Founders Summit Brooklyn - NYC Tech Events

2026-12-05 · 17:30:00 · New York

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, NY

Founders Summit Brooklyn brings 1,800 operational founders to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for closed-door working sessions dedicated to resolving practical business challenges.

An invite-only, founders-only working summit at the Brooklyn Navy Yard designed to produce decisions rather than content. 1,800 operational founders participate in closed-door working sessions. The event focuses on peer learning and operational problem-solving without press, investors, or vendor pitches.

Founder brief

Who should attend

Only active founders who serve as their company's operational decision-maker and lead teams of at least five full-time employees are eligible. You must be prepared to bring a concrete operational problem to share and solve with peers.

What happens

Participants break into small working groups of 15 to 25 people alongside a facilitator to tackle specific operating bottlenecks. Programming begins at 17:30 and focuses entirely on collaborative peer problem-solving without vendor pitches, media presence, or traditional investor presentations.

Who's in the room

Around 1,800 peer leaders assemble under the direction of hosts David Zhang and Karen Teoh, with speaker Yuki Tanaka, COO at Slate AI, participating in the proceedings. The crowd consists strictly of operational founders across various industries.

How to prepare

Refine the single operating hurdle you plan to bring to your group so you can explain the context concisely. Because there is no pitch stage, focus on gathering internal data and defining your key operational questions to maximize actionable feedback from other founders.

Organizer: NYC Tech Events

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At a glance

Tickets
Free
Format
Structured as working sessions with groups of 15 to 25 founders, a facilitator, and a specific operating problem.
Who can apply
The founder is the operational decision-maker of their company, the company has at least five full-time employees, and the founder has a specific problem they are willing to bring to a working session.
Attendance
About 1,800 attendees expected
Sectors
Agnostic

Speakers, judges and hosts

  • David Zhang (Host)
  • Karen Teoh (Host)
  • Yuki Tanaka — COO, Slate AI (Speaker)

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