TL;DR: NY Tech Week 2026 runs June 1–7, 2026 across Manhattan and Brooklyn. Presented by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), it's the largest decentralized tech conference in the world — the 2025 edition drew 1,020 events and over 40,000 attendees. This year is the fourth NY Tech Week and the biggest yet. Every event is independently hosted by startups, VCs, and operators; you apply directly to each one through tech-week.com/calendar/nyc or via curated calendars like NYC B2B. This guide covers everything: dates, how to attend, the best events to target, what to wear, where to stay, and how to make the week actually pay off.
What is NY Tech Week?
NY Tech Week is a week-long, citywide tech festival presented by Andreessen Horowitz. The format is unusual: a16z doesn't run a central conference. Instead, hundreds of independent hosts — startups, VC firms, accelerators, community leads, big tech companies — each run their own events. The result is a decentralized calendar of panels, demos, hackathons, dinners, pitch nights, happy hours, fireside chats, sports meetups, and after-parties that takes over the city for seven days.
The 2025 edition saw 1,020 events and over 40,000 attendees, including founders flying in from Canada, India, France, the Dominican Republic, and London. 2026 is the fourth annual NY Tech Week and is expected to be larger again.
For B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI founders, NY Tech Week is the single highest-leverage week of the year to be in New York.
When is NY Tech Week 2026?
NY Tech Week 2026 runs Monday, June 1 through Sunday, June 7, 2026.
Tech Week's broader 2026 schedule:
- Boston (debut year): May 26–31
- New York: June 1–7
- San Francisco: October 5–11
- Los Angeles: October 12–18
Most NY Tech Week activity concentrates Tuesday through Friday (June 2–5), with the weekend bookends typically reserved for kickoff parties, founder sports meetups, and post-week recovery brunches.
How to attend NY Tech Week
There's no single "Tech Week ticket." You apply to individual events.
- Browse the official calendar at tech-week.com/calendar/nyc. Events are tagged by category — AI, Fintech, Hackathons, Engineering, Founders, GTM, Venture, Students.
- Apply to each event individually. Most events have an application form on Luma, Partiful, or the host's own RSVP page. Hosts approve or decline on a rolling basis.
- Don't wait. The best events fill up fast. The top dinners and VC-hosted programming often close applications 2–3 weeks before the week starts.
- Cross-reference curated calendars. Tech Week's master list is comprehensive but not curated for signal. For B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI specifically, NYC B2B hand-picks the highest-signal events of the week.
Most events are free to attend if you're approved. A small subset (curated dinners, full-day workshops, paid conferences running concurrently) charge $50–$500.
The 30 most-searched questions about NY Tech Week 2026
1. Is NY Tech Week free?
Most NY Tech Week events are free. Hosts cover the cost of venue, food, and drinks — typically because they're VC firms doing community building, startups doing product launches, or companies running recruiting events. A subset of dinners, paid workshops, and concurrent conferences charge admission, usually $50–$500. As a rough split: roughly 80% of events are free to approved attendees.
2. How do I register for NY Tech Week?
You don't register for "NY Tech Week" as a single event. You apply to individual events through tech-week.com/calendar/nyc or via curated calendars like nycb2b.org. Each host approves their own attendees. Most applications take 30 seconds to submit.
3. Who organizes NY Tech Week?
Tech Week is presented by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The 2026 sponsoring partners include Fenwick (the law firm) and HSBC Innovation Banking, with Zendesk for Startups providing program support. The actual events are organized independently by hundreds of separate hosts — a16z's role is to maintain the master calendar, the brand, and the citywide marketing.
4. How many events happen during NY Tech Week?
Last year's NY Tech Week saw 1,020 events over seven days. 2026 is expected to match or exceed that. On peak weekdays (Tuesday through Thursday), you can find 200+ events on a single day, scattered across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
5. How many people attend NY Tech Week?
Over 40,000 attendees attended NY Tech Week 2025, including a meaningful international contingent flying in from Canada, India, the U.K., France, and beyond. 2026 attendance is on track to exceed that.
6. What's the best way to find NY Tech Week events?
Three sources cover what's worth attending:
- tech-week.com/calendar/nyc — the official master list. Comprehensive but unfiltered.
- NYC B2B — curated for B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI founders, with the highest signal-to-noise ratio.
- Luma's NY Tech Week calendar (luma.com/nytw) — the platform where most events publish their RSVP pages.
For specific verticals: AI events, fintech events, B2B events, and founder events all have dedicated curated category pages.
7. What are the best NY Tech Week events for founders?
The highest-signal formats for founders:
- Curated founder dinners (15–40 people) — These produce the most durable relationships. The constraint of a single table or two forces depth that a 200-person rooftop never delivers.
- Pitch nights and demo nights — Real check-writers attend the curated ones. Skip the $50-ticket "investor networking" events.
- VC-hosted programming — a16z, USV, Lerer Hippeau, FirstMark, Bessemer, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and TQ Ventures all run real founder events during the week.
- Vertical meetups — AI, fintech, devtools, legal tech, healthtech each have dedicated Tech Week programming.
NYC B2B curates the founder-relevant slice of this calendar so you don't have to scroll through 1,000 events.
8. What are the best NY Tech Week events for investors?
Investor-targeted programming includes LP breakfasts, GP dinners, deal-sourcing pitch nights, and emerging-manager meetups. The recurring high-signal series include CVC's NYC Venture Community Happy Hours, the NYC B2B AI Founders & Investors Meetup, and a16z's own GP-hosted events at their NYC office. nextNYC also runs concentrated VC Open Office Hours sessions during the week.
9. What are the best AI events during NY Tech Week?
AI dominates the NY Tech Week calendar in 2026. Recurring high-signal series running during the week include AI Engineers Tech Talks, Comma Deeptech Meetup (robotics and physical AI), AI Tinkerers NYC builder nights, Model Behavior AI Trivia (hosted by Baseten), AI Founders Connect at Cornell Tech and NYU, and curated AI investor meetups. Anthropic, OpenAI, and the major foundation model labs typically host engineer-focused events during the week.
Browse the curated AI calendar at nycb2b.org/ai-events-nyc.
10. What are the best fintech events during NY Tech Week?
NYC is the global fintech capital, and Tech Week is its busiest week. Expected programming includes events from J.P. Morgan, Bessemer Venture Partners' fintech team, Empire Startups, and the Tech:NYC + J.P. Morgan Payments cohort. NYC Finance & Tech Networking events run multiple nights during the week, and NYC Coffee Club hosts dedicated fintech/healthtech/insurtech founder gatherings.
The curated fintech slice lives at nycb2b.org/fintech-events-nyc.
11. What hackathons happen during NY Tech Week?
Multiple hackathons run during NY Tech Week 2026, typically sponsored by a16z, AWS, OpenAI, Anthropic, and various NYC accelerators. Past Tech Weeks have included multi-day build sprints, AI agent hackathons, and single-evening competitive coding events. The Tech Week site maintains a dedicated hackathons category during the week itself.
12. Where do most NY Tech Week events happen?
Tech Week takes over the same neighborhoods that anchor NYC's startup scene year-round:
- Flatiron and NoMad — the highest event density, historic Silicon Alley
- SoHo and Tribeca — VC offices, member clubs, founder dinners
- Williamsburg and DUMBO — Brooklyn's tech corridor, with Newlab and Dock 72 as major venues
- Midtown and Hudson Yards — enterprise tech and big-format programming
- Financial District — fintech and crypto
- Long Island City and Roosevelt Island — Cornell Tech and the surrounding founder scene
Expect to be walking, taking the subway, or splitting Citi Bike rides constantly.
13. What should I wear to NY Tech Week events?
Default: dark jeans or trousers, fitted t-shirt or button-down, clean sneakers or boots. NYC tech is more polished than SF (which still defaults to patagonia and hoodies), less formal than finance.
For VC dinners (especially at restaurants in Tribeca, the West Village, or Midtown): dress up a notch — a blazer or nicer shirt.
For pitch nights, demos, panels: default startup-casual.
For founder fitness events (running club, basketball, pickleball): athletic gear.
For member's clubs (Casa Cipriani, Zero Bond, Soho House, Aman, The Aviary): check the dress code. Collared shirts, no athletic wear, often no sneakers.
It will probably rain at some point during the week — bring a layer.
14. Where should I stay during NY Tech Week?
The most strategic neighborhoods to base from:
- NoMad / Flatiron — highest event density, walkable to most weeknight programming
- SoHo / NoLita — closer to dinner circuit, member clubs, and a16z's NYC office
- Williamsburg — if a meaningful share of your events are in Brooklyn (cheaper hotels, better food)
- Lower East Side / East Village — younger founder energy, after-party adjacent
- Midtown East — if you have enterprise meetings stacked alongside Tech Week events
Avoid: Times Square (too touristy and slow to walk through), Upper East/West Side (too far from anything), and any hotel that requires more than one subway transfer to get to Flatiron.
Hotels book up fast. By mid-May, expect rates to be 30–50% above normal. The Hoxton (Williamsburg), citizenM (Bowery and Times Square), The Ned NoMad, ModernHaus SoHo, and Public Hotel are all popular founder bases.
15. How early should I apply to NY Tech Week events?
Apply 3–6 weeks before for the best events. The most curated dinners, VC-hosted programming, and demo nights close applications 2–3 weeks before the week starts. Smaller meetups and happy hours often accept applications up to 24 hours before.
If you're applying late, lead with specifics: who you are, what you're building, what you bring to the room. "I'm raising a Seed for a vertical AI agent in legal tech and want to meet other AI-native B2B founders" beats "interested in networking."
16. How many events should I go to during NY Tech Week?
Two per day, max. Three on a peak day, only if the geography works.
The biggest mistake first-time Tech Week attendees make is trying to hit five events a day. You end up rushing between venues, never actually talking to anyone for more than three minutes, and crashing by Thursday. Two well-chosen events plus 3–5 scheduled coffees per day produces dramatically better outcomes than a frantic five-event sprint.
17. How do I get into invite-only NY Tech Week events?
Three paths actually work:
- Get referred by someone already attending. Most hosts allow attendees to bring 1–2 referrals. If you know one person going to a closed dinner, ask.
- Apply directly with a sharp two-sentence reason. Hosts read applications. "I'm a Series A founder building agentic GTM tools for B2B sales teams and would love to meet the operators in the room" works. "Looking to network" doesn't.
- Be worth knowing. Founders building something legibly interesting, investors with capital deployed, and operators with known names get recruited in. Subscribe to the NYC B2B newsletter to surface in front of curators.
18. Can I host my own NY Tech Week event?
Yes. Hosting is open to anyone, and Tech Week submissions are typically open through April–early May. Apply at tech-week.com/host. The most successful formats are panels, happy hours, hackathons, founder lunches, and experiential events. The bar to get listed on the official calendar is low; the bar to actually fill the room is higher.
If you're hosting a B2B SaaS or Enterprise AI event during NY Tech Week, submit to NYC B2B for inclusion in the curated calendar.
19. What's the best NY Tech Week event for first-time attendees?
If it's your first Tech Week and you're a founder, prioritize:
- One large kickoff event on Monday or Tuesday — Tech:NYC's opening party, the USV kickoff, or whichever big-tent event has the right network density for your stage
- One curated dinner or small meetup mid-week (this is where real relationships form)
- One vertical-specific event in your category (AI, fintech, devtools, etc.)
- One founder fitness event (running club, basketball, pickleball) — surprisingly high-signal
Skip: anything with 500+ people and no curation, "open networking" cocktail events with $50 tickets, and any event where you can't tell from the page who the host is.
20. Do I need to be a founder or investor to attend NY Tech Week?
No. Engineers, designers, product managers, operators, students, journalists, and aspiring founders all attend NY Tech Week. Many events specifically target one of these audiences — engineer-focused tech talks, PM dinners, student programming at Cornell Tech and NYU. The week is open by design.
21. What's the NYC B2B selection of Tech Week events?
NYC B2B curates the B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI slice of NY Tech Week — typically 40–60 events out of the 1,000+ on the master calendar. The selection criteria: real check-writers in the room, founders actually building (not just pitching), and signal-to-noise high enough that two hours of your week is worth investing.
The curated Tech Week selection goes live in late May. Subscribe to the NYC B2B newsletter to get it delivered before applications close on the best events.
22. What recurring NYC events also run during Tech Week?
NY Tech Week amplifies the city's normal calendar. Recurring series that typically host special Tech Week editions:
- NY Tech Meetup — usually a flagship Tech Week demo night
- Startup Grind NYC — Tech Week-specific programming
- NYC B2B AI Founders & Investors Meetup — Tech Week edition
- AI Tinkerers NYC — builder nights
- Comma Deeptech Meetup — Tech Week robotics edition
- Founders Basketball NYC, Running Club, Pickleball Meetup — Tech Week tournaments
- NYC Coffee Club — multiple editions during the week
23. What's happening at Cornell Tech during NY Tech Week?
Cornell Tech (Roosevelt Island) typically hosts the AI Founders Connect East Coast series and the Spring Startup Awards + Open Studio during or adjacent to Tech Week. The campus also runs research-to-startup programming through the Jacobs Institute. If you're an AI or technical founder, the Roosevelt Island day during Tech Week is worth budgeting.
24. What's happening at NYU during NY Tech Week?
NYU (Greenwich Village, 13th Street campus) hosts AI Founders Connect rounds, Stern student-founder programming, and the Entrepreneurial Institute's Tech Week sessions. The proximity to the rest of the Manhattan event circuit makes NYU a useful midday stop between other events.
25. Do big tech companies (Google, Meta, Amazon) host NY Tech Week events?
Yes. Google, Meta, Amazon (AWS), Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and most of the major NYC-based tech companies (Spotify, Stripe, J.P. Morgan, Bloomberg) host events during Tech Week. Some are open to the broader community; many are invite-only customer or developer events. Past Tech Weeks have included Anthropic engineer meetups, OpenAI developer sessions, and AWS infrastructure programming.
26. What's the best networking strategy for NY Tech Week?
Three rules from people who've done multiple Tech Weeks well:
- Pre-schedule your coffees. Reach out to 10–15 people you want to meet the week before. Tech Week mornings are open; lock in 1:1s by 9 AM. Use the evenings for events.
- Pick events by host, not by topic. A Tuesday dinner hosted by a VC you respect is worth more than a Wednesday panel on a topic you care about.
- Follow up within 48 hours. Tech Week ends Sunday; by the following Monday, the people you met are back to their inbox and have forgotten who you are unless you send a short note before the weekend.
27. How is NY Tech Week different from SF Tech Week?
NY Tech Week is more B2B-heavy, more international, and more concentrated geographically (Manhattan and Brooklyn vs. SF's sprawl across the Bay). SF Tech Week leans harder into deep tech, consumer AI, and pure venture, while NY Tech Week reflects the city's strength in fintech, enterprise SaaS, media tech, and healthtech. Both run on the same a16z-presented format; the dates and host city are the only fundamental differences.
The 2026 schedule has NY Tech Week (June 1–7) running roughly four months before SF Tech Week (October 5–11), with LA Tech Week (October 12–18) the week after SF.
28. Is NY Tech Week worth flying in for?
For B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI founders, yes — it's the highest-leverage week of the year to be in New York. For deep tech and consumer founders, the calculus is closer; SF Tech Week may be a better use of one travel week. For most founders raising or scaling in 2026, plan a 5–7 day trip around Tech Week and book hotels by April.
29. What should I do the weekend after NY Tech Week ends?
If you can extend through the weekend after Tech Week ends (June 8–9, 2026), use it for: (1) follow-up coffees with people you met during the week — calendars are wide open, (2) due diligence meetings if you're raising, (3) decompression and writing up notes while everything's fresh, and (4) any in-person customer meetings you couldn't fit during the chaos.
The Saturday and Sunday after Tech Week typically have a long tail of brunches, founder runs, and recovery happy hours.
30. Where do I subscribe to get NY Tech Week event updates?
The NYC B2B newsletter sends a weekly drop of the highest-signal B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI events, with dedicated Tech Week coverage starting in mid-May. Subscribe to get the curated Tech Week selection before applications close on the best events.
NY Tech Week 2026 events curated by NYC B2B
The list below tracks the B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI events on nycb2b.org tagged for Tech Week 2026. This section updates as events get announced through May and into Tech Week itself.
Hosted by NYC B2B
NYC B2B: AI Founders & Investors Meetup — Tech Week edition, date TBA June 1–7. The flagship recurring meetup connects B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI founders with the investors actively writing checks in the category. Curated guest list, real deal flow. View on nycb2b.org →
NYC B2B: Head of Product Dinner — Tech Week edition, date TBA June 1–7. Invite-only dinner for heads of product at NYC B2B SaaS companies. Format: 20-person table, peer-led discussion on the operational realities of building B2B product in 2026. View on nycb2b.org →
Newsletter picks for NY Tech Week
Recurring series expected to run Tech Week editions:
- AI Engineers Tech Talks
- Comma Deeptech Meetup (Robotics & Physical AI)
- AI Founders Connect — Cornell Tech and NYU rounds
- Model Behavior AI Trivia with Baseten
- NYC Coffee Club editions (B2B Founders, FinTech, Healthcare)
- Valli Ventures Founders Supper Society
- Founder Breakfasts
- CVC NYC Venture Community Happy Hour (Tech Week edition)
- GTM-as-Code Lightning Talks
- Founders Basketball NYC (Tech Week tournament)
- Founders Running Club (Tech Week edition)
- NYC Startup Pickleball Meetup
For the live, day-by-day curated calendar, see nycb2b.org and filter to "Next 30 days."
By category
AI Events at NY Tech Week → — Foundation model labs, AI engineering talks, agentic AI demos, AI founder dinners.
FinTech Events at NY Tech Week → — Embedded finance, B2B payments, fintech infrastructure, the J.P. Morgan and Bessemer fintech circuit.
B2B Events at NY Tech Week → — Enterprise SaaS, GTM, devtools, product-led growth.
Founder Events at NY Tech Week → — Curated dinners, founder breakfasts, founder fitness meetups, supper societies.
FAQ
When is NY Tech Week 2026?
June 1–7, 2026. Presented by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Is NY Tech Week free?
Most events are free to approved attendees. A subset of curated dinners and paid workshops cost $50–$500. Roughly 80% of programming is free.
How do I register for NY Tech Week?
You apply to individual events, not to "NY Tech Week" as a whole. Use tech-week.com/calendar/nyc for the master list, nycb2b.org for curated B2B and AI events.
How many events happen during NY Tech Week?
The 2025 edition saw 1,020 events. 2026 is expected to match or exceed that.
How many people attend NY Tech Week?
Over 40,000 attendees in 2025, including a meaningful international contingent.
What are the best events for B2B SaaS and Enterprise AI founders?
The NYC B2B AI Founders & Investors Meetup, the NYC B2B Head of Product Dinner, recurring AI Engineers Tech Talks, vertical fintech and devtools meetups, and curated founder dinners hosted by VCs like USV, Lerer Hippeau, FirstMark, and a16z. Browse the curated B2B selection at nycb2b.org.
How early should I apply to events?
3–6 weeks before for the best events. The most curated dinners close applications 2–3 weeks before Tech Week starts.
Where should I stay during NY Tech Week?
NoMad/Flatiron is the most strategic base. SoHo, Williamsburg, and the Lower East Side are also strong. Book by mid-April to avoid rate surges.
How many events should I attend per day?
Two events per day is the realistic maximum. Pre-schedule 3–5 morning coffees and use evenings for events.
Can I host my own NY Tech Week event?
Yes. Apply at tech-week.com/host. If your event is B2B SaaS or Enterprise AI, also submit it to NYC B2B.
Where do I get NY Tech Week event updates?
The NYC B2B newsletter delivers a curated weekly drop of the highest-signal events, with dedicated NY Tech Week coverage starting in mid-May.