[NYC AI Event Picks] March is coming!
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TOP Events Overview
NYC IRL: Learn & Meet Fellow Folks working on AI!
Feb.29 18:30-20:30 EST | NYC 🗽 AI Founders + Builders Happy Hour. Hosted by The AI Furnace. In Person RSVP.
Mar.13 19:30-22:30 EST | NYC AI Users - AI Tech Talks, Demo & Social: RAG Search and Customer Experience. Hosted by David Cunningham @ New York AI Users. In Person RSVP.
Mar.27 18:00-21:00 EST | AI Tinkerers NYC March 2024 Meetup. Hosted by AI Tinkerers. In Person RSVP.
Application Series: Leveraging AI to solve your issues!
Feb.28 13:00-14:00 EST | Multimodal Agents with Antonio Torralba. Hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University Hybrid RSVP.
Mar.1 13:00-14:00 EST | Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI and Network Science. Hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University Hybrid RSVP.
Mar.06 11:30-13:00 EST | The Stratton Lecture: How will AI impact women?. Hosted by MIT. In Person @ MIT, RSVP.
Mar.06 12:00-12:30 EST | The AI revolution is coming for your business. Hosted by MIT. Zoom RSVP.
Mar.14 17:30-20:00 EST | Responsible AI Mini-Summit with Microsoft, feat. Venture-backed Founders, VCs, Execs building in AI ML. Hosted by Microsoft and Supermomos, In Person RSVP.
Deep Dive: Neuroscience, Engineering and AI
Mar.19 12:30-13:30 EST | CITP Seminar: Ryan Calo – Law and Technology in Theory and Practice. Hosted by The Center For Information Technology Policy, Princeton University. Zoom RSVP.
Mar.20 16:00-17:00 EST | [NeuroAI] How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Regulate Brain Development and Plasticity. Hosted by MIT. Zoom RSVP.
TOP Events Details
NYC IRL: Learn & Meet Fellow Folks working on AI!
NYC 🗽 AI Founders + Builders Happy Hour
Time: Feb.29 18:30-20:30 EST
In Pereson: RSVP
The AI Furnace is NYC's largest and most active AI community. It was started by AI founders, Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri, who were based in NYC and London and started the org to support fellow AI founders and operators building in local cities outside of Cerebral Valley (San Francisco). It has since grown to a global community of 10,000 AI founders, operators and researchers and has since opened up in London and Boston.
NYC AI Users - AI Tech Talks, Demo & Social: RAG Search and Customer Experience
Time: Mar.13 19:30-22:30 EST
In Person: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Aziz Altowayan, Senior Data Scientist based in NYC with a PhD in Computer Science and NLP
Mikayla LaRosa, Senior Program Manager at Airtable
Aziz Altowayan’s talk will be RAG Demystified: What is RAG? He will talk about how to build an LLM/chatbot that uses personal or company data to create a personalized or internal "search engine" of all relevant information. He will build a RAG example from scratch, with an application in health care for early disease diagnosis.
Mikayla LaRosa will explore ways artificial intelligence can be leveraged to transform customer experiences. In this talk, she will discuss the ways Airtable's Customer Success team is leveraging AI, including Airtable’s own AI capabilities, to create customer-centric experiences and enhance operational efficiencies. She will share her insights on AI implementation strategies, covering methods for upskilling teams in AI, effectively measuring and communicating the impact of Generative AI efforts to leadership, and envisioning the future of customer experience in the era of AI.
AI Tinkerers NYC March 2024 Meetup
Time: Mar.27 18:00-21:00 EST
In Person: RVSP
AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for practitioners who possess technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds and 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, have hands-on experience in building such systems, and are eager to connect with like-minded individuals who share your level of commitment, then this group is the perfect fit for you. With AI Tinkerers meetups taking place in multiple cities, we cater to a dedicated community of practitioners.
Who is this for?
We’re not “AI Enthusiasts”, we are AI Tinkerers. The core essence of AI Tinkerers lies in active collaboration surrounding early-stage discovery and innovation, which requires a high degree of experimentation, vulnerability, openness to sharing challenges and learnings, and collaboration among individuals with a shared level of expertise. This unique environment allows us to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and LLMs while maintaining a strong sense of camaraderie and mutual support.
Application Series: Leveraging AI to solve real world issues!
Multimodal Agents with Antonio Torralba
Time: Feb.28 13:00-14:00 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Antonio Torralba
Delta electronics Professor and head of the AI+D faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT
In the last few years, large pretrained models have shown impressive performance in a diverse set of tasks. These models have to be trained with large datasets and are, in most cases, opaque on how they process information internally. In this talk Antonio Torralba will focus on two questions: how can we build tools to understand the inner workings of existing pretrained models, and how can we use generative models to reduce the need of large databases to train ML systems. Antonio will start describing our recent work on MAIA: A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent. This agent performs iterative experimentation on subcomponents of other models to explain their behavior. He will then talk about his work on reducing the amount of data needed to train large pretrained models. Finally, he’ll go a step further and ask if we can do away with real image datasets entirely when building a computer vision system, instead learning from noise processes.
Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI and Network Science
Time: Mar.1 13:00-14:00 EST
Hybrid: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Samuel Scarpino, Director of AI + Life Sciences
Giulia Menichetti, Principal Investigator and Junior Faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Join us online on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 1pm EDT for an exciting AI + Life Sciences webinar titled, “Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI and Network Science” with Sam Scarpino, our Director of AI + Life Sciences and guest Giulia Menichetti, Principal Investigator and Junior Faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Sam and Giulia will discuss:
What network science is and how it is advancing AI applications in medicine and biology
What is needed to realize the potential of AI in diagnosing and treating complex diseases
What we should expect in AI and life sciences in 2024
How our Institute advances diagnostics, drug discovery, and wet-lab-in-the-loop
The Stratton Lecture: How will AI impact women?
Time: Mar.06 11:30-13:00 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES)
How will AI affect the lives of women in terms of healthcare, bias and careers? Join us and our panel of speakers as we explore the unique issues facing women with the development of AI. This in-person lecture will take place in the MIT Wong Auditorium, offering a vibrant atmosphere for thought-provoking discussions. We'll explore how AI impacts women's lives, from bias in algorithms to representation in tech. This is a unique opportunity to gain insights from leading experts and join a discussion and Q&A.
The AI revolution is coming for your business
Time: Mar.06 12:00-12:30 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
João Barros, Founder and CEO, Veniam.
Experts worldwide agree that the AI revolution will touch every industry and every area of business. Building on dozens of work sessions with executive teams in companies of all sizes, engineer and entrepreneur João Barros will discuss the main challenges and opportunities facing organizations that want to leverage AI. His talk will cover a broad spectrum of topics, such as the art of prompting GPT-4, and building sophisticated AI apps securely with internal data. Participants will receive a foundation in AI concepts, strategies, tools, and ethics.
Responsible AI Mini-Summit with Microsoft, feat. Venture-backed Founders, VCs, Execs building in AI ML
Time: Mar.14 17:30-20:00 EST
Zoom: In Person RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Daniel Chesley, Principal, Work-Bench. Work-Bench is an enterprise VC that recently raised $125M Fund III and Invested in companies such as Cockroach Labs and Arthur AI (LLMOps and firewall product).
Ben Colman, Founder & CEO, Reality Defender. Reality Defender is a detection platform to identify deep fakes (Y Combinator, raised $15M).
Ceclia Dones, Adjunct Asst. Professor, Columbia University. Ceclia was previously Head of Data Science at Moët Hennessy.
Supermomos x Microsoft are bringing together top minds in AI ML for an evening supercharged with insight in the Responsible AI space, featuring perspectives from world-class operators, investors, and founders across the ecosystem.
We will feature a presentation and demo on deepfakes, a panel with top execs in the AI space, and curated lightning talks. It will be a great way to digest what everyone is building and working on in the AI ML and Responsible AI space.
There will be time for interactive Q&A, engaging with the speakers, and also mingling with other founders, product leaders, and executives.
Complimentary bites and drinks will be provided.
Deep Dive: Neuroscience, Engineering and AI
Mar.19 12:30-13:30 EST | CITP Seminar: Ryan Calo – Law and Technology in Theory and Practice. Hosted by The Center For Information Technology Policy, Princeton University. Zoom RSVP.
Mar.20 16:00-17:00 EST | [NeuroAI] How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Regulate Brain Development and Plasticity. Hosted by MIT. Zoom RSVP.
CITP Seminar: Ryan Calo – Law and Technology in Theory and Practice
Time: Mar.19 12:30-13:30 EST
Hybrid: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Ryan Calo is the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. Calo is a visiting fellow at CITP for the spring 2024 semester. He is a founding co-director (with Batya Friedman and Tadayoshi Kohno) of the interdisciplinary UW Tech Policy Lab and a co-founder (with Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Kate Starbird, and Jevin West) of the UW Center for an Informed Public. He holds a joint appointment at the Information School and an adjunct appointment at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.
Using driverless cars, artificial intelligence, cochlear implants, nuclear power and other examples, this talk will walk through various hurdles to the successful legal analysis and governance of emerging technology. The talk will identify law’s unique role in channeling technology toward human flourishing, argue that law and technology constitutes a distinct field of study, and suggest a step-by-step methodology for this field going forward.
[NeuroAI] SCSB Colloquium Series: How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Regulate Brain Development and Plasticity
Time: Mar.20 16:00-17:00 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Michael Greenberg, Ph.D
Experience-dependent neuronal activity plays a critical role in shaping the connectivity and function of the central nervous system. These actions are mediated in part by the action of a program of neuronal activity-driven gene expression. Investigation of these gene expression programs has uncovered important roles in dendritic growth, the development of excitatory and inhibitory synapses, the composition of protein complexes at pre- and post-synaptic sites, and the production of neuropeptides that control neural circuit development. Moreover, defects in the activity-dependent gene program contribute to disorders of human cognition. Thus, study of this transcriptional response promises new insights into neuronal plasticity and disease.