Our own next event is coming up on the 25th of Sept 🗽🚀

Upcoming NYC AI Events in the next 2-3 weeks 🤖🗽

Cool Stuff we Learned About this week 🧠💡

NYC AI+ Community Updates 🚀😍 

Tue, 10th Sept: AI/ML Conversations Meetup: Vision Transformers and Multi-Modal AI - A technical Meetup to mix and mingle and learning about core mechanisms behind Multi-Modal AI and Vision Transformer with BatchNorm

Tue, 10th Sept: GenAI Collective NYC Research Roundtable - Join a Panel Discussion around the latest insights into AI Research plus the chance to mix and mingle with fellow participants

Tue, 10th Sept: AI Founders meet C-Level Executives - Join an exclusive evening where AI Founders meet C-Level executives from a leading European media company

Tue, 10th Sept: ML Engineering Happy Hour, hosted by Work-Bench and Runhouse - Join a technically focused group of ML Engineers to mix and mingle

Wed, 11th Sept: AI Camp AI Workshop: Building Enterprise-ready GenAI Applications - Technical Workshop with Zain Hasan from Weaviate

Wed, 11th Sept: Yuval Noah Harari on the Power of Truth in the Age of AI - Listen to a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari on his new book Nexus and his take on AI at the intersection of power, truth, and humanity ($150, $25 per livestream)

Thu, 12 Sept: AI Research Summit - An afternoon of talks for AI researchers tapping into new frontiers in AI research and how to use AI for the research process itself

Thu, 12th Sept: Talking AI: Tech’s Impact on Our Future - Join a mixture of morning talks of how AI imacts the future in areas like finance, knowledge management and retail

Fri, 13th Sept: Founder’s Friday (9/13): Genevieve Bellaire of Realworld ($7M from Bezos, Techstars, Fitz Gate) - Join a morning fireside chat with the founder of Realworld, a copilot and “life manager” for young adults managing adulthood

Fri, 13th Sept: Hack-AI-Thon Hosted by Bagel - This is the kick-off event of a multi-day hackathon for AI engineers, researchers, data scientists and technical writers working on challenge statements focused on creating high-performance AI solutions

Mon, 16th Sept: Graph & AI Happy Hour - Join for a casual meetup about knowledge graphs, RAG, LLMs and AI

Tue, 17th Sept: AI Founder Social @Maxwell Social - Join a group of AI founders mxing and mingling, sharing ideas and best practices and unwind

Tue, 17th Sept: The AI Advantage in Cybersecurity: Startup Grind feat. Tiffany Ricks (HacWare) - Hear from Tiffany sharing her experience building HacWare and how to leverage AI to stay ahead

Tue, 17th Sept: Scaling the Future of Language AI - Learn from DeepL and their VP of Engineering and Research, CTO and Director of Product how to scale Language AI.

Wed, 18th Sept: NYC AI Users - AI Talks, Demo & Social: Low/No Code AI and LLM Pipelines - Learn how to use Make to build low-code AI applications and how to build an LLM product from the ground up, and mix and mingle with other AI enthusiasts

Wed, 18th Sept: The AI Hot 100 Conference by AI Furnace - enjoy a day of talks, workshops and discussions all about AI, explore and connect to some of the hottest AI startups in town ($249+)

Wed, 18th Sept: Unstructured Data in LLMs - Listen to three talks on unstructured data and generative AI and how to apply that to various use case - technical meetup, good if you are familiar with code

Wed, 18th Sept: Lessons in AI: Irish NY AI Leaders Predictions - Join a group of AI leaders from Google, Casper Labs and Co to learn about the future of AI (near capacity)

Thu, 19th Sept: LLM Hallucination and how to mitigate it in Financial Reporting - Talking about various forms of LLM Hallucinations and Research in the AI Finance Space

Thu, 19th Sept: ODSC & Google Cloud AI Meetup - Listen to a talk by Rukma Sen, an AI Product Marketer at Google followed by a Q&A session

Thu, 19th Sept: Building Intelligence (Perkins and Will) - Discuss how to use AI in AEC workflows and architectural design and build real-world applications

Thu, 19th Sept: AI Camp Meetup: AI, LLMs, ML and Data Meetup - Technical evening with talks about unstructured data and vector databases and tailoring foundation models for generative AI applications

Thu, 19th Sept: AI Across Sectors: Breaking Silors, Building Bridges - Join an afternoon of discussions and practical applications of AI across a range of fields to come up with fresh ideas and collaborate to use AI for good

Thu, 19th Sept: VC Presents: Discussions on AI - Listen to three panel discussions on Creative Storytelling with AI, Adapting AI in Video Journaling, and best practices for AI in Archival Use and Documentary Filmmaking

Fri, 20th Sept: Harnessing Data Quality for AI-Driven Success - Join speakers like a Business Analyst from VISA to discuss how to infuse AI into data processes

Mon, Sept 23rd: Sustainable Cloud Computing and AI - Join an afternoon filled with talks and presentations on Sustainable AI Research and Work as part of New York Climate Week

Tue, Sept 24th: Climate Week - Founder Dinner - feat. Christina Shim, IBM’s Chief Sustainability Officer - Not only is Christina the Chief Sustainability Officer at IBM, but she also serves at IBM’s AI Ethics board. There will be a brief interview with her followed by mixing and mingling

Wed, Sept 25th: AI Agents: Should you believe the Hype - Join a panel discussion of a VC Partner, COO, Product Lead and more about the opportunities and pitfalls of AI Agents

Wed, Sept 25th: The AI+THE SELF Mix & Mingle and Happy Hour Event - Join us at our own event to mix and mingle and sharing best practices and ideas about AI, the future of AI and AI tools related to AI and the Self.

Wed, Sept 25th: 100 Years of AI with Dr Alok Aggarwal @NYAS - Listen to a discussion of Dr. Aggarwal and his book about AI, why AI is only a tool and how it touches every aspect of our lives ($25)

Wed, Sept 25th: OffChain NYC: Exploring AI, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency - Network and discuss about the latest advancements in AI, emerging technologies and the potential of blockchain and smart contracts

Thu, Sept 26th: GenAI Collective NYC x Fractal Tech: AI Lightning Talks - Learn about challenges and innovations in AI based on various talks, that by experience are more on the technical side of things

Thu, 26th Sept: Building Better AI: Enhancing LLM Safety and Relevance with Arize and Pinecone - Join a fireside chat and tech talks by the Co-Founders of Arize and Pinecone to stay at the forefront of LLM tooling - for AI Practitioners

Thu, Sept 26th: AI for Good Health: Transforming Data into Decisions and Outcomes - Enjoy a day filled with discussions, keynotes and panel discussions of how to use AI in healthcare

Thu, 26th Sept: Data in Power - Climate Week - Connect over small-group discussions on the power of data and AI and the distribution of decision-making power

Thu, 26th Sept: Explore the Future of App Innovation wht the Ultimate Multi-Modal Database - This event touches upon how to use SurrealDB for various use cases, including scaling it for GenAI - this is technical

Thu, 26th Sept: Harnessing Data Quality for AI-Driven Success - Join a panel of speakers like Tim Wong from Visa to learn about how the latest advancements of AI improve data processes

Thu, 26th Sept: New AI/ML Database Architecture Innovations → +Caviar/Cheese/Drinks/Giveaways! - Learn from presentations and demos how the newest database architecture innovations can drive AI/ML applications

Thu, 26th Sept: Round 6 - Take part in intros, trivia and talks around what happens when Artificial Intelligence is not working as expected and the ethical considerations around AI applications

Sat, 28th Sept: Owning your Audience on Youtube with AI - Join an interactive and practical workshop on how to use AI to build an grow your Youtube channel and mix and mingle with fellow creators

Mon, 30th Sept: Workestration: Working across human, digital and physical workplaces - Discuss the evolving nature of distributed work, where it is not only about where to work, but also who is doing the work - humans or AI

Tue, 1st Oct: Bringing ML Driven Drug Discovery to the Fragrance Industry - Learn how large virtual libraries have revolutionized molecular discovery in the drug discovery space

Tue, 1st Oct: Product & Engineering Night @DDM - Product Track - Learn about product management in the AI era, mix and mingle and meet the DDM team

Wed, 2nd Oct: Mindstone AI NY Meetup - Listen to technical talks on how to use AI in a variety of contexts and mix and mingle afterwards

Thu, 3rd Oct: The GenAI Social - NYC 2024 - Mix and mingle with fellow AI visionaries in a discrete cocktail location

Tue, 8th Oct: AI in Architecture: Disruption and Opportunity - Listen to a design partner at TPG architecture of how they use AI in their New York practice and what AI will create and destroy

Wed 9th Oct: Building GenAI Applications using MognoDB and Microsoft Azure - Learn about the most up-to-date tools for modern AI-driven development in 3 presentations, expect this to be for a technical or technical-interested audience

Thu, 10th Oct: GenAI Connect: The Humanization of AI - Learn from a Panel of AI Leaders about the effects of AI Humanization on especially customer experience, patient experience and mental health crisis

Tue, 15th Oct: Brooklyn Tech Fair “Fall4AI” - Take part in a day of mix and mingling, an exhibition and seminars about various AI advancements and innovations (up to $75)

Thu, 17th Oct: BrowserStack QA Meetup New York - Join in for 2 sessions on AI driven QA and Machine Learning Model Testing and Validation - this is for QA professionals

Sun, 27th Oct: NYC Visual AI Hackathon - Join this ML hackathon for beginner to advanced tracks with deep dive tech talks, workshops and prizes for the winners

Tue, 29th Oct: AMZ Innovate 2024 - Participate in a 2-day event for TikTok, Shopify, Amazon, and Sellers as well as AI enthusiasts and learn how to to move the needle in 2024 ($700+)

Mon, Nov 4th: Decentralized Artificial Intelligence - A full day of talks, discussions and networking around blockchains and AI ($199)

Do you want to solve a complex problem? OpenAIs model o1-preview came out last week and if you are a pro user you can try it out. If you do so, make sure to pick a complex and complicated topic and try to solve it with ChatGPT - it works great on complex problems (think PhD physics level), not so great on small ones, there ChatGPT-4 is better suited.

Want to create an AI podcast from your notes? Then try NotebookLM from Google. We tried it, uploading notes about Customer Success and getting a full FAQ, Study Outline and an interesting podcast discussion on the matter. 😄 

For all fashionistas reading this newsletter! You want to virtually try-on new clothing before buying it online? Then use Kolors - Pick a person, pick a T-shirt or other clothing piece, and ready you are.

Ankur is building Multimodal - A GenAI company automating complex workflows.

Ba Khai Tran is growing Y42 - A data orchestration platform with embedded observability

Eve Halimi together with Anam Lakhani are building Alinea Invest - An investment app for beginners that is coming with a newly designed AI assistant as well