👉 **[CLICK HERE](https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-startup-pitch-demo-showcase-4/) TO RSVP** 👈 It's time to **go beyond the deck and see the best live tech** from New York's emerging startups. Welcome to a pitch event with a twist. We skip the fluff and focus on what matters: **a live look at real products**. This pitch & demo showcase gives you a first look at new technology from startups that are actively building and shipping product — **sometimes even before VCs have seen them!** The format is fast-paced and interactive. After each demo, the floor is open for questions, ideas, and honest feedback from the community. **We welcome investors who want an unfiltered look at new technology and early-stage teams.** 👉 **[CLICK HERE](https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-startup-pitch-demo-showcase-4/) TO RSVP** 👈 * 📅 Date: Thursday, April 16th * 🕓 Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM * 📍 Venue: The Yard: Herald Square * 🎫 Tickets: Only $5 (*includes happy hour refreshments)* * 📑 Founders: **[Sign up here to pitch ](https://forms.gle/A7LsswmLwwrQi3Jh7?utm_source=luma)**at an upcoming event **WHO SHOULD ATTEND** * Startups ready to demo a real product and get honest feedback * Engineers, PMs, and designers who love seeing new tech in action * Investors looking for a ground-floor, early look at local startups * Anyone in the NYC tech scene who wants to connect with and support the people building things **AGENDA** * 5:30 PM: Doors Open & Networking * 6:00 PM: Startup Pitches & Demos with Audience Q&A * 7:00 PM: Meet the Presenting Startups **PITCH FORMAT** * Pitch & Demo - 6 minutes * Audience Q&A - 4 minutes * Pitch deck AND product demo are required 👉 **[CLICK HERE](https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-new-york-city-presents-the-startup-pitch-demo-showcase-4/) TO RSVP** 👈
The HTTP Archive is an open source project that tracks how the web is built and how it's evolved. The archive contains information on \~15 million websites, with monthly data for some sites as early as 2010! The data from the HTTP Archive is frequently used for research by the web community and scholars, and also used to produce the annual Web Almanac. During this session Paul will provide an overview of the HTTP Archive and demonstrate how to get started querying it. [Paul Calvano](https://paulcalvano.com/) ([@paulcalvano.bsky.social](@paulcalvano.bsky.social)), Performance Architect at [Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/), where he helps optimize the performance of their marketplace. He has been helping websites optimize their performance since as early as 2000. He is also a co-maintainer of the HTTP Archive and a co-organizer of the NY Web Performance Meetup. We will have **food and drinks** and as always, we are going to have **geekaways** with **geeky prizes** provided by our sponsors. **Agenda:** 6:00PM - Arrive at the venue, meet other members 6:15PM - Event starts 6:30PM - **Introduction to the HTTP Archive** (Paul Calvano) 7:15PM - Q&A 7:45PM - "Books and Stuff" geekaways 8:00PM - Open Discussion, Networking Make sure to **fill out your legal name** and **bring your ID** to show at security desk. Please make sure to allow for additional time to go through security downstairs and be prepared to put all your electronics through security screening. Interested in speaking at a NY Web Performance event in the future? Fill out our [speaker application](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHyWHSWntTLEu_6pq500PhrrAjyyyVZsH92_eFK-SLMUJD5Q/viewform), or reach out to your organizers with any questions!
This is part 2 of our hands-on session building production ready agents with NVIDIA's open source NeMo Agent Toolkit (NAT). We will continue with the workbooks from DeepLearning.ai: https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/nvidia-nat-making-agents-reliable/ You can follow along and try the code on your machines for free with no additional compute requirements. Looking forward to another engaging session!
First‑time founders face constant pressure, ambiguity, and isolation. This panel focuses on the human side of building a company—covering decision‑making under uncertainty, managing stress, and developing resilience through inevitable highs and lows. **❯ What You’ll Learn:** * How to make better decisions with incomplete information * Strategies for managing founder stress and burnout * The importance of mentorship and peer networks * How successful founders stay grounded through volatility **❯ Guest Speakers include:** * Irina Cozma \(Owner \| Coach \| Consultant \, Irina Cozma Consulting LLC\) * Don Samoil (Managing Partner, Trusted Scale) * Laura Maiurano (CRO & Co-Founder, Fivefoottwo Marketing) * Bill Harper (CEO & Chief Creative Officer, BrandBossHQ) **❯ Who Should Attend:** * First‑time founders at any stage * Solo founders or small founding teams * Entrepreneurs navigating high‑pressure growth phases **❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at [https://fi.co/e/393628/meetup](https://fi.co/e/393628/meetup) to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!**
With Italian Innovators Initiative.
Location: Google Building (111 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011), 14th Floor **6:30 - Arrival and chill** **7:00 - Intros and welcome** **7:20 - TBD** **7:45 - Break** **8:00 - TBD** **8:45 - Post event hangout** The Tippler - 425 W 15th St, New York, NY 10011 If you’re interested in giving a talk, please let us know! Speakers of all levels and backgrounds are welcome, and we have experienced mentors who can help you prepare your talk! Check out our Speaker FAQ: https://Angular.NYC/faq Fill out the Speaker Form: https://Angular.NYC/speak Code Of Conduct We expect all speakers and attendees to follow the JSConf code of conduct ( https://Angular.NYC/conduct ) Find us at: Website: https://Angular.NYC Youtube: [https://youtube.com/AngularNYC](https://youtube.com/AngularNYC) Slack: [http://nycjsorg.now.sh](http://nycjsorg.now.sh/) Twitter: [https://twitter.com/AngularNYC](https://twitter.com/AngularNYC)
**[External registration](https://nyhackr.org/?utm_source=nyhackr)** required at **[nyhackr](https://nyhackr.org/?utm_source=nyhackr)**. This month we have Muskan Walia talking about using Gen AI for redacting race information from police reports. Thank you to **[NYU](https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/priism?utm_source=nyhackr)** for hosting us. Everybody attending must **[RSVP](https://nyhackr.org/?utm_source=nyhackr)** through the registration form at **[nyhackr](https://nyhackr.org/?utm_source=nyhackr)**. There is a charge for in-person and virtual tickets are free. Space is extremely limited and in-person registration closes at 3 PM the day of the talk. **About the Talk:** Generative AI systems are rapidly moving from prototypes to embedded components of government decision-making infrastructure. For instance, California mandates all prosecutors implement a new review procedure called “race-blind charging”, where prosecutors review case documents with race-related information redacted. To make this feasible, the state encouraged prosecutors to use AI-based redaction. We designed and tested one such system that uses generative AI to automatically redact race-related information from police reports. Our solution is now used in over 50% of California prosecutor offices, covering a constituent population of nearly 18 million people through its deployment. In the first public validation of generative AI used for race-related redaction, we assess algorithmic performance by drawing on a corpus of \~10,000 police reports we collected from 253 jurisdictions across nearly every U.S. state. We present these validation results, demonstrating that our algorithm reliably removes all race-related indicators required by law, reduces the ability to predict an arrestee’s race from redacted narratives, and performs at the top of its class relative to existing alternatives. This work demonstrates the feasibility of using large language models at scale, while highlighting the importan
**NOTE: This presentation is not being held on our usual first Thursday of the month schedule. Back to normal next month.** In this first of a two-part series on professional audio and musical electronics, we’ll look at the history of these devices, and review some classic circuit designs. These worlds often overflow with folklore and myths around gear that musicians and audio engineers deeply care about. Behind the romance and storytelling, however, lie circuits with predictable behaviors, components that perform in specific ways, and engineering decisions that shape the sound we hear every day. Contrast this with circuit design from other fields, where performance and acceptance can always objectively be tested and compared against an agreed-upon criteria. In this lively and technically grounded presentation, Jim Julian will explore what really happens inside the equipment used by musicians, recording engineers, and audio professionals. Topics will include: * Audio Gear, Musical Instruments, and more * Notable Inventors * Music Synthesis * Guitar Effects, a.k.a. Stompboxes * Recording & Live Sound * MIDI * Anecdotes, Rants, and more Classic circuits examined: * Guitar Amplifiers * Microphone Preamplifiers * Distortion pedal effects * Wah-wah pedal effects **Speaker Bio:** James "Jim" Julian is an electrical engineer with a BSEE from NJIT. At age 16, he began work at a local music store as a self-taught electronic technician. Upon graduation, he designed custom test equipment for communication satellites at RCA Astro Electronics. He continued designing analog, digital, and microcontroller circuits, and has also held positions in engineering management and product marketing. He has a parallel career in quality engineering for medical devices, and is Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified. He worked at Timeplex, Datascope, VitalCom, GE Healthcare, and Stryker, and as a consultant. He recently founded Uncool Audio, a new pro-audio hardware venture. Jim is als