Graph Database New York

*** Registration is required on this link not on Meetup.

Welcome to our very first AI Engineer Kids Day in New York City. We’re thrilled to have you here!
​This special event brings together curious young minds and their families for a fun, hands-on introduction to artificial intelligence, coding, and technology.

We’re especially excited to welcome Cassandra Chin, an outstanding computer science graduate and author, who has led engaging workshops at conferences around the world.
​Cassandra will guide participants through interactive sessions designed to spark creativity, build confidence, and make complex ideas accessible and fun.

​These workshops are recommended for kids aged 9 to 15, and parents are encouraged to join. Whether you’re completely new to AI or already curious about how things work behind the scenes, this is a chance to learn, explore, and create – together!

## ​Agenda

​12:30 PM – Doors open and registration - Arrive, check in, and get settled.

1:00 PM – AI Workshop

3:00 PM - Workshop concludes, parents arrive for pickup

3:30 PM - Event ends

## ​Workshops

​Learn AI by Making Games with Phippy!
Taught by Cassandra Chin

What if you could dream up a game and bring it to life with AI? In this hands-on workshop, kids will team up with an AI coding assistant to create their own playable 2D games using the open source Godot game engine and colorful Phippy and Friends characters. From treasure hunts to tricky mazes, they’ll choose the adventure and help shape the rules. As they build, play, and improve their games, kids will practice giving AI clear instructions, checking its work, and solving problems when things don’t go as planned. Along the way, they’ll discover that AI can help write the code, but they’re the game designers in charge! No previous coding or game-making experience is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to experiment, explore, and play!

Bio: Cassandra Chin is a keynote speaker, author, podcast host, and computer science student. She has led technology workshops for kids at international conferences since age 13 and is passionate about expanding access to tech education for women, minorities, and underserved communities.

## ​What to know before you come.

Join thousands of developers and data and AI practitioners for this free, 24-hour conference to learn about the latest advancements in intelligent systems and gain insights from speakers who showcase their implementations, tools, and models.

The agenda is out!!! Here is a snapshot from the AI Engineering track

• From Vector RAG to GraphRAG: Building Context Graphs as Durable Memory for Production AI Agents, Maulik Bhatt, Amazon Web Services
• How Adobe is Building Agentic Loop to Detect an Issue, Experiment with Various Solutions: Parag Awadhiya & Jason Robison, Adobe
• The GraphRAG System That Asks Back: Intelligent Probing with Better Contextual Answers, Rajarshee Dhar, Cisco
• When RAG Hallucinates Numbers: Graph-RAG for Precise Answers, Elizabeth Fuentes Leone
• GNN Reasoning Over a Multi-Layer Biological Knowledge Graph with Agentic Verification: Evan Harris Peikon & Yucheng Lo, George Mason University
• The Memory Graph: How Knowledge Graphs Power Sovereign AI and a New Data Economy, Esther Anglade, OHACO Lab

Before NODES 2026: Get hands-on with GraphRAG, agent memory, context graphs, and agentic engineering in our 2-hour workshop series—and share NODES with your fellow devs for a chance to win $200 in cool prizes. Come to NODES with a few new patterns, ideas, and questions ready to dig into.