[NYC AI Event Picks] Mid March Through Early April
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TOP Events Overview
NYC IRL: Learn & Meet Fellow Folks working on AI!
Mar.19 17:30-20:00 EST | NYC 🗽 Power Women in AI Conversation Series + Dinner: A Night Celebrating Women Breaking Barriers in AI. Hosted by The AI Furnace. In Person RSVP.
Mar.27 18:00-21:00 EST | AI Tinkerers NYC March 2024 Meetup. Hosted by AI Tinkerers. In Person RSVP.
Apr.10 19:30-22:30 EST | NYC AI Users - AI Tech Talks, Demo & Social: AI in Music and Autonomous Agents. Hosted by David Cunningham @ New York AI Users. In Person RSVP.
Application Series: Leveraging AI to solve your issues!
Mar.27 13:00-14:00 EST | Managing AI Risks: Reflections on NIST AI Risk Management Framework and Beyond. Hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University Virtual.
Apr.01 13:00-14:00 EST | Dynamic Targeting for Earth Science. Hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University Hybrid RSVP.
Apr.02 17:30-21:00 EST | ML/AI Conversations: AI for Meta-Optics and Deep Fakes Detection in KYC. Hosted by ML/AI Conversations. In Person RSVP
Apr.03 12:00-12:30 EST | Proactive and collaborative AI to complete the bench-to-bedside loop in healthcare. Hosted by MIT. Virtual
Apr.09 12:30-13:30 EST | CITP Seminar: Molly Crockett: Producing More While Knowing Less: The Epistemic Risks of AI. Hosted by Princeton University. Virtual.
Apr.11 12:00-12:30 EST | AI and accessibility: Opportunities and challenges. Hosted by MIT. Virtual
Deep Dive: Neuroscience, Engineering and AI
Mar.20 16:00-17:00 EST | [NeuroAI] How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Regulate Brain Development and Plasticity. Hosted by MIT. Zoom RSVP.
Apr.3 18:30-19:45 | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture: Memory as Narrative Power. Hosted by Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University. Zoom RSVP.
TOP Events Details
NYC 🗽 AI Founders + Builders Happy Hour
Time: Mar.19 17:30-20:00 EST
In Person: RSVP
The AI Furnace is NYC's largest and most active AI community started by AI founders, Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri. In honor of Women’s History month, The AI Furnace is hosting a Power Women in AI Conversation Series and Lite Dinner in partnership with Silicon Valley Bank and DLA Piper. Meet the Women Changing The Face of AI!
Agenda:
5:30pm: Arrival + Networking
6:00pm: Keynote Speech with Sheila Marcelo (founder of care.com and CEO of Ohai AI)
6:30pm: Panel Discussion with Sol Rashidi (former C-Level at Estee Lauder, Merck, Sony Music), Alisha Outridge (CTO/CPO of Byte & Chord), Maya Ber Lerner (Co-founder and CEO at Chiefy, a seed stage AI Startup), and Nadia Masri (Founder and CEO of Aris AI)
7:15pm: Mocktail Hour, Lite Standing Dinner + Networking
AI Tinkerers NYC March 2024 Meetup
Time: Mar.27 18:00-21:00 EST
In Person: RSVP
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.
NYC AI Users - AI Tech Talks, Demo & Social: AI in Music and Autonomous Agents
Time: Apr.10 19:30-22:30 EST
In Person: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Alisha Outridge, CTO, Byte & Chord, Faculty Member in Brown University
Shanif Dhanani, Founder, Locusive
Join Alisha Outridge for a captivating discussion about "AI's Role in Music's Next Act" where the future of music intersects with the cutting edge of artificial intelligence & let's explore what a post-AGI world of music looks like.
Shanif Dhanani will talk about Building Autonomous LLM Agents For Business. This talk will go over some of the common design patterns, challenges with implementation, and practical suggestions for building an autonomous agent for businesses and their employees
Managing AI Risks: Reflections on NIST AI Risk Management Framework and Beyond
Time: Mar.27 13:00-14:00 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Jeanna Matthews, professor of computer science at Clarkson University. She is a founding Chair of the ACM Technology Policy Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Accountability, a Vice-Chair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - USA AI Policy Committee, and a member of the ACM Technology Policy Committee
The AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) from NIST is a centerpiece of current AI policy in the United States. In this Distinguished Lecturer Seminar, Jeanna Matthews will provide a detailed overview of the framework and the process by which it was developed and discuss some implications of its voluntary/non-regulatory nature and the ways it is being used going forward. She will share some of her experiences as a Faculty Fellow at NIST working in the small team responsible for the framework and comment on directions for AI risk management policy more broadly.
Dynamic Targeting for Earth Science
Time: Apr.01 13:00-14:00 EST
Hybrid: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Steve Chien, Technical Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, and (Co-) Head of the Artificial Intelligence Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Most Earth Science Space missions blindly acquire nadir data, e.g. the data that is directly underneath the satellite’s orbit. AI offers the potential of space missions to instead hunt and track the science phenomena of interest.
In this talk, Steve Chien will describe the new “Dynamic Targeting” mission concept in which a satellite uses a lookahead sensor to acquire data, uses edge computing to analyze this data and uses this analysis to target a primary sensor to optimize science return, all within a roughly 30-40 second decision cycle dictated by orbital velocity (~ 7.5 km/s).
Chien will first detail this approach using the SMICES smart ice-hunting radar mission concept. For SMICES, a forward-looking radiometer is used to detect likely areas for deep convective ice storms which are then targeted using an advanced radar. He will describe the use of a Weather Research Forecast (WRF) forecast model as a digital twin in conjunction with both unsupervised and supervised learning to develop radiometer data classifiers to identify likely deep convective ice storms. Then, he will describe the online dynamic targeting algorithm that uses this information to optimize mission return. He will then describe several other applications of Dynamic Targeting to cloud avoidance and study of Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) phenomena. He will show simulations and analyses that document that dynamic targeting can significantly improve mission return.
ML/AI Conversations: AI for Meta-Optics and Deep Fakes Detection in KYC
Time: Apr.02 17:30-21:00 EST
In Person: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Mikhail Shalaginov, Co-Founder of 2Pi Optics & Research Scientist at MIT
Konstantin Simonchik, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-founder of ID R&D Inc
We are delighted to announce that our upcoming meetup is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2nd. We invite you to join us at the Capital One Flat Iron office to discuss the latest advancements in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. There will also be an opportunity to network and enjoy some pizza.
Agenda:
5:30PM Doors open
5:30PM - 6:30PM reception, networking
6:30PM - Mikhail Shalaginov, Co-Founder of 2Pi Optics & Research Scientist at MIT - "AI for Meta-Optics"
7:15PM - Konstantin Simonchik, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-founder of ID R&D Inc. - "Two-Level Artifact Detection in Images for Modern Anti-Fraud in KYC"
8:00PM - 9:00PM Further Networking
Proactive and collaborative AI to complete the bench-to-bedside loop in healthcare
Time: Apr.03 12:00-12:30 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Yuan Luo, Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Northwestern University
Artificial intelligence stands at the forefront of innovation in the rapidly evolving landscape of health care, promising to help lessen the gap between laboratory discoveries and clinical applications. Discover how AI is paving the way for more efficient, precise, and personalized health care, promising a future where technology and human expertise converge to enhance patient care and outcomes. Yuan Luo of the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute will not only highlight recent achievements but also cast a vision for the future.
CITP Seminar: Molly Crockett: Producing More While Knowing Less: The Epistemic Risks of AI
Time: Apr.09 12:30-13:30 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Molly Crockett, associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University
Scientists envision AI as a way to overcome human cognitive limitations across the research pipeline, improving productivity and objectivity. But proposed AI solutions can themselves exploit our cognitive limitations, making us vulnerable to an illusion of understanding: believing we understand more about the world while actually understanding less. We know less when the proliferation of AI tools creates scientific monocultures, where certain types of methods, questions and viewpoints come to dominate all the rest, making science less innovative and more vulnerable to error. Our analysis provides a framework for advancing discussions of responsible knowledge production in the age of AI.
AI and accessibility: Opportunities and challenges
Time: Apr.09 12:00-12:30 EST
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Cynthia Bennett, human-computer interaction researcher, Google
Artificial intelligence could help in efforts to provide digital accessibility for people with disabilities. In this fireside chat, research scientist Cynthia Bennett will define key terms and give some examples of how AI is already helping to make digital spaces easier for people with disabilities to use and participate in. She will also talk about important concerns related to bias and rapid innovation.
[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, Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard University.
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.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture: Memory as Narrative Power
Time: Apr.3 18:30-19:45
Zoom: RSVP
Featuring Speaker:
Christopher Baldassano, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University
Jennifer Manly, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Julie Parato, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Memory ties together the many events we experience over the minutes, years, and decades of our lives. It creates meaning for the narratives that form our identity and the stories we tell each other. Simply put, it allows us to make sense of our world. How does the brain organize memories and shape these stories? What happens to these processes as we age, and how can we maintain a healthy mind across the lifespan? In this event, three experts in memory research will bring perspectives from cellular, cognitive, and clinical approaches to explore the narrative that memory helps us form.