Always Be Closing is nextNYC’s revenue and sales focused event.
It’s an opportunity for startups to connect with and pitch top NYC companies and organizations who can serve as potential customers. After all, that’s why so many startups decided to locate their businesses here!
We gather key decision makers in specific business areas who have shared their challenges and opportunities to run their businesses better. Startups will apply to get the opportunity to pitch their products and solutions in-person. Our partner companies may not have an obligation to work with you, but the opportunity is yours to lose!
Where: Foley Hoag
When: July 15th from 6-8pm
The team at SIM NY has pulled together a panel of IT executives with budget authority or influence over vendor relationships. We’ll select the best companies to pitch these decision-makers as potential customers.
The panel will be taking pitches from companies who can add value to their company along the following interest areas:
Tools for customer insights and content personalization
GenAI monitoring tools for consumer sites, with traffic/conversion analysis and LLM ingest suggestions
XR innovations for consumers
Interfaces for customer-facing tools
Data privacy & compliance
Luxury customer protection and luxury-focused fraud prevention
Data management (Tools to help categorize, classify, tag unstructured data across repositories to allow for better knowledge management, searches, and precedent libraries, and to support data loss risk management initiatives.)
Customer insights, analytics and personalization
Meet Our Panel of Buyers
Douglas Hegley
Chief Digital Officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum's galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.
Davin Darnt
CISO | Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton is a French luxury fashion house and one of the world’s most iconic brands. Founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton, the company began with high-quality, handcrafted trunks and luggage designed for stylish travel. Today, Louis Vuitton is known globally for its distinctive monogram, timeless craftsmanship, and elegant design across leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes, accessories, watches, and jewelry.
As part of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), the brand blends heritage with innovation, collaborating with top designers and artists while maintaining its artisanal roots. Louis Vuitton stands as a symbol of prestige, sophistication, and modern luxury.
Karen Campbell
CIO, Foley Hoag
Foley Hoag partners with high growth technology companies and the investors powering their innovation, from idea to exit. Their lawyers have a passion for the emerging company and venture capital industry, which is in their DNA as a firm. They have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities entrepreneurs face, and provide them with practical and creative advice on company formation, fund formation, organizational structure, inter-founder matters, private financings and general corporate governance.
This event’s panel is made possible by SIM NY:
SIM NY is the New York chapter of the world’s premier non-profit association for technology executives. We exist to empower today's leaders and inspire tomorrow's. SIM members collectively have decision making authority and influence over hundreds of billions in annual technology spending and oversee the work of hundreds of thousands of technology professionals around the world.
