Reimagining NYC & Urban Innovation

A city that can route a package across five boroughs in an afternoon still cannot approve a benefits application in a season. New York is running its own flagship AI accelerator, has a new administration, and is deciding in real time whether technology will make the city work for the people who hold it up or simply make it more legible to the people who already own it. The head of the city's AI accelerator, the organizer who put seventy CEOs in a room with the incoming mayor, the lawyer who now vets the city's judges, and a civil liberties director turned Meta policy lead compare notes.

Who this is for

Builders, organizers, public servants, and any New Yorker who wants a say in what their city becomes.

On the table

• Who gets to decide what a smart city is smart about?
• What would a transit, housing or courts system look like if it were built for Queens rather than for a dashboard?
• Where does a founder in this room plug in?

You'll leave with

• A read on the policy window that is open right now, and how long it stays open
• The specific programs, pilots and people to reach
• What this administration is actually asking technologists for