[hackNY News] 2025 Fellowship Weekly – Jul 20
We’re getting to the home stretch – fellows are now in the 9th week of the summer program!
alumNY are invited to RSVP to Demo Day on Thursday, July 31. Fellows and alumNY can also still RSVP to the annual Women & Enbies Dinner.
Details under Upcoming events as usual. First…
⏪ What happened last week?
Last weekend, a crew of fellows ventured out of the city up to the bucolic Cold Spring, NY.
During the week, fellows went to the offices of Warner Music Group to hear from seasoned PM Akshay Dayal. He discussed the myriad career paths within product management and Warner’s intersection between the music industry and tech.
Huge thanks to Kalvin (h’18, mentor’25) for organizing and moderating!
Fellows also heard what’s up with the crypto space in a talk with Coinbase engineers Matt Bunday and Andrew Flockhart.
A group of fellows feasted at Haidilao, among other culinary adventures this week.
📸 Photo of the Week
Congrats to Gabriela (h’25) for photo of the week! We have a liberal definition of “photo” around here (GIF-able moments count). We’re never too old to get on a spinny chair and do the spinny thing.
Winners of the photo of the week are pulled from the 2025 Fellowship Album and win a silly 3D printed prize from Shy! Submit your photos to the album (including alumNY) to be considered.
⏩ Upcoming events
🚀 Demo Day
It’s almost that time of year: Join the class of ‘25 on Thursday, July 31 to celebrate their graduation to alumNY and to learn about what they learned this summer!
Demo Day will be held at the Viam office on the Upper West Side. alumNY, please RSVP here so we know how much food to order!
🍽️ Women & Enbies Dinner
Last week to RSVP! If you’re a woman, if you're NB, if you’re an alumNY, if you're a current fellow, if you're around NYC next week, IF YOU EAT FOOD, then come mingle with your fellow women and enbies in the hackNY community.
This year’s dinner will be Monday, July 28. RSVP here!
Mike Swift & Jon Gottfried @ MLH
Join fellows this Tuesday, July 22 for a talk with Major League Hacking co-founders Mike and Jon to learn about how they built the official student hackathon league and their take on the future of hackathons.
🌟 Slack channel of the week
Are you a dog person or a cat person? As any quality Slack of sufficient size, hackNY has channels for both our furry friends: 🐱 #cats and 🐶 #dogs.
#cats has 2x the membership and like 10x the posts vs. #dogs. So if you’re a cat person, join your people! If you’re a dog person, let’s post some more cute dog pics pls. :D
See you next week,
Jamie & Harrison