Release Day in NYC with Sam Furness
• – • Newlab (Brooklyn Navy Yard)
About the speaker
Our next speaker could be YOU! 🎉
For our event on May 29th, we’re hosting a unique Release Day event with Sam Furness from Creative Quests.
Ten members of our NYC community will be invited on stage to share the creative project that they’re releasing.
Each presenter will have 2 minutes and up to 3 slides to share their process.
Want to present your Release Day project on our stage?
Please fill out this application form. The deadline to apply is May 13, 2026 at 11:59pm ET
What is Release Day?
Release Day on May 29th is a collective deadline. People all over the world will be launching a passion project on the same day!
So, even if you're not sharing it from our stage, you can release a project too! It can be big, small, polished or imperfect. Release Day is a motivating moment to say, “Here it is.”
📝 Sign up for Release Day and start creating today
We’ve teamed up with Adobe and Creative Quests to bring you a whole month of motivation and accountability to help you bring your project to life. After signing up on our site, you’ll receive access to:
📍 A weekly email full of tips and inspiration
📍 An invite to a private online space to connect and share
📍 A series of cohort-style Virtual FieldTrips
📍 A virtual global celebration hosted by Sam Furness
Share your project on Instagram using #ReleaseDay2026 to be featured on our Release Day gallery wall. And tag @adobe, @creative.quests, and @creativemorning for a chance to be reposted!
Local partners
Global Partner — Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.
Global Patron — Harnisch Foundation
Harnisch Foundation believes in a fairer world that works better for everyone, with special attention on gender and racial equity.
Creative Quests is a global catalyst for collective curiosity and living creatively. They imagine a future where more ideas make it out of people’s hearts and into the world.
Local Partner — Harvest
Harvest is a web-based time tracking and invoicing application relied on by thousands of people around the world, from freelancers to small businesses to departments of Fortune 500 companies. Harvest founders Danny Wen and Shawn Liu had searched for tools to help their agency scale with more efficient methods to track time and send invoices. Unable to find one, they invested their own time, energy, and money into creating what they knew was a better way to run the business—and Harvest was born.
Venue Partner — Newlab
Newlab is a Venture Platform focused on climate & deep tech with place-based communities for founders and startups in Brooklyn, Detroit, and Montevideo. Through its community of startups, applied innovation programming, physical infrastructure, and direct investment, Newlab helps commercialize and scale the critical technologies needed to decarbonize the economy.
Named Fast Company’s Design Company of the year, Newlab includes more than 1000 entrepreneurs, partnerships with forward-thinking corporate and civic entities, and a network of active investors—all working together to scale deep tech. To date, Newlab has supported its 300+ member companies in raising over $2B in capital from 260 venture capital firms, with over $1.8B of successful exits and a collective valuation of over $8.5B. Visit www.newlab.com to learn more.
Additional details
Originated by Sam Furness and Creative Quests, Release Day is a global celebration of putting your ideas out into the world. It’s designed to help you move past overthinking and finally share that special thing you’ve been working on. By releasing together, we create momentum, accountability, and a shared sense that we’re all in this together.
Location
Hosted at
Newlab (Brooklyn Navy Yard)
19 Morris Avenue
Brooklyn, New York United States 11205
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