Welcome to the AI meetup in New York City, in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase, Vespa AI, Docker and Google Cloud. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agent, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda:
* 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, Food and networking
* 6:00pm~6:10pm: Welcome/community update
* 6:10pm~8:30pm: Tech talks
* 8:30pm: Q&A, Open discussion

Tech Talk: Data and model interaction - how GenAI apps are built
Speaker: Kristian Aune (Vespa ai)
Abstract: Models need up-to-date facts (data) to solve tasks. But data (retrieval) needs models, too: for semantic search and for ranking top candidates. At this meetup, we will go through the data/model interplay: you will learn how to transform problems into the numeric domain using tensors, and with this, work with text, image, and videos.
We’ll do live demos from e-commerce and media. Whether it’s personalizing the shopping experience in real time or finding the next song to autoplay, this session will help you think beyond LLMs—and design retrieval-first GenAI systems that deliver real-world impact.

Tech Talk: Introduction and use cases of Gemini CLI
Speakers: Mofi Rahman (Google)
Abstract: Gemini CLI brings the capabilities of Gemini models to your terminal in an interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) environment. In this session we will go over how to use Gemini CLI and some tips and tricks to get the most out of it.

Tech Talk: Build secure scalable agents
Speakers: Todd Densmore (Docker)
Abstract: Currently developers face critical production challenges when building intelligent agent-based applications: managing agent lifecycles, handling authentication, and maintaining consistency across AI clients. During this demonstration, we will show how to use Docker's latest tools to build AI agents in containers, allowing you to build, share, and scale intelligent systems with the same reliability as containerized applications. This talk will feature Docker's cagent project which brings declarative YAML to multi-agent systems, letting developers create specialized AI agents that collaborate like microservices, and Docker's mcp-gateway to provide agents with scalable access to external APIs and data sources through a unified MCP gateway.

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York and 500K+ worldwide.

Venue:
5 Manhattan West 9th Floor Grandstand Area, 450 W 33rd St, New York, NY 10001

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:
- Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
- Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
- Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
- Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers