Keeping it Urban Summit

[IMPORTANT] Tickets are $30 and must be purchased on Eventbrite. Once you are approved for this event on Luma, you will be given our Eventbrite Link. This Eventbrite page is for event purchase — will not be able to attend without a paid Eventbrite ticket.

What’s Included in $30:
+ Lunch & Coffee
+ Happy Hour w/ Hor D’oeuvres
+ 3 Prestigious Panels
+ Curated NYC early-stage startups
+ Art Gallery & Artist Talks
+ Lo-fi DJ
+ Chance to visit Roosevelt Island via tram!

About Event:

One-day summit with early-stage startups, investors, culture, and creative technology that can emerge only from the density of cities and people — that looks like physical AI, agents, culture & media .

Panelists include founders from Hopscotch Labs, Fauna Robotics, Everywhere VC, Samsung, Google Sidewalk Labs, and an NYC Council Member.

Agenda:

Fireside Chat among early NYC internet entrepreneurs & long-time friends:

• : Founder @ Foursquare, HopScotch Labs, BeeBot
• (mod): Founder @ Everywhere Ventures, ex-Managing Director @ Techstars

Panel 1: New Digital Interfaces

• ​: ex-VP @ PBS, Filmmaker @ Sundance, Tribeca, Toronto Film Festival
• : Backslash Artist, VR Producer & Technologist @ NYT

Panel 2: Human-Robot Co-Existence

• ex-EVP & Head of AI @ Samsung, Professor @ NYU, Cornell Tech, UPenn
• CTO @ Fauna Robotics, ex-Research @ Meta, Deepmind
• CEO @ Media Architecture VOLVOX LABS, ex-Director @ Gensler Architecture

Panel 3: Building for Belonging & Civic Innovation

• Director @ Georgetown Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, ex-Design Director @ Google Sidewalk Labs
• : NYC District 4 City Council Member
• Co-founder @ Streetlife Ventures
• Research Scientist @ MIT Media Lab

Startup & Creative Pitches: Hear from early-stage NYC startups like InPress, Haptic Nav, and creative pitches like Subway Builder game, popular on TikTok!

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Host or Publisher Cornell Tech Student Government