… and we’re back.
I hope everyone had a productive summer improving both your base tan and your ARR.
Please forward this to any friends or peers who you think would get value. If you’re new here, I invite you to subscribe. This is a monthly roundup of in-person NYC digital health events that has been going out regularly for 4 years.
The Healing Healthtech Mini Accelerator - The Consult - was absolutely incredible. Thrilled to be doing the next ones with Scrub Capital in SF in December and Paulo Machado in Chicago this Spring. I’ll have application links shortly.
I’m going to be experimenting with a bunch of new event formats this year. My theme overall is to distill the most interesting and highest value elements of accelerator programs and community events into high impact, deeply engaging meetups.
If you’ve got an event format that you’d like to experiment with or are interested in volunteering, providing space, or sponsoring a get-together, reach out to me via DM here on Substack.
I’m not the only one cooking though. NYC digital health peers communities Pepper, Health2Tech, OneHealth and many others have a bunch going on these next two months. 40 events total.
-Vadim
🏠 My September and October events
🎧 Just Listen: A zero talking event
Thu, Sep 10, 6–8 PM · Dumbo, Brooklyn · Free, 20 seats by lottery
After two days of intense communication at The Consult, my next event will be the exact opposite.
My passion project this summer was to restore a pair of vintage large format Urei studio monitors (big loudspeakers used in recording studio)
October 10th, I’ll be setting them up in an acoustically treated space with comfy couches.
Zero talking, zero screens allowed.
Two surprise albums will be played end-to-end.
Bring takeout, bring a book, or just sit.
Twenty attendees will be drawn at random from applicants.
🍷 Medicare + Medicaid Founders and Funders Dinner
Thu, Oct 1, 6–9 PM · Personal penthouse of a 3x IPO’d super-angel, NYC · Approval required
Building for the social safety net brings its own challenges, economic, operational, and clinical realities and struggles. Connect with founders and investors building and thriving in that space.
Twelve founders and twelve investors will be accepted to participate.
Part one will be a mixer-style dinner with a gorgeous view of the city.
Part two will bid farewell to the investors and be a group office hours for founders led by an exited YC CEO where we help one another work through our respective hurdles.
The founder side is open to any company that has not yet raised a priced seed and serves a predominantly Medicare or Medicaid population.
Investor side is open to VCs and angels who have written at least two checks into Medicare or Medicaid-focused value props in the past 24 months.
🗣️ Negotiation for Non-Lawyers
Thu, Oct 15, Cct 22, 6–9 PM · Tribeca NYC · capped at 25 participants
Learn strategies and tactics to become effective at driving negotiations
A two-part workshop on the skill most operators assume is innate. I’m proof that it can in-fact be learned.
Each evening runs two short didactic sections and two peer role-plays built from real digital health and venture scenarios.
I’ve spent years developing and teaching this workshop and have previously taught it to rave reviews at NYU, the SOSA International Accelerator, and many others.
This will sell out quickly.
$350 per attendee
📑 Priced Round Bootcamp
Tue, Oct 27, 1–5 PM · Flatiron, NYC · Approval required
Raising your first priced round is a completely different beast than stacking SAFEs.
Four part afternoon workshop will cover
Cap table and data room hygiene
Finding, pitching, and closing your first institutional investors
Words that matter in a term sheet and deal docs
Panel / Q&A with 4 active VCs working at priced seed
This workshop / bootcamp is a distillation of the best parts of multiple different programs I’ve run previously to support founders’ first institutional raise.
This one is domain agnostic - not just digital health.
Peer community events in NYC Digital Health
⚡ This Week: Sept 1–6
☕ September Healthcare Coffee Meet Up
Fri, Sep 4, 8:30–10 AM · Laughing Horse Coffee & Tea Co., Harrison · Free
One for those in Westchester!
Sixth Borough Health’s monthly coffee and co-working session for digital health leaders, run by Julia Bernstein, COO of Brightside Health.
🔥 Week of Sept 7
🍽️ Seed2Table: Pitch + Dinner for Health Tech & AI Investors
Tue, Sep 8, 5–10 PM · NYC, address on approval · Ticketed, tiers vary
A seated pitch dinner with Tower Capital, presented by KPMG.
🏦 The Ecosystem Behind Innovation: The Neion Bio Journey
Tue, Sep 8, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required
The Ford Center Incubator at Rockefeller University with J.P. Morgan, tracing Neion Bio from stealth to a Series A.
The founders, their Caffeinated Capital investor, and Rockefeller leadership on the table, moderated by J.P. Morgan.
Networking after.
🧬 From Bench to Boardroom: James Rothman on Cellular Logistics
Tue, Sep 8, 6 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required
SOSV brings the Nobel laureate whose vesicle-trafficking work underwrites a generation of nanobiology companies.
Conversation with Sean O’Sullivan on what actually converts bench science into a fundable company.
🩺 Health2Tech NYC
Thu, Sep 10, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required
Bailey Morgan, Perrin Joel, and Alex Koshykov’s recurring digital health evening.
Investor Panel will include Margette Davidson of Company Ventures, Michelle Wang of Wavemaker 360, and Jesse Gentil of Health Enterprise Partners
🌶️ Pepper NYC Healthtech Founder Meetup
Thu, Sep 10, 6–8:30 PM · Tap Haus 33, 14 E 33rd St · Free, approval required
Founders and operators building in healthcare, drinks and bites covered by Lemma.
🏃 NYC September Run: Bio-Health Athletic Club
Sat, Sep 12, 10–11:30 AM · Pier 46, Hudson River Park · Free
Conversational pace, biotech and healthtech talk, drinks after. All levels.
🔥 Week of Sept 14
🌇 Health Tech Founders & Funders: Rooftop Happy Hour
Tue, Sep 15, 5–7 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required
Distributed Ventures, Inflect Capital, and Wilson Sonsini putting founders and funders on a roof together.
Inflect writes $250K to $2.5M and is backed by a physician group of 8,000 clinicians across 500 sites;
Distributed does seed and Series A across health, wealth, and insurance.
Curated guest list rather than open door.
⚛️ No Free Lunches: Why Physics Still Matters in an AI-Driven Drug Discovery World
Wed, Sep 16, 6–8 PM · NYU Silver Building, Rm 32, Waverly Pl · Free
The New York Area Group for Informatics and Modeling on where physics-based methods still beat learned ones in drug discovery. Technical room.
🗽 Digital Health NY Summit
Thu, Sep 17 · Quorum by Convene, 1221 Sixth Ave · Registration by application
DHNY’s annual summit.
⚓ Ship It: A Healthcare Software Engineering Conference
Thu–Fri, Sep 17–18 · NYC · $950, invite-only
Out-Of-Pocket’s engineering summit.
80 curated guests,
12 workshops,
hands-on sessions on FHIR, HIPAA, and AI. Debates and breakouts rather than hour-long keynotes.
🧠 Materna Mind Series: Managing Anxiety in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Thu, Sep 17, 6:30–8 PM · Materna Health, 130 7th Ave S
Lillian Rishty, LCSW, PMH-C on the 3am spiral and the worry that asking too many questions makes you a difficult patient.
🌍 Project Dandelion: Health is the Headline
Sun, Sep 20, 2 PM · NYC, address on approval · Approval required
Women, climate, and health as one problem rather than three.
Opens the Climate Week stretch.
🔥 Week of Sept 21
Climate Week NYC runs Sep 20–27.
🎓 From Lab to Market: Adaptation and Resilience Tech from Universities
Tue, Sep 22, 8:30 AM–12 PM · Cisco Systems, 1 Penn Plaza · Approval required
Tailwind Futures on commercializing university-originated research.
🏛️ The State of Play: How Global Governance Reform Will Reshape Health and Climate
Tue, Sep 22, 10:30 AM–12 PM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St · Private event
The global health architecture is currently undergoing significant institutional change, with several parallel reform initiatives underway, including UN80, the WHO Joint Process, and other financing processes, set against a broader backdrop of shifting multilateralism and geopolitics.
This is the session that maps them against each other.
🚑 When the Road to Healthcare Is the Barrier
Tue, Sep 22, 11 AM–12:30 PM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St
The event looks at SDOH elements of distance, travel time, and unreliable transport as the determinant nobody funds towards healthcare outcomes.
Emergency obstetric care and immunization completion will be the worked examples for the conversation.
⚖️ States Under Pressure: Resisting Federal Climate Rollbacks
Tue, Sep 22, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM · 113 W 60th St · Free
As the federal government moves to accelerate fossil fuel infrastructure and roll back environmental protections, states, local governments, Tribal nations, and communities are confronting a fundamental question:
Who gets to decide what is built, where it is built, and whose health and environment are put at risk?
🌱 From Climate Commitments to Health Impact
Tue, Sep 22, 4:30–6 PM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St
The implementation gap between a pledge and a health system that can absorb it.
Panel representing academia, government, philanthropy, and industry discuss the path forward.
💪 The Core Truth: Movement, Pelvic Floor, and Birth Prep
Tue, Sep 22, 6:30–8 PM · Materna Health, 130 7th Ave S
Jenny Hoofnagle of Freya Movement Studio on diastasis, prenatal strength, and postpartum recovery.
📰 Newsweek AI Health Summit
Wed, Sep 23, 7 AM · Newsweek HQ, 1 WTC 72nd Fl · $799
Jennifer Cunningham and Alexis Kayser convene hospital leaders on moving AI past isolated pilots.
⚡ AEG NYC Health, Energy & Resilience Action Challenge
Wed, Sep 23, 11:30 AM–4:30 PM · WSP USA, 250 W 34th St · $295–$2,544, some passes free
Advanced Energy Group’s working session with WSP and the NYC Department of Health’s Air Quality program.
Gov and nonprofit passes are comped.
🌾 Scaling Resilience through Whole-System Innovation
Wed, Sep 23, 2–3:15 PM · NYC, address on approval · Approval required
REGEN HOUSE on regenerative agriculture inside planetary boundaries.
Food-as-health adjacent.
🔀 Shifting Power in Climate and Health
Thu, Sep 24, 8:30–10 AM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St
A small working conversation on who decides what gets funded when the expertise sits in the countries bearing the risk and the capital does not.
👵 HITLAB September Digital Health Symposium
Thu, Sep 24, 11 AM–2 PM · NYC · Registration open
Healthy aging, longevity, and caregiver technology.
RPM and AI applied to the population that actually generates the spend.
🧘 Mental Health in a Disastrous Climate
Fri, Sep 25, 11 AM–1 PM · The Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island · $10 suggested, nobody turned away
Climate Cafe NYC on converting climate grief into action. Governors Island in late September is its own argument.
🔥 Week of Sept 28
🧫 NewYorkBIO Innovation Summit
Wed, Sep 30, 8:30 AM–6 PM · Cure, 345 Park Ave S · $99-$800
New York’s life science advocacy body running its annual innovation day at Deerfield’s Cure.
🩻 Klinikum+: How AI is Reshaping Medicine
Wed, Sep 30, 7–9 PM · Manhattan, exact venue to registrants
Part two of the Klinikum+ series.
🍂 October
🫂 The Check In: Men’s Mental Health
Thu, Oct 1, 7–9 PM · Harlem, address on registration
Dre Steinberg’s monthly peer circle. Every first Wednesday normally; this one runs Thursday.
👶 The Future of Fertility
Tue, Oct 6, 9 AM–12 PM · 115 Broadway, FiDi
Five experts on where fertility care, law, and coverage are heading. Hosted by IVF Law Group, so the regulatory angle will be sharper than the usual femtech panel.
🧪 Biolabs@NYU Langone Investor & Innovator Exchange
Tue, Oct 6, 12–7 PM · Hunters Point, Queens, address on approval · Approval required
Seven hours of founders and investors in the room at NYU Langone’s incubator. The Sep 15 pitch practice session feeds this.
🍴 AI in Healthcare: From Pilot to Production, An Executive Dinner
Wed, Oct 7, 6:30–9 PM · Kyma, 15 W 18th St · Free, approval required, 12 seats
CIOs and technology executives from regional health systems and payers seated with the CTOs building for them. No slides, no recording, off the record. Will Naylor of Sentro IT hosts.
🤝 Agents on Call: Live AI Agents in Healthcare Ops
Thu, Oct 8 · Venue TBD · #AIWeekNY
Prior auths, intake, and the rest of the operational surface where agents either work or quietly don’t.
🌐 Global Health Congress 2026
Fri–Sun, Oct 9–11 · The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave · $1,500–$2,500
Three days of clinical leaders, innovators, and capital. Priced for institutions.
🔗 2026 Healthix Conference
Wed, Oct 14, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM · Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl · Ticketed
City & State NY convenes New York’s largest health information exchange. If your product touches interoperability in this state, the buyers and the data stewards are both here.
🦠 Gut Feelings: A Panel on the Mind-Body-Belly Connection
Wed, Oct 14, 6–8 PM · Parsley Health, 126 5th Ave · Registration required
Our Kind Therapy and Parsley on the gut-brain axis and the patient whose labs come back normal.
🔬 NY Metro Builds Bio+ 9th Annual Symposium for Life Science Innovation
Thu, Oct 15, 8 AM · Union League Club, 38 E 37th St · $349
The tri-state life sciences economy, including eastern New Jersey and southern Connecticut, treated as one market. Science, real estate, and capital in the same program.
🍸 Fall 2026 Healthcare Happy Hour
Thu, Oct 15, 5:30–7:30 PM · Moquette, Scarsdale · Free
Sixth Borough Health’s first quarterly happy hour. Julia Bernstein again, this time north of the city.
🏆 Medical Innovation Olympics: Live Finals
Fri, Oct 16 · Rockefeller Center · Attendee $500 early, $650 regular
Finals and closing ceremony for the competition whose Sep 18 trials are listed above. Hybrid.
♀️ Claude & Longevity Health
Sun, Oct 18, 2–5 PM · Everything’s Jake, 54 E 13th St · Free
World Menopause Day, framed around femtech, AI, and longevity as a women’s health question. 31 going.
🩺 Health2Tech NYC
Thu, Oct 22, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address to registrants · Free, approval required
🏥 Smart Technology Transformation in Healthcare (ConV2X)
Thu, Oct 29, 9 AM · NYC Conference Center at Cornell ILR, 570 Lexington Ave
Partners in Digital Health’s summit on smart tech, clinical practice, and policy.
⚙️ Responsible Tech Summit 2026: From Principles to Power
Thu, Oct 29, 10:30 AM–7:30 PM · The Times Center, 242 W 41st St · $150–$300, approval required
All Tech Is Human on moving AI accountability from principle to enforcement. University and nonprofit rate available.