Name: Build Smarter Debaters: AI Debating Demo — #NYTechWeek
Start: 2026-06-06T16:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-06-06T17:30:00.000Z
Location: Chinatown

What happens when a nationally ranked debater 
goes up against the AI he built?

Kevin Chen — peak ranked #40 nationally out of 3,800 teams in 2026 — will debate live against Coach ARIA, the AI debate coach he built from the ground up. Kevin runs the case. ARIA hits back. 
The audience watches a real competitive round play 
out between a national-circuit debater and the 
machine trained to judge him.

This is not a panel. This is not a pitch deck. 
This is a live debate — one human, one AI, one 
resolution, on stage at NYC Tech Week. After the 
round, Kevin opens the hood: how ARIA was built 
on GPT-4o, how years of competitive experience 
were engineered into a structured evaluation 
system, and what it actually takes to build AI 
that domain experts actually trust.

Built by a debater. Now it's fighting back.

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.

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