Supermoon and Pulse NYC Open AI Week 2026 with a High-Signal Founder Room in Lower Manhattan.
AI has entered the phase where promise is cheap and execution is expensive. The demos impressed. The capital showed up. Now the bill is due. Founders are being pushed to convert intelligence into revenue, prototypes into retention, and momentum into something that survives procurement, legal, and a CFO who has seen this movie before. This is where the startup ecosystem stops clapping and starts asking harder questions.
Jam in AM | AI Founders | #AIWeekNY lands directly in that tension. On May 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM ET in Lower Manhattan, Supermoon, Pulse NYC, Joanna Orlova, and Andrew Moskowitz open AI Week New York with a room designed for people who are already in motion. Coffee on deck. Custom Yerba mate cups signaling this is a performance crowd, not a spectator section. The energy is deliberate. Conversations start faster when everyone in the room has something at stake.
AI Week New York runs May 11–17, 2026, organized by Pulse NYC, a platform that has connected New York’s tech community since 2012 through 100+ events reaching 50,000+ professionals. The format is decentralized by design, with community-led programming across the city. The Annual Brooklyn Tech Expo follows on May 12 in Dumbo, drawing 1,000+ executives, founders, and operators. The week builds scale. This room builds leverage inside the broader startup ecosystem.
Supermoon brings density that changes outcomes. A 42,000+ member network of founders, builders, and investors, backed by 200+ global events, plus Growth Engine supporting early-stage companies across AI and adjacent sectors. Supermoon Ventures closes the loop, turning conversations into capital pathways. Elena Obukhova did not just assemble a network. Elena Obukhova engineered repetition, and repetition is where trust compounds in the startup ecosystem.
Joanna Orlova operates as connective infrastructure. As Ecosystem Growth Lead at Supermoon since April 2025, and previously the builder of a 2,000+ member NEAR Protocol community in New York, Joanna Orlova understands that timing and proximity outperform volume. Knowing who should meet is valuable. Knowing when they are ready is where deals begin to form before anyone says the word deal.
Andrew Moskowitz is listed as co-host, part of the operational cadence behind Supermoon’s consistent presence across founder rooms that prioritize signal over spectacle. No panels. No theater. Just proximity to people building in real time.
For founders, investors, and operators, this is where relationship velocity compresses weeks into hours. A single conversation can surface hiring solutions, capital alignment, or product insight that would otherwise get buried in outbound noise. For anyone navigating AI Week, it is also a strategic map of where attention should go next across dozens of events.
The rooms that matter rarely announce themselves loudly. They generate pull. Jam in AM sits at the front edge of the week, where decisions start forming before the rest of the city catches up. In a market demanding proof, this is where the startup ecosystem sharpens its edge before stepping into the spotlight.