Events

Come, huddle over a laptop, sip some tea, and discuss the future of interfaces, data, and functions with fellow dreamers!

NYC Future of Coding Meetup — March

NYC Generative AI Hackathon

Worldcoin @ Betaworks

​Come, huddle over a laptop, sip some tea, and discuss the future of interfaces, data, and functions with fellow dreamers!

NYC Future of Coding Meetup — May

Are you in NYC and support Open Source AI? We're doing a meetup for entrepreneurs, developers, contributors, and community members who are interested in AI + Open Source. Betaworks is hosting the event in association with open source AI leaders Stability AI & Baseten, as well as investors with a deep focus in AI like Bloomberg Beta & Coatue.

Open Source AI NYC Meetup @ Betaworks

Ben Tossell from Ben's Bites & Ben Cmejla from TheGP are hosting an AI meetup at Betaworks NYC on May 22. Join us!

Ben's Bites & TheGP: NYC AI Meetup @ Betaworks

 AI builders, experts, investors, and creators in NYC, to create a space to connect, collaborate, and explore.

We'll be using AI to curate introductions, connections, and conversations between attendees... stay tuned!

We've curated the room with the most brilliant builders, thinkers, and investors in the space. 

🤝 Come meet other builders and innovators in the AI space. You'll be in great company!

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AI After Hours

If you're an entrepreneur, designer, engineer, or hacker working in NYC on something cool that you'd like to share with fellow builders, come on by. Only fellow hackers and entrepreneurs will be in attendance.  

• We will preselect a few demos from the application form (

• If time permits, we will ask audience members to jump up and demo too.

• Each demo will get roughly 10 min for their demo and Q&A.

No PowerPoints, no peanut gallery, no pitching — just bring a tangible product or feature you can share with the audience.

NYC Open Demo Night @ Betaworks

 is a welcoming community unified in the belief that programming is tragically less than it could be. Together we explore the beautiful world of possibilities to 

 Be prepared for impromptu demos of whatever you're excited about. This meetup will have no talks or structured events — meander around the room, catch up with old friends, make new ones, pull out your laptops, and share and share alike.

​Any mention of AI must be repented for with three Hail Alan Kays and two Our Mothers of Demos. But seriously we try our best to be anti-hype and anti-grifter. So while many of us do see the positives in AI (and crypto before it) let's all try to have a broader historical perspective here people!

NYC Future of Coding Meetup — July 2023

The next Betaworks demo night focused on sharing demos of AI-native UI & UX! RSVP to attend - if you have something you want to demo, let us know in the questionnaire.

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AI UI/UX Demo Night @ Betaworks

Join us for an NYC Open Source AI- Demo Night & Meetup at Betaworks with fellow enthusiasts of public and open software. We'll be doing 5-6 demos from builders using various open source AI tools like GPT4All, Stable Diffusion, etc. and then open up to a general meetup! If you wanna demo something you've made, let us know in the questionnaire!

We're excited to be collaborating on the event with Betaworks portfolio companies like Nomic, Stability, and Hugging Face, as well as other members of the open source ecosystem like Llama Index and Modal.

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NYC Open Source AI - Demo Night & Meetup

​Join Betaworks and Water & Music for a music AI demo night and meetup!

We'll be presenting ~5 curated talks from builders and creators on the forefront of today's music AI advancements, then will open up to general mingling and networking. There will be free pizza and drinks :)

We'll also have time for walk-up demos, so if you want to demo something you've made, please let us know in the questionnaire!

Water & Music is a research network for music and tech, on a mission to make the music industry more innovative, cooperative, and transparent. From in-depth, data-driven analyses on emerging market trends, to hands-on educational workshops and a regular slate of virtual and IRL event programming, W&M aims to equip music-industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and creators with the tools and mindsets to navigate tech innovation successfully.

​​You can learn more about our work and our unique industry perspective on our 

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Music AI Demo Night & Meetup w/ Water & Music

Join us for an NYC AI AR/VR Demo Night & Meetup at Betaworks with fellow enthusiasts of spatial computing and generative AI.

We're cohosting this with the Shader team - you can check out their generative AR filter tool here: 

We'll be doing 5-6 demos from the community - if you wanna demo something you've made, let us know in the questionnaire!

NYC AI & AR/VR Demo Night

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Join us on Saturday, October 7th for the first ever "Def Con," presented by the tech tinkering group Definitely Crypto.

Def Con is a day-long conference of knowledge sharing and socializing centered around emergent technology. Be it web3 or AI, art projects or game development, no tech topic is too taboo.

Conversation will be fostered via curated breakout groups, with group leaders sharing topic prompts at the start of each session and attendees moving from group to group based on interest.

Featuring discussions led by Shahruz (Sup, OKPC), Jamiedubs (Glif, GAWDS), Matto (Night Run, Thousand Ant Studio), Grumbly (Legend Maps), MannynotFound (MannysGame), Julian Jacobson (Iterati), O_Excess (Loot), Joseph Wilcox (Lydian Stater), IsIain (Zora) and many more!

Lunch will be provided between the two sessions and we'll conclude the day with Happy Hour.

Attendance is free but capped at a set number. We look forward to seeing you there!

Def Con at Betaworks

Summer

Betaworks will be hosting a demo night, where any early stage entrepreneur, developer, or builder can come and demo some software they've made. 

This Demo Night's theme is going to be AI Agents - come by if you want to see the future of colleagues, friends, romantic partners and more. Could be a side project or startup - only rule is no powerpoints and no pitching - only demos. Buggy software is welcome!

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