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Maryam Farooq

Maryam Farooq

Founder & Director, NYAI — AI community builder and early-stage advisor

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New York, New York
Joined June 2025
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Summary

Maryam founded and runs New York Artificial Intelligence (NYAI), an active NYC AI community and programming platform that has been operating since 2016 and reaches a broad practitioner and research audience. She curates events, partnerships, and programming that connect industry, researchers, and startups. nyai+1
Startup operator and GTM / operations leader: Maryam has co‑founded Aggregate Intellect (ai.science) and served in operations and commercial leadership positions (COO / CRO / Director of Revenue Operations), supporting product execution, revenue strategy, and community growth for an AI-focused startup. crunchbase+2
Client-facing business development for enterprise AI adoption: Her prior role leading client experience and running the New York office for Machine Colony positions her as an operator who has worked at the intersection of AI product adoption and enterprise/government client engagement. nyai+1
Beyond tech, Maryam has volunteers and serves on education-focused boards; and has tutored and coached (figure skating), highlighting a commitment to community engagement and education-focused causes. nyai

Work

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Writing

Forbes AI 50 | NYAI (NYAI site coverage)

May 1, 2024

NYAI site posts and event coverage including curated write-ups and event coverage (NYAI maintains blog pages and conference write-ups that reflect event programming and Maryam's community work).

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GitHub Copilot: Data Collection, Training, and Evaluation for Large-scale Code Generation (post on Aggregate Intellect Medium)

Aggregate Intellect's Medium blog discussing data collection, training, and evaluation considerations for large code-generation models (published on the Aggregate Intellect Medium publication).

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Hobbies

Figure skating instructor; has tutored and coached, volunteered with Figure Skating in Harlem and tutoring with KIPP NYC. nyai

Volunteer / board work focused on education and sustainable design (permaculture & sustainability interests). nyai