NYC B2B: AI Founders & Investors Meetup

Note: we are postponing and redesigning this event for November. This was a new event type and let's just say, it wasn't as popular as we thought it would be so, in true crowd-validator style, we are going back to the drawing board. Please contact us if you have constructive feedback. Thanks and Stay tuned! Tickets for this event are transferable to our other events or please request a refund. Alex Fair Original write up - subject to change. Presented by MedStartr in Partnership with ClawCamp You bring the vision. We'll help you launch a company — in a weekend. Healthcare is broken in a hundred ways we all see daily. You've felt it as a patient. diagnosed it as a clinician. doded around it as a builder, and hated it as a person who came into healthcare to help people. The things you see that could be better are hard to fix, and it bothers you that they seem incorrigible. But then you got an idea of something that could help, if you could just build it and get it in the hands of people like you to help patients get better care and the system and caregivers to give better care. We know, we have met thousands of you and ARE you too. That's why we have run this group for almost 18 years and done so many events. But now, with the help of AI and the new MedStartr.ai platform, we can help even more. So we created what we are calling a "Launchathon" to help with all that and this is the first one! The NYC HealthTech Launchathon is your chance to do something about it. No startup experience required. No coding background needed. Just bring your problem, your perspective, and your curiosity — and we'll bring the AI tools, expert faculty, mentors, investors, and community to help you build something real. The Program: 3 Phases, 8 Weeks 🔶 Phase I · HealthTech ClawCamp · August 1–2 \\Day 1 — August 1 \| Stack AI HQ\, One World Trade Center\\ Learn. Ideate. Validate with Experts on hand and Build or add to your team from other folks like yourself. Meet amazing people.

Koah SoundSystem takes over Silence Please @ LES. Come grab some coffee + food Listen to good music on nice sound systems Bring a laptop if you want to get some work done Full cafe menu will be available + a laid-back DJ set. Wine will be served at 4pm :) Event sponsored by Koah — Monetize your AI application with AI-native ads.

Future Reality AI Film Festival 2026 Presented by Soho International Film Festival × HXR Join us on Sunday evening, October 25, at Village East by Angelika for finalist screenings and an awards ceremony. Discover a new generation of filmmakers imagining what cinema could become. Event Schedule: Doors Open: 6:00 PM Festival Opening: 7:00 PM Official Selection Screenings: 7:30 PM Awards Ceremony: 9:00 PM Official Site：https://future-reality.ai.studio/ Future Reality is a cross-industry festival bringing together Emmy-winning filmmakers, technologists, producers, investors, brands, media executives, artists, and cultural leaders to explore how new tools are reshaping storytelling—and who gets to shape what comes next. Our inaugural open call received 1,762 films from 60+ countries and regions, bringing together new voices and perspectives from around the world. Join filmmakers, artists, creative technologists, and members of the New York film and creative community for: Official Selection Screenings A curated selection of standout films from around the world, spanning narrative, animation, documentary, experimental work, music video, and emerging cinematic forms. Future Reality Awards Celebrating exceptional storytelling, craft, imagination, worldbuilding, character, sound, visual language, and meaningful creative use of AI. Filmmaker & Industry Conversations Conversations with filmmakers, artists, and industry voices about how emerging technologies are changing who gets to create and what kinds of stories can be brought to life. Featured Grand Jury Fred Grinstein — Stanford/Starling Lab Fellow; former Head of Non-Fiction Programming at Anonymous Content; advisor to History and A&E on AI and emerging media; co-founder of Machine Cinema; Creative Executive & Media Strategist with credits across Sundance, Tribeca, HBO, Hulu, and Oscar-shortlisted documentary work. Kees van Oostrum — Cinematographer; Former President of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC); AS

Join Ella Molony Cook and Mika Reyes, with Stanley, for a hands-on build night in New York for founders who grow with content. Everyone gets free pro access to Stanley and Wispr Flow! You’ll set up an AI Head of Content system, with your own accounts and your own voice. You’ll leave with: Inspiration from other founders. Meet other founders creating content to exchange ideas & setups The system. A working idea-to-content system + repeatable workflow you can keep using. The rituals. Top-post repurposing and morning ideas, set to run without you asking Rather have it built for you? The Stanley team will be in the room. Feel free to ask! No advanced AI experience required. Bring your laptop, and access to ChatGPT or Claude. Who this is for: Founders, business owners and creators whose pipeline runs on their personal brand. Bring: A laptop & charger. This is a build session. LinkedIn signed in to your laptop. Best posts. Yours or other's. It becomes your voice sample. Your phone. Setup runs on iMessage or WhatsApp. Agenda 5:15–5:45 PM: Doors open, meet other founders 5:45–7:30 PM: Present + Build session 7:30–8:00 PM: Q&A, share & mingle Seats are limited and we review every application. About your hosts Mika Reyes is co-founder of Adeli & an AI creator with a 50K+ community. She previously scaled a payments company that was acquired by a $3B company, is ex-LinkedIn & a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee. Ella Molony Cook is an Australian 4x founder with 1 exit and an investor in Anthropic. She has 63K+ subscribers on Substack and has hosted 250+ founder and investor experiences. Rodolphe Ködderitzsch is on the Stanley team. He's ex-Google/YouTube and Squarespace, and a startup founder. About our sponsors Stanley is an AI Head of Content, backed by Steven Bartlett. Text it a voice note and it drafts in your voice, learns from every edit, and each morning repurposes what already performed. Wispr Flow is the leading voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writin

Day of the Bats:
Welcoming Bat Conservation International to DSI, A Celebration of Bats, Blooms, and Día de los Muertos Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026 Time: 3:30 to 6:00 pm ET Location: MFA DSI Studio, 136 W 21 Street, 5th Floor Every year, bats travel north along a trail of agave, a corridor of blooming plants that feeds them, and us, along the way. That corridor is disappearing. Bats and agave both take their time, an agave flowers once in its life, and a bat has one pup a year. Restoring this landscape means working at the pace of the living things in it. The School of Visual Arts MFA Design for Social Innovation Program (MFA DSI) welcomes Dr. Kristen Lear, bat scientist and Director of Bat Conservation International's Agave Restoration Initiative, to our studio. Her bi-national work across the U.S. Southwest and Mexico restores habitat for threatened pollinating bats while strengthening the rural livelihoods that depend on the same land. Day of the Bats arrives during Bat Week and Bat Celebration Month, and alongside Día de los Muertos, when people offer alebrijes at the altar. Come in at 3:30 pm, wander the studio, and make an alebrije-inspired bat of your own. At 4:00 pm, settle in for Kristen's talk on restoring the nectar corridor and what "scaling" can mean when growth is slow. Welcome into the world of the Bats!

Join us for fireside conversations on the State of AI as we launch the 2026 edition in NYC on 27 October 2026! Important: It is mandatory to bring valid physical government ID to enter (No Digital IDs will be accepted). Event schedule: tl;dr of the 2026 Report from author, Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital) Fireside conversation with Anastasis Germanidis, Co-founder & Co-CEO of Runway, on video models, world models, embodied AI, and how vision, language, and action fit together. Ara Kharazian, Lead Economist at Ramp refreshments and hang out! You can read the reports at stateof.ai Thanks, Nathan