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TOP Events Overview
NYC IRL: Learn & Meet Fellow Folks working on AI!
Wednesday, Oct 16, 18:00 - 21:00 EDT | NYC 🗽 AI Founder-Funder Dinner. Hosted by AI Furnace. Event Link
Thursday, Oct 17, 18:00 - 21:00 EDT | October Meetup at AI Tinkerers! Hosted by AI Tinkerers. Event Link
Wednesday, Oct 23, 19:30 - 22:30 EDT | NYC AI Users - AI Talks, Demo & Social: AI Regulation and Architecture. Hosted by New York AI Users. Event Link
Friday, Oct 25, 09:00 - 17:00 EDT | Seed Stage Summit 2024. Hosted by Rho and Andrew Yeung. Event Link
Application Series: Leveraging AI to solve your issues!
Wednesday, Oct.02 12:00-12:30 | GenAI applications for cybersecurity: Recent progress and future prospects. Hosted by MIT. Online. Link
Tuesday, Oct.08 12:30-13:30 | The Opportunity, Threat, and Shadow Regulation of Open Models in AI. Hosted by Princeton. Online. Link
Thursday, Oct.17 08:00-09:15 | How edtech startups are leveraging AI for education. Hosted by MIT. Online. Link
Monday, Oct.21 18:00-21:00 | Building with Claude. Hosted by AI Tinkerers. In Person. Link
Thursday, Oct.24 12:00-13:00 | Digital Humanities Salon: Buried Singapore: Ghosts, Hallucinations, or Critical Fabulations in the AI?. Hosted by Brown. Online. Link
Wednesday, Oct.30 12:00-12:30 | AI governance uncovered: What companies need to know. Hosted by MIT. Online. Link
Tech Deep Dive!
Wednesday, Oct.02 11:30-13:00 | Revisiting neural network approximation theory in the age of generative AI. Hosted by Yale. Online. Link
Wednesday, Oct.09 11:30-13:30 | Analysis of “Big” Real-World Health Care Data: Promises and Perils. Hosted by Yale. Online. Link
Conference
Thursday, Oct.10 08:45-18:00 | The State of AI in Precision Health. Hosted by Northeastern University. Hybrid. Link
NYC 🗽 AI Founder-Funder Dinner
Wednesday, Oct 16, 18:00 - 21:00 EDT
In Person: Link
Grab a bite to eat with other AI founders & VCs in NYC! A dinner series by The AI Furnace.
October Meetup at AI Tinkerers
Thursday, Oct 17, 18:00 - 21:00 EDT
In Person: Link
AI Tinkerers is a meetup for practitioners with technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds who are actively building and working with foundation models like large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. It's a group for those passionate about creating LLM-enabled applications, with hands-on experience in the field. The meetup provides a space for deep collaboration, early-stage discovery, and innovation, fostering an atmosphere of trust and creativity.
NYC AI Users - AI Talks, Demo & Social: AI Regulation and Architecture
Wednesday, Oct 23, 19:30 - 22:30 EDT
In Person: Link
Featuring Speakers:
Ashmini Perera Weerakoon (Tech Consultant at Ernst & Young) - Topic: "Untangling the EU AI Act" - Areas covered: Risk-based approach of the Act, implications for business operations, AI risk categorization, compliance challenges, balancing innovation and rights.
Diwank Singh (Entrepreneur, Computer Scientist, Thiel Fellow) - Topic: "A New Paradigm of Building Software with LLMs" - Areas covered: Computing as persistent and deliberative, prompt-first design, continuous learning, persistent agents, new manifesto for AI apps.
Seed Stage Summit 2024
Friday, Oct 25, 09:00 - 17:00 EDT
In Person: Link
Featuring Speakers:
Dennis Crowley (Co-founder of Foursquare)
Iqram Magdon-Ismail (Co-founder of Venmo)
Russell Heddleston (Co-founder of DocSend)
Lindsay Kaplan (Co-founder of Chief)
Alexa von Tobel (Founder, Managing Partner at Inspired Capital; Founder, CEO of LearnVest)
This is an exclusive, invite-only event for 100 seed-stage founders to join us for a day of fireside chats, discussions, and networking with renowned CEOs and entrepreneurs.
Join us and the founders and CEOs of companies like Foursquare, DocSend, Venmo, Inspired Capital, and Chief on October 25 for an invite-only session.
Expect tactical advice from exited entrepreneurs and prominent CEOs, and curated networking sessions for seed-stage founders to learn, connect, and grow.
GenAI applications for cybersecurity: Recent progress and future prospects
Wednesday, Oct.02 12:00-12:30
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Rachel Allen is a senior cybersecurity data scientist on the Morpheus team at NVIDIA, her focus is the research and application of GPU-accelerated machine learning methods to help solve information security challenges. Prior to NVIDIA, Rachel was a lead data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton where she designed a variety of capabilities for advanced threat hunting and network defense. She holds a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Virginia.
CITP Seminar: Benjamin Brooks – The Opportunity, Threat, and Shadow Regulation of Open Models in AI
Tuesday, Oct.08 12:30-13:30
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Ben Brooks is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard where he scrutinizes the regulatory and legislative response to open-source AI development. Brooks served most recently as head of Public Policy for Stability AI, a developer of popular AI models, including Stable Diffusion. He has testified in the US Congress and UK Parliament, and represented open developers everywhere from the White House to Bletchley Park. Previously, Brooks advocated for the safe, fair, and durable regulation of emerging technology with Uber, Coinbase, and Google’s drone delivery service, Wing, the FAA’s first certified drone “airline”. He has worked with authorities on the ground in over two dozen countries as they navigate complex reforms in high-stakes and permission-based domains – from Mandalay to Texas, and from communist governments to royal courts. Brooks holds degrees in law, history, and literature.
How edtech startups are leveraging AI for education
Thursday, Oct.17 08:00-09:15
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Jean Hammond is a highly experienced founder of a leading ed tech venture capital firm who works with early stage companies in developing education technology platforms and models, and helps nurture them into working companies. She is the founder and general partner in LearnLaunch and is fluent with the new kinds of firms bringing AI into education - what areas are they pursuing and what AI approaches look the most promising. She will also discuss several case studies of AI education firms LearnLaunch is backing.
Next we will turn to the CEOs of two ed tech companies that are applying AI for their two very different missions.
Deepak Verna is CEO of English Helper, an established firm that brings English-language literacy skills to millions of learners, both for classrooms and individual learners in six countries. It is now implementing a major AI-based digital tutoring project to help both teachers and students learn English.
Joy Desgupta is CEO of GyanAI, a service firm designed to bring AI to higher education, teachers, and individual learners. It aids teachers in developing AI-based courses and teaching materials, from course content to video lectures. It also assists individual learners in designing their own AI based learning projects and schools in developing AI-based instructional systems.
Building with Claude. Hosted by AI Tinkerers. In Person
Monday, Oct.21 18:00-21:00
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Alex Albert, head of developer relations at Anthropic
At this event, you’ll hear directly from Anthropic’s head of developer relations, Alex Albert, then we’ll hand it over to the local community to showcase innovative projects powered by Claude.
Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started, this is your chance to connect, learn, and share what you’re working on.
During this event, Anthropic will be present to engage with participants, answer questions, and provide insights into building with Claude. We encourage everyone to bring their demos and share how they are leveraging Claude in their projects.
Digital Humanities Salon: Buried Singapore: Ghosts, Hallucinations, or Critical Fabulations in the AI?
Thursday, Oct.24 12:00-13:00
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Josh Babcock is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2022). His research explores colonial imagery and decolonial futures across various media and locations, focusing on language, race, and belonging, particularly in Singapore. His emerging work examines:
- Images of the state and democracy in the U.S. and Southeast Asia
- Indigeneity among 19th-century British Malayan migrants to New Orleans
- Settler-colonial romances in Singapore, Michigan
- The Singapore Sling as a contested national symbol
Babcock has published in notable journals and collaborates with the South/South Movement. His work is supported by organizations such as Fulbright and the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund. He is dedicated to inclusive, antiracist pedagogy and his research interests span sociocultural and linguistic anthropology, raciolinguistics, gender and sexuality, social movements, and collaborative public pedagogies.
AI governance uncovered: What companies need to know
Wednesday, Oct.30 12:00-12:30
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Catharina Doria is an inventor, AI ethicist, and digital media expert with global impact. She developed the mobile app “Sai Pra Lá” at age 16 to map street harassment and enhance public safety, which gained viral attention and led to appearances on Brazilian television. Her work centers on the relationship between technology and power, particularly focusing on data justice and ethical technology use.
In 2023, she was named one of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” for her dedication to social good through technology. Catharina has received multiple accolades, including:
• 14 Amazing Women to Keep an Eye On | Editora de Abril
• First Place | 10 Empowered Women Who Proved Life is Worth Fighting For | Hypeness Terra
• 10 Girls That Make the World a Better Place | Depois dos Quinze
• Best Person Prize | Programa Saia Justa da GNT
Revisiting neural network approximation theory in the age of generative AI
Wednesday, Oct.02 11:30-13:00
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Song Mei is an assistant professor of statistics and EECS at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph. D. from Stanford in June 2020. His research lies at the intersection of statistics and machine learning. His recent research focuses on the theory of deep learning and generative AI models. Song has received an NSF career award, an Amazon Research Award, and a Google Research Scholar Award.
Analysis of “Big” Real-World Health Care Data: Promises and Perils
Wednesday, Oct.09 11:30-13:30
Online: Link
Featuring Speaker:
Professor Bhramar Mukherjee is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), where she serves as the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity. She also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science and is affiliated with the MacMillan Center and the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science. Prior to joining Yale in 2024, Dr. Mukherjee built a distinguished career at the University of Michigan, where she held several leadership roles, including Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Associate Director of Quantitative Data Sciences at the Rogel Cancer Center. She was also involved in the U-M Precision Health initiative and the Michigan Institute of Data Science (MIDAS).
The State of AI in Precision Health
Thursday, September 12, 2024 09:30 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
Online: Link
Featuring Speakers (Key Note):
Usama Fayyad is the Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and a Professor of the Practice at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is also the Chairman of Open Insights, a technology and consulting firm he founded in 2008 to help enterprises leverage their data assets and optimize business models.
Notable roles and contributions include:
• Co-Founder & CTO of OODA Health (2017-2019): Focused on using AI to improve healthcare payments.
• Global Chief Data Officer at Barclays (2013-2016): Managed data strategy for the global bank.
• Executive Chairman of Oasis500 (2010): Launched the largest tech-startup accelerator in the Middle East and North Africa, appointed by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
• Chief Data Officer at Yahoo (2004-2008): Founded Yahoo Research Labs, contributing to open-source projects like Hadoop.
• Microsoft, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab: Founded the Machine Learning Systems group at NASA and led projects at Microsoft.
Usama has published over 100 technical articles, holds 20+ patents, and is a Fellow of both AAAI and ACM. He earned a Ph.D. in AI/ML from the University of Michigan and has held advisory roles with the World Economic Forum and multiple startups globally.
Lawrence Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American epidemiologist,[1] technologist, philanthropist, and author, who worked with the World Health Organization from 1973–1976 helping to successfully eradicate smallpox.
Brilliant, a technology patent holder, has been the CEO of public companies and venture backed start-ups. He was the inaugural Executive Director of Google.org,[2] the charitable arm of Google established in 2005, and the first CEO of Skoll Global Threats Fund, established in 2009 by eBay founder Jeff Skoll to address climate change, pandemics, water security, nuclear proliferation, and conflict in the Middle East. Brilliant currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Ending Pandemics, and is also on the boards of the Skoll Foundation, Salesforce.org, The Seva Foundation, and Dharma Platform.
It's amazing to see so many events about AI this month. Thanks for curating.