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Q4 Full Funnel Performance Creative: Discovery to Post-Click
Tue, Sep 22, 11:00 PM**Q4 Full Funnel Performance Creative: Discovery to Post-Click** **\*\*(Brands Only - Non Brands will be rejected)\*\*** BFCM isn't won at checkout - it's won weeks earlier, in the creative that gets built, tested, and refined while everyone else is still telling themselves October is plenty of time. This DTC Builders session is the pre-game. A room for Shopify founders and marketers to get honest about what full-funnel performance creative actually looks like heading into peak season — from the discovery ad that earns the scroll-stop, all the way through to the post-click landing page and offer that actually closes the sale. We're joined by **[Ed Weston, Co-Founder of ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-weston-prospa/?utm_source=luma)[Prospa](https://www.prospamedia.co.uk/?utm_source=luma)**, the performance marketing agency behind £50M+ in profit for 8-figure Shopify brands, to break down exactly how his team briefs, tests, and scales creative across the full funnel heading into BFCM. 🎯 **Why you should be in this room.** * Get ahead of BFCM creative before the scramble. Now gives you enough runway to fix the funnel before late-Q4 panic mode. * Hear it from an agency running 8-figure Shopify accounts. Prospa manages £5M+ in monthly ad spend and has generated £50M+ in profit across 80+ ecommerce clients. * Pressure-test your own funnel. Discovery, consideration, landing pages, and the post-click gaps that quietly kill contribution margin once volume spikes. * See what's actually converting right now. Real creative angles, formats, and offer framing Prospa is running for 8-figure brands going into peak season. * Leave with a sharper creative brief. Not theory — a practical checklist for what to build and test before BFCM hits.
eBay NYC! AI & Your Business with eBay’s Chief AI Officer!
Wed, Nov 4, 4:00 PM**In Person at eBay NYC: AI & Your eBay Business! Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov returns!** **What it is:** **Back by popular demand! Get ready for an** **exclusive session** **with eBay’s** **Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov** **and team members! Nitzan and his team return to update us on all things eBay and AI!** **You’ll learn about:** * **eBay’s AI-powered features for buyers and sellers** * **Breaking news and updates to eBay's use of AI** * **Opportunities to give feedback on eBay's AI direct to Nitzan!** * **Highly interactive session** * **Plus—you’ll have** **plenty of time to ask questions.** **Where:** **📍 eBay NYC Office** **When:** **🗓️** **Wednesday November 4** **🕚 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM** **Speakers:** **🎤** **Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov** **– Chief AI Officer, eBay** **🎤 Members of Nitzan's eBay team** **Extras:** **Yummy light bites** **🎁 SWAG for attendees** **👥 Sellers of all levels welcome** **WIFI and electricity available for devices, so feel free to bring laptops, ipads etc** **This is a huge honor and fantastic opportunity to hear direct from THE head of AI for all of eBay! Attendance is limited due to size of room.** **One week before the event, you’ll get an email with location and check-in details. You** **MUST** **be registered to attend due to building security needs. Be sure I have your full name, and bring photo ID for building security.**
New York Launch Your AI eCommerce Business
Sat, Sep 19, 7:38 PM**Launch a Self-Running AI eCommerce Business – Blueprint Masterclass** eCommerce built on AI is the most accessible business most people are not building yet. This blueprint walks you through launching and automating a store that generates revenue without constant input. You will meet other entrepreneurs building online businesses who are serious about using AI to scale. The room is worth joining for the network alone. Your seat is only confirmed once you register below. Do not miss out. ### [SAVE YOUR SEAT](https://aiventurelab.org/product/AIEcommerce?city=New%20York&groupurlname=pawsitive-steps-dog-training-social-club&startgmtdatetime=2026-09-19T19:38:00Z) --- What you'll build: - A scalable income stream you can expand without hiring - A repeatable system you can duplicate across multiple niches - A store that operates 24 hours a day without your constant input The store does the work. You just need to build it right — and this session shows you how.
Building a Model Evaluation Practice for Production AI
Thu, Sep 24, 8:30 PMMost teams pick an AI model the same way they pick a coffee machine - the demo looks good or they hear about it from someone, so they assume it works. But in production, evaluation decisions directly impact cost, latency, accuracy, and user trust. Without a structured eval practice, you're flying blind when a model regresses, or a new release claims to be better. This session gives you a framework for evaluating LLMs against *your* workloads and operationalizing evaluation as a continuous practice, not a one-time exercise. **What we'll cover:** * Why standard benchmarks are often misleading for enterprise use cases * Building a golden dataset: how to sample, label, and version evaluation sets from real production traffic * Key metrics beyond accuracy: hallucination rates, precision/recall tradeoffs, cost-per-correct-answer, and latency percentiles * Running evals at scale: open-source tools (Ragas, PromptFoo, LangSmith) and using Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation * Setting a model evaluation gate: how to enforce a promotion threshold before any model goes to production * Demo: running a side-by-side eval across two models on a real classification task **High level schedule:** * 4:30 - 4:45: Arrivals * 4:45 - 5:45: Presentation & Demo * 5:45 - 6:00: Q&A * 6:00 - 6:30: Networking **Important instructions** * Event starts at 4:45 pm EST, but please allow at least 15 minutes for security to process registration * Please ensure that your meetup profile has your **full name.** Both first and last name are required and we will not be able to register attendees with just abbreviations or incomplete names. * There is an optional networking and Q&A event at the end of the meetup
Community Meetup #121
Thu, Sep 10, 9:30 PMThis is our monthly meeting. We'll discuss activities for the previous month, and we'll plan for the next month. People of all technical skill levels are welcome. Thanks to Lynq Systems, we'll be meeting at the WeWork at 700 Seventh Avenue, in midtown Manhattan. The meeting is from 5:30 to 7:30; please try to arrive before 6, as access becomes more difficult after that. We generally continue with a no-host dinner after the meeting somewhere in the neighborhood. We'll have a Teams option. Please send email to Terry Moore (search for "contact" on our website, [thethings.nyc](https://thethings.nyc)) to register for the Teams meeting, or check things-nyc.slack.com for the link. Best regards, --Terry
Speed is a shape (why React is slow)
Thu, Sep 17, 10:00 PMIf we take a step back from flame charts and performance profiles to ask "**what does React need to do**?" we can see that it's not one particular thing that makes your React app slow, it's slow due to React's design. In this talk, we'll walk through the major pieces of how React works, discover that some aren't necessary (if we change its shape a bit), and walk through a frontend framework that takes a different form: one that's smaller, simpler, and shaped for speed. [Sufian Rhazi](https://abstract.properties/) loves a good problem. He's a Principal Engineer at [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/), building RUM and synthetic monitoring tools. For over two decades, he's built a career seeking out and working on a variety of programming problems. And every one of them ends up being the same: how to stop making things so complicated. When he's not solving problems, he's creating them at home for his poor wife and fur baby. \-\-\-\- We will have **food and drinks** and as always, we are going to have **geekaways** with **geeky prizes** provided by our sponsors. **Agenda:** 6:00PM - Arrive at the venue, meet other members 6:15PM - Event starts 6:30PM - **Speed is a shape (why React is slow)** (Sufian Rhazi) 7:15PM - Q&A 7:45PM - "Books and Stuff" geekaways 8:00PM - Open Discussion, Networking Make sure to **fill out your legal name** and **bring your ID** to show at security desk. Please make sure to allow for additional time to go through security downstairs and be prepared to put all your electronics through security screening. Then take G elevator to 64th floor and transfer to the second bank and take elevator to 88th floor. Interested in speaking at a NY Web Performance event in the future? Fill out our [speaker application](https://nywebperf.com/speak), or reach out to your organizers with any questions!
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