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I’m chronically online and always looking for reasons to meet interesting people IRL, so here are the nyc tech events on my radar this week (17-23 August)🍸 mon, aug 17 - ai lunch & learn + prototype lab casual chelsea market session where you can bring an ai project, get feedback, mess around with nyc open data, and meet other builders. https://t.co/okk488hyyP tue, aug 18 - hack with series 3-hour speed hackathon around building ai products for human connection. you can show up solo and get matched with a team. https://t.co/bb3MjAe55B tue, aug 18 - claude code workshop hands-on claude code workshop with anthropic + provectus where you actually build stuff with people there to help. https://t.co/ijLsK7Kbem tue, aug 18 - ai demo night clickhouse, mongodb, docker, langfuse and librechat hosting a night of people showing things they’ve actually built and shipped. https://t.co/8FjKWZBXsp wed, aug 19 - ai tinkerers nyc demo day builders showing real ai projects, experiments and how they built them. much more demo-heavy than pitch-heavy. https://t.co/ro0Wum1Mxa wed, aug 19 - junto founder dinner small 24-person dinner for early-stage founders, with rotating tables so you actually get to talk to people. https://t.co/oKIc0VlhuF thu, aug 20 - breakfast w henrik w + andrew y small founder breakfast with the founder of bark, talking about finding good problems, building companies and what entrepreneurship looks like now. https://t.co/MktnOyd438 thu, aug 20 - betanyc civic tech summer showcase free showcase of projects using tech and data to make nyc easier to understand or work better. https://t.co/kRSLhszuUk thu, aug 20 - open models nyc together ai + openrouter meetup for people building with open models and thinking about where the ecosystem is going. https://t.co/sVSqesGRnI thu, aug 20 - nyc apache iceberg meetup very technical afternoon around data infra, open source and ai, with people from aws, microsoft, clickhouse and others. https://t.co/XfWwPLaYhg fri, aug 21 - nyc coffee club with forum ventures small morning coffee for early-stage ai-native founders and funders. https://t.co/VjRX9Ylz8c fri, aug 21 - vercel × profound × posthog short talks on building ai products, ai search and measuring ai features, then a developer happy hour. https://t.co/mDzZrDHEtB sat, aug 22 - atproto nyc community day full day at recurse center with hacking, workshops, an unconference, lightning talks and people experimenting with the open/decentralized web. https://t.co/SynxFza4Mp sat, aug 22 - ai agents: context, memory & action panel + meetup with founders building memory, context and infra for ai agents. https://t.co/sasJ690R1R sat, aug 22 - tech × creator house party smaller social mixing founders, engineers, pms, vcs and creators in one room. https://t.co/N5gup9Abus sun, aug 23 - mlops nyc builder showcase ml builders set up their projects at individual stations so you can walk around, ask questions and talk directly to the people who made them. https://t.co/Vebd1lW455 if you know one happening this week, drop it below👇