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EVENT SPOTLIGHT

		Dec 09: A Holiday-Themed Party & Tech Talk w/ Google, Redis, & Structify Presenting With Alex Reichenbach (CEO, Structify), Abhijeet Rajwade (Customer Enggr AI Infrastructure, Google), Andrew Dong (Tabs).

		Dec 11: Data Science Salon - The Future Of Applied AI In Finance & Banking Focus on using AI, data science & ml in finance, banking & insurance. Use code GGDSSNYCVIP25 for free pass.

		Dec 12: AI Hackathon (Dec 12-13) With Major League Hacking (MLH) & DigitalOcean.

		Dec 16: Leveraging AI - Rapid Prototyping w/ AI To Validate Startup Ideas With Danny Setiawan (CoCreate).

		May 07: AI Hot 100 Summit The who's who of enterprise AI. 150+ AI execs. 100+ AI founders. 100+ VC partners & AI labs. All in one room. Themes include voice AI, financial services, healthcare, retail & horizontal agentic/infrastructure. The only AI summit built for real relationships.

WEEK OF DEC 08

Thursday, Dec 11

Dec 11
8:00am

Higher Education IT Strategy Leadership Council Summit
The New School, 65 W 11th St

Dec 11
8:00am

Free

Brewing Connections - Colombian Coffee Tasting Meetup
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 11
9:00am

$750

Data Science Salon - The Future Of Applied AI In Finance & Banking
S&P Global Ratings, 55 Water St
Focus on using AI, data science & ml in finance, banking & insurance. Use code "GGDSSNYCVIP25" for free pass.

Dec 11
2:00pm

$100

NYC Deal Flow Forum - Connecting Visionaries w/ Investors
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 11+
5:30pm

AI In Private Equity - Redefining Risk, Speed & Strategy
One Grand Central Place, 60 E 42nd St

Dec 11
5:30pm

Free

Next Gen, New Rules - How Young Investors Rewriting The Playbook
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 11
5:30pm

Free

AI Founder & Operator Soiree
Venue, To Be Announced
With Work-Bench.

Dec 11
6:00pm

$25

The Builder Series - Hilton Edition
Venue, To Be Announced
Mini photoshoots, tapas, raffles & more.

Dec 11
6:00pm

Free

Artificially Un-Intelligent - Tech Comedy Show
Broadway Comedy Club, 318 W 53rd St

Dec 11
6:00pm

Free

All Things Design
Venue, To Be Announced
With Randy Hunt (Head of Design, Notion).

Dec 11
6:00pm

Free

ElevenLabs Hackathon
Venue, To Be Announced
With Sasha Kaletsky (Creator Ventures), Deep Singhvi (Fern), Alex Atallah (OpenRouter), Caoimhe Murphy (Anam).

Dec 11
6:00pm

Free

Artificially Un-Intelligent - NYC Tech Comedy Show
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 11
6:30pm

Free

AngularNYC Meetup
Google Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave

Dec 11
6:30pm

Free

Founders Pitch Night - End Of The Year Edition
Venue, To Be Announced, Brooklyn

Dec 11
7:00pm

Free

Bubbles & Burn - Celebration Of Unsolicited Advice
Fonzi AI, 25 Kent Ave

Friday, Dec 12

Dec 12
9:00am

Free

Founder Breakfast Club
Private Breakfast Club, To Be Announced

Dec 12
9:00am

Free

Brewing Big - NYC Edition
Venue, To Be Announced
With Glimpse, Express Checkout, Collaborative Fund, Bluestein Ventures.

Dec 12
9:00am

Free

Talent TechWalk
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 12
5:00pm

Free

AI Hackathon (Dec 12-13)
ZeroSpace, 337 Butler St, Brooklyn, New York
With Major League Hacking (MLH) & DigitalOcean.

Dec 12
6:00pm

Free

Agentic AI Meetup w/ Google Cloud
Serendipity Labs, 28 Liberty St, 6th Fl

Dec 12
6:00pm

Free

Gen&Juice Drinks Night
Venue, To Be Announced
With AI artists, filmmakers, tool companies.

Dec 12
6:00pm

AI Hacks Back - Founders Risks
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 12
6:00pm

Free

Pizza, Perfume, AI
Kalei, 159 Bowery

Dec 12
6:00pm

Free

The Edit Lab - Season End Finale
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 12
7:00pm

$85

Vibe Coding Workshop - Build Anything w/ AI
NYC Resistor, 87 3rd Ave, 4th Fl, Brooklyn
From simple tools to complex apps.

Dec 12
7:00pm

Free

Marketing & Design Social Mixer
Irish American Pub, 17 John St

Saturday, Dec 13

Dec 13
4:00pm

Free

Flushing Tech Hackathon
Tech Incubator at Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens

Dec 13
5:00pm

Free

Tech & House
Superior Ingredients Rooftop, 74 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn
High-energy gathering for investors, founders, enggrs, operators, & tech-obsessed humans.

Dec 13+
7:00pm

Free

The Nortel Dilemma
Venue, 721 Broadway
With Karthik Stead (Author, The Nortel Dilemma).

Dec 13
7:00pm

$20

Startup Holiday Gala
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 13+
10:00pm

Barsys After Dark
Venue, 401 W 14th St
Cocktail playground powered by AI w/ unlimited cocktails & mocktails + live DJ.

Sunday, Dec 14

Dec 14
9:30am

Free

Aurora Christmas Hackathon - Deck The Hacks
Aurora HQ at Tower 49, 12 E 49th St
$5K cash prize.

Dec 14
2:00pm

Free

NYU ITP IMA Winter Show
NYU, 370 Jay St, 2nd Fl, Brooklyn

WEEK OF DEC 15

Monday, Dec 15

Dec 15
9:00am

Free

Talent TechWalk Breakfast Summit
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 15
6:30pm

Free

AI Founders & Investors Meetup
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 15
7:30pm

$10

PubClub - Structured Social For The Curious
Hell's Kitchen, To Be Announced

Tuesday, Dec 16

Dec 16
7:00am

QCon 2025
NY Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave
With Shuman Ghosemajumder (Founder/CEO, Reken), Julie Qiu (Tech Lead, Uber), Gwen Shapira (CPO, Nile), Karthik Ramgopal (Tech Lead, LinkedIn), Cassie Shum (VP, RelationalAI), Ian Thomas (S/w Enggr, Meta), Aaron Erickson (Nvidia).

Dec 16
4:00pm

Free

Innovation Triangle - West Harlem Holiday Party
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 16
5:30pm

Free

Leveraging AI - Rapid Prototyping w/ AI To Validate Startup Ideas
Resident Company Club Flatiron, 115 E 23rd St, 4th Fl
With Danny Setiawan (CoCreate).

Dec 16
6:00pm

Free

For The Firsts - First Year Celebration
Venue, To Be Announced

Dec 16
6:00pm

Free

Holiday Builder Social
Station 3, 26 Broadway, 3rd Fl
With TON & AWS.

Wednesday, Dec 17

Dec 17
10:00am

Free

Impact Tech Walk
Central Park, To Be Announced

Dec 17
12:00pm

$25

Mastermind Match
Tempo by Hilton, 1568 Broadway

Dec 17
5:30pm

Free

Airflow Meetup
Astronomer HQ, 54 W 21st St, 11th Fl
With Ash Berlin-Taylor (Dir. Airflow Engg, Astronomer), Brent Bovenzi (Frontend Enggr, Astronomer), Belle Romea (S/w Enggr, Duolingo).

Dec 17
6:00pm

$15

AI & Tech Mixer
Whiskey Cellar, 77 E 7th St

Dec 17
6:00pm

Free

ICONS - Fashion & Founders Mixer
Venue, To Be Announced
With Khanna Shalumova (Founder, Icon New York)

Dec 17
6:00pm

Free

Claude Code Designers Meetup
Venue, To Be Announced
With Elizabeth Lin (Design is a Party).

Dec 17
7:00pm

Free

Startup+Tech Holiday Party
Venue, To Be Announced
With Pitch & Run.

Dec 17
7:00pm

$20

Social Media Mixer - Marketing & Content
Cloud One Lounge, 133 Greenwich St

Dec 17
7:00pm

$20

Marketing Mixer
Cloud One Lounge, 133 Greenwich St
With Biddable Media.

Thursday, Dec 18

Dec 18
9:00am

Free

Gov & Microsoft Security Roadshow
Venue, 300 Lafayette St

Dec 18
9:30am

Free

Investor Insights w/ Angelspan & Quake Capital
Venue, Online
With Joe Milam (AngelSpan), Glenn Argenbright (Quake Capital).

Dec 18
1:00pm

Free

Pitch Practice
Venue, To Be Announced
With Meridith Grundei (Pitch Coach).

Dec 18
5:00pm

Free

Blockchain Mixer
The Hugh, 157 E 53rd St

Dec 18
5:00pm

Free

Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS Meetup
Pier 57, 25 11th Ave

Dec 18
5:30pm

The Startup Pitch - Demo Showcase
The Yard: Herald Sq, 106 W 32nd St

Dec 18
5:30pm

Free

Out In Tech x Amazon Happy Hour
Amazon, 450 W 33rd St

Dec 18
6:00pm

$150

World Speakers Series - Finance, Economy, Tech & Politics
Harvard Club, 35 W 44th St

Dec 18
6:00pm

$18

Entrepreneur Mixer
The Lobby Bar, 518 W 27th St

Dec 18
6:30pm

Free

Meet The Founder - N-21 AI
Tuscany Steakhouse, 117 W 58th St, #2G
With Shreesh Tiwari (FounderCEO, N-21 AI).

Friday, Dec 19

Dec 19
9:00am

Free

Make 2026 Your Breakthrough Year
Venue, To Be Announced
With La Creme de la STEM.

Dec 19
10:00am

Free

NYC Coffee Club - Vertical AI Founders & Funders
Venue, To Be Announced
With Forum Ventures.

Dec 19
5:00pm

Free

Holiday Tech Happy Hour
Time Out Market Union Sq, 124 E 14th St
With Startup Grind.

Dec 19
6:00pm

$40

Founders Creators & Investors Gallery Night
Venue, 15 E 40th St, 12th Fl

Dec 19
7:00pm

$25

UglySweater Happy Hour For Creative Entrepreneurs
Pat'e Palo Bar, 251-3 Dyckman St

Dec 19
7:00pm

$15

Green Flags & Mistletoe - Holiday Dating Mixer
Tempo by Hilton, 1568 Broadway, 11th Fl

Dec 19
9:00pm

Free

Light Of Strategy
Venue, To Be Announced
With Prince Rumi (Founder, Madeline & Co), Shelley Tanner (Founder/CEO of Haystack).

WEEK OF DEC 22

Monday, Dec 22

Dec 22
6:00pm

Free

Startup Pitch Mixer
Keybar, 143 Troutman St, Brooklyn

Dec 22
6:00pm

Free

Tech Mixer
Whiskey Cellar, 77 E 7th St

Tuesday, Dec 23

Dec 23
6:00pm

Free

Startup Pitch Mixer
Keybar, 143 Troutman St, Brooklyn

Saturday, Dec 27

Dec 27
10:00am

Free

AI Product Demo Day
Venue, To Be Announced
Showcase of real AI products built by cohort participants.

Thursday, Dec 11

Jan 06
5:30pm

Free

AI/ML Conversations Meetup - Production-Ready GenAI
Venue, 11 W 19th St

Jan 11
8:00pm

Free

Star Micronics Partay
Sandbar Rooftop, 152 W 26th St

Jan 28
6:00pm

Free

Forecasting The Frontier
Venue, To Be Announced
With La Creme de la STEM & AI Collective.

Jan 30
5:00pm

Free

Make.com Hackathon
Venue, To Be Announced
With AI Collective.

May 07
9:00am

AI Hot 100 Summit
Civic Hall, 124 E 14th St
The who's who of enterprise AI. 150+ AI execs. 100+ AI founders. 100+ VC partners & AI labs. All in one room. Themes include voice AI, financial services, healthcare, retail & horizontal agentic/infrastructure. The only AI summit built for real relationships.