🤖💡 NY Tech Future: AI Events + Career Opportunities + Practical AI Insights 🧠🚀🌆

Dear NY Tech Future Community,

last time, we refined our vision to increase our impact and clarity by sharing with you our three core initiatives - NY Tech Career, the AI Practice and Buzzbrand - all here to empower NYC’s Tech Ecosystem.

This week, we went back to business-as-usual and worked mainly on the NY Tech Career platform as well as on organizing our next AI community event.

While we focused on behind-the-scenes development this week, we've gathered some fascinating insights about AI, tech careers, and the NYC tech ecosystem to share with you.

Let’s dig in.

📅 Featured Upcoming Events

Instead of overwhelming you with every AI event in town, we're highlighting events that align with our community's focus.

This Week's Must-Attend:

• Fireside Chat: Christopher Petkas (General Partner at Contrarian Thinking Capital & AI/ML at DIU) (Tue, 19th Nov) - Always wanted to learn how to solve national security problems with AI? Having watched the Desginated Survivor series one this weekend, this event caught my eye even more. As the speaker served for 10 years at the Nav SEAL, the event will also serve you some life lessons.

Experience AI Events 🎯:

• From Biotech to Breakthrough AI: Startup Grind feat. Martin Bittner (Redouble AI) (Tue, Nov 19th) - Join this event if you want to learn more about Martin’s story from biotech to AI-driven solutions for regulated industries with his Y Combinator-backed human-in-the-loop product

• NYC AI Hack Showcase Night (Wed, Nov 20th) - Experience 15-20 AI Hacks - new products, new ideas, new solutions to some pressing problems. Join this event to hear from engineers, visionaries and founders what they are building on in the AI space.

• HealthCare AI Mixer by Together Fund (Wed, Nov 20th) - This event is for you if you like to better understand how AI shapes healthcare today and in the future. Together, an early-stage fund investing in AI companies in the healthcare system brings together practitioners to learn from each other and exchange ideas.

Practical AI Events (it gets technical) 💻:

• Engineering Happy Hour - AI at Work (Mon, Nov 18th) - You are an engineer or simply interested in how engineers can improve their work with the help of AI, like an AI Copilot? Then this event is for you. Engineering leaders from Cloudflare, Snowflake, and others share best practices, challenges and future trends of AI adoption and usage by engineers.

• AI Agent Evaluation: Techniques for Building Better Agent Systems (Tue, Nov 19th) - AI Agents are everywhere, at each event, each discussion about AI, the talk turns to AI Agents. If you are one of those to want to learn more about AI Agents and AI Agentic Systems, how to better evaluate and build them, then this event is for you.

• NYC AI Users - AI Talks, Demo & Social: IP and Marketing in AI (Wed, Nov 20th) - Join in if you are interested in the interrelation between AI and IP rights as well as how you can enhance your day-to-day marketing and sales activities with AI. ($15)

Tech Career & GTM Events 💡:

• Creator Economy NYC's Mixer & Panel: How To Turn Yourself Into a Brand (Mon, Nov 18th) - Branding is everyday these days and how to brand yourself and your work becomes increasingly important. During that event, you learn from those who built personal brands show how they did it and what you can learn how to use their learnings to stand out yourself.

• Customer Success TechWalk | NYC (Wed, Nov 20th) - Having long worked in Customer Success myself, this is a must-go-to, if you are interested in joining a Tech company as a Customer Success Manager and why it is a great entry job into a tech company. TechWalk is always a fun and enlightening experience and you for you'll surely gain new insights and meet a new friend.

• Always Be Closing (Wed, Nov 20th) - When you are building a company, you realize that your revenue is everything and that to be growing it, doing effective sales is inevitable. And yet, we often struggle to focus on the sales side of things and prefer to make the product perfect. But it needs sales too. During the event, business leaders, among them the CTO of the Port Authority of NY and NJ, will share their learnings to run their businesses better.

Save the Date:

• NYC 🗽 AI Furnace Ugly Sweater Holiday Party (Dec 2nd) - No agenda yet. Mix and mingle with fellow AI enthusiasts. 😉 

• The AI Summit New York (Dec 11-12th) - Join 250+ speakers and an Expo and learn about best practices and insights from tech leaders at companies like PepsiCo, Google and Meta. I attended last year and while the speeches are mixed in quality an Expo visit only may give you a good overview without too much of a budget to invest (pricing $50 - $2599)

💡 AI Practice Spotlight

Insights of the week: How to create a training with Claude.ai 

Last week, we shared our excitement with Claude for image creation and why it’s best for all forms of image creation except for creative designs without text (use Adobe Firefly, ChatGTP or Stability for that).

For this week, let’s dive into another use case: Creating learning material with AI.

Last week, we were working on creating the learning material for NY Tech Career so to also give those a chance to apply for our tech positions that do not yet have tech experience. For that, we wanted to speed up the process and - of course - experimented how we could leverage AI for it.

An example: How to create a Training Pathway with Claude

1. Figure out what you want to teach. - In our example: A foundational Tech training.

2. Give the details to Claude. Here is a simple example prompt:

I want to create a training course for career transitioners to learn the most important fundamentals of how a Tech company works and operates. The training should be 4 hours long, include different modules and interactive exercises (please provide the answer to it too) and should have a knowledge quiz at the end. Please provide me with the training outline and structure as well as the content and quizzes of the individual modules of the training course.

The Result

You can view the result of this prompt in the following document: Prompt Result.

The outcome is quite impressive if you realize that this is Claudes first shot.

The Learnings

• While AI produces some impressive results, you still need a good understanding of the topic to effectively train others.

• We spend countless prompting time to create a good structure for our more deep-dive trainings. And while the results were fantastic as stand-alone solutions, they still required so much work and iterations, so that we did the structure ourselves.

• Needless to say, AI did an amazing job to fill in the gaps.

Your turn if you want to use AI to create training content

• For Basic Training: Let AI create the structure for you and evaluate and adapt it

I want to create a training for {target group} to learn {learning objective, learning topics}. The training should be {course length} long, include {types, nr of modules} and {type of exercises, quizzes}. Please provide me with the training outline and structure as well as the content and quizzes of the individual modules of the training course.

• For Advanced Training: Do the structure and framework yourself and use AI to fill in the gaps and add interactive exercises and quizzes

I have created a training for {training topic} with the following structure {structure} and would like you to provide me with the specific content of {this specific module part}. Please provide me with the content in form of {content, quizzes, exercises, etc} and make it {length} long. 

• For all content: Use AI to help you create case studies, interactive exercises with example answers, knowledge quizzes, specific training sections and instructional design specifics that help learners to digest the knowledge as best as possible.

• For all content: Create your training structure within one chat. You can then have the AI refer back to earlier parts of your chat to create content in the same style and form.

• The AI also helps you with designing your content if you ask it to do so and get some ideas or even create the content in form of coding for you.

Industry Insight

AI in Poetry: AI Now Matches Human Poetry, Surprising Experts

A study of 2,330 participants examining AI vs human-written poetry reveals unexpected findings. Research shows:

• AI-generated poems (GPT 3.5 without refinement) were rated more favorably than human poems across 13 of 14 quality metrics

• Participants performed below chance (46.6% accuracy) at identifying AI-generated poems (including those of Shakespeare and Whitman)

• AI poems were more likely to be judged as human-written than actual human poems

• Experience with poetry did not improve participants' ability to detect AI authorship

• When told a poem was AI-generated (vs human-written), participants rated it significantly lower, showing persistent bias against AI

Key Takeaway: Rather than democratizing poetry creation, AI appears to excel by making poetry more accessible - AI poems are rated higher because they communicate more directly and are easier to understand, while human poems often require deeper analysis and interpretation. This challenges assumptions that poetry would remain a uniquely human domain due to its reliance on creativity and meaning.

🎯 Career Corner

We are adding a career corner to share internships and job opportunities as well as insights to grow and develop your career in Tech and AI.

Job Opportunities

• AI Growth Manager for an innovative tech startup revolutionizing the taxi industry

• Revenue Operations Manager for an international tech startup in the digital asset and blockchain space

• Growth Manager for an AI SaaS startup working to make legal documentation and contracting easier for legal representatives and law firms

Note: We welcome international candidates. Please send us an email if interested to [email protected].

🚀 Community Updates

• We've hit 500+ members! Thank you for being part of this growing community

• Next AI Event in NYC: We are currently planning our next AI event in town. If you want to help out or have a favourite topic you want us to cover, please reach out.

• Our NY Tech Career Website is going live soon. Once it’s live you can directly apply to our open roles via the website and have a smoother experience in applying 😉 

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