🤖💡 Upcoming NYC AI Events [9/15- 9/22 + AI Insights + AI Fundraising & Products 🧠🚀🌆

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In this Newsletter Edition, we cover:

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

• Cool Stuff we Learned About this week 🧠💡

• NYC AI+ Community Updates and 5 Events of our own 🚀😍 

🗽🤖💡 Upcoming NYC AI Events [9/15 - 9/22] 🧠🚀🌆

Next Week: 

• Mon, 15th Sept: Peace by Design: AI & Tech @ Microsoft Times Square - This event is all about how to use safe AI to accelerate the sustainable goals of the UN (12pm)

• Tue, 16th Sept: ODSC & Google Cloud AI Meetup in New York City - Join and listen to talks on AI agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol) and vibe coding

• Tue, 16th Sept: Mastering AI Agents with Qodo - This is a hands-on workshops learning to build Python-based AI Agents with MCP

• Wed, 17th Sept: Data Driven NYC - Listen to presentations on AI for accountants, AI for trend analysis and secure AI for the Fintech industry

• Wed, 17th Sept: Databases in the AI Trenches - This talk is about PostgreSQL plus insights into semantic/vector search and RAG

• Thu, 18th Sept: Internet of Agents Hacker House - An AI + Web3 Hackathon to connect, build, and learn

• Thu, 18th Sept: MCP Server Builder Series - September Session (NYC) - Listen to hands-on talks and live demos on Model Context Protocol from leaders at among others DigitalOcean and Apollo (Note: 4pm)

• Thu, 18th Sept: NYC AI Demos #3 - Check out exciting AI demos and learn about new AI products on the market

• Thu, 18th Sept: AI Meetup (September): GenAI LLMs and Agent - This is a technical meetup discussing GenAI, LLM and code

• Fr, 19th Sept: low rank adapters: AI Art Walk - Talk AI, art and creativity at this Whitney Museum guided art tour with daisy’s AI tools for artistic expression

• Sat, 20th Sept: The INTERNET OF AGENTS HACKATHON @SOLANA SKYLINE - Join for a 2-day hackathon to build at the intersection of Web3 + AI

• Sun, 21st Sept: TechnoMirage - Join an afternoon of Reclaim, Reimagine and Rewire asking questions like “What stories does AI erase—and which ones can we reclaim?” ($25)

• Sun, 21st Sept: A Crash Course in MCP: A Beginners Guide Using TypeScript - Hop over to Queens for an hour of learning Model Context Protocol (4pm)

The Week After:

• Mon, 22nd Sept: Climate Tech Demo Series - AWS, Collab Fund, Streetlife Ventures - Not only AI, demos for Climate startups - its Climate Tech Week (9am)

• Mon, 22nd Sept: The 10-Year Future: AI, Energy, and Carbon Pricing - Listen to a panel discussion on energy for the age of AI from a VC, asset management perspective (4pm)

• Mon, 22nd Sept: AI Agents Hackathon - Building autonomous AI agents (mid to senior level), with a special invite for women to join and women leaders in the panel

• Tue, 23rd Sept: Building an Unconventional Tech Career with Parth Detroja at Lumos House - Listen to Andrew Yeung interviewing Parth Detroja for his career journey from Pair AI founder, AI patent holder and PM course creator

• Tue, 23rd Sept: WiMLDS: 3-Part AI Workshop - Bootcamp #2: Advanced LLMs [RAG & Agentic AI] - This is part two of a 3-part series talking about Agentic AI and real-world applications of it

• Tue, 23rd Sept - Windsurf Vibe Competition - Create a website/web app i this challenge of no-code teams with AI coding tools vs coders without AI coding tools 😉 

• Wed, 24th Sept: Learn How the Best AI Companies Go from 0 → 🚀 - Growth Lessons & Hacks from Stripe, Databricks, and Alamanx by NYC Founders Club - Learn from leaders on real-world use cases and applications of AI

• Wed, 24th Sept: HRF x PubKey: Bitcoin and AI w/ Matt Ahlborg - Join this presentation if you want to know more about the connect of Bitcoin and AI

• Thu, 25th Sept: RAID 6: Talks on Research, AI, and Design - Join a mixed crowd speaking about AI via relations and new data economy

• Thu, 25th Sept: AI Collective NYC x Eden @ Fractal Tech: AI Lightning Talks - Join in to listen to talks on innovations in AI or suggest to speak yourself 

After that:

• Mon, 29th Sept: Machine Learning and Sorting - This is a technical/mathematical meetup on sorting in machine learning and discussing a paper and its practical implications

• Mon, 29th Sept: From Demos to Durable AI: A Fireside Chat with Arize’s Aman Khan - Join this fireside chat turning AI experiments into products

• Tue, 30th Sept: -1 to Surge AI with Edwin Chen - Want to know how Edwin grew Surge AI to over $1B in revenue? Then listen to this fireside chat

• Wed, 1st Oct: NYC B2B x J.P. Morgan: Startup Founder Mixer - Not all AI in this mixer and yet you for sure will find folks talking AI 😉 

• Wed, 1st Oct: October Tech Rooftop Mixer (Hosted by Andrew Yeung, The Hustle & Superpower) - AI, tech and testing Boardy AI for you to better find those you should most talk to

• Thu, 2nd Oct: Cursor Meetup New York - Demos, vibe-coding and all things Cursor and building with Cursor

• Fri, 3rd Oct: AI x Deep Tech Connect Lunch | NVIDIA Inception, Dell Technologies Capital, Global Venture Network - Join for a morning of networking and discussions on how Corporate partnerships can accelerate startup growth (10am)

• Tue, 7th Oct: AI/ML Conversations Meetup: TBD - Technical discussions on AI and ML in Manhattan

• Wed, 15th Oct: NY AI Engineers: Aug Tech Talk w/ OpenRouter Presenting - This monthly meetup is for AI engineers packed with 3 speeches, this time by the founding engineer of OpenRouter and more to come

• Thu, 13th Nov: Longevity NYC: AI x Bio Speaker Night - Learn about age biomarkers, longevity and new research at the intersection of AI and health sciences

💡 Cool Stuff we learned about last week 🧠🚀🌆

Three things we learned about last week

• AI Coding for Non-Coders Note: Lovable (AI Coding platform for non-coders) is even more powerful when you connect it to external tools - i.e. via DigitalOcean Droplets (i.e. Ghost CMS via Marketplace or Neo4j Database) - there are basically almost no barriers anymore for any kind of application to build without having to write code (scroll down for our own event on how to build with Lovable)

• RAG, GraphRAG, more RAG: Read an interesting article about different RAG (retrieval augmented generation) systems and how with AI and multi-step workflows we are able to create new systems of Agentic Learning Graphs and Multimodal / OmniRAG combining various forms of input like text, images and voice

• On Reasoning better with AI: AI loves rabbit holes and will follow you wherever you want to (consciously or unconsciously) lead the AI. If you want unbiased information, give the AI a system prompt a la “Always show me both sides of an argument. And when I love one side, deliberately share both sides and lean towards not my side. Point that out.” - You can play with the prompts. The more you make sure the AI sees more than one perspective, the more you keep your critical and objective skills and AI has less chances to run into rabbit holes.

Cool AI Projects / Products we found in the NYC AI Ecosystem last week and tools that we use each day

• Karolina Kaylani (Fedorowicz) is building RIFT - A spatial geolocation infrastructure enabling precise, privacy-first location experiences, for example for bikes, tourism, transportation

• Whisk, Google’s AI Image creator - Different from Gemini’s normal one, more focused. Mixing it with Image AI prompts written by Claude and you get powerful images

We want to highlight more NYC AI Startups, Projects, and Tools that move the needle! Let us know if you work on something cool and innovative right now! 😄

🚀🎯 Fundraising, Jobs, Invest Opportunities 🌆📈

• m + a (mentors and angels) accelerator is open for applications - If you identify as an overlooked founder, the m + a accelerator might be exactly what you are looking for - mentorship. networks. fund raising. Application Deadline is the 15th of Oct 2025

💡 Community Updates & Own Events 🧠🚀🌆

We are hosting 5 Online Events in the next three weeks!

• AI + Lovable - How to build a landing page with Lovable, Framer and Cursor

• AI + Gemini - Diving into the Power of Gemini and Google Lab Tools

• AI + Reasoning - Learn how to improve the Reasoning of an AI (non-technical)

• AI + Morning Chat - Curated Women in AI Morning Chat

• AI + Prompting - Techniques and Tips and Tricks to get better results

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