it's officially day 1 of New York Tech Week! 🥳 We’re kicking off the week with the opening party hosted by gamma and a16z, alongside the a16z speedrun pitch day. Today’s lineup features tracks from ibm, deel, fenwick, pwc, vonage, and cloudflare, plus sessions with stripe, slack, and microsoft. here’s what’s happening on day 1: a16z & friends • 4:00 PM - Pitch Day (a16z speedrun) • 6:00 PM - Supper Club (Stripe x a16z) • 6:30 PM - Kickoff Party (Gamma x a16z) early morning & resets • 7:00 AM - Park Run (off labs) • 8:00 AM - Agents Meet (Walnut AI) • 8:30 AM - TechWalk (TechWalk) • 9:00 AM - House Mixer (Mercury) • 10:30 AM - Cafe Kickoff (Kamp) ai labs & tech giants • 10:30 AM - Quantum Computing (IBM) • 11:00 AM - AI PopUp (ElevenLabs) • 12:30 PM - AI Voice Lunch (Vonage) • 12:30 PM - Generative Computing (IBM) • 2:00 PM - Agent Engineering (IBM) • 3:30 PM - Context Engineering (IBM) • 4:00 PM - Kickoff (Deel) • 4:00 PM - AI Hypergrowth Hack (Mostest) • 5:00 PM - Multi-Model Workflow (Cloudflare) • 5:00 PM - AI at Work (Slack) • 5:30 PM - Rooftop Cocktails (IBM x Tech:NYC) • 7:00 PM - AI Founders (Microsoft) venture capital & pitch showcases • 9:30 AM - Women in AI (Fenwick) • 11:00 AM - Investor Lunch (Actuate) • 11:30 AM - Series A Raising (SVB) • 1:00 PM - AI Vibe-Coding (Mucker) • 2:30 PM - Search Panel (Mucker) • 2:30 PM - AI Finance Lunch (PwC) • 4:00 PM - M&A Panel (TRV x AWS) • 6:00 PM - Venture Night & Pitch (UATech) deep tech, defense & industry • 3:00 PM - Defense Panel (VC in DC) • 4:00 PM - US Manufacturing (Orrick) • 5:00 PM - RL Workshop (Adaptive ML) • 6:00 PM - Robotics Software (NY Robotics) full schedule at follow @techweek_ for live updates on New York Tech Week!