New York City AI Builders

The agentic AI era is here. Autonomous systems are moving out of demos and into production — making decisions, taking actions, calling tools, and working alongside real users on real infrastructure. It's one of the most exciting shifts in software in a generation, and the playbook is still being written in real time.

This meetup is for the people writing it.

We're a community of engineers, researchers, founders, product leaders, and the agent-curious — anyone building, deploying, studying, or just trying to make sense of agentic AI. Whether you're shipping your first agent or running a fleet of them in production, there's a seat for you here.

What we cover — basically everything agentic:

• Agent architectures & orchestration — ReAct, planner-executor, multi-agent systems, agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, and whatever drops next week)
• Tool use & function calling — MCP, tool design, API integration, and getting agents to actually do useful things
• Memory & context — short-term, long-term, vector stores, retrieval strategies, and context engineering
• Reasoning & planning — chain-of-thought, tree search, reflection, self-correction, and emerging reasoning models
• Multi-agent systems — coordination, delegation, negotiation, and when multi-agent actually beats single-agent
• Evaluation & benchmarking — building meaningful evals for open-ended agent tasks, beyond vibes-based testing
• Observability & monitoring — tracing multi-step agent behavior, debugging non-deterministic systems, detecting drift
• Governance, safety & guardrails — intake, risk tiering, policy enforcement, red-teaming, and responsible deployment
• Security — prompt injection, jailbreaks, agent sandboxing, and the emerging agent security stack
• Agentic RAG — retrieval-augmented agents, knowledge graphs, and grounding strategies
• Coding agents & dev tools — Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, and the shifting landscape of AI-assisted development
• Voice & multimodal agents — real-time voice, vision, and agents that see, hear, and speak
• Robotics & embodied agents — where the bits meet the atoms
• Browser & computer-use agents — agents that click, type, and navigate the web and desktop
• Verticals — agents in finance, healthcare, legal, customer support, sales, and beyond
• Research frontiers — RL for agents, world models, self-improving systems, and what's coming next
• Business & product — pricing agentic products, ROI, adoption, and the economics of autonomy
• Ethics, policy & regulation — EU AI Act, emerging US frameworks, and the hard questions about autonomy and accountability

What to expect:
Technical talks, hands-on demos, war stories from production deployments, paper discussions, hackathons, and honest conversations about what's working and what isn't. Sometimes we'll go deep on a single topic. Sometimes we'll just grab coffee and swap notes.
No vendor pitches. No gatekeeping. No "you had to be in the room when GPT-4 dropped" energy. Just builders, researchers, and curious minds comparing notes on one of the most important shifts in technology right now.

Our philosophy: The teams that win the agentic era will be the ones who take it seriously from Day 0 — building in the architecture, observability, and governance that lets agents actually ship. Build it in. Don't bolt it on.