🧠AI Founders Lab with The AI Collective NYC x Avahi
​Private Roundtable: AI Founders, NYC
​The AI Collective is convening a small group of NYC founders and operators with Avahi and AWS for a dinner roundtable.
​Selected participants are eligible for up to $25,000 in sponsored AI engineering from Avahi, with scope for an additional $100,000. Real engineering hours, delivered by Avahi's team on AWS infrastructure. Multiple founders will be selected.
​What to expect
​A small group of founders and operators at your level
​Working conversations with Avahi's engineers and AIC facilitators
​Dinner, drinks, and the company of people building serious things
​Who's in the room
​Founders and operators with a product in market and demonstrated traction
​Early-stage startups and established companies modernizing existing platforms
​Teams with a specific, defensible AI or automation use case
​Product companies building for end users — not services or consulting firms
​Agenda
​5:00: Doors open
​5:30: Dinner, drinks, and networking
​5:45: Welcome from AIC, Avahi, and AWS
​6:00: Roundtables: small-group working sessions with Avahi's engineers
​8:30: Close
​Apply below.
​Engineering scope and timeline determined post-event.
​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
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