Startup Events in United States

Join fellow USC Marshall & Leventhall alumni for happy hour on the third Wednesday of each month in Downtown L.A.at Hatch at the Bloc ! Socialize, share stories, and expand your network in a relaxed and welcoming environment. We can't wait to see you there! Fight on! COST: Early Bird (Up to Sunday before): $40 General Admission & Walk-In: $45 Tickets include admission, appetizers, and two drinks . RSVP early - Space is Limited! PARKING INSTRUCTIONS: There are several entrances to enter the BLOC parking structure. For Self Parking: - The main entrances are on SOUTH HOPE ST or WEST 8TH ST (These entrances will take you up to the 4th Level & Up) 1st Hour- $1.00 2nd Hour- $2.50 3rd Hour- $4.00 For Valet Parking: - The main entrance are on SOUTH FLOWER ST (Please follow the signs to locate the valet area down below)Hatch offers discounted validation for up to 3 hours. 2nd Hour- $8.00 3rd Hour- $12.00 Please be advised after 3 hours, the rate will return to the normal pay structure of $3.50 for every 10 minutes. (The max being $44.00 for the whole day). To validate, simply give your parking ticket to a staff member who will validate your ticket with the validation machine located by the register.

Open models are improving faster than most teams can evaluate them. Every release introduces new capabilities, new tradeoffs, and new decisions around inference, fine-tuning, serving, and production performance. Together with Gradient and Google DeepMind, we’re bringing AI engineers, researchers, technical founders, and open-source builders together in San Francisco to build with the latest open models, compare approaches, and see how they perform on real problems. Agenda 9:30 AM – Doors Open 9:45 AM – Kickoff 11:00 AM – Hack 1:30 PM – Lunch 4:30 PM – Demos 7:00 PM – Closing + Awards Hosted by: Gradient - The seed fund designed for founders in AI. Lambda - The GPU cloud built for AI. Lambda provides on-demand compute for training, fine-tuning, and inference at scale, and is powering this hackathon with cloud credits for all participants. Nango - The API platform for AI agents. Nango gives your agents production-ready tools and integrations with hundreds of external services through a single API. Respan - The AI gateway for inference. Respan routes, evaluates, and optimizes your model calls across providers — one endpoint for building with open models. GDM Gemma - Gemma is the most capable open models from Google Deepmind Note: This event is fully in-person in San Francisco. Capacity is strictly limited. All attendees must apply and be approved prior to the event. Unapproved or pending applicants will not be admitted at the door. Maximum team size is four. See what’s possible. Follow us on X · LinkedIn · Newsletter

Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, operators and creators together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and more conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer—pets, friends, family, are welcome. ​​🗓️ Launched in San Francisco, July 16, 2022 🌍 Now in 60+ cities 📅 Running + Networking events + Community ​​Join the community https://heylo.group/frc-sf ​Follow us: Instagram http://instagram.com/foundersrc/ Podcast https://podcast.foundersrc.com LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/ Strava http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC Website http://foundersrc.com/ Chats http://foundersrc.com/chats

Join us for an intimate evening of installations, wearables, and sushi at AGI Inc. Come see the tactile, immersive work designers are exploring right now — from touch design to painting to hardware you can wear. A showcase from designers at Google, YouTube, Netflix, and AGI. Come curious, leave inspired. Featured Presenters Schedule Details RSVP here — we’ll ask about any dietary restrictions as part of registration.

Claude & Pickleball: Log off. Rally on. Put your agent in a loop and come hang out in real life. We’re getting the Claude community together for pickleball, a picnic and an afternoon outside. New to pickleball? You belong here. We’re planning a beginner group with a quick introduction, low-pressure practice and friendly games. Intermediate players can join a casual mini-tournament and rotate through their own games. You’re also welcome to skip the courts and enjoy the picnic. We’ll have some food, music and yard games. Bring a chair or picnic blanket, water and sun protection. Have a paddle? Bring it along. Feel free to bring a snack or something to share, but you don’t need to bring food to attend. This is a relaxed community hangout. Come meet the people behind the projects, get a few rallies in and spend an afternoon away from your screen. Location: Newport Coast Community Center Courts Want to help beginners get started? We’re looking for two friendly volunteers to teach the basics and help run games. Reply to the host if you’re interested.

A fun and light code session where tech friends get together in a large and relaxed café space, and code! Bring your laptop (or another coding device of choice) for a great opportunity to ask questions, share ongoing projects, help each other out, and meet other awesome coders. We're all about the code, and we hope to make a space for people who like to build. Notes to keep in mind: \Guest wireless internet access is good and free Come out and work, help, or just hang out! Links: Site: codephilly.com Donate: https://hcb.hackclub.com/donations/start/code-and-coffee-philadelphia Merch: https://nol-kky-shop.fourthwall.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-coffee-philadelphia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phillycodes/

We are now on Luma! Go ahead and register to our Luma event. DC Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. It's community-led and community-run by devs, for devs. People of all skill levels attend. Whether you’re dev-curious, aspiring, or a professional developer, we’d love to have you! Come chat or learn to code on a Sunday afternoon with coffee and cool-inclusive people. Bring your laptop! We typically meet every month on the weekend. Join our online community! For all things Tech in DC and to get latest updates and tech events from the DMV area, join the DCTech Slack. All DC Code & Coffee announcements are in the #dccodecoffee channel How it works Near the beginning of the event, we do an introduction circle. You say your name, what you can help others with, and what you would like help with. You can also share job opportunities. After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized.

Stop making AI slop. Make a short AI film in one day, then screen it that night. This practical masterclass teaches you to direct AI like a film director. You will work on story, camera choices, visual consistency, editing, sound, and delivery. Start from here: During the morning session, Roan Weigert will show the full production process. You will apply it during the afternoon hackathon with support from AI filmmakers, technical partners, and other participants. What your ticket includes A two-hour AI filmmaking masterclass A hands-on team hackathon Access to current image and video generation tools Support from partners working with frontier AI models A public film screening, judging, and awards Sponsored AI credits that you can use during the event and afterward Full online course access, valued at $897 Food and beverages (lunch from Sabor Gaúcho Prime Brazilian Steakhouse) Roan has directed more than 1,600 videos for 480+ companies across 6 countries. View his US portfolio and Brazil portfolio. His work has appeared on television, radio, in print, and online in the US and Brazil. He has published academic research, written a book about world models and video production, and produced viral videos. He also hosts the AI Insights San Francisco podcast. Roan is the DevRel AI Lead at GMI Cloud. He works directly with AI labs and tests video generation models before many of them reach public release. Partners from AI labs will demonstrate their technology and help teams during the hackathon. Sponsors will provide thousands of dollars in top AI tool credits for participants to use during the event and afterward, so they can continue creating. What you will learn How to direct a model instead of relying on longer prompts How film language controls framing, lenses, lighting, and movement How to write stronger hooks and pace a short story How to keep characters, products, and visual styles consistent How to combine generated scenes with recorded footage How to edit, add m

Low-key in-person meetup for people who are either in tech, interested in starting a career in tech, or love playing with tech as a hobby. The meeting is at Whole Foods in Kaka'ako, in the outside cafe seating. More info on the Honolulu Tech Network website: There's usually no real set topic, often people ask what we talk about so here's a sampling of common topics: AI ChatGPT Career stuff Other tech communities and events 3D printing VR/AR Web development Agile What places exist in Honolulu and where they are Renewable energy

Join us for the RETURN OF IN PERSON meetups; Join our Slack and introduce yourself in our #DTLA channel! Free parking is usually available earlier in the meetup time, but there are paid structures and free parking along the side streets. Seating can be limited, so the earlier you arrive, the better chance you'll find a free parking spot on the street and a seat with a chair back. We try to be as accommodating as the venue allows us, but we are operating on a "first come, first serve" basis. --- Join our weekly Sunday meetup to work on projects, learn and socialize together! There are no formal lesson plans or teachers, but we're all here to help one another. Beginners are always welcome! LearnTeachCode resource page: Join our community Discord server: Join our community Slack group: Check out all other upcoming events: As a participant, make sure to read and follow the LTC Code of Conduct: ====================What to bring: === Your coding device of choice (but probably not your home desktop)! Any books, pen/paper, whiteboards, or whatever you need to study or work. Your curiosity and excitement for learning, teaching, and coding with new friends! ======================================== Want to get more involved? We always need more help! You can help with or host a study group, provide mentorship, or volunteer for other fun stuff. Let us know on Discord, in Slack or speak to one of the meeting hosts in person!

This event is organized in collaboration with many other groups. Look for the MEETUP sign! Organizational Sponsors: Create Your App in Minutes! Visit: Email marketing for FREE! Visit: Grow Your Instagram Fam Base with InstaChamp by Mobile Monkey! Visit: Look for the MEETUP sign! Come out and meet new people! Network, socialize and connect! This event is free to attend. Please register here: Attendees must purchase their own liquid refreshments and food. There's no content or speaker at this event -- just business and social networking. Build your business and social network - face to face! (in-person) Come out and enjoy a great evening of good food, liquid refreshments, and connecting. You may meet your next business collaborator, client, employer, employee, friend, or tennis partner! Getting away from a screen for a few hours will do you some good! : -) Meet Silicon Valley movers and shakers - Internet entrepreneurs, developers, engineers, mobile app coders, attorneys, bloggers, academics, financiers, marketing professionals, community organizers and investors. This event is organized in collaboration with other groups! @ideatoipo www.idea-to-ipo.com (videos of online events) Look for the MEETUP sign!

Official registration link: https://luma.com/claude-u86r Claude in Finance supports investment professionals with structured analysis, transparent logic, and rapid synthesis across markets. A demo on Claude for engineered wealth via investment deal optimization led by Financial and Tech Engineering expert B. Dweik. Free drinks for first 50 people! Collaborative workshop‑meetup where participants explore how AI enhances investment research, diligence, and portfolio monitoring. Showcase of various modeling scenarios, macroeconomic signals, actors, and investment decisions with clear rationale. During the United Nations General Assembly Week, emphasis on how responsible AI in finance aligns with global priorities of inclusion, governance, and sustainable capital flows. Hands‑on exploration, lively breakouts, and professional networking opportunities. Co-Hosted by Dr. Kelly H. Zou, PhD, PStat, FASA, Claude NYC FinTech Ambassador, in collaboration with Ishaan Das.

We're bringing back Tech Coffee to the greater downtown area after a few year hiatus. What better spot for Tech Coffee than Little Italy, the coffee capital of San Diego! Join us at Portal Coffee overlooking the beautiful Waterfront Park and San Diego Harbor. There's lots of available street parking along Kettner between Fir and Beech St just 1-3 blocks from Portal Coffee. See the Parking Map attached image. We're also one block from the MTA Trolley and 2 blocks from Amtrak and the Coaster. Come by for some networking, sharing, brainstorming, and mentoring. And we love it when people want to share what they are working on! There is no agenda, which means you can't be late - come when you can, leave when you need to. Very informal. New to the San Diego startup community? Or just want to be better connected? Check out the SD Tech Scene calendar - https://sdtechscene.org

When AI can create, analyze, and execute work in seconds, the real advantage is knowing when to let AI lead, when to collaborate, and when human judgment must take over. Join our live masterclass to explore how professionals can work with Microsoft AI more intentionally while keeping quality, accountability, and critical decisions firmly in human hands. 📅 Date: Monday, September 14, 2026 🕙 Time: 10:00 AM EDT \| 07:30 PM IST \| 07:00 AM PDT CLICK HERE TO REGISTER WHY JOIN? Learn how to move beyond basic prompting and develop a smarter approach to AI-enabled work. Discover how to delegate effectively, provide the right context, evaluate AI-generated results, and make confident decisions where human expertise matters most. AGENDA Why prompt proficiency is only the starting point The four modes of AI-enabled work: asking, exploring, collaborating, and delegating Deciding what AI should execute and what humans must own Setting clear intent, context, constraints, and quality standards Redesigning a recurring business activity around human judgment and Microsoft 365 Copilot READY TO WORK SMARTER WITH AI? Join our live masterclass to discover how human judgment and Microsoft AI can work together to improve decisions, productivity, and everyday work. NOTE: ALL REGISTRATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH DIGITAL ACHIEVEMENT BADGES ISSUED DIRECTLY FROM MICROSOFT. REGISTER NOW AND SAVE YOUR SEAT. See you in the masterclass!😊

FULL AGENDA & SPEAKER LINEUP AVAILABLE HERE Join us at the 15th Annual C3 Davos of Healthcare™ NYC Summit for a full day of high-level discussions, networking, and collaboration focused on the future of healthcare innovation under the theme: “Challenging Science: How Research, AI and Biotech Are Racing to End Disease.” Hosted in New York City at the iconic and historic Union League Club during UNGA 26 and listed in the official Program Guide , the UNGA announcement regarding the C3 Davos of Healthcare™ NYC Summit will convene with 500+ senior leaders , innovators, investors, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers from across 26+ countries. The Summit will explore the technologies, partnerships, and scientific breakthroughs transforming global healthcare. Featured keynote speakers include David Petraeus , Samuel D. Waksal , and Wilbur Ross . Anchored by global strategic partner King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre , participating organizations include Cedars-Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and Mount Sinai Health System, alongside leading health systems, AI companies, biotechnology firms, investors, and government stakeholders from around the world. Attendees will gain insight into emerging trends in AI-enabled healthcare, precision medicine, biotechnology, clinical innovation, digital health infrastructure, and the evolving global healthcare ecosystem. Space is now limited. Register today and visit the summit agenda page for the latest speaker, panel, and programming updates.

How many startups does Pittsburgh have? How much venture capital flowed into Pittsburgh last year — and where did it go? Who's building in Pittsburgh that nobody's talking about yet? Join ecosystem builders and partners in Pittsburgh as we prepare for StartUp PGH 2026. This session will provide an analysis of the startup landscape in Pittsburgh via data provided by Dealroom and roundtables of ecosystem builders. Roundtable participants include Ven Raju, Lindsay Fairman, Megan Shaw, Meredith Grelli, Charles Mansfield, Audrey Russo. Join us during lunch for an overview - leave with stats, talking points you can use throughout the week, and access to Pittsburgh's startup dashboard. Lunch is generously provided in partnership with UPMC Enterprises. StartUp PGH is a multiday celebration of entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier tech. The diverse line up of events will highlight founders from all stages, researchers, and community partners across our entire ecosystem including AI, Cybersecurity, Energy, Life Sciences, Robotics and more.

Join InnovatePGH and Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP for an in-person informative session about navigating visa pathways as an entrepreneur. This session will feature guidelines on appropriate temporary work visas and permanent-residence pathways for immigrant founders, as well as an explanation of which preliminary startup activities can and cannot take place before you have visa sponsorship in place. It will include both a presentation and a question-and-answer session. Whether you are a current student on an F-1 visa, a recent graduate on OPT, a faculty or staff member advising international students, or otherwise interested in learning about visa options for entrepreneurs, this session is a great opportunity to learn more.

There are many groups promoting this event. Our meetup group is participating by promoting this event. This event is organized by Albert's List. This is an online event. Attendees can be located anywhere in the world! There is a cost to attend this event. Our Meetup members get 25% OFF with Code IDEATOIPO In order to attend, please register here: Claude Code is powerful, but most engineers don't know how to integrate it into their actual workflow. They try it once, get confused about context, or end up reviewing poorly-scoped changes. The result: they revert to manual coding because the friction isn't worth the speed gain. The Session This is a hands-on workshop where you'll learn how to use Claude Code as a workflow tool—not a replacement for your judgment. You'll work through real scenarios: exploring unfamiliar codebases, turning feature requests into implementation plans, drafting code and tests, and knowing when Claude Code is worth using versus when you need to steer. You'll Learn How to set up Claude Code and give it the context it needs to be useful How to explore an unfamiliar repository without losing oversight How to turn a feature request or bug into a working implementation plan How to review AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability Which tasks are high-leverage for Claude Code and which require caution Prompt patterns that fit into existing Git, code-review, and CI/CD workflows Who This Is For Software engineers and developers looking to improve day-to-day workflow Engineering managers and technical leads evaluating Claude Code for teams Data, platform, DevOps, and QA engineers Technical product managers who work closely with codebases Career-transitioning professionals with foundational coding experience Prerequisites Comfort using a terminal and Git Familiarity with at least one programming language A laptop with a development environment installed Optional: a personal practice repository to work in

Following Future of Energy Day, join us as we celebrate 18 years of Colorado Cleantech! For nearly two decades, Colorado Cleantech has worked to connect innovators, industry leaders, investors and partners to help grow Colorado's cleantech ecosystem. We're excited to celebrate how far this community has come — and look ahead to what's next. As part of the celebration, we'll officially launch Colorado Cleantech Dealroom, a new platform designed to increase visibility and connectivity across Colorado's cleantech ecosystem. Dealroom will make it easier to discover Colorado companies, technologies, investors and organizations and create new connections across the community. Then, stick around for happy hour and networking as we celebrate 18 years of Colorado Cleantech and the founders, partners, members and community that have made it possible. This event is free and open to the cleantech community. Come celebrate 18 years with us — and help us kick off the next chapter of Colorado Cleantech.

Kick off Houston Energy & Climate Startup Week in the Ion District! Join founders, investors, corporate leaders, researchers, and innovators from across Houston and beyond as we officially launch a week dedicated to advancing the future of energy and climate innovation. The evening begins with a keynote program featuring leaders from Houston's energy and climate ecosystem who are helping shape what's next for the industry. Following the program, explore the Ion during a building-wide Open House featuring startup showcases, corporate partners, technology demonstrations, and opportunities to connect with the organizations driving innovation across the region. Then head outside for our signature Block Party on the plaza with live music, drinks, bites from Ion District restaurants, and networking with the people building Houston's innovation ecosystem. Whether you're attending Houston Energy & Climate Startup Week for the first time or returning for another year, this is the perfect way to connect, discover, and kick off an exciting week of programming. Schedule 4:30 PM | Check-in 5:00–6:00 PM | Kickoff Program 6:00–8:00 PM | Ion Open House & Block Party

The Startup Huddle provides a unique platform to highlight emerging startup companies within the ecosystem. Unlike traditional fundraising pitches, companies are encouraged to present specific challenges they are facing—whether business, regulatory, or intellectual property issues. The audience will comprise experienced life science operational leaders, mentors and angel investors who will offer free guidance, advice, and diverse perspectives. Anyone interested or involved with the life sciences community is welcome to attend! This innovative approach not only offers companies valuable visibility but also provides health tech investors with an early look at promising ventures. Come join us! (Must be 21+ to attend)

Data in a Dive is a casual meetup for Chicago’s data community, co-hosted by DataHub and MotherDuck. Engineers, developers, analysts, and anyone else who spends an unreasonable amount of time thinking about data are welcome. No talks. No panels. No forced networking. Just drinks, good people, and a chance to get out of the office for a couple hours. We’ll be hanging out at Monk’s Pub. Come by after work, grab a drink on us, and stay as long as you like.

Previous Meeting Recording This meeting will continue the material from Chapter 9 in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches. In the last meeting we started the discussion of population based training and the double oracle algorithm in the context of zero-sum games. This time, we will dive deeper into the theoretical limits of the algorithm by comparing it to exact solution techniques with tabular stochastic games. We will start with the zero-sum case and minimax solutions where we can compare the oracle to value iteration. If time permits, we will also consider general sum games where we will need to use a meta solver such as WoLF-PHC to solve the metagame. As usual you can find below links to the textbook, previous chapter notes, slides, and recordings of some of the previous meetings. Meetup Links: Recordings of Previous RL Meetings Recordings of Previous MARL Meetings Short RL Tutorials My exercise solutions and chapter notes for Sutton-Barto My MARL repository Kickoff Slides which contain other links MARL Kickoff Slides MARL Links: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches MARL Summer Course Videos MARL Slides Sutton and Barto Links: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Video lectures from a similar course

This event is organized in collaboration with many groups. This is an in-person event. There is a cover charge for this event. A "YES" RSVP on our meetup site does not confirm your reservation. In order to attend, please register here: Pitch to Investor Panel Tickets, Monday, September 14 • 6 PM - 9 PM | Eventbrite Take advantage of early responder pricing! Hurry! Slots are limited! A panel of investors will discuss the latest trends in startup funding and outline what they invest in and what they are looking for in a startup. Pre-selected entrepreneurs will then pitch to the panel, followed by questions and feedback from the panel. The pitch format is: Two minutes, no slides, followed by four minutes of Q & A / feedback from the panel. There are also slots for the lightning pitch round - one minute pitch, no slides, no feedback from the panel. Audience members (even those who are not pitching) will benefit from the insights offered by the investor panelists and will learn more about the Silicon Valley startup investment ecosystem. All attendees will have an opportunity to interact with investor panelists during the networking portions of the event before and after the program. Agenda 6:00 PM to 7:00 pm Check In, Food, Networking 7:00 pm to 8:40 pm Program 8:40 pm to 9:00 pm Networking Panelists: (More panelists TBA.) Keshia Theobald-van Gent, Partner, BDEV Ventures Ephraim Lindenbaum, Managing Director, Advance Ventures Jordan Wahbeh, Managing Partner, SV Venture Group Shawn Trabanino, Venture Partner, Berkeley Ventures If you would like to pitch to the investor panel in the official pitch line up, send an email message to: pitchanddemo@gmail.com Put this in the subject header: Th 9/14/26 Elevator Pitches - Pitch Applicant Additionally, there will be startup demo tables and tables for startup service providers. If you would like space on a startup demo table, or if you are a startup service provider and would like a sponsor table, please se

The whole room in one place before the work begins. SoCal Deep Tech Week opens with a waterfront reception for the full cohort (founders, operators, investors, primes, allied attachés, and program offices) meeting face to face before three days of summits. No keynote, no agenda, no stage. Just the people building the US-allied industrial base, in one room, the night before the real work starts. Tentative schedule 6:00 PM Doors open · waterfront reception 6:30 PM Cohort arrival, introductions, open networking 7:30 PM Brief welcome from the SDTW host 9:00 PM Close

Speed Dating with VCs Two hours, one room, and every founder in the incoming Foundry cohort. The night opens with a short panel on Foundry and what this cohort is building. The full incoming lineup gets introduced up front, so every investor in the room sees everyone before conversations start. At 6:30 the room breaks into 10 to 15 tables across the Swartz Center, each staffed by a VC. Founders rotate table to table with 3 to 5 minutes each to introduce themselves and pitch. Most of the cohort meets most of the room in a single sitting. Run of show 6:00 PM · Panel and cohort introduction 6:30 PM · Speed dating rounds 8:00 PM · Close and matching form What happens after Before anyone leaves the room, founders and investors both fill out a short form naming who they want to meet again. Where the interest runs both ways, Foundry sets up a group dinner around the match and schedules it within the same week, so nothing goes cold.

During an Information Session, an experienced Golden Seeds member leads a discussion with a group of entrepreneurs on the basics of angel funding and the Golden Seeds investment process. You will not receive feedback specific to your business plan during this meeting.

AI is changing how designers explore ideas and bring them to life. But what does that look like in practice? Join us for a panel discussion on how designers are incorporating AI into their prototyping workflows, which tools they’re using, and how their work is changing as a result. We’ll explore the benefits and challenges of the tooling and ask the question on everyone's minds: with AI integrated into the design process, how do we expect the role of a designer to evolve? Event Details 6:30pm: Check-in Begins 7:00pm: Panel Begins 7:45pm: Audience Q&A 8:00pm: Post-event networking 📍 San Diego Made Factory Our Sponsor Thank you to our amazing sponsor, Magic Patterns, for making this event possible! Magic Patterns is an AI design tool used by 2,500+ product teams at companies like Toast, Vanta, and Ramp to iterate on product ideas, get user feedback, and deploy to a website. Our Panelists Panelist: Shira Kates Principal Designer, Agentic Interfaces Shira Kates spent 20 years leading 0→1 product design, most recently at Google, where she ran UX for AppSheet and Cloud Al and shipped Google Cloud's first generative Al feature. She now works independently on Al products and runs Al prototyping workshops for design Panelist: Adam Rayman UX Design Manager, CVS Health Adam is a UX Design Manager at CVS Health, where he explores how AI tools can support the user-centric design process. His 12+ years as a product designer and researcher has produced a portfolio of award-winning work for household acronyms such as AWS, CVS, HBO, NBC and GM, as well as ICW Group and Property Meld. His UX claim to fame is having his work referenced in a Nielsen Norman Group article. Panelist: Alex Danilowicz CEO & Co-founder, Magic Patterns Alex is the CEO & co-founder of Magic Patterns. He jumped into AI systems early, building Magic Patterns in early 2023 to enable teams to design faster. Magic Patterns is used by some of the largest enterprises in the world to accelerate ideation and product

For decades, SQL Server’s recovery mechanism has relied on the classic ARIES model. While robust, its fundamental limitation is that recovery time is bound to the size of your oldest active transaction. If your engine crashes during a massive index rebuild or a multi-gigabit ETL batch, your database stays offline while SQL Server painstakingly processes the log. Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) shatters this paradigm by introducing a radically redesigned row-versioning framework. Instead of scanning the transaction log sequentially, the engine utilizes an internal Persisted Version Store (PVS) and a specialized, in-memory Secondary Log Stream (SLOG) to perform instantaneous logical reverts. In this fast-paced, deep-dive session, we will peel back the covers of the SQL Server storage engine to see how ADR handles crash recovery, undo phases, and aggressive log truncation under heavy concurrent workloads.

TOPIC: Can AI Save Democracy? How AI Could Build Better Government SPEAKER: Dr. Beth Simone Noveck, Northeastern University Trust in government is at a low point, and everywhere you look, AI seems to be part of the problem, fueling misinformation, automating jobs away, deepening surveillance. But what if the story could run the other way? In this talk, based on her new book Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy (Yale University Press, 2026), Dr. Beth Simone Noveck argues that fixing democracy is a design problem, and one AI can actually help solve, if we build and govern it the right way. Drawing on her work inside the Obama White House, 10 Downing Street, and AI systems used by millions of people, she makes the case that democratic renewal deserves the same ambition we give to space exploration or curing disease. Topics include: Why "democratic dysfunction" isn't just a political failure, it's a design challenge we can actually work on Real-world experiments, from citizen participation in Hamburg to faster permitting in Boston, that show tech making government work better How AI can help defend elections, catch disinformation, and get voters accurate information What it would take for AI to make government more responsive instead of more powerful in the hands of a few About the Speaker Dr. Beth Simone Noveck is a Professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and The Governance Lab (The GovLab), and serves as Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey. She previously worked in the Obama White House as the first U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer and advised leaders including Chancellor Angela Merkel and 10 Downing Street on modernizing government. She holds an A.B. from Harvard University, a Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Agenda 7:00 PM — Doors Open (Grab a seat and drinks!) 7:30 PM — Lecture Begins 8:10 PM — Audience Q&A 8:30 PM — Drinks & Conversation 9:00 PM — Eve

Hi, Andrew Yeung here. We started the Junto Founder Dinner series two years ago to bring together the top founders + builders. Each month, we invite 24 vetted early-stage founders and CEOs for a 3-hour, multiple-course dinner experience. What to expect: A 3-course meal, courtesy of our partners Conversations with fellow high-performing startup leaders A dinner experience designed to facilitate new connections and conversations, with rotating 6-person table formats Meaningful connections with ambitious peers solving similar problems If you're wondering how our dinners usually go... read this Our only intent is to bring good, smart humans together. Details: 📅 Date: Sep 14, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm 🍽️ Venue: Private Dinner Club in NYC Past attendees of my events include the founders/C-suite of Venmo, Duolingo, Foursquare, Lyft, Goldman Sachs, Compass, Superhuman, Yext, OpenDoor, Chief, LearnVest, DocSend, Vercel, Loom, Morning Brew, The Hustle, Gas, Teachable, Replit, Twitter, Slack, Pinterest, Yahoo, MongoDB, Business Insider, Wonder, Hinge. 👉 Apply to join by filling out the RSVP form. About our Hosts & Sponsors: 🎩 Andrew Yeung is the founder of Fibe and The Shortlist NYC. He is also an angel investor and Partner at Next Wave NYC, a pre-seed venture fund. Andrew has hosted over 300 events for 50,000 founders, operators, investors, and tech professionals that were featured by Bloomberg, Business Insider, Fast Company, Fortune Magazine, Axios, Newsweek, and Forbes. Business Insider dubbed him the "Gatsby of Silicon Alley." Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups. With banking set up in minutes, 2% cashback cards, and powerful tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused—with support that goes to the ends of the earth to help you win. Fidelity brings certainty to startup founders and leaders with our automated cap table and equity management platform. No matter where you are on

NYC B2B is the premier community for B2B Founders, Operators, and Investors in NYC. NYC B2B often hosts happy hour events for founders, builders, and investors based in NYC. This is an exclusive event for B2B AI founders and investors. Ignition Benefits is a data & AI-enabled benefits broker specializing in reducing health insurance costs for fast growing startups, typically $4-8K in savings per employee, with no cost to you. They pull carrier workforce health data that most employers have never seen and use it to negotiate directly, so the analysis is specific to your team, not generic benchmarks. A recent client reversed a 20% renewal hike and saved $160K with zero plan disruption. Reach out to Lauren at lauren@ignitionbenefits.com to learn more! Want to sponsor future events? 👉 Email: newyorkcityventures@gmail.com This meetup is hosted by NYC B2B. It’s a great way to meet other founders, builders, and investors. Whether you’re building a company, exploring a side project, or considering a new idea, we would love to have you here. NYC B2B has previously hosted events for thousands of B2B startup founders + operators in NYC across Vertical SaaS, AI, FinTech, Healthcare, DevTools, Infrastructure, and more. By signing up, you are confirming your interest in hearing about more events from NYC B2B in the future via email! NYC B2B also helps connect those who sign up with awesome partners. Note: This is a 21+ event. Please let our team know in advance if you’d like to bring a guest, as unregistered +1s will not be admitted. Attendees who disregard this policy may not be invited to future NYC B2B events. — Hiring or looking for jobs? 👉 startupjobs.nyc

LeadDev is taking over New York! We're kicking off the LDX3 New York debut with the full LeadDev New York community! (Did we say LeadDev enough yet?) This event will be an LDX3 eXpress. We'll be covering both organizational leadership and making technical choices \- the same tracks you can find at the conference\. Whether you're visiting for the week or a regular NY meetup attendee, come and spend an evening with the engineering leaders of NYC at this free event! As always, drinks and snacks will be provided thanks to our generous sponsor, Datadog. Date: Monday, September 14th, 2026 Time: 6:00 – 8:30 pm Location: New York Times Building, 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018 Spaces are limited – RSVP required to attend. Please bring a government-issued ID if required by the venue. Agenda: 6:20 pm - Emcee Welcome! - Abhinav Singhal 6:30 pm - The Balance Beam: Planning for Growth and Technical Excellence - Pranay Prabhat 6:50 pm - Leading Without a Task List - Bradley Holt 7:10 pm - Quick Break 7:15 pm - [Panel] Build, Buy, …Vibe? - Divya Ramanarayanan, Brian Takashi Hooper, Ivan Milanov, Maylin Leal 7:35 pm - Wrap Up & Networking 8:30 pm - Goodbyes All events follow our Code of Conduct to help protect the safety of our community. If you need further information or have any questions, please send an email to: hello@leaddev.com. Can't make it this time? You can also join our Slack workspace to keep up to date with everything in our New York community. Join the channels #leaddev-nyc and #new-york!

Whether it's a side project, an internal tool, an open source project, or a startup, this is your chance to show what you've been working on and see what others have created. The only rules: Live demos only No slides No company pitches Come share your work, get feedback, and meet fellow builders in the community. Demos by: @zobeir — Doppelganger @epoch_adesola — Epoch @gunhboo — Banquish @prat3ik — TestDino @rosemaryajukaL — HyperHat @mobile_ssh — Mobile SSH @okkshitij — Playground @JiquanNgiam — MintMCP @kgoedecke — Doop @svardnan — Facebook Paper Recreation Nikhil Lala — splitrr Vincent Chan — Capy @jinjingliang — Orca (60k GitHub stars) @dtdannen — Alinery @MarkVek13 — Vertical Flash @tessalaprofessa — Germ DM and more coming soon 👀 To sign up for a demo, fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/ARDz84NbWTQmAZDy5 WorkOS Event Code of Conduct

AI is changing more than how we work. It is changing how power works. Our legal systems were built for a world where people, companies, and governments were the primary actors. Increasingly, software makes decisions. It shapes what we see, determines which options are available to us, and acts on our behalf, or on behalf of someone else. This is a harder problem than regulating a new technology. It is a new kind of power, and our institutions were not designed for this. Join us for a fireside chat with leaders at the forefront of AI and law on what happens when analog-era institutions meet a radically different kind of power — and what the law may need to become in response. Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, will moderate a panel with Meng Jia Yang, a lawyer working on AI regulation at OpenAI and a former law firm litigator, and Matt Boulos, general counsel and head of policy at Imbue. Doors open at 5:30pm and close firmly at 6:15pm. — Imbue is an AI company building tools to empower humans in the AI age. We're building toward an open agent ecosystem where you can understand, modify, and verify agents — so they only work in your interest. Learn about our work and what we stand for: www.imbue.com

Kicking off our GTM Series where we bring in the best GTM leaders to chat with Granola's VP of Sales, Bardia Shahali! Joining us for our first chat will be Evan Cassidy from Decagon: Evan is VP of Sales at Decagon, the AI-native customer support platform now valued at $4.5B. He was the first sales hire and helped scale the GTM org from a team of ten through Series A to D. Join us to hear how a career built on reinvention and calculated risk led him from Yelp to Dropbox to Decagon! Doors open at 6pm. Please arrive by 6.30pm. Looking forward to hosting you in our new space!

About Event At nearly every Women + AI dinner, we grapple with 1) how are you actually using AI in your life outside of work, and 2) why it feels like women are underestimated walking into rooms—gyms included—either because we assume someone else already knows more than we do... or they assume the same. We're teaming up with LuxFit at Mission Rock for our first workout event. We hope this becomes a recurring series! Get ready for a real strength class, then dinner, and a conversation about AI for health and wellness. Following the workout, we will brainstorm with Amber Woolcock, Co-Owner of LuxFit, on questions her small business is facing and how AI can help them. What to Expect 6:00ish — Arrive, mingle in the outdoor tent with snacks (protein bars, nuts) 6:15pm — Welcome + a quick intro to LuxFit 6:30–7:20pm — "Oh She Lifts" strength class, 50 minutes including warm-up and cool-down 7:30–8:15pm — Dinner and small-group conversation 8:15–8:30pm — Closing remarks, wrap What Your Ticket Covers LuxFit's "Oh She Lifts" strength class (normally $40 standalone) A LuxFit membership offer: $75 off your first month Pre-workout snacks (protein bars, nuts, coconut waters courtesy of Moon Boo Sun) Sweetgreen wraps for dinner!! Thoughtful small-group facilitation and a room full of women worth knowing About Women + AI Women + AI is a grassroots community for non-technical women who want their share of the AI moment. We gather over dinner for real, screen-free conversations about what’s changing, what’s actually useful, and how women can participate in the upside. This time, we’re putting money on the table - literally and figuratively. Find us on Substack, where we share event recaps and distribute new events first. About LuxFit LuxFit is a premier training facility that focuses on results and community. With both indoor + outdoor workouts offered to their approach to personal training, group fitness and open gym is unparalleled. Your Trainer Alexis is a personal trainer and Pi

The Afters, Part 1 An unofficial part one of two evening gatherings where the community-building and vibes keep rolling late-night. Join us on the rooftop at LOST in Downtown LA. Skyline views, a fire pit, a cash bar, and the sharpest minds all in one place. Open to ticketed attendees only. Badge required for entry. Evening pass holders will be admitted with wristbands. Cash bar. Please note: See-through clothing, political statements, and foul language are strictly prohibited.