AI Week New York: every event, day by day
This is VB's unofficial calendar for AI Week NY Fall 2026.
There are 78 listings on the official calendar for the citywide festival curated by Pulse NYC. Each event is run by its own host and needs separate registration through the official AI Week NY calendar. Times are Eastern; TBA venues go to registrants once confirmed. Times may change. Check the official calendar for details.
Monday, October 5
These events have already taken place; they're listed for reference and follow-up.
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10:00 AM
Bubbl Village
An AI Week listing from Bubbl with no description posted beyond the title; details would come from the host.
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1:00 PM
VirtualBeyond the Copilot
A virtual talk arguing that handing employees copilots and chatbots hasn't changed how companies actually operate. It looked at redesigning business workflows around AI rather than bolting tools onto old processes.
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1:00 PM
Enterprise AI Demo Day, Live Pitch
A pitch competition where enterprise AI startups had to show their product running against a real workflow, not a demo video. Winners advance to Friday's closed-door table with investors and enterprise buyers.
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2:00 PM
Cloud For AI Agent
A builder session on voice agents and the latency gap that makes callers realize they're talking to a machine. Topics covered the tradeoffs among latency, cost and infrastructure.
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4:00 PM
Woman Led. Community Backed.
The group's third AI Week networking event, celebrating and connecting women business owners. Emphasis was on community and peer connections rather than a formal program.
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4:00 PM
Herisson × 51 Alpha: Institutional Market Makers Happy Hour
Drinks for institutional market makers and liquidity providers in prediction markets. Herisson structures hedges for businesses; the evening was pure industry networking.
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5:00 PM
AI & Human Connection for Youths
An intimate session on whether AI brings young people closer or reshapes what connection means. It mixed a panel conversation with an interactive component.
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5:30 PM
Hiring in the Age of AI: A Cooperman Industry Roundtable
Industry leaders discussed how AI is changing recruiting, screening and hiring. Held in person at Hunter College; government ID was required for building entry.
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5:30 PM
Vibe Coded Ops in Digital Health
A hands-on workshop on how non-technical founders, leaders and clinicians are "vibe coding" their own operational tools. Pitched as the digital-health community's AI Week kickoff.
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6:30 PM
AI in Action: How Israeli Innovators Are Building What's Next
A moderated conversation with Israeli AI ecosystem leaders on real-world applications and lessons learned, followed by networking.
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7:00 PM
VirtualTHE BIG BANG: Put AI to Work in Your Business
A live online session for established business owners on where AI should actually sit inside their operations. Aimed at growing companies rather than technologists.
Tuesday, October 6
Twelve events, anchored by Pulse NYC's own Brooklyn Tech Expo in Dumbo.
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10:00 AM
From Shadow IT to Enterprise AI
A 90-minute interactive session on moving enterprise AI beyond pilots securely. Orange Business walks through its own path from shadow IT to a generative AI platform serving 110,000+ users, with a live demo. Repeats Wednesday.
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11:00 AM
FlagshipBrooklyn Tech Expo — "FALL4AI" Edition
The festival's flagship and Brooklyn's largest AI and tech expo, expecting 1,000+ attendees including executives and founders. Expect exhibitors, AI seminars and networking; free passes are gone and only a few paid tickets remain.
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11:45 AM
The Agentic Era: AI Agents, Claude Code
A practical look at how AI agents and tools like Claude Code are changing how businesses are built and run. Aimed at entrepreneurs and operators, with live examples and use cases.
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1:30 PM
Building Better Trading Strategies with AI
Focuses on the under-discussed half of AI-driven quant work: testing whether an AI-built strategy actually holds up. One of the week's most-registered events.
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2:00 PM
OneBucket AI Data Lab
A hands-on lab on giving AI agents access to data spread across AWS, Azure, Wasabi and Dell storage under strict controls. Attendees connect, redact and lock down data live in the room.
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2:30 PM
AI for OT & IT Ops
Covers AI in IT operations and operational-technology environments, from autonomous ticket triage to MCP-ready infrastructure and AI network monitoring. Includes enterprise demos; repeats Wednesday.
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3:30 PM
Own Your Agentic Voice AMA
A recurring office-hours AMA for AI agency owners and builders working on voice agents and telephony. Practical Q&A format.
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5:00 PM
Come Build AI for Retail Brands: Happy Hour
A recruiting-flavored happy hour from Glimpse, which automates back-office work for consumer brands and has raised $52M from a16z, 8VC and YC. The week's most-registered event so far.
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5:30 PM
Agentic Data Science Panel: How AI Agents Are Reinventing Business Analytics
A panel on the shift from static dashboards to data agents that query datasets, surface insights and act on them. PyMC Labs also runs Saturday's data-science agents hackathon.
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6:00 PM
From Idea to Website: A Lovable Workshop
A hands-on session where attendees build a working website live with Lovable. No coding experience needed.
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6:00 PM
Storytelling as GTM
An intimate conversation with early-stage investors and founders on using storytelling as a go-to-market advantage. Covers positioning and sharpening a clear value proposition.
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6:30 PM
Introducing IncitingIncident: Your Story Starts Here
A first look at a new filmmaking platform that puts the whole storytelling process into one connected workspace. Aimed at filmmakers, screenwriters and visual storytellers.
Wednesday, October 7
Sixteen listings (two repeat Tuesday's Orange Business sessions), one of them canceled. Queens AI Innovation Day is the largest daytime event.
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10:00 AM
PMAI: Creativity and Business Problems in the Age of AI
A workshop for entrepreneurs arguing that when AI makes ideas cheap, the creative edge shifts to framing the right business problem.
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10:00 AM
The Idea Is the Easy Part
Founders, operators and builders on problem validation, AI-powered building and whether the systems behind a product actually work. Part of a two-day program that continues Thursday.
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10:00 AM
RepeatFrom Shadow IT to Enterprise AI
Repeat of Tuesday's session on scaling enterprise AI securely beyond pilots.
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11:00 AM
Owned Intelligence: The Enterprise Sovereignty Framework
A session for business-transformation leaders accountable for AI inside their organizations, framed around enterprises owning, rather than renting, their AI capability.
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Check listing
VirtualAI Is Rewiring Retail: From Shelf Compliance to Flawless Promotions
A virtual session cutting through retail-automation hype to what's working now on shelves, in aisles and across promotional rollouts. The calendar's listed time is inconsistent, so confirm before joining.
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2:30 PM
Queens AI Innovation Day
The first edition of a four-hour expo: an exhibit floor with 10+ AI vendors, workshops and a takeaway AI toolkit. Geared to people who want to apply AI the next morning.
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2:30 PM
RepeatAI for OT & IT Ops
Repeat of Tuesday's session on AI for IT operations and operational-technology environments.
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5:00 PM
Become a Superhuman: Turn Hybrid-AI into Practical Success Cases
Case studies and expert panels on implementing AI responsibly in B2B.
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5:00 PM
HackathonPlug and Play × PMAI Hackathon: Rapid Response
A fast-format hackathon with an emergency-response theme: teams of two to four tackle three challenges in 45-minute rounds.
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5:30 PM
Developing Consumer Trust in Agentic Commerce
Fashion and beauty leaders on what consumers need to trust AI shopping agents: product discovery, brand and marketplace confidence, and data handling.
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6:00 PM
The AI Round Table: AI Workflows Worth Stealing
A curated small-group exchange where each attendee brings one real AI workflow to share. Focused on how people actually use AI across industries.
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6:00 PM
Privacy Matters: Offline AI for Teachers
Makes the case for classroom AI that runs offline, avoiding subscription costs, lock-in, sudden model changes and student data spread across the internet.
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6:00 PM
CanceledAI Thunderdome: 6 Participants, 1 Winner
Canceled the day before and postponed; the hosts say a new date will go out by email.
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6:00 PM
En españolBrooklyn2Bogota: IA Más Allá de la Moda
The first of two Spanish-language panels on practical AI tools for traditional retail and small businesses. Latino entrepreneurs share what works, what fails and how to scale.
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6:30 PM
Five Businesses, Zero Employees: Watch the Screens That Run Them
A solo founder running five businesses with no staff shows the live systems that do the work. An hour of screens, then open Q&A, with nothing for sale.
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7:00 PM
Invoice Processing Cost Hours. This AI Agent Fixes It
A live demo of an agent that reads, extracts and reconciles invoices and checks its own confidence. Aimed at finance teams buried in manual entry.
Thursday, October 8
The week's peak, with 23 events — most of them evening sessions starting between 5:30 and 7:00 PM.
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9:00 AM
AI Meets the Ground
A private deployment and investment briefing for tech companies and VCs, built on the firm's thesis that Africa's biggest AI opportunity is in physical sectors such as mining and agriculture.
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10:00 AM
AI Lunch and Learn
A full day of talks and networking on how AI is changing brand-building, business growth and the future of work. Open to entrepreneurs, creators, students and the AI-curious.
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12:00 PM
Revolutionizing Healthcare With AI-Powered Devices
Weill Cornell showcases AI-enabled technologies from its ecosystem, including an agentic platform that uses real-world patient data to design clinical trials.
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12:00 PM
Building Your "Human" Skills in the Age of AI
An interactive session on which skills, such as judgment and taste, matter as AI automates more work, and how to deliberately improve them.
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12:00 PM
You're Using ChatGPT Like Google. Let's Fix That
A beginner workshop on treating ChatGPT or Claude as a back-and-forth collaborator instead of a search box. Attendees leave with a first working AI workflow.
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12:30 PM
VirtualEveryone Is Talking About AI Voice. Nobody Is Talking About Compliance
An AMA on the overlooked side of production voice agents: global compliance rules, telecom infrastructure and international deployment.
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4:00 PM
Break It, Fix It, Prove It: The Agentic Data Recovery Workshop
A hands-on sandbox where attendees deliberately break things, then use AI agents to investigate and recover from data incidents like ransomware.
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5:30 PM
Bohemian AI Salon — Digital Edition
A salon-style evening on AI; no description has been posted beyond the title.
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5:30 PM
VentureBeatEnding the Hallucination Tax: Governing the Backbone of Enterprise AI
VentureBeat's only AI Week event: drinks and candid conversation for a small room of AI and data leaders. The agenda builds on VB's June Pulse survey of tech leaders, where 34% let agents push changes to production on evals alone, yet only 5% fully trust those evals.
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5:30 PM
Modus Salons: Humans, AI, and New Ways of Working in Pharma
A salon on how AI is changing work in pharma; no further description has been posted.
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5:45 PM
Alternative Data Happy Hour #40
A long-running informal networking night for alt-data professionals: investors, data providers, asset managers and data buyers.
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6:00 PM
Agents on Call: Live AI Agents in Healthcare Ops
Operators from health-tech teams show agents already in production on prior auths, intake, scheduling, eligibility and denials. Live walkthroughs, not demo videos.
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6:00 PM
AI for Small Business: Work Smarter Every Day
A hands-on workshop on using AI safely for everyday small-business work such as customer emails, research, marketing and planning.
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6:00 PM
Invite onlyThe AI Founder Playbook, Rewritten
Invite-only, 15 seats, for Series A+ founders plus a few investors, including Merck's Global Health Innovation Fund and Morgan Stanley Ventures Lab. The topic: how company-building changes when AI compresses engineering cycles.
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6:00 PM
Your Future with AI: What Skills Will Actually Matter?
A welcoming workshop for students and early-career professionals on which skills to learn, using AI at work and getting started building.
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6:00 PM
Mental Health Tech Leaders Happy Hour
A relaxed meetup for mental-health-tech founders, clinicians and product leaders, kicking off the road to next month's Mental Health Tech Summit.
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6:00 PM
En españolBrooklyn2Bogota: Oportunidades, Dificultades y Realidades de la IA
The second Spanish-language panel, with Latino entrepreneurs already using AI sharing lessons for small businesses.
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6:00 PM
The Family Office Room
A private room pairing family offices (self-reported $22B+ combined AUM) with founders and advisors. Family offices and investors register separately from general admission.
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6:15 PM
Mobility Flow for Techies
A movement class blending dance, yoga and dynamic stretching to undo desk-bound stiffness. A wellness break rather than an AI talk.
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7:00 PM
After AI Governance: Evidence, Authority & RETURN in Real Institutions
A working session for organizations that have AI policies but can't answer basic operational questions: what was observed, what the model produced, who had authority to act and what changed.
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7:00 PM
VirtualTHE BIG BANG: AI Animation — Bring Your Brand to Life
A live virtual session on turning ideas into animated brand videos without a production crew or animation software.
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Check listing
VirtualGrant Writing, Reimagined: How AI Helps Nonprofits Find, Write, and Win More Funding
How nonprofits can use AI for grant research, drafting and deadline management without losing their voice. The flyer says noon while the calendar shows 7:00 PM, so confirm before joining.
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7:00 PM
VirtualAI — The Toughest Questions
An interactive online discussion of the hardest open questions about AI, hosted by the Internet Society's New York chapter.
Friday, October 9
Seven events, with Latent Space's investor-and-buyer table as the main deal-making session.
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12:00 PM
Solopreneurs, Live!
A weekly show-the-work session where solo founders demo what they're building or learning with AI. No slides, panels or lectures.
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12:00 PM
Hire an AI Receptionist — Never Miss a Call Again
A live demo of an AI agent that answers calls, books appointments and follows up around the clock, pitched at about $20 a month for small businesses.
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2:00 PM
One Minute in New York
The New York launch of Pollo AI's global creator event series and the kickoff of its online creator challenge, built around what can happen in a "New York minute."
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2:00 PM
Enterprise AI Closed Table: Winners Meet Investors and Buyers
Monday's Enterprise AI Demo Day winners sit down with investors and enterprise buyers. The hosts pitch it as ending with calendar invites rather than business cards.
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3:00 PM
VirtualNot a Coder, Still in the Room: A Virtual Mixer for Women of Color in AI
A virtual mixer for women of color who use AI at work from outside engineering, such as marketers, educators, operators, HR and policy professionals.
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4:00 PM
To Be Human: Behind the Biography
An evening where founders and professionals connect through what they're navigating rather than their résumés, with anonymous prompts shared ahead of time.
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6:00 PM
Risk Intelligence in the Age of AI: Smarter Analytics for Investors & Options Traders
Aagna shows how AI can reveal retail investors' true portfolio exposure and stress-test holdings before the market does.
Saturday, October 10
A hands-on day: two hackathons and a live 3D-printing workshop.
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9:00 AM
Decentralized AI Day New York
A full-day, in-person-only gathering on decentralized AI, with no livestream. Security requires your full legal name at registration at least 24 hours ahead.
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9:00 AM
Medical AI
A talk on the growing divide between conversational chatbots and task-specific medical AI, and why telling them apart is now a clinical competency.
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11:00 AM
HackathonHackathon: Build Multiplayer Data Science Agents
An intensive hackathon where teams build autonomous agents to solve end-to-end data science problems, from exploratory analysis through statistical modeling.
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11:30 AM
HackathonLatinos x AI Hackathon — NYC
For Hispanic Heritage Month, 150 builders spend eight hours across three tracks building AI for problems Latino communities face. Free, with applications reviewed.
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2:00 PM
From AI to Object: Tripo × IMPRESO — Live 3D Print Workshop
Attendees generate a 3D model from a text prompt or image with Tripo, prep it and watch it print on a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon in under two hours.
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3:30 PM
Branding Without Performing: Build Your Brand Without Being Fake
A creative session on using AI to build a personal brand when you dislike being on camera or self-promotion feels performative.
Sunday, October 11
A quieter close to the week.
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11:00 AM
Gentle Yoga for Techies
A slower-paced vinyasa class focused on posture and chest-opening after long stretches of coding.
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12:00 PM
Private Roundtable: AI/ML Strategy & Innovation
A curated roundtable for AI/ML practitioners on emerging models and scaling AI systems in production.
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2:00 PM
VirtualMy Co-Founder Is Six and Has Strong Opinions
A parent and her six-year-old daughter talk about co-founding a children's emotional-wellness brand, including an app and a gratitude journal.
Listings as of October 6, 2026, and subject to change by hosts. Sources: Pulse NYC and the AI Week NY calendar.