nextNYC x Queen One Marketing Happy Hour + Panel: AI — Best or worst thing ever for marketing?

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.