NYTW... It's a wrap! What's next?
New York Techweek (or NYTW for short) was an entire week of awesome Tech events sponsored by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z for short)! For those who want more, there are actually two more coming up!
San Francisco, OCT 07-13
Los Angeles, OCT 14-20
A special thanks to all the volunteers who made this possible and speakers who shared their experiences!
Last week we hosted our first Techweek event “NYC #TechWeek AI Founder Panel: The ins and outs building an AI startup” and it was a great success! Thanks to all of your who took time out of your day and joined our event! If you were unable to join, no worries, we’ve got more on the way!
Our speakers gave us amazing talks on building an AI startup:
Jisong Liu, Scout Manager, Uphonest Capital
Surfield Thomas Jrm, CTO, assetlink.ai
Dr.Xiao Zhang, CEO, Collov.ai
From ideation phase - finding the right problem you want to solve and the market needs, to finding the right co-founders and team, to boot-strapping the MVP/inviting VC onboard, to hiring the right folks, to finding product market fit, to scaling and solving client needs, to building on-property AI solutions that both satisfy legislations and customer privacy requirements, to training the top-notch models for customers, these moving parts in building an AI startup are what makes it both fascinating and challenging at the same time!
Upcoming next
Through 2024, we will be hosting an array events, all geared towards empowering change-makers like you. Perhaps you are already building your company, or perhaps you still only have an idea and not sure where to go from there. Wherever your are on your journey, we have something for you!
Interactive sessions and workshops on entrepreneurial skills with fellow founders
You ever find negotiation hard? (it’s not meant to be easy. no kidding, it’s from latin term negare otium - to deny leisure : D ) How about leading your startup team? Managing your limited resources & time?
We will have frequent gathering as well as in-person sessions from renowned MBA professors!
Seminars on state-of-the-art AI research developments and applications
One must “Know Thy Craft”. Building AI startups? You better up with the latest AI developments - new models, new methods and new paradigms!
We have welcomed authors and professors in the past and will host more sessions in the future!
Themed Roundtables and founder panels (like this one!)
We’ll have sessions just like this one where founders and investors share their experiences. The paths to change are never the same, still there are common lessons we all can learn from!
In coming days, we’ll also compile a list of AI events in NYC & beyond, stay tuned for more events and feel free to spread the word out!