member login/logout is not as simple as it sounds and better auth solves that issue
| Ideas based on the insights of the week | PgDog (wondering why they picked that name ;)) can extend one’s PostgreSQL database → another idea: what if there is a PostgreSQL database that can not only be extended with pgvector for vector databases but also with graph databases and more? There are databases that do all like Surrealist DB, but particularly the graph transversals are not as powerful as using i.e. Neo4j (for all non-techie readers - that is a more techie idea ;)) Sim Studio makes building production AI Agents easier - like a Figma visual-design interface → what if we take it one step further and do not need cards to define the agents and bring them together, but abstract that a layer and have AI agents creating those cards and steps for us? So that we can speak to our AI agentic flow that we are building?
| Insights that lets you think deeper | | 🚀 Community Updates | Thanks again for everyone who joined our NY Tech Week event this week - it was a blast! And excited to meet you all again soon at one of our own or partner AI events in town. | Plus, we gained several new members this week, growing our community to 1100 members. Excited that you are onboard! | Plus love your feedback - if you have any, ideas to co-host events, want to get featured or want to sponsor an event - don’t hesitate and reach out. Love to hear from you! 🙂 | 👋 Business Opportunities | We are working intensively to bring you our latest product: NxtCRM AI - connecting you in the age of AI with a tool to makes it as easy and simple as having a personal Linkedin in your pocket - whenever you need it. For that, we are looking for the following support: | Want to help us build? We have open Engineering internship roles. Want to help us grow? Let us know and let’s have a 1:1. Want to tell us your story? We showcase you + you help us shape the product to your needs. Plus you get to test it first.
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