Hi Everyone,
If you’re new here or got forwarded this post, hi, I’m Vadim. I lead a digital health growth fund called Mighty Middle Ventures and organize high impact digital health events workshops in NYC under the Healing Healthtech banner.
I’ve been sending out this monthly events newsletter for years and will continue to do so for a long time to come.
Please take a minute to subscribe or forward to someone new to NYC or digital health who you believe would get value.
📈 How to Raise Your First Priced Round
Tue, Oct 27, 1–5 PM · NoMad, address on approval · Free, approval required
Raising your first priced round is a completely different beast than stacking SAFEs. I’ve come together with Qapita, Gunderson Dettmer, and Mercury to create a half-day bootcamp that will teach you everything you need to know.
Event is free and open to the public. Although my jam is healthcare, the topics apply to founders raising in any domain.
Four sessions in one afternoon: data room and cap table hygiene, finding and closing your first institutional investor, term sheet language, then a VC panel with Mat Kaliski (Acronym Venture Capital), Brian Laung Aoaeh (REFASHIOND Ventures) and Owen Willis (Opal Ventures). Presented with Qapita, Gunderson Dettmer and Mercury. Ten founders get picked to stay for a private session afterward.
⚡ This Week: Oct 8–11
🤖 Agents on Call: Live AI Agents in Healthcare Ops
Thu, Oct 8, 6–8 PM · NYC, address after registration · Free, approval required
Pepper’s AI Week session on agents doing prior auth, intake, scheduling, eligibility and denials work in production. Operators who have shipped, not demo reels.
Thu, Oct 8, 6–9 PM · Park Place, 1218 Jericho Tpke, New Hyde Park · $35
nycthehive’s evening for clinicians, administrators and health system leaders, just over the Queens line on Long Island. Hosts include Tiffany Lam, Alex Tang, Gurdeep S Sareen, Carlos Navas and Dr. Silpa Saladi. A room of the people who run hospitals and practices, not other founders.
Fri–Sun, Oct 9–11 · The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave · $800 single day, $1,500 conference, $2,500 VIP
Clinical leaders, pharma and payer executives and investors under one roof for a weekend. Tickets support a nonprofit.
🔥 Week of Oct 12
Wed, Oct 14, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM · Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl · $39–$402 on Eventbrite
New York’s largest health information exchange, run with City & State NY. Interoperability vendors meet the people who steward the data and buy the integrations.
⏳ New York Health Innovation Night: Is Longevity Becoming Real Medicine?
Wed, Oct 14, 5:30–8:30 PM · The Globe Bar, 158 E 23rd St · $22–$27 on Eventbrite
Hosted by Alex Fair (MedStartr), James Hueston (AgeTech NYC) and Steven Wardell (DigitalHealth InvestorTalk). Hillary Lin, MD, CEO of CareCore, speaks. Longevity founders and the investors deciding whether it is a category.
🦠 Gut Feelings: A Panel on the Gut-Brain Connection
Wed, Oct 14, 6–8 PM · Parsley Health, 126 5th Ave, 2nd Floor · Free
Our Kind Therapy and Parsley Health put a functional medicine clinician and a therapist on one panel. Useful for anyone building integrated behavioral and physical care.
💉 An UNMUTED Debate: Peptide Freedom vs Proof First
Thu, Oct 15, doors 6:30 PM, debate at 7, ends 8:30 · NYC, address to registrants · $20–$45
Should consumers be able to buy peptides, exosomes and other regenerative therapies before trials prove they work? Julius Ritter (California Peptide Club) argues for access plus outcome data; Dr. Tiana Woolridge (Hospital for Special Surgery sports medicine) argues for evidence first. Hosted by UNMUTED with Pepper NYC and the Peptide Club of NYC.
🔬 Nucleate NY Activator Info Session
Thu, Oct 15, 12–1:30 PM · NYU Langone, address on approval · Free, approval required, lunch served
For postdocs, PhDs, MDs, MBAs and JDs thinking about a life sciences company. Covers Nucleate’s Activator program and NYU’s Technology Opportunities & Ventures office.
🧬 9th Annual NY Metro Life Science Symposium
Thu, Oct 15, 8 AM–3:30 PM, reception after · Union League Club, 38 E 37th St · $399 members and academics, $499 standard
Builds Bio+’s regional life sciences day. Therapeutics and diagnostics founders, their investors and the service providers around them.
🍷 Fall 2026 Healthcare Happy Hour
Thu, Oct 15, 5:30–7:30 PM · Moquette, 11 Boniface Cir, Scarsdale · Free
Sixth Borough Health’s first quarterly happy hour for Westchester digital health leaders. Walkable from the Scarsdale station.
🩺 Healthcare Expertise, Scaled
Thu, Oct 15, 6–8 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required
Forum Ventures and One Health Collective on turning clinical and operator expertise into B2B companies. Panel: Alice Bator Krenitski (Forum Ventures), Margaret Davidson (Company Ventures), Ethan Fischer (Nourish), Greg Fitzgerald (Doctronic) and Nima Roohi Sefidmazgi (Blooming Health).
🤰 It Takes Two: Preconception, Vitamins & Fertility
Thu, Oct 15, 6–8 PM · Materna Health, 130 7th Ave S · Free
Materna’s clinical team and Bird&Be on preconception testing and male fertility. Patient-facing, so it is a chance to watch how a maternal health practice talks to its customers.
🌎 Ugly Talk: Latino Founders Building Between Latin America and the U.S.
Thu, Oct 15, 6:30–8:30 PM · Venue not on page · $10–$15, approval required
Founder-CEOs including Christopher Saravia of Carebox on the false starts behind building across two health and consumer markets.
🏅 Medical Innovation Olympics: Live Finals
Fri, Oct 16 · Rockefeller Center, plus hybrid on Swapcard · Time and price not on page
Finals of a global early-stage health innovation competition that held qualifying rounds in June and September.
Sun, Oct 18, 2–5 PM · Everything’s Jake, 54 E 13th St · Free, approval required
A World Menopause Day gathering on femtech, midlife care gaps and where language models help or hurt clinical communication.
🔥 Week of Oct 19
🩻 i2i Workshop: from Innovation to Implementation in Imaging
Wed–Thu, Oct 21–22 · NYU Langone Health, 550 1st Ave · Free to $250
NYU’s Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research on getting new imaging methods into clinical use. Relevant to anyone selling AI or device tools into radiology.
🧠 Make-With-Data Hackathon: Mapping Mental Health
Wed, Oct 21, 4:30–7:30 PM · Pier 57, 25 11th Ave · Free
A three-hour data hackathon on mental health. Good for meeting technical people interested in behavioral health problems.
🧪 ASRC CAT x HarlemBiospace x J.P. Morgan Innovators Social
Wed, Oct 21, 4–6 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required
Monthly science founder social. This edition features Dr. Norma Padrón of J.P. Morgan’s Innovation Economy team.
🥂 NewYorkBIO Life Sciences Innovators Mixer
Wed, Oct 21, 4:30–7 PM · Deloitte, 330 Hudson St · Price not on page, approval required
NewYorkBIO and Deloitte. Members get priority, so apply early if you are not one.
Wed, Oct 21, 6–9 PM · Brooklyn Navy Yard, address to registrants · Free
The first of a quarterly series on care robots taking protocol-driven clinical work under licensed staff. Alexandre Winter (Norbert Health), Matthieu Masselin (Wandercraft) and Hyo Won Lee, Ph.D. (ARPA-H) speak, then a panel moderated by Ahmad Gaber and live robot demos. Co-hosted with Newlab Brooklyn.
🏛️ HLNY’s 10th Annual Mini Congress
Thu, Oct 22, 8 AM–4 PM · New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave · $53–$263
Healthcare Leaders of New York’s annual day on policy, people and payments. A room of health system administrators, which is where most digital health sales start.
Thu, Oct 22, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address to registrants · Free, approval required
Bailey Morgan and Alex Koshykov’s monthly. Marissa Fayer, CEO of DeepLook Medical, and Bailey Morgan talk “Women’s Health: Undervalued to Unavoidable,” then networking until 8:30.
Thu, Oct 22, 6–10 PM · Virgin Hotels New York City, 1227 Broadway · $33–$43
A networking night for doctors and medical professionals, run by RED AWARDS. Useful if you are recruiting clinicians or advisors.
🔥 Week of Oct 26
Tue, Oct 27 · 345 Park Ave S · Time and price not on page
Demy-Colton’s convening across biopharma, digital medicine and AI, with partnering meetings and a seed showcase.
🏥 Skilled Nursing Executive Outlook
Wed, Oct 28, 8 AM–3 PM · DoubleTree LaGuardia, 104-04 Ditmars Blvd, Queens · From $215
The New York State Health Facilities Association’s strategy day for SNF operators. Post-acute founders get the operators’ own view of their constraints.
📡 ConV2X: Smart Technology Transformation in Healthcare
Thu–Fri, Oct 29–30 · ILR Conference Center, 570 Lexington Ave, 12th Floor · Price not on page
Telehealth and Medicine Today’s symposium on AI and telehealth. Clinicians, vendors and journal editors.
⚖️ Responsible Tech Summit 2026
Thu, Oct 29, 10 AM–7:30 PM · The Times Center, 242 W 41st St · $150–$700 in person, free virtual, approval required
All Tech Is Human’s curated summit for 375 people on AI accountability. Useful for health AI teams thinking about governance before regulators make them.
🍸 bconnected NYC: Biotech & Life Sciences Networking
Thu, Oct 29, 6:30–8:30 PM · Vanderbilt Market, 230 Park Ave · $42–$82
Scientists, founders and investors from NYC biotech, in a food hall by Grand Central.
🍂 November
Thu, Nov 5, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address to registrants · Free, approval required
A medtech edition. Priority goes to device founders, bioengineers, clinicians and specialist investors, and there are live demo slots for physical products.
💼 NewYorkBIO’s 2026 Finance Networking Reception
Thu, Nov 5, 5–7 PM · RSM, 151 W 42nd St, 19th Floor · Complimentary
Life sciences founders with the bankers, accountants and investors who finance them.
🔌 NYBCI26: The New York Brain-Computer Interface Symposium
Thu–Fri, Nov 5–6 · New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave · Paid, price on nybci.com
Mount Sinai BioDesign’s neurotech meeting. nybci.com lists 8 AM–5 PM both days, a Nov 5 evening reception and a Nov 4 pre-event mixer.
☕ November Healthcare Coffee Meet Up
Fri, Nov 6, 8:30–10 AM · Hastings Tea & Coffee, 235 Main St, White Plains · Free
Sixth Borough Health’s monthly coffee and co-working morning for Westchester digital health people.
🎤 NewYorkBIO’s November 9th Mini-Pitch Day
Mon, Nov 9, 1–6:30 PM · Cooley LLP, 55 Hudson Yards · Price not on page
Early-stage life sciences companies pitch from 1 to 5, reception after. This edition is in Manhattan; NewYorkBIO’s September pitch day was in Buffalo.
Tue, Nov 10, 1–6 PM · Oppenheimer & Co., 666 3rd Ave · $35
An inaugural summit on cardiovascular, autoimmune and neurological conditions that hit women differently, hosted by Reba Auslander and Sandy Polu, PhD (Alysia Health). Panels with Suzanne Steinbaum, MD (Heart-Tech Health) and Shruti Naik, PhD (Colton Center for Autoimmunity), plus startup pitches with feedback from investors including me.
🍽️ AI in Healthcare: From Pilot to Production, An Executive Dinner
Tue, Nov 17, 6:30–9 PM · Kyma, 15 W 18th St · Free, approval required, 12 seats
Will Naylor (Sentro IT) seats health system and payer CIOs across from the CTOs building for them. Build versus buy, Epic integration, pilot purgatory. Off the record.