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Creative AI NYC

A monthly event for the artists and builders shaping hybrid AI production workflows.

Brooklyn, NY Talks + demos + workflow breakdowns Presented by Hypercentric

Compose the right stack for each shot

The creative AI audience is constantly experimenting with new workflows, tools, and ideas. Creative AI NYC gives sponsors a monthly room where creators compare commercial models, open-source workflows, context-building techniques, and repair methods in front of a community that shows up to learn by doing.

Origin Story

ComfyUI NYC proved the demand. Creative AI NYC broadens the stage.

The open-source community gave us the first clear signal: creators want to gather in person to understand how AI systems actually work.

ComfyUI NYC is the start. Creative AI NYC expands that energy into a broader event for hybrid production, where artists and technicians use the best available model, tool, or workflow for the shot in front of them.

creative AI events

13x

flagship event growth

4,000+

approved registrations

~34%

return rate

Why Now

The landscape is shifting from model demos to production systems.

Creators are not choosing one AI product for every problem. They are assembling context, testing models, repairing artifacts, and moving between commercial and open-source systems depending on the project.

The sponsor opportunity is to be present where those habits are forming: in the room, in the workflow, and in the recorded content that shows other creators what is possible.

Model Choice

Creators choose commercial, open-source, image, video, audio, and multimodal models based on the creative constraint.

Legible Context

The craft is compiling references, prompts, footage, assets, and constraints so models can produce usable output.

Fixit Culture

Production work depends on iteration, cleanup, relighting, upscaling, continuity fixes, and editorial judgment.

Hybrid workflows now move across models, tools, source material, and post-production fixes

The Space

A production-grade venue for sponsor demos, capture, and content.

Creative AI NYC happens inside ZeroSpace: a 50,000+ sq ft event venue and production studio in downtown Brooklyn, built for virtual production, performance capture, and live events.

Virtual Production Stage

The largest fixed-install virtual production stage on the East Coast gives presenters a unique, immersive demo surface. Our hero LED wall is 60 feet wide and 8000x2000 pixel resolution.

Advanced Capture Tools

Motion capture, volumetric capture, virtual production, and greenscreen technology inspires the audience and creates AI-ready demo assets.

Event + Demo Scale

The space moves from stage programming to hands-on demos, workshops, interactive installations, networking, and rich conversation.

Media Credibility

Featured in an episode of Huge If True with Cleo Abram and Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), bringing the production tech stack to a mainstream audience.

ZeroSpace gives the event a production-grade backdrop, not just a room

The Event

A monthly room for creative AI workflows.

Creative AI NYC is built around talks, live demos, workflow breakdowns, partner presentations, and high-quality networking for technical creators.

Workflow Talks

Artists, filmmakers, developers, and technical directors explain how real projects were made and where tools helped or broke.

Live Demos

Sponsors and creators demonstrate models, workflows, interfaces, and pipelines in front of an audience ready to evaluate them.

Partner Workshops

Hands-on workshops let sponsors teach a specific model, feature, technique, or production workflow.

Community Access

Networking brings together founders, AI artists, video developers, filmmakers, creative technologists, and students.

Community Authority

The audience is already assembled.

4,000+

event registrations

2,300+

approved attendees

30+

events produced

7,300+

mailing list members

~34%

return attendee rate

1000+

venue event capacity

December 2024 - April 2026 aggregate metrics.

Who's in the Room

A creator community with technical and commercial reach.

Enterprise & Tech

Google · Adobe · Meta · NBCUniversal · Netflix · ByteDance · Nasdaq · Capital One · McKinsey · Mondelez · PepsiCo · Citigroup · American Express

Film, VFX & Production

A24 Films · CBS · Wrigley Media Group · Industrial Color · The Artery · Big Sky Edit · Mongrel FX · Kinzi Films

AI & Creative Tools

Stability.ai · Lightricks · Bria.ai · ElevenLabs · Manus AI · Comfy Org · Daydream · Freepik · Genvid Technologies

Top Universities

NYU · Columbia · Cornell · MIT · Stanford · Harvard · Berkeley · Brown · SVA · Pratt · New School · Georgetown · Vanderbilt · Carnegie Mellon · Georgia Tech · UCLA

The Audience

Creators, founders, artists, and AI operators.

The room combines creative taste, technical fluency, and tool adoption behavior.

This is the audience that evaluates new models, turns workflows into tutorials, influences peers, and brings tools into studios, agencies, startups, and independent projects.

55% New to ComfyUI

Historical proof that the community functions as an onboarding funnel for new workflows.

15% AI / Video Developers

Technical creators who build workflows and troubleshoot model behavior.

23% AI Designers

Artists and designers who translate model capabilities into visible creative work.

19% Agency / Freelance / Other

Independent and studio-side creators who turn workflow demos into client, campaign, and production experiments.

29% Founders

Decision-makers who evaluate, adopt, and champion creative AI tools.

Enterprise & Tech

Google · Adobe · Meta · ByteDance · NBCUniversal · Netflix · PepsiCo · Nasdaq · McKinsey · BCG · American Express · Capital One

AI & Creative Tools

Stability.ai · Lightricks · Bria.ai · ElevenLabs · Comfy.org · Livepeer · Freepik · Genvid Technologies

Film, VFX & Production

A24 Films · CBS · Wrigley Media Group · Industrial Color · The Artery · Big Sky Edit · Mongrel FX · 1stAveMachine · Shadowworks

Universities

NYU · Columbia · Cornell · MIT · Stanford · Harvard · UC Berkeley · Brown · SVA · Pratt · New School · Georgetown · Carnegie Mellon · UCLA

Sponsor Fit

One shared adoption platform for all sponsor categories

Model Companies

Show creators where the model excels, gather live qualitative feedback, seed workflow examples, and create recorded demos that travel beyond the room.

Creative Tool Platforms

Teach workflows, demonstrate product depth, earn hands-on usage, and position the platform as the operational layer for hybrid creative AI production.

Infrastructure + Compute

Support the backend of creator workflows through credits, inference, storage, orchestration, GPU access, and production reliability.

Studios + Production Partners

Meet the creative technologists who can bring AI workflows into film, advertising, entertainment, experiential, and branded content pipelines.

Workflow Thesis

The future is hybrid, legible, and iterative.

Compile Context

Creators gather references, storyboards, footage, camera constraints, visual language, and brand or project requirements.

Route the Task

They choose commercial models, open-source models, creative suites, or custom workflows based on the shot and the deadline.

Generate + Judge

Output is evaluated for story, style, physics, continuity, identity, editability, and production value.

Repair + Finish

Teams use upscaling, compositing, relighting, repainting, editorial fixes, and human craft to make the work usable.

What Sponsors Get

Current sponsor deliverables.

Speaking Slot

Present your product, demo features, and teach your workflow to a live and streaming audience.

Demo Surface

Table, power, internet, and room placement for hands-on product conversations.

Panel

A moderated sponsor or partner panel that frames a timely workflow, market shift, or creator conversation.

Creator Interaction

Direct conversations with artists, builders, founders, and technical operators using AI in production.

Edited Video

Multi-angle recording of your session, edited for reuse across sales, product, and community channels.

Short-Form Clips

Social-ready clips from talks, demos, recaps, and sponsor moments.

Media Proof

The event does not end when the room clears.

Each sponsor activation can become a recorded talk, recap asset, short-form clip, and social proof point.

YouTube Recordings

Event recordings and sponsor talks published on our YouTube channel.

Social Recap Reach

200K+ social followers across IG, LinkedIn, Discord, X.

Clip Performance

Top-performing reels have reached 90K+ views, up to 10% engagement, and 2-3% share/save rates, 2-3x higher than industry standard.

Published media extends sponsor presence beyond the live audience

Reporting + Roadmap

Clear current reporting, clear future capability.

Current Reporting

Attendance, approved attendee counts, sponsor asset delivery, media links, recap assets, social post links, and qualitative feedback where available.

Current Sponsor Assets

Recorded presentations, edited clips, photos, livestream links, recap posts, stage moments, and demo documentation.

Roadmap: Opt-In Lists

Opt-in sponsor lists are a planned future capability. They are not part of current package guarantees until the consent and collection process is implemented.

Roadmap: Usage Signals

For credit or tool partners, future reporting can include voluntary usage signals where sponsors provide the activation mechanics and data path.

The deck intentionally does not promise attendee contact sharing, lead lists, or opt-ins as active inventory.

Sponsorship Packages

Event sponsorship options.

Single Event Sponsorship

Benefit	Platinum	Gold	Silver
Event sponsorship	$20,000	$10,000	$3,000
Logo on event materials	Yes	Yes	Yes
Job board posting	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sponsor content slot	Full presentation (20 minutes)	Full presentation (20 minutes)	Stage shout-out (2 minutes)
Additional sponsor content	Sponsored panel or workshop	-	-
Edited full-length presentation video (sample)	Yes	Yes	-
Edited vertical reels (sample)	2 included	+$1K/ea	-
Pre-event email blast shout-out	Yes	Yes	-
Post-event email blast shout-out	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access to attendee emails*	Yes	-	-

*Only for attendees that opt-in to sharing.

Biannual Sponsorship Plan

Biannual (six-month) plan priced at 3x the single-event rate, with the option to sponsor 4 monthly events.

Benefit	Platinum	Gold	Silver
Biannual plan	$60,000	$30,000	$9,000

Activation Add-Ons

Add-ons for sponsor packages.

Activation Add-Ons

Base sponsorship presenceIncluded with Silver and above: logo on event materials, stage shout-out, and recap tag.Included

Presentation / demo slotA livestreamed product or workflow presentation; this automatically moves the sponsor into Gold tier.Gold tier

Demo booth with power + internetA hands-on product surface during arrival, breaks, and networking.+$2,000

Edited presentation recordingA multi-angle recording of the sponsor session, edited for reuse.+$2,000

Short-form clips, 1 / 3Social-ready excerpts from the sponsor talk, demo, or event recap.+$1K / +$2K

Partner workshop / workflow trackA sponsor-led quick-start lab or named workflow segment around a specific model, tool, or technique.$5,000+

Livestream sponsor with stingers + overlaysSponsor branding in the stream package, including interstitial stingers, lower-thirds, and overlay moments.$3,000

Creator grant contributorFunds a small cash, credit, or production grant awarded to a featured creator or selected project, with sponsor recognition in the announcement and recap.$2,500+

Credits sponsor for models, tools, or computeProvide credits or access so attendees can try the sponsor workflow before, during, or after the event.Let's Talk

Add-ons layer onto the base sponsorship tier. Silver includes base presence; presentation slots start at Gold; title sponsorship comes with Platinum.

Partners + Recognition

Creative AI NYC builds from proven sponsor trust.

ComfyUI NYC has become the largest recurring ComfyUI event in the world, and a nexus for the East Coast creative AI community. Attendees and speakers travel here from all over the US.
Lightricks announced their widely anticipated LTX-2 video model at a ComfyUI NYC event, and Bria showcased their Fibo and Fibo Edit image models.
Anthropic sponsored Vibe Shift, a vibe coding creative technology community event co-produced with Rhizome, New Museum's New Inc, and ZeroSpace.

Define the next phase of creative AI workflows.

Let's Collaborate

Xuelong Mu
xuelong@hypercentriclabs.com

Creative AI NYC - Hypercentric