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# To attend enroll here: # [https://luma.com/q6kuetpe](https://luma.com/q6kuetpe) # Agenda​ ​5 - 5:45: Pizza / Beer ​​5:45 - 6:15: NetApp, what we do, our role in open source - Mariah McLaughlin, NetApp ​​6:15 - 7:00: Unleashing AI in Cassandra 5 - Ritam Das, NetApp ​​7:00 - 8:00: When “Eventually” Meant 11 ms: Designing Deterministic Cassandra Architectures in the Telecom Core - Thomas Elliott, Your Augmented Life Advisory Services ​​8:00 - 9:00: Networking

Join us for an evening of networking, discussion, and all things Cassandra! Please register for this event [here](https://luma.com/q6kuetpe). **Agenda:** ​5:00 - 5:45 pm: Pizza / Beer ​​5:45 - 6:15 pm: NetApp, what we do, our role in open source - Mariah McLaughlin, NetApp ​​6:15 - 7:00 pm: Unleashing AI in Cassandra 5 - Ritam Das, NetApp ​​7:00 - 8:00 pm: When “Eventually” Meant 11 ms: Designing Deterministic Cassandra Architectures in the Telecom Core - Thomas Elliott, Your Augmented Life Advisory Services ​​8:00 - 9:00 pm: Networking **Speaking Sessions:** **​NetApp, what we do, our role in open source - Mariah McLaughlin** ​Mariah is a Developer Advocate at NetApp Instaclustr with a focus on developing educational content and building community around Apache Cassandra. ​ She will discuss NetApp Instaclustr’s managed platform and their role as an open source contributor in the Apache Cassandra community **​Unleashing AI in Cassandra 5 - Ritam Das** ​Ritam Das is a Cloud Solutions Architect at NetApp Instaclustr helping customers consume open-source data platforms like Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch and more. ​ Ritam will discuss enhancements to Cassandra 5, its AI capabilities, and what it has enabled enterprises to do at scale. **​** **When “Eventually” Meant 11 ms:Designing Deterministic Cassandra Architectures in the Telecom Core - Thomas Elliott** ​Thomas Elliott has had a 25-year career in delivering distributed software systems whose work spans early Cassandra OSS deployments in mobile core networks and modern deterministic data foundations for AI. As Head of AI and ML Systems at BioSole International, he focuses on using Cassandra to encode data dependencies that enable reproducible, auditable, and constrained AI reasoning. ​Since the early days of the Cassandra Open Source project, it has been recognized as a critical component in the evolution of telecom infrastructure, particularly mobile core networks. This talk traces how early design constraints shaped architectural decisions in large-scale deployments. It is a story told across three cities in the Persian Gulf, under tight launch timelines, geopolitical complexity, and read-after-write visibility requirements that had an upper limit of 11ms.

Join us for a laid-back evening of casual conversations and mingling with fellow Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS enthusiasts. Bring your passion for the Nix ecosystem, and we'll provide a fun, relaxed atmosphere to connect and share ideas! Location will be at Pier 57 in the Daffodil classroom - a map is attached in the photos section.

Join us for the February edition of the New York AI Engineers Tech Talk, a monthly gathering focused exclusively on AI engineering. Whether you’re a seasoned machine learning engineer or a fullstack dev curious about how to work with LLMs, this is your space to dive deep into real-world projects, technical challenges, and creative solutions. **What to Expect:** Each month, we invite AI engineers to share something they’ve built, the challenges they faced, and how they solved them. It’s all substance, no fluff, designed for engineers by engineers. **This Month’s Presenters:** * [Clint Robinson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintjrobinson/), Cofounder & CTO @ [Parable](https://www.askparable.com/) * [Kanta Garg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kantagarg17/), Solutions Architect, @ [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/free/?trk=4bff893e-6f19-4cd8-accc-699c73895d8c&sc_channel=ps&trk=4bff893e-6f19-4cd8-accc-699c73895d8c&sc_channel=ps&ef_id=CjwKCAiA1obMBhAbEiwAsUBbIjpvfpgxARu0OgSrgx8WQcILBZRZMZK0HtEhvhqVvnLQSUyWj22OixoCnfwQAvD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!651751059780!e!!g!!aws!19852662197!145019195897&gad_campaignid=19852662197&gbraid=0AAAAADjHtp9VoTN00O-dtavU5bsNHCdCS&gclid=CjwKCAiA1obMBhAbEiwAsUBbIjpvfpgxARu0OgSrgx8WQcILBZRZMZK0HtEhvhqVvnLQSUyWj22OixoCnfwQAvD_BwE) * [Hegar Garcia](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hegargarcia/), Tech Lead @[Fonzi](https://fonzi.ai/) **The Crowd:** You’ll be joining a mix of software developers, data scientists, AI engineers, and technical founders working at or curious about the future of applying AI at the application layer. It’s a casual, high-signal environment perfect for learning something new and meeting peers in the NYC AI Engineering scene. **Agenda:** * 6:30 to 7:15 PM – Networking with pizza and soft drinks courtesy of [Fonzi AI](https://fonzi.ai/) * 7:15 to 7:20 PM – Opening remarks * 7:20 to 8:05 PM – Three 10 minutes Tech Talks with 5 minute Q&A * 8:05 to 8:30 PM – Meet the speakers and connect with other attendees **Location:** Fonzi HQ (Ground Floor) 25 Kent Avenue Brooklyn AI Engineers is run by [Fonzi](https://fonzi.ai/). Fonzi is a talent marketplace that connects elite engineers with top AI companies through a monthly, high signal, structured hiring process called Match Day. We run AI Engineers communities in both New York and [San Francisco](https://www.meetup.com/san-francisco-ai-engineers/events/?eventOrigin=your_groups). If you are interested in speaking at a tech talk, email lauren@fonzi.ai with your LinkedIn profile, the location you want to speak in (NY or SF), and a short abstract on how you are applying or building with AI in your current role. Use the subject line “AI Engineers Abstract Submission”.

**RSVP on Bunch for the location:** Choose from the recurring dates here: [https://bunch-api.onrender.com/api/share/hangout/530b3141-7cd1-482d-a16b-d38e4426cbfc](https://bunch-api.onrender.com/api/share/hangout/530b3141-7cd1-482d-a16b-d38e4426cbfc) Join our members for co-working. **RSVP on the Bunch app is required so we can track how many seats to save and when to disable RSVPs.** Bunch is a network of locals that believes in inclusion and being welcome to all. We launched a new app in Jan'25 where members initiate small-group hangouts (or "bunches") and invite people in our network for all types of activities. Staying connected in the app is easy and lets friendships grow naturally overtime as you meet up at different bunches. Start Bunching at [LetsBunch.com](http://letsbunch.com/) See ya at the next one! Aleksandra - Bunch Founder ✨🍓

**SOCIAL COWORKING SESSION FOR CREATIVES AT MOXY LOWER EAST SIDE** *This coworking meetup is a collaboration with* ***[Don't Be Strangers](https://dontbestrangers.club/)*** Join us for Creatives Coworking Meetup — a space for creators to work alongside like-minded individuals while building meaningful connections in New York City. Whether you’re a creative entrepreneur, artist, writer, or maker, this gathering is designed for you to make progress on your work. Work in a casual, social environment with other creatives. Come work independently, together. **PRICE** You are encouraged to buy something from Moxy (such as coffee or tea) to support the venue while coworking. ⏰ **SCHEDULE** **9:30 - 10:30:** Arrival and informal introductions, start your work **10:30am - 1pm:** Focused co-working with social breaks **1pm - 2pm:** Community lunch - bring your own or buy something nearby **2pm - 5pm:** Focused co-working with social breaks You can arrive and leave anytime you like - feel free to join only part of the day or arrive early. 🚀 **JOIN WHATSAPP COMMUNITY TO STAY UPDATED!** → Join our **[Whatsapp community](http://waprotect.com/b4SxaaAB)**[ ](http://waprotect.com/b4SxaaAB)to find people when you arrive, ask any questions, stay updated about the meetup or join coworking sessions or socials organized by members on other days. We're now also on **[instagram](https://www.instagram.com/ny_coworking_friends)**. 📍**LOCATION** **[Moxy Lower East Side](https://maps.app.goo.gl/XQWU8K7GF5yr16sK7)**. It's a beautiful hotel lobby with drinks, power outlets, good internet and a large table for everyone to socialize easily. In the lobby we are usually seated in the open room towards the right, by the windows, when you enter.

**RSVP on the [343 Labs website](https://www.343labs.com/events/nyc-ableton-user-group-10/) to reserve your seat!** We are excited to bring you the next in-person NYC Ableton User Group meetup! As always, the meetup is open to producers, songwriters, DJs, and musicians of all types and proficiency levels looking to exchange ideas, network, meet like-minded producers, and learn new tips and tricks from our presenters and fellow participants. In this special topic Ableton User Group, we'll look at drum programming in Live 12 from a beginner perspective. We'll discuss the difference between making your drums with audio samples and MIDI, when to use Session view vs. Arrangement view, and how drum programming looks different for different genres. During the event, you will also have the opportunity to see the 343 Labs facilities, meet some of their instructors, and learn about their courses. **This month’s Ableton User Group will be hosted by John Selway.** John Selway is one of 343’s longest-standing instructors and is considered a pillar of the 343 community, known for his wildly popular Techno Saturdays stream on 343 TV. He is considered a techno trailblazer of his time, with a career that started in his hometown, NYC, in the 90s. He is known for his contributions to the early productions of Deep Dish, his first success as part of the seminal New York underground duo Disintegrator, his long-running collaboration with Christian Smith, and his many releases on Serotonin records. **Links:** [Website](https://www.selwaymusic.net/)

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IMPORTANT: PLEASE USE THE QR CODE SENT TO YOUR EMAIL TO ACCESS THE BUILDING Come show your support for your fellow developers! We’re very happy to bring the community together for an evening of learning and connection. This time, we'll have a community member sharing a use case and, as usual, an Elastic employee sharing their expertise as well. Join us to learn something new and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security. **Agenda:** * 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi and eat some food * 6:00 pm: Agent Builder: Providing Relevant Context for Data Driven Agents", by Kathleen DeRusso, Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic * 6:30 pm: Q&A * 6:40 pm: Improving Search Ranking with LambdaMART and Elasticsearch, by Brandon (Anbang) Wu, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Quizlet * 7:10 pm: Q&A * 7:20 - 7:30 pm: Networking and event wrap-up **Abstract** **"Agent Builder: Providing Relevant Context for Data Driven Agents"** What are agents? What is context engineering? Join us as we dive into the importance of context engineering for providing relevant information to agents, and how to build grounded agents using Elastic Agent Builder. **"Improving Search Ranking with LambdaMART and Elasticsearch"** Quizlet’s search extended manual Elasticsearch boosts with a Learning-to-Rank (LambdaMART) model. Using query, engagement, and content features, we trained on study signals and validated with A/B tests, achieving measurable lifts in study rates: +3.42% on blended pages, +1.86% on sets pages, and +1.05–1.81% in downstream outcomes. This talk shares how we combined a custom ML re-ranker with Elasticsearch results—covering training data design, offline evaluation, latency, and model interpretability—and offers guidance for Elastic users to go beyond boosting and improve ranking quality. **Where**: Elastic NYC Office 1250 Broadway, Floor 16, Training Room New York, NY 10001 **When**: Feb 19th \| Doors open at 5:30 PM If you’re a long-time Elastic user or just starting your journey, this is the perfect opportunity to share ideas, meet new people, and get inspired. See you there!

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Join up for an opportunity to work together on optimizing our sites. Have a site you'd like us to analyze? Add it here - [https://bit.ly/meet4speed-submit](https://bit.ly/meet4speed-submit) You can benefit even if you can't edit your site right now - we will be happy to share the knowledge. We'll all learn how to see what's slow and how to make it fast! Here is what you can learn: * Identify optimization opportunities using WebPageTest and Chrome DevTools * Become a master in reading the network waterfall. * Understand the most of the performance flame chart. * Learn the latest trends in measuring site speed. To be able to attend our events, you will need to show your ID at the security desk. Please make sure to provide your full name if your name on Meetup platform doesn't match your ID.

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**DevOps Not Dead: In-Person Event on DevOps, Platform & Cloud in NYC** Conference focused on modern DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure. It brings together engineers, SREs, and platform teams to share practical experience in CI/CD, Kubernetes, automation, cloud architecture, reliability, and operating production systems at scale. **🎤 [Speakers & Topics](https://devopsnotdead.com/2026-nyc-q1/)** **🎟 [Tickets](https://luma.com/4ym0xkfw?from=embed)** Get your ticket — 50% OFF with promo code: MEETUP50

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We are back with another in person event - [Brains, Bytes & Bragging Rights](https://events.databricks.com/FY27Q1-SD-DNB-Trivia/registration) 🧠🍕 Join us for a fun evening of trivia, networking, and great conversation with fellow data & technology professionals! Databricks and Sigma Computing are hosting a casual in-person event designed to bring curious minds together for friendly competition and meaningful connections. Put your knowledge to the test across a range of trivia categories, enjoy complimentary food and drinks, and connect with peers while learning more about the latest innovations in data and AI. Whether you come for the trivia, the networking, or just the pizza - there’s something for everyone (and yes, there are prizes!). 📍 Sigma Computing — 124 E 14th St, New York, NY 📅 Thursday, February 26 🕕 6:00–8:00 PM ET \*Be sure to register with your email using the link below before you arrive - that registration will be your ticket inside! https://events.databricks.com/FY27Q1-SD-DNB-Trivia/registration

**\*\*Please note:** **to attend this event, you must be registered and approved here:** [https://luma.com/pt8n7cwe](https://luma.com/pt8n7cwe). Anyone who is not registered and approved will not be admitted to the venue. Thank you. -- We’ve all done a lot of talking in the last few months (years??) about coding agents, advancements in models, and AI slop. In this meetup, we're bringing all of this together as our speakers talk about how to squeeze even more out of AI so you can actually ship something you're proud of. Be our guest, hear from the speakers we've assembled, and bring your hard questions. We're here to learn from each other, successes and failures alike. *** ​**Talks** ​[Tobie Morgan Hitchcock](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiemorganhitchcock/) (CEO, SurrealDB) Building agent memory with knowledge graphs ​[Richard Feldman](https://x.com/rtfeldman) (Zed, AI team) Exploring live AI workflows + Q&A ​[Shashank Goyal](https://x.com/shashankgoyal95) (OpenRouter, Founding Engineer) Models, benchmarks, and how everything really stacks up *** ​**Agenda** * ​18:00 - Doors + drinks + food * ​18:30 - Welcome * ​18:35 - **Lightning talks (15 minutes each)** * ​20:20 - Drinks + networking * ​21:00 - Close *** ​**About the speakers** ​[Tobie Morgan Hitchcock](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiemorganhitchcock/) (CEO, SurrealDB) ​Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is CEO & Co-Founder of SurrealDB, an AI-native, multi-model database for modern applications. A tech entrepreneur and software engineer with 17 years in software and cloud computing, he specialises in distributed databases and highly available systems. ​[Richard Feldman](https://x.com/rtfeldman) (Zed, AI team) ​Richard created the Roc programming language, wrote the book Elm in Action, and hosts the Software Unscripted podcast. And now he's building Zed's AI features and shipping (seemingly) faster than the speed of light. ​[Shashank Goyal](https://x.com/shashankgoyal95) (OpenRouter, Founding Engineer) ​Shashank is a seasoned software engineer and founder, currently working on making AI inference easier for millions of devs at OpenRouter.

**Important:** register on the [event website](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026022609) is **REQUIRED** for admission (RSVP on meetup is turn off) **Description:** Join Teradata and AWS for an immersive, hands on workshop learning how to build and deploy agentic AI workflows for an end-to-end customer feedback solution powered by agentic AI and MCP. Financial Services organizations face a significant challenge in enhancing customer experience. Financial products are highly complex and subject to intense regulation, making the resolution process manual and resource-intensive, with human support agents working around the clock. Agentic AI has the potential to exponentially scale human efforts, reducing time and resource expenditure. Through this interactive, instructors-led workshop, we'll be working together to build and deploy intelligent agents that improve customer complaint resolution by leveraging Teradata’s Enterprise MCP Server and Vector Store with AWS Bedrock AgentCore. **What you will learn:** * • Key Agentic AI components of Teradata: Enterprise MCP Server and Vector Store * • AWS Bedrock AgentCore to build Agentic workflows * • The upcoming AI products and frameworks * • Build an effective Agentic workflow from start to finish in the hands-on labs **Who Should Attend:** This hands-on workshop is designed for Developer, Data Scientist, System Architect, IT Manager, and Technical Decision Maker. **Agenda:** * 12:00pm\~1:00pm: Welcome Reception (Lunch Provided) * 1:00pm\~1:30pm: TD Intro & Workshop Kickoff * 1:30pm\~2:00pm: Tech talk: AWS Partnership, Better Together & Technology * 2:00pm\~2:15pm: break * 2:15pm\~3:45pm: Hands-on code labs * 3:45pm\~4:00pm: Close - Workshop Summary and Call to Action * 4:00pm\~5:30pm: Happy Hour and networking

Finish your day with a pizza, drinks and practical discussions on **Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg.** This session is designed for data engineers, architects, and technical decision-makers who want to solve real-world data infrastructure challenges. Expect no high-level pitches—just straight, practical discussions on building scalable, efficient, open-source-powered data platforms. Speakers: * ​[Maja Schermuly](https://www.linkedin.com/in/majaschermuly/), Solution Architect at [Aiven](https://aiven.io/) – Diskless Kafka 101 & Object Storage Integration (KIP-1150) * ​[Yingjun Wu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yingjun-wu/), Founder and CEO at [RisingWave Labs](https://www.risingwave.com/) \- A Local Lakehouse on Your Laptop with RisingWave * ​**Agenda:** * ​**05:30 to 06:00 PM** – Doors Open & Networking * ​**06:00 to 06:30 PM** – **Session 1:** Diskless Kafka 101 & Object Storage Integration (KIP-1150) * ​**06:30 to 07:00 PM** – **Session 2:** A Local Lakehouse on Your Laptop with RisingWave * ​**07:00 to 07:30 PM** – Open Q&A and Technical Breakouts * ​**07:30 to 08:30 PM** – More Networking