​Join nextNYC and Queen One for a happy hour for NYC startup and big company marketers alike.

​Doors open at 4:00pm. Panel at 4:30. Happy hour from 5:00.

​The panel: AI — best or worst thing ever for marketing?

​AI is changing the marketing and growth landscape, but where are people actually getting the highest ROI from it, if anywhere? Or is it mostly just creating a lot of noise everyone has to cut through? We'll get into the tension between the big creative swing and optimizing on the margins. It's a 30-minute conversation, then drinks.

​Panelists:

​Laura Zax, CMO at Zencastr, the podcast and video recording platform. Laura was previously VP of Marketing at Splice, the music-creation platform, and before that led social impact at Harry's.

​Meghan Graham, Founder of Crux Consult. In today's AI-powered world, impactful storytelling requires both strategic vision and technical expertise. Crux helps brands find their voice and harness emerging technologies to tell stories that resonate, responsibly.

​It's also a good crowd to hire from if you're building out your team.

​Who should attend:
- Full-time marketers and growth leads
- Founders thinking about their marketing and GTM
- Investors who back consumer and marketing-tech companies

​This happy hour follows nextNYC's Pre-Series A Offsite, held at Queen One earlier in the day; Offsite founders and VCs will be staying on.