NY TECH WEEK 2026· JUNE 1–5, NEW YORK CITY· THEPARTNERSHIPROOM SERIES· 4 EVENTS · 5 DAYS · 200+ REGISTRANTS· FOUNDERS · CREATORS · BRANDS· NY TECH WEEK 2026· JUNE 1–5, NEW YORK CITY· THEPARTNERSHIPROOM SERIES· 4 EVENTS · 5 DAYS · 200+ REGISTRANTS· FOUNDERS · CREATORS · BRANDS·
NY Tech Week 2026 · Official Event Series · June 1–5, New York City

The Partnership Room Series

Four curated events across multiple days during NYC Tech Week, each designed around a specific problem founders and creators are solving right now. From brand partnerships to AI tooling to IP ownership, every room serves a purpose and delivers a specific outcome to enhance how people operate in the creator economy.

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200+Registrants across 4 events
74%Final budget decision-makers
10M+Combined audience reach
68%Founders or CEOs
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A quick walkthrough of the series

What it is, who it is for, and why sponsors keep coming back.

The speed advantage

A live focus group.
In real time. In the room.

Traditional market research takes weeks to recruit, run, and analyze. This room gives you the same intelligence in a single afternoon from the exact people you are trying to reach.

Traditional research
6–8 weeks
Recruit participants, run sessions, wait weeks for analysis, receive a report you may or may not trust
ThePartnershipRoom
1 afternoon
40+ vetted people in the room. Real conversations. Live reactions. Immediate intelligence you can act on Monday morning
Focus group agency
$20K+
To recruit, moderate, and deliver findings from a curated group often people paid to show up, not your actual customers
No matter where you are in business
Early stage? Get validation. Scaling? Pressure-test your positioning. Established? Find your next move. The room works at every stage.
The audience is already your demographic
You are not recruiting strangers. These are real operators and creators who are already in market their feedback is not hypothetical, it is actionable.
The events

Four rooms across
five days in New York City

These are not networking events for the sake of networking. Every room is built around something specific a deal to make, a tool to build, a question worth answering together. The people who show up are there because they mean it.

Jun013–5 PM ET
Networking Mixer
The Partnership Room
Where Brands Meet Creators Building B2B Audiences in the Tech Industry. A facilitated mixer where the introductions are curated, the room is intentional, and every conversation has a reason to happen.
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Jun023–5 PM ET
Workshop
Creator Hackathon
Build the Next AI Agent That Finds Your Next Brand Deal. A hands-on session where people actually build something. You leave with a working tool, not a list of ideas you'll never come back to.
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Jun0311 AM–2 PM ET
Workshop
Outreach OS
Build the AI Agent That Does Work While You Sleep. A live build session focused on outreach systems that run without you. Walk in with a problem, walk out with a solution deployed.
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JunTBDTime TBD
Panel + Networking Mixer
AuthorHaus Panel
Who Owns Your Ideas in the AI Era? A small room conversation about creator IP, AI-generated work, and the rights, ownership, and revenue that should come with it.
Date coming soon
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Who's in the room

Decision-makers, experts,
and people who actually ship

This is not a general audience. The people who show up to ThePartnershipRoom events are operators who make things happen, founders who are building right now, and experts who have been in the creator economy long enough to know what actually works. Many are simultaneously running a company and a personal brand, which means your sponsorship reaches both their professional network and the audience they have built on their own.

What makes this room compelling for partners is the depth of expertise in it. These are not people attending their first conference. They are practitioners, advisors, and specialists who have navigated real partnerships, real deals, and real distribution challenges. When a brand shows up here, they are being seen by people who know the difference between a good offer and a great one. The collective addressable reach across all registered attendees is estimated at 8 to 12 million people.

Who they are
  • Founders and CEOs (68% of all registrants)
  • VP and Director-level operators with real budget authority
  • Brand strategists and agency decision-makers
  • Enterprise representatives from IBM, Goldman Sachs, AWS, Adobe, WBD, Amazon Creators, BCG, and Deloitte
  • Investors, angels, and venture scouts
  • Seasoned creators and community builders with established audiences
Industries represented
  • Creator economy and influencer marketing
  • AI tools and developer infrastructure
  • Fintech and financial services
  • Health-tech and wellness
  • B2B SaaS and growth marketing
  • Media, PR, and agency
  • Legal, IP, and intellectual property
What they came to do
  • Find creator and brand partnerships that are actually a fit
  • Access distribution and new audience reach
  • Source and evaluate AI tools for their workflow
  • Meet collaborators, co-founders, and operators worth knowing
  • Have conversations they could not have anywhere else
Their reach and influence
  • Seven attendees with over 1 million followers or subscribers each
  • Multiple creators with audiences between 250,000 and 1 million
  • Operators managing newsletters, communities, and social channels with engaged audiences
  • Combined estimated reach across all attendees: 8 to 12 million people
200+
Total registrants
Across 4 curated events
74%
Budget decision-makers
The people who say yes
10M+
Combined audience reach
Email, social, and community
68%
Founders or CEOs
With authority to act
Founders and CEOs Growth operators Agency decision-makers Enterprise teams AI builders Creator economy experts B2B SaaS Fintech Media and PR IP and legal specialists
Why partner with this room
Your buyer is already here
74% of attendees hold final budget authority. You are not pitching to someone who has to ask someone else. The people who can say yes are in the room.
Your brand travels with them
Every attendee has an audience, a platform, or a department they influence. A sponsorship here does not stop at the room. It cascades across every network they touch.
Promoted alongside NYC Tech Week
Your brand is positioned next to one of the most concentrated weeks of tech activity in the country. The credibility of the ecosystem reflects on every partner in it.
Multiple events, one relationship
With four events across five days, sponsors have the opportunity to show up more than once, reach different audience segments, and build compounding impressions that outlast the week.
Sponsorship and partnerships

Multiple ways to be
part of this room

Whether you want to co-host, activate, or build a long-term partnership strategy, there is a tier designed for where you are and what you are trying to accomplish.

Real-time market research

No matter where you are in business early stage, scaling, or established this room gives you something most brands spend thousands to recreate in a focus group setting: direct, unfiltered feedback from your exact target demographic, in real time. Every event is an opportunity to hear what your audience actually thinks, what they need, and what they are already comparing you to. That intelligence is built into every sponsorship tier.

The Connector
$2,500
Per event · Co-host and visibility
  • Official co-host positioning and introduction to the full room
  • Guaranteed on-stage moment (format varies by event)
  • Option to lead or co-facilitate a workshop or panel session
  • Logo on event materials and signage, as applicable
  • Dedicated social mention: LinkedIn (2 posts) + Instagram (story set, feed post, group recap)
  • Post-event attendee list
  • Featured in 2 promotional emails to Artisha's full contact list
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The Amplifier
$6,000
Per event · Distribution and strategy
  • Everything in The Connector included
  • Co-hosted post-event webinar with Artisha branded, live, and built to extend your reach and establish thought leadership beyond the room
  • $500 ad spend included to drive traffic to the webinar setup, management, and optimization handled for you, no ad account experience needed
  • 2 questions in the official post-event attendee survey direct market intelligence from your target audience
  • Featured in post-event sponsor spotlight to the full attendee list
  • 40-min strategy session with Artisha + written action plan for your partnership approach
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Business Development
$10,000
Series-level · Launchpad for ongoing partnership
  • Everything in The Amplifier included
  • Co-host one event + featured sponsor at a second event in the series
  • Partnership and sponsorship strategy audit with Artisha a working session that maps your positioning, identifies your highest-value opportunities, and builds a roadmap for creating more experiences like this, whether that is future events you host, co-host, or participate in together
  • Tech Week becomes the launchpad, not the finish line this package is built for people who want to keep the momentum going after the series ends
  • Priority placement across all pre, during, and post-event content
  • Dedicated in-room activation area where attendees come to you
  • Promoted as official co-host across all event channels
  • Branded materials distributed to all series attendees
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In-kind contributions
If you have a product, service, or software you would like to put in front of this audience demos, trials, or physical product reach out. Contributions are assessed case by case based on fit and format.
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Venue sponsorship
Provide access to your space and beverages for attendees and become the official venue host for one or more events. This puts your location, your brand, and your story directly in front of 40 to 85 curated founders, creators, and operators who will remember where they were when the conversation happened.
  • Full in-front-of-group talk time to introduce your space, your team, and what you do to the entire room
  • Promoted as the official venue host across all event communications, the event page, and social content
  • Access to all event photography featuring your venue and your team
  • Named on all pre-event promotional materials
  • Opportunity to distribute branded materials and engage attendees throughout the event
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Your host
Artisha Walker
Strategist · Connector · Event Host
Creator Economy · Strategic Partnerships · B2B Community Building
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Artisha Walker operates at the intersection of the creator economy, strategic partnerships, and experiential event design. She does not just connect people she builds the conditions that make those connections convert into real outcomes: partnerships, deals, clients, and momentum that carries well beyond the event itself.

Her work spans partnership development, growth marketing, digital strategy, and community architecture. She has built a network that stretches across early-stage founders, enterprise operators, agency leaders, and creators in tech, media, fintech, and health. She understands what brands need from creators and what creators need from brands because she has sat at both sides of that table and built systems that make the exchange actually work.

ThePartnershipRoom Series is the most concentrated expression of that work. Every event is curated with intention, every attendee is selected with purpose, and every sponsorship is structured to deliver real business outcomes. This is not a side project. This is the thing she has been building toward.

Strategist specializing in creator economy growth, B2B partnerships, and community-led expansion
Host of ThePartnershipRoom Series: 4 events, 200+ curated registrants, 10M+ combined reach
Network spanning founders, enterprise teams, agencies, and creators with million-plus audiences
Builder of rooms where the right people find each other and then actually do something about it
Artisha Walker
Ready when you are

This room is being built.
Your spot is still open.

Sponsorship spots are limited per event and fill based on fit, not just timing. If this audience is your audience, this is the conversation to start now.

Reach out directly to discuss which tier makes sense, ask questions, or explore a custom arrangement. There is no form, no funnel. Just a real conversation about whether this is a good fit.

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