AI Events in New York City

Advertising Week New York 2026 will bring brand leaders, marketers, agency teams, media professionals, and creators together for 500+ sessions on AI, technology, creativity, commerce, and the creator economy. A headline feature will be the $100 million Creator Challenge, led by inaugural Chief Creator Officer Dhar Mann.

AI Week New York 2026 will bring together hundreds of tech leaders, researchers, and innovators across the city for a week-long festival (Oct 5-11) featuring panels, workshops, and networking events exploring how AI is reshaping business and society. Attendees will get hands-on learning opportunities and connect with pioneers from startups, academia, government, and the broader tech ecosystem driving responsible AI innovation.

Experts in robotics and AI will explore how machines can learn from human knowledge and experience to become smarter and more capable. Researchers with backgrounds in machine learning and autonomous systems will discuss cutting-edge approaches to transferring human expertise into robotic frameworks.

Sampura Research, founded by Google DeepMind alumni and backed by an $11M Coefficient Giving grant, will present its approach to AI alignment: combining human and AI judgment through a leaderboard of 50+ datasets and methods for routing and assisting judges. The session will feature a talk, Q&A, and informal discussion with the team, which is hiring founding technical staff.

During Advertising Week, Higgsfield will host an intimate mixer bringing together customers, partners, press, and the people building and using its AI video platform. The evening will feature conversation, cocktails, and small bites, with discussion focused on shaping the customer community’s future.

Eyebeam will kick off its 2026–27 AGENCY programming with a live game of *Artificial Inquiries*, where artists, researchers, and technologists will collaboratively imagine futures shaped by human choices around AI, labor, power, and the planet. Players Jamie Brew, Jazsalyn, Surya Mattu, and Tina Tarighian will be accompanied by illustrator Will Rahilly and moderated by Sarah Rothberg, co-creator of More&More.

Top AI engineers and policy experts will gather to tackle how artificial intelligence gets built, trusted, and deployed across the world.

The largest expo-conference in Brooklyn will showcase cutting-edge AI and technology solutions, feature innovative businesses, and offer seminars and networking opportunities for industry professionals.

NYC AI Week will feature a candid panel on whether clinical AI improves patient outcomes and clinicians’ working lives, alongside pitches from five emerging healthcare AI startups. Speakers include physicians Ron Razmi, MD, and George Matthew, MD, MBA, FACP, plus AI founders and experts.

Product and engineering leaders will pressure-test what AI-powered software factories can actually deliver, from planning and specs to coding, testing, and handoffs, with teams sharing practical lessons beyond polished demos. The conversation will feature Ben Levine, Candidly’s CPO, who leads product, data science, and design and has a background at Twitter, Microsoft Research, and Columbia.

Healthcare founders and operators across NYC will gather for an end-of-summer casual meetup with Healthcare AI Guy and Lorikeet—no formal programming, just drinks, light bites, and connecting with people across the healthtech ecosystem before conference season kicks off.

Google and AICamp will host a hands-on, 90-minute engineering lab where attendees build and deploy resilient autonomous agents in Google Cloud, with asynchronous workflows, tool integration, state management, and error recovery. Participants will work alongside Google engineers and leave with a functioning cloud-based system.

The Elastic NYC User Group and Pulumi will host a pre-ElasticON meetup featuring Pulumi’s Engin Diri on searchable, shared memory for coding agents and Elastic Senior Software Engineer Ines Potier on the shift from stateful to stateless architecture for Serverless. Technical talks will be followed by pizza and networking with NYC’s tech community.

Fintech marketers will explore how to build demand before buyers feel a pain point and how AI agents can sharpen customer understanding and marketing. Speakers include senior marketing leaders from Coast, Carta, Better, Betterment, and Bluevine, alongside hosts specializing in fintech, financial-services content, compliance, and marketing intelligence.

Unique AI Chief Product Officer Dana Ritter and the executive leadership team will demonstrate Remy, Casey, and Ivy-AI teammates with persistent memory for financial advisory, compliance, and investor relations workflows. COOs, CTOs, advisors, compliance leaders, and investor relations professionals will see live demos and a client testimonial on how agentic AI can streamline client service, KYC, and RFP/DDQ work.

NYC Tech Connect will bring together developers, founders, designers, investors, and other tech enthusiasts for drinks, games, and a discussion on how AI sees cancer. The featured speaker will be Dr. Akash Parvatikar, Biobase’s Director of Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Computational Biology.

Ophelia Demo Night will bring engineers, founders, designers, and investors together to showcase products built with the Ophelia API, turning user intent into real bookings and purchases across travel, dining, fitness, and more. Builders will present working demos for judging, with the winning team earning a chance to pitch Betaworks, plus AI and Ophelia credits and Meta smart glasses.

Nizar Touzi, Chair of Finance and Risk Engineering at NYU Tandon and recipient of the Louis Bachelier Prize, will walk through cutting-edge work bridging quantum probability theory and generative diffusion modeling—combining entropy minimization with optimal transport for significantly better generation quality. The seminar will feature technical deep-dives followed by a reception for networking.

Advertising professionals will examine how the shift of billions in ad spend to Connected TV will make precise audience reach and ad timing increasingly critical. The invite- and approval-only event will focus on the challenges shaping this next era of CTV advertising.

Dr. Akash Parvatikar, Biobase’s Director of Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Computational Biology, will explain how machine learning can analyze digital pathology images to detect cancer patterns, support more consistent diagnoses, and why AI decisions must remain explainable. The talk will pair scientific insights with storytelling and humor while examining the limits of trusting AI in healthcare.