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NYC B2B Events:

• Pre-Seed + Seed Founders & Investors Meetup

• Seed → Series B Founder Dinner x Reitler Law & Wells Fargo

• Head of Growth Dinner x Avino (YC S22)

• Engineering & AI Leaders Brunch: Series A+ and Enterprise x Vibranium Labs (a16z-backed)

Wednesday 5/20:

• South Park Commons NYC Demo Night

• AI Engineers May Tech Talk w/ Harmonic, Instacart, Hebbia, & Noemica

• Female Founders and Funders

• A Private Study x Antler: A Conversation on STORYTELLING

• GTM Eng NYC: MayDay - Claude Code + GTM Lightning Talks

• 🧠 AI Founders Lab with The AI Collective NYC x Avahi

• Valli Ventures Founders Supper Society with JPM Private Bank

• Build vs Buy - Agentic AI in Healthcare

• Investor Roast Live w/ Right To Invest

• Table: Solutions for Founders

• May Founders x VCs Ping Pong Social in NYC feat. Flybridge Capital ($1B AUM)

• Runway Physical AI Dinner

• AI Founders Lab with The AI Collective NYC x Avahi

• OpenClaw for GTM and Personal Agents (Live in NY)

• Rho Founders Dinner (Hosted By The Nucleus Network x Rho)

• Blueberry.AI NYC Dinner

• Investor & Founder Happy Hour

• The Collective NYC Happy Hour by Goanna Capital

Thursday 5/21:

• dev/ai/nyc

• Founder Dinner (Series A)

• Dive Club LIVE hosted by Double Diamond & Ramp

• May Founders & VCs Masterclass & Mixer feat. Principal at MGV.VC and CEO of UrbanStems ($52M+ Raised)

• NYC AI Demos #9 - [DESIGN]

Friday 5/22:

• Tech Pickleball NYC

Saturday 5/23:

• Agentic Engineering Hack - Google DeepMind, Datadog, Nimble, ClickHouse, and more.

Tuesday 5/26:

• Antimetal at Carbone

• NYC B2B: Seed → Series B Founder Dinner

• The Future of Incident Management (Ft. Todd Vernon, Founder of VictorOps (acq. by Splunk)) - Does AI Help or Hurt in 2026?

Wednesday 5/27:

• Light x Lovable x McKinsey QB Finance Hackathon

• May AI Engineers: Devs & Drinks

• Design Meetup x Ramp NYC: Off The Record

• Valli Ventures x DALYA: SoHo Sip & Style

Thursday 5/28:

• NYC B2B: Head of Growth Dinner

• 2026 Chloe Capital Founder Fellowship Showcase

• Voice Agent Build Night with ElevenLabs and Tavily

• Delivering better healthcare experiences with Sierra AI

Friday 5/30:

• Daring Ventures: Founders & Fractionals

Sponsoring NYC B2B’s Newsletter + Events

Monday 6/1:

• Batter Up NYC!

• ERA/Remarkable Ventures Agentic AI Demo Showcase, Hosted by Fenwick

• Official Tech Week Kickoff Party (Gamma x a16z)

• AI Summit NYC

• AI x Investing: The Age of Agents

• a16z speedrun Pitch Day

• McKinsey x NY Tech Week Panel

• Slack x Amplitude: AI at Work

• From Workflows to Self-Driving Systems (SAP x Insight Partners)

• Agents in Production: The Memory Problem

• Software for Hardware: Tools Powering Robotics & Embodied AI

• Rebuilding American Manufacturing (JPMorgan, Orrick, Bessemer)

• LegalTech in the Age of AI

• B2B AI Founders & Investors Mixer

• Stripe Supper Club

• Agentic Voice Workshop

Tuesday 6/2:

• The AI Founder Playbook (Microsoft)

• Hustle Fund: Founder Friends New York

• June Private Founders Dinner in NYC ft. MD at Insight Partners ($90B+ AUM)

• Agentic Commerce: Build Day (Microsoft x Tavily)

• Masters of Scale Live with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna

• The Investment Game: In Pursuit of Series A (HubSpot x a16z)

• Fin x Clay: Scaling CX in the AI Era

• Techstars AI

• Profit through Partnerships (Microsoft x Partner1)

• Enterprise AI Innovation Showcase (NVIDIA x Dell)

• Built for the Physical World: AI at the Defense Frontier (NVIDIA x PhysicsX)

• AI Tech Stack to Nasdaq: The Modern CFO's Exit Playbook (PwC, Cooley, DFIN)

• Building to Disrupt: AI in Enterprise & Fintech (HSBC)

• BCG x FT Partners Global Fintech Report Launch

• Tech IPO Summit: Navigating Private to Public (GoodFin)

• AI → Alpha: How Data Becomes Investment Edge

• How We Build with Agents (Betaworks)

• Cloudflare + Shopify: Build for the Agent Era

• speedrun Insiders VIP Dinner (a16z, Datadog, Replit)

• NachoTuesday: SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Rooftop Happy Hour

• Databricks Ventures: Founders & Investors Meetup

• ElevenLabs x NYC Tech Week

• Enterprise AI Happy Hour (Credal)

• Future of DevEx (PostHog, Arthur, Tavily)

• WorkOS + Postman Agentic Night

• Founder to Founder: AI, Ops, and Scaling in 2026

• Building LLM-Powered Products in Production

• Founder Penthouse Potluck

Wednesday 6/3:

• Concourse x a16z CFO Breakfast

• MongoDB AI Builder Day with AWS

• Google for Startups Hub at NY Tech Week

• Google for Startups: Latest from Google DeepMind

• Architecture of Failure: AI Agents Masterclass (Google)

• The Founder's Guide to AI Transformation (Google)

• Building Multi-Agent Systems (Google)

• Building Agentic Experiences on the Frontier (Google)

• Fast Track to the Future: AI-Native Apps with Firebase (Google)

• Anthropic Founder Salon: Inside the AI-Native Era

• MCP and the Future of AI x API

• Scale AI | Human in the Loop LIVE

• Sequoia Leader Connect

• NYC GTM AI Masterclass

• Pitch Roast Live - #NYTechWeek

• GTM & AI: Gimmick or Gold? (Mucker Capital)

• Intuit Fintech Leadership Panel & Networking

• NYSE + PwC IPO Panel

• SOC Transformation: AI, Automation, Hard Choices

• Build Mode: RevOps & GTM Teams as AI-Powered Builders (HubSpot)

• Agent Harnesses: Making AI Agents Work in Enterprise

• Hard-Won Lessons: AI Agents in Regulated Environments

• How Chiefs of Staff Build Knowledge Systems (Notion)

• Is Your Brand Ready for AI Search? (Capgemini)

• When is AI Good Enough?

• Coding Agents Write Code. Remy Builds Products (MindStudio)

• Founder Fireside w/ Partiful x a16z

• Off the Record: Founders & Funders

• NY(SEA): Tech Week Founder Boat Party

• ElevenCreative Sessions - NYC