Join Slalom for an interactive session exploring how the manufacturing industry is leveraging AI and agentic solutions to align operations with real-time demand and inventory needs. Learn how organizations are closing capability gaps and driving success through data readiness and practical AI applications on the shop floor.

Transform your AI frustration into strategic results! Learn the TCREI framework - a proven system that turns scattered AI attempts into consistent outcomes. In just 2 hours, evolve from AI experimenter to AI strategist with a complete toolkit: systematic tool selection methods, ready-to-use templates, real examples, advanced techniques, and your personalized roadmap for your next steps. Perfect for professionals, startup founders, and anyone ready to make AI work reliably for their goals.

Turn raw numbers into meaningful insights. This workshop introduces participants to the power of data visualization and storytelling. After exploring tools and techniques for building impactful dashboards, attendees will break into groups, work with a sample dataset, and design their own dashboards. Each groups will then present their work, gaining practical experience in transforming data, into complelling stories that drive decision-making.

We're heading to Hartford Innovation Week with a RISE Pop-Up at Parkville Market! Join us upstairs at The Local, a cocktail bar with an eclectic vibe, natural light, and the perfect backdrop for networking. The space brings together the energy of Hartford's industrial roots with a fun, modern twist—ideal for mingling, connecting, and enjoying hand-crafted cocktails.

This isn't your typical networking event—it's a chance to mix, sip, and connect with fellow innovators during one of the city's biggest weeks for fresh ideas and collaboration.

InsurTech Hartford will be hosting Pitch Night XIII on October 2, 2025. This event offers emerging startups a valuable platform to showcase their ideas to the vibrant Insurance Hartford community. Entrepreneurs will have the incredible chance to network with industry experts across various sectors, including incumbents, insurers, brokers, venture capitalists, regulators, and advisors. They will get the opportunity to present their innovative concepts to a distinguished panel of judges well-versed in start-up development, insurance, and technology. Get ready for an unforgettable evening of entrepreneurial brilliance.

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the healthcare industry in groundbreaking ways - from improving diagnostics to advancing personalizing medicine. In this workshop, participants will explore how AI technologies are being applied to detect tumors, and support medical decision-making. After an overview of AI's role in healthcare, attendees will engage with hands-on demonstrations to see firsthand how AI models Can identify anomalies in medical images and transform patient care.

The 8th International Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition, Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art, explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. The exhibition presents the full creative spectrum of artists who maintain both tattoo and studio practices to ask what the world of fine art can learn from today's tattoo community. With a range of surprising media—from paintings made with human blood to wearable works in silicone and even perfumery—themes of ritual, ethics, and identity tie together the materially dynamic, unexpected, and challenging artwork.

Realigned Possession is an exhibition, performance, and video by artists Creighton Baxter and Miller Robinson, first staged in 2020 and reconceived on the occasion of Human Marks to elaborate on the theme of identity in the exhibition. The project is a meditation on queer uses of the body, resulting in an installation that traces the material relationships established during an 8-hour, unscripted performance.

This iteration of Realigned Possession is made possible by a grant from the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation.

Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic comedy explores the endurance of the human spirit through the eccentric Antrobus family as they survive ice ages, floods, and wars with surprising humor and hope. A wild ride through history—and humanity.

Night Fall is a collaborative performance celebrating seasonal change, nature, the arts, and Hartford. The production is put on utilizing the talents of local artists who are paid for their work.