[NYC AI Event Pick] November Picks!
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One would think everything grinds to a halt around holiday seasons… But November seems to pack a punch! So many cool events and talks happening that it’s impossible to ignore! This months there are fewer IRL events (look it’s cold, I get it : D), but more talks on AI applications and deep dives happening across board! If you enjoy these events, then subscribe to stay tuned!!
TOP Events Overview
NYC IRL: Learn & Meet Fellow Folks Working on AI!
Monday, Nov 11, 18:00 - 20:00 EDT | NYC 🗽 GenAI Companies Building in NYC. Hosted by The AI Furnace. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 12, 17:30 - 20:30 EDT | AI/ML Conversations Meetup: Part 2 of Vision Transformers and Multi-Modal AI. Hosted by AI/ML Conversations Meetup. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 12, 18:00 - 21:00 EDT | AI Tinkerers November 2024 Meetup. Hosted by AI Tinkerers. Event Link
Wednesday, Nov 20, 19:30 - 22:30 EST | NYC AI Users - AI Talks, Demo & Social: IP and Marketing in AI. Event Link
Application Series: Leveraging AI to Solve Your Issues!
Monday, Nov 04, 16:30 - 18:00 EDT | Multimodal Machine Learning and Climate Change Adaptation. Hosted by New York University. Event Link
Wednesday, Nov 13, 16:00 - 18:00 EDT | Third-Party Risk Management and AI. Hosted by Columbia University. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 19, 15:00 - 16:00 EDT | Data Matters Seminar: AI and Humanities Research (Tara Nummedal, History and Ashley Champagne, Center for Digital Scholarship). Hosted by Brown University. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 19, 17:00 - 18:00 EDT | Book Talk: OUR BIGGEST FIGHT: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age with Frank McCourt. Hosted by Northeastern University. Event Link
Wednesday, Nov 20, 13:00 - 14:00 EDT | Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future. Hosted by Northeastern University. Event Link
Thursday, Nov 21, 18:00 - 19:00 EDT | [Live Webinar] The Salesforce Way of Marketing in the AI Era. Hosted by Columbia University. Event Link
Tech Deep Dive! Learn on how AI & our brain works behind the scene!
Monday, Nov 04, 14:30 - 15:45 EDT | Machine Learning to Anticipate Manipulation. Hosted by Yale University. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 05, 12:30 - 13:30 EDT | CITP Seminar: Josh Aas – Divvi Up and the Future of Privacy Respecting Metrics. Hosted by Princeton University. Event Link
Friday, Nov 08, 12:00 - 13:00 EDT | DSCoV Workshop: Introduction to Efficient LLMs: Training and Deployment without Massive GPU Resources. Hosted by Brown University. Event Link
Friday, Nov 08, 12:00 - 13:00 EDT | BigAI Talk: Robot Planning and Manipulation: Symbols, Geometry, and Feasibility (Neil Dantam, Colorado School of Mines). Hosted by Brown University. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 12, 12:30 - 13:30 EDT | CITP Seminar: Basileal Imana – Auditing Ad Delivery Algorithms in the Public Interest. Hosted by Princeton University. Event Link
Wednesday, Nov 13, 13:00 - 14:00 EDT | The Three Approaches to Unlearning. Hosted by Northeastern University. Event Link
Monday, Nov 18, 16:00 - 17:00 EDT | Recent Results on Mean Field Games, Optimal Transport, and In-Context Learning. Hosted by Yale University. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 19, 12:30 - 13:30 EDT | CITP Seminar: Steven Kelts – Agile Ethics: Preliminary Evidence of Improvements in Ethical Decision-making Through Simulations. Hosted by Princeton University. Event Link
Tuesday, Nov 19, 18:30 - 19:45 EDT | Inside the lives and minds of animals. Hosted by Columbia University. Event Link
Event Details
NYC 🗽 GenAI Companies Building in NYC
Monday, Nov 11, 18:00 - 20:00 EDT
In Person: Event Link
Join us for The AI Furnace's GenAI Companies Building in NYC meetup - where we'll showcase amazing demos from our AI community
Vision Transformers and Multi-Modal AI
Tuesday, Nov 12, 17:30 - 20:30 EDT
In Person: Event Link
Featuring Speakers:
Shafik Quoraishee (Senior Android/ML Games Engineer)
Topic: Intro to Multi Modal Machine Learning: Part 2
Shafik is an experienced professional Mobile Game Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the online media industry. My educational background includes a Masters Degree focused in Statistical Signal Processing and A.I. from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Anindya Dey (Postdoctoral Research Assistant )
Topic: Vision Transformer with Batch Normalization
Anindya obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has held Postdoctoral research positions at Rutgers and Johns Hopkins.
AI Tinkerers November 2024 Meetup
Tuesday, Nov 12, 18:00 - 21:00 EDT
In Person: Event Link
AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for practitioners with technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds who are actively building and working with foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. If you’re deeply passionate about creating LLM-enabled applications and want to connect with fellow builders, this group is the perfect fit for you.
Multimodal Machine Learning and Climate Change Adaptation
Monday, Nov 04, 16:30 - 18:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Cynthia Zeng, is an Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business in Abu Dhabi and a research affiliate of the MIT Sloan School of Management. She completed her PhD in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Third-Party Risk Management and AI
Wednesday, Nov 13, 16:00 - 18:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speakers:
Rod Aday, CISO, Bank of China, and other industry experts
Dennis Frio, Managing Director, Third Party Risk Management, PwC
Anugna Kasireddy, Senior Manager, Deloitte
Patrick O'Connor, Head of Operational Risk, BlackRock
Data Matters Seminar: AI and Humanities Research
Tuesday, Nov 19, 15:00 - 16:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speakers:
Tara Nummedal, Professor of History at Brown University, is renowned for her works Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007) and Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). As Past President of the New England Renaissance Conference and an editorial board member of the Journal of Modern History and Ambix, she brings deep expertise in early modern European history and the history of science.
Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Brown University, leads initiatives in digital scholarship methodologies, project development, and publication. A Cogut Institute Lecturer in Humanities, she teaches courses in digital humanities. Champagne is the Principal Investigator of the “New Frameworks to Preserve and Publish Born-Digital Art,” funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, and co-Research Director of the “Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas” project, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Book Talk: OUR BIGGEST FIGHT: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age with Frank McCourt
Tuesday, Nov 19, 17:00 - 18:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Frank McCourt is the founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty, a $500 million initiative aimed at transforming the internet with equitable technology infrastructure and empowering users to own their data. He is also the owner of Olympique de Marseille and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future
Wednesday, Nov 20, 13:00 - 14:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
David Autor is the Daniel and Gail Rubinfeld Professor of Economics at MIT, co-director of the NBER Labor Studies Program, and co-leads the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. His research focuses on how technological change and globalization impact job markets, skills, earnings, and inequality. Autor's accolades include the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship, Sherwin Rosen Prize, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and the Society for Progress Medal. The Economist called him “The academic voice of the American worker,” while John Oliver dubbed him a “Twerpy MIT Economist” for his insights on automation and employment.
The Salesforce Way of Marketing in the AI Era
![[Live Webinar] The Salesforce Way of Marketing in the AI Era](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadeeef40-594b-4af1-aaf5-0bd6dbcc1458_1600x900.png "[Live Webinar] The Salesforce Way of Marketing in the AI Era")
Thursday, Nov 21, 18:00 - 19:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Shoko Suzuki is the Chief Marketing Officer for Japan and Korea at Salesforce. With a career spanning leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson, Dell, Coca-Cola Japan, and MetLife Insurance, she has extensive experience in marketing and executive management across the Asia-Pacific region. Suzuki's career highlights include serving as Executive Director of Marketing at Dell and Senior VP at Coca-Cola Japan, demonstrating her expertise in driving growth and innovation in multinational settings.
Machine Learning to Anticipate Manipulation
Monday, Nov 04, 14:30 - 15:45 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Joshua Blumenstock is a Chancellor’s Associate Professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He co-directs the Global Policy Lab and the Center for Effective Global Action. His research bridges machine learning and empirical economics, focusing on leveraging data and technology to support vulnerable populations. Blumenstock holds a Ph.D. in Information Science and an M.A. in Economics from U.C. Berkeley. His accolades include the NSF CAREER award and the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, with his work featured in prestigious journals like Science and top conferences such as ICML and AAAI.
CITP Seminar: Josh Aas – Divvi Up and the Future of Privacy Respecting Metrics
Tuesday, Nov 05, 12:30 - 13:30 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Josh Aas is the co-founder and executive director of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the nonprofit behind Let’s Encrypt, which secures over 290 million websites as the world’s largest certificate authority. He leads initiatives like Prossimo, promoting memory-safe code, and Divvi Up, a privacy-respecting metrics service. With extensive experience in software security and ecosystem strategy, Aas previously worked in Mozilla’s platform engineering and senior strategy roles, enhancing the Firefox browser and tackling complex web challenges.
DSCoV Workshop: Introduction to Efficient LLMs: Training and Deployment without Massive GPU Resources
Friday, Nov 08, 12:00 - 13:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Omri S. Suissa (Visiting Scientist, DSI, Conversational AI Lab
BigAI Talk: Robot Planning and Manipulation: Symbols, Geometry, and Feasibility
Friday, Nov 08, 12:00 - 13:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Neil T. Dantam is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines and a Faculty Fellow at DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. His research centers on robot planning and manipulation, encompassing task and motion planning, kinematics, and real-time software, supported by NSF, NASA, and DoD. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rice University. Dantam holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Tech and dual B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.
CITP Seminar: Basileal Imana – Auditing Ad Delivery Algorithms in the Public Interest
Tuesday, Nov 12, 12:30 - 13:30 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Basileal Imana specializes in researching privacy and algorithmic fairness in real-world internet systems. His work focuses on creating innovative auditing methods for algorithmic content delivery on social media that maintain user and platform privacy. Imana earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and holds a BSc in Computer Science from Trinity College Connecticut, where he worked on high-performance computing solutions for complex problems.
The Three Approaches to Unlearning
Wednesday, Nov 13, 13:00 - 14:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
David Bau is an assistant professor at Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences, known for his work on deep network interpretability and model editing for generative AI, including large language and image diffusion models. He has authored a textbook on numerical linear algebra and developed software for Google and Microsoft. Bau is currently spearheading the creation of a National Deep Inference Fabric for AI research. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT, an MS from Cornell University, and a BA from Harvard University.
Recent Results on Mean Field Games, Optimal Transport, and In-Context Learning
Monday, Nov 18, 16:00 - 17:00 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Stanley Osher is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of Special Projects at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. He is renowned for pioneering numerical technologies applied across diverse fields, including aeronautics, material science, and brain science. Osher's groundbreaking contributions, such as the level set method, ENO and WENO schemes, and total variation, have become foundational in numerical simulation. His "level set method," developed with Sethian, is widely recognized, with over a million references on Google.
Preliminary Evidence of Improvements in Ethical Decision-making Through Simulations
Tuesday, Nov 19, 12:30 - 13:30 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speaker:
Steven Kelts is a Lecturer at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and a Professional Specialist for Responsible Computing Curricula at CITP. An ethicist with 20 years of teaching and tech non-profit experience, Kelts leads the Agile Ethics program, which immerses students in simulated workflows to tackle complex ethical issues. His work is supported by grants from Princeton’s Council on Science and Technology and Google. Kelts advises the Responsible A.I. Institute and directs the Responsible Tech University Network for All Tech Is Human. His research includes ethical dynamics in tech firms, featured in IEEE’s Technology and Society Magazine.
Inside the lives and minds of animals
Tuesday, Nov 19, 18:30 - 19:45 EDT
Online: Event Link
Featuring Speakers:
Alexandra Horowitz, MS, PhD (Author, Professor, Sr. Research Fellow, and Head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, Columbia University)
Areas covered: Insights into canine behavior and cognition, how dogs use their sense of smell to perceive their world, research on self-awareness and perception in dogs through scent-based experiments, findings from her bestselling books on dog cognition.
Nathaniel Sawtell, PhD (Professor of Neuroscience and Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute)
Areas covered: Sensory processing in weakly electric fish, neural circuitry that supports electric "vision," how electric fish learn, make decisions, and interact in environments where traditional vision is limited, implications for understanding sensory adaptation.