In Person
Public Event

Betaworks Open Demo Night: NFT NYC Edition

April 12, 2023
4:30 pm

Postponed: New Date TBA

RSVP

About

Open Demo Nights are back at betaworks! If you're an entrepreneur, designer, engineer, or hacker working on something cool that you'd like to share with fellow builders, come on by.

This Demo Night is co-hosted with Definitely Crypto and Orange DAO to exclusively highlight projects building in web3.  Anyone can attend, but if you have a project you'd like to demo, let us know!


How it will work:
• We will preselect a few demos from the application form (apply here)
• If time permits, we will ask audience members to jump up and demo too.
• Each demo will get roughly 10 min for their demo and Q&A.

Demo Rules:
No PowerPoints, no peanut gallery, no pitching — just bring a tangible product or feature you can share with the audience.


Drinks and pizza will be served.
Questions? Contact neel@betaworks.com

When

April 12, 2023
4:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little W 12th Street • New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Agenda

Speakers

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Sponsors

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
What else is happening?
In Person
Public Event

Betaworks Open Demo Night: NFT NYC Edition

When

POSTPONED: New Date TBA
April 12, 2023
4:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little W 12th Street • New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Sold Out

Postponed: New Date TBA

Event Details

Open Demo Nights are back at betaworks! If you're an entrepreneur, designer, engineer, or hacker working on something cool that you'd like to share with fellow builders, come on by.

This Demo Night is co-hosted with Definitely Crypto and Orange DAO to exclusively highlight projects building in web3.  Anyone can attend, but if you have a project you'd like to demo, let us know!


How it will work:
• We will preselect a few demos from the application form (apply here)
• If time permits, we will ask audience members to jump up and demo too.
• Each demo will get roughly 10 min for their demo and Q&A.

Demo Rules:
No PowerPoints, no peanut gallery, no pitching — just bring a tangible product or feature you can share with the audience.


Drinks and pizza will be served.
Questions? Contact neel@betaworks.com

Agenda

Speakers

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Sponsors

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
What else is happening?
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Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

April 12, 2023
4:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little W 12th Street • New York, NY 10014
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

Open Demo Nights are back at betaworks! If you're an entrepreneur, designer, engineer, or hacker working on something cool that you'd like to share with fellow builders, come on by.

This Demo Night is co-hosted with Definitely Crypto and Orange DAO to exclusively highlight projects building in web3.  Anyone can attend, but if you have a project you'd like to demo, let us know!


How it will work:
• We will preselect a few demos from the application form (apply here)
• If time permits, we will ask audience members to jump up and demo too.
• Each demo will get roughly 10 min for their demo and Q&A.

Demo Rules:
No PowerPoints, no peanut gallery, no pitching — just bring a tangible product or feature you can share with the audience.


Drinks and pizza will be served.
Questions? Contact neel@betaworks.com

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold
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Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app

4/12/2023

Betaworks

Betaworks Open Demo Night: NFT NYC Edition

Presented by

Open Demo Nights are back at betaworks! If you're an entrepreneur, designer, engineer, or hacker working on something cool that you'd like to share with fellow builders, come on by.

This Demo Night is co-hosted with Definitely Crypto and Orange DAO to exclusively highlight projects building in web3.  Anyone can attend, but if you have a project you'd like to demo, let us know!


How it will work:
• We will preselect a few demos from the application form (apply here)
• If time permits, we will ask audience members to jump up and demo too.
• Each demo will get roughly 10 min for their demo and Q&A.

Demo Rules:
No PowerPoints, no peanut gallery, no pitching — just bring a tangible product or feature you can share with the audience.


Drinks and pizza will be served.
Questions? Contact neel@betaworks.com

speakers

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Schedule

6:00PM – 7:30PM

Panel Discussion

About + Ticket info

The two hottest topics in tech right now are the rise of generative AI and the mainstreaming of augmented reality with Apple’s recent push into spatial computing. Will silicon-based machines develop sentience?

Join us for a provocative discussion with some big (human) thinkers.

* Dinner is a ticketed event, not included with purchase of a Panel Discussion ticket *

speakers

Steven Johnson
AI Visiting Scholar
Google
David Chalmers
Cognitive Scientist and Philosopher
John Borthwick
Founder and CEO
Betaworks
Rufus Griscom
Co-founded
Next Big Idea Club

8:00PM – 10:00PM

Dinner meets Artificial Worlds

About + Ticket info

Pull up a seat to the table. Join our panelists and fellow enthusiasts for a post-panel dinner where the conversation will continue to flow.

* Dinner is a ticketed event, not included with purchase of a Panel Discussion ticket *

dinner guest

Steven Johnson
AI Visiting Scholar
Google
David Chalmers
Cognitive Scientist and Philosopher
John Borthwick
Founder and CEO
Betaworks
Rufus Griscom
Co-founded
Next Big Idea Club

WHEN

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
4:30 pm

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014