GMMMMMM NYC. NFT NYC is done, but NYC is still poppin as always. Especially now that the sun is shining bright, New Yorkers seem to have forgotten they still have jobs.

— Brett & Jason

WHAT'S POPPIN IN NYC

monday (4/17) - oops that's today

• AI & ChatGPT Lunch & Learn (info) - Join Jonathan Baillie Strong (founder of Spotlight Podcasting) for a lunch & learn to chat how everyone is using ChatGPT.

tuesday (4/18)

• SuperAAPI Tech Mentorship Program (info) - Hosted at a cool spot in NYC, there will be mentees from MBAs/grad students at NYU, Cornell, and Columbia.

wednesday (4/19)

• Fireside Chat: Redefining the Future of Finance and DeFi (info) - Hosted by Quantitative Researcher at Uniswap Xin Wan, let's chat future of finance.

• Product Designers Dinner (info) - Grab dinner with some dope designers near the Bedford Ave L stop.

• Board Game Night (info) - There's 3 rules: 1) Interested in playing games, 2) want to meet new people, 3) have a chill and fun Wednesday evening. Are you in?

thursday (4/20)

• Tech Social (info) - exactly what you think it is.

friday (4/21)

• Cornell Blockchain Conference (info) - NFT NYC may be done, but crypto is still going down in New York. All I can think of is this lol

saturday (4/22)

• Blank Sale NYC (info) - Hosted by Shopify HQ, 2 e-commerce entrepreneurs are hosting a sale of blank clothing to customize. Perf for startup apparel.

sunday (4/23)

• NYC GPT/LLM Hackathon (info) - Sponsored by OpenAI, Anthopic, and more, come hang and write some code. Past guests speakers include Sergey Brin, Sebastian Thrun, and Andrej Karpathy. Past attendees include core creators of GPT-2, GPT-3, and Stable Diffusion. This is officially the Coachella of AI. Also... I'm going to this! Come thru and let's hack!

WEATHER

Look at that 76 degree Friday! I guess that means aperol spritz for lunch?

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