NYC marketing events 10/25

Hey y'all,

Halloween week, then marathon Sunday. Lots of brand and ecommerce nights this week, and Tatari's Forward on Thursday has Scott Galloway and Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talking TV advertising. I'm in Sydney and Singapore for Profound's Zero Click World Tour and back in NYC Saturday, so go to these for me :)

Upcoming Growth Circuit Events (my community for marketing engineers)

• Sun 11/15 @ 2–5pm — Growth Circuit Friendsgiving (Park Slope brownstone, free)

Cool NYC Events This Week

• Mon 10/26 @ 5:30–9pm — Build Your Content System: AI + Personal Brand Workshop (with Wispr Flow & Stanley) (Manhattan, free, waitlist)
• Mon 10/26 @ 6–8:30pm — BFCM War Room: A Hands-On Workshop for Shopify Operators (Midtown East, free/approval, brands only)
• Tue 10/27 @ 3–7pm — Ad Studio Hackathon for Marketers (near Times Square, free/approval, build on-brand ads in Hightouch's Ad Studio)
• Tue 10/27 @ 7–9:30pm — Creative Intelligence Omakase with NewForm and Winterberry Group (Greenwich Village, invite-only dinner, waitlist)
• Wed 10/28 @ 1:30–7:30pm — The Red Sea Ventures Consumer Brand Summit (Lower Manhattan, $200, approval)
• Wed 10/28 @ 6–7:30pm — Workshop Wednesday: Ecosystem as Your Next GTM (Founders House / Flatiron, free/approval)
• Wed 10/28 @ 6–9pm — The New Rules of Growth in an AI-Native World (Upper East Side, invite-only roundtable for marketing leaders, apply)
• Wed 10/28 @ 6–9pm — Wine Tasting With Webflow & BX Studio | NYC Tech Marketers (Chinatown, invite-only, Italian natural wines)
• Thu 10/29 @ 1:45pm — Forward 2026 by Tatari (The Glasshouse, RSVP, Scott Galloway + Reddit's Steve Huffman on the future of TV ads)
• Thu 10/29 @ 6:30–9:30pm — Designers Demo Night (Brooklyn, free, designers demo what they're building)
• Sat 10/31 @ 11am–2pm — Creator Content Walk: Halloween Edition (Central Park, free/approval, costumes encouraged)
• Sun 11/1 @ 8am–1pm — NYC Marathon Cheer Team with Profound (running it? apply for Profound's runner program: training kit, private run club, crew at the finish)

Coming up

• Tue 11/3 @ 12–2:30pm — PEF & Friends GEO Workshop (Midtown, free/approval, working lunch on GEO/AEO)
• Wed 11/4 @ 5–7pm — First Wednesday November 2026 (Midtown, free/approval, Serial Marketers + AI Marketers Guild)
• Wed 11/4 @ 5:30–8:30pm — eCom New York (FiDi, Neo, free/approval)
• Wed 11/4 @ 6–8:30pm — Make It 'Til You Make It, Vol. 2 (Chelsea, free, SVA designers show works in progress)
• Wed 11/4 @ 6:30–9pm — Jones Street Salon: Marketing After Hours (Lower East Side, $99 dinner, waitlist)
• Thu 11/5 @ 8:30–10am — Coffee, Founders & GTM: Stanford x Harvard (NoHo, free/approval)
• Thu 11/5 @ 2–4pm — Scroll to Sale - NYC Edition (Dumbo, free/approval, TikTok Shop creators + brand folks)
• Thu 11/5 @ 6–8:30pm — Vibe Coding for Designers (Pier 57, free, waitlist)
• Thu 11/5 @ 6:30–9:30pm — Off The Record Dinner: Pt.II (SoHo, free/approval, 1800DTC + New Edition)
• Tue 11/10 @ 6:30–9:30pm — NYC Commerce Club Champions Dinner (Tribeca, invite-only, DTC operators)

Best thing I read this week

• Some final words on Foursquare. (Dennis Crowley on how Foursquare ended. Even a buzzy startup with over 1,000 employees can end with both common and preferred shareholders getting $0 per share)

See you next week :)

Nick Lafferty

p.s. reply if I missed any cool events this week