AI x IRL: The Room for Connectors - #NYTechWeek
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This is the gathering for connectors during NY Tech Week.
Join community-builder and investor Andrew Yeung to explore the art of meaningful connection in an AI-powered world. We kick off with an intimate fireside chat featuring Crystelle Desnoyer, operations powerhouse who scaled 27 global tech companies and former Chief of Staff at Techstars and Kyndryl (NYSE: KD); Tori Hanson, founder of THE founder community in NYC The Knowledge Shop, event platform foundereventsnyc.com, and Event Saas startup Meet in 10; and Sunny Bates, talent recruiter, strategic advisor and legendary connector across tech and culture, moderated by Co-Founder & CEO Caroline Dell.
Join the conversation to explore the art of connection — and how to turn relationships into lasting opportunities throughout your career. Then experience our curated, high-energy networking sessions designed to spark authentic connections that go far beyond a LinkedIn request.
This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
More info on our sponsors below!
Astronaut Monastery is a creative studio servicing clients at the forefront of technology, venture capital, consumer goods, commerce, fashion, and art. From strategy, to creative & design, to production, we build work that creates unreasonably deep connections between our client’s brands and their customers through confidence in storytelling. Our interdisciplinary approach allows us to work across a wide range of industries and service all of our client’s creative needs at the highest caliber.
Deel makes hiring contractors and employees seamless across 150+ countries. They handle payroll, taxes, compliance, immigration, and more so that you can focus more time on building. Today, Deel serves over 25,000 customers from early stage startups to enterprises like Nike, Dropbox, Shopify, and Notion.
Perkins Coie’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital lawyers are trusted advisors to the world’s most innovative companies and most visionary investors. We support startup clients from formation to exit with comprehensive legal and business counseling. Our clients have raised more than $15 billion in the private markets over the past three years between the pre-seed and growth stage. Our extensive corporate law experience, combined with sector-specific business and product counseling, ensure our services are tailored to each client's unique needs, investor expectations, and growth trajectories in cutting-edge industries like AI, aerospace and defense tech, fintech, digital health, gaming, energy innovation, digital media, and consumer packaged goods.
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, is the bank of some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors. SVB provides commercial banking to companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital industries. SVB operates in centers of innovation throughout the United States, serving the unique needs of its dynamic clients with deep sector expertise, insights and connections. From Pre-Seed to Series A, great companies start with us early.
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