

C10 x MongoDB - AI After Work - Past the Demo: Building AI That Holds Up in the Real World
Description:
Every AI product works in the demo. Then real users, real data and real scale show up.
Join C10 Labs and MongoDB for an after-work session of honest founder postmortems. Founders from the NYC AI Nexus cohort will share what broke when their AI went live, what they changed, and what they would do differently. No pitches and no polished keynotes, just real lessons from people building in healthcare, climate and industry.
Samadnya Kalaskar at MongoDB, will share the patterns she sees when teams take AI from idea to production: where agents fail, how to handle memory and data as you grow, and what to get right early.
Then we eat and mingle. Pizza and conversations with founders, engineers and investors building AI in New York.
Agenda
4:00 PM Doors open
4:30 PM Welcome from C10 Labs and MongoDB
4:35 PM Panel: Past the Demo
5:05 PM Audience Q&A
5:15 PM Pizza and networking
6:30 PM Close
Who should come: founders and technical leads building AI products, engineers working on agents, data and AI infra, and investors backing AI and deep tech.
Space is limited and registration requires approval.
About the hosts
C10 Labs is an MIT spun-out AI fund and venture studio. In New York it runs NYC AI Nexus, an applied AI program for founders in health, climate and advanced manufacturing.
MongoDB is the developer data platform behind modern and AI applications, from early-stage startups to the largest enterprises.