Power Pivot

**Join us for the first official walk of Power Walkers Universe (PWU)** — a global community without borders where **fitness, friendship, and belonging** come alive. We’ll gather, stretch, and set out on a refreshing walk together. Whether you’re here to build stamina, meet new friends, or simply enjoy moving in community, **you belong here**. **What to bring:** Comfortable walking shoes, water, and your great energy. **Walk at Your Own Pace** Prospect Park’s loop is about 3.35 miles. Everyone is welcome to walk at the pace that feels right for them: * **Brisk walkers** can move at a faster pace and finish the loop sooner. * **Leisure walkers** can take their time, enjoy the scenery, and finish at a comfortable pace. There are multiple entrances and exits throughout the park, so if you prefer to walk a shorter distance, you’ll have options to join or leave the loop without pressure. No matter your pace, there will always be someone walking near your rhythm — **you won’t be left behind.** The goal is movement, connection, and community — not competition. Whether you complete the whole loop or just part of it, **you’re part of the Power Walkers Universe.** A walk for every pace — brisk or leisurely, you belong here. Every step counts — your pace is the right pace here. 📍 **Meeting Point** We’ll meet at **Grand Army Plaza, on the Flatbush Avenue side, directly across from the Brooklyn Public Library (main entrance)**. This is the same area where the Farmers Market is usually held. Look for us gathered near the plaza entrance before we head into the park together. PS: As we grow, other days and times will be added.

# 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

You love improv and you love to challenge yourself. You’ve done the work, taken the classes, been to the drop-ins, and maybe even performed live improv in the past. Now you want more. But you don't want the commitment. This is a stand-alone session with seasoned performers who are coming off of a recent sellout show! **Here’s what makes this one different:** * This Lab is focused on *your* improv development. * You're stepping in with performers who have performed in front of live audiences. * People who take this seriously. * Who show up sharp. * Who will challenge you in the best way * This Lab is also a potential path to joining us in our next live Comedy Improv Show *** **👥 What you can expect:** * Full-length scenes with real character depth * Work with improvisers who’ve been doing this for years * A format designed to push your instincts, not just your timing * Actual stage time — not exercises that keep you on the sidelines **It’s fast-paced, focused, and built for performers who want to... perform!** 🙌 If you want in: RSVP with your experience level. We’re not here to judge anyone — we just want to keep the room tight and the scenes solid. Bottom line: If you’ve been craving reps that matter — the kind that leave you buzzing and a little wrecked — you’ll feel at home here. This is for the ones who are ready to actually work. ***901 Innovation - Where Performance Meets Purpose!***

Ciao a tutti, siete invitati al nostro Aperitivo con Amici. Portate uno o piu' amici e le vostre storie da raccontare in Italiano! La partecipazione è gratis, e la consumazione è opzionale ma consigliata. You are invited to our Aperitivo con amici. Bring your friends and stories to share! There is no participation fee, and the event is cash bar. Grazie, Riccardo, Simone, Walter @ItalianChat ⭐️ ⭐️ Want to connect on Facebook? ⭐️ ⭐️ Click HERE: https://www.facebook.com/ItalianChat

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.

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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.

[Register here](https://plantpoweredmetrony.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F31279)! Join us for a fun, hands-on afternoon of plant-based cooking where you’ll team up with others to prepare, cook and enjoy a wholesome meal together—building community, learning new skills, and celebrating good food. $25 is requested for grocery money + $2.50 processing fee, due by **12:00 PM on Wednesday, February 18**. *Hosted by Rogier van Vlissingen, PPMNY Ambassador*

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!

**This month we are meeting online to chat, get to know one another and have some fun. Just bring yourself and open vibes! Once you sign up, I will share the Google Meet link with you.** What to expect ❓ A welcoming, non-judgmental, fun, and healing environment with other burn survivors ages 18+! 🫂This is a monthly group with the kind of event always changing! Join me for some good vibes and conversation!⭐ \*Please note that participation in these activities is voluntary and involves some inherent risks.

**A special 4 week special winter series for people who want to get their steps in and meet peers** **Power Walks for people in tech and AI.** A power walk is the easiest way to get your steps in and meet people at the same time, no wasted time, no pressure. Even if you don’t meet the exact people you expected, you still get your steps in, so the time is never wasted. **Everyone who joins also gets access to our private WhatsApp group** to keep connecting with like-minded people. 👉 Public WhatsApp Channel (different from the private WhatsApp group) [https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb9wzfC6BIEg7UVtRq1Y](https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb9wzfC6BIEg7UVtRq1Y) 👉 8,000+ followers on LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/staaake/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/staaake/) [https://luma.com/staaake](https://luma.com/staaake)

Let’s Meet Up and have some fun! It’s free to get in, and lots of games to play! Take the elevator straight up to the Recreation Lounge on the Third Floor! 🙌🏽

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

[Register here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inspired-by-mexico-a-plant-powered-cooking-demo-tickets-1981975977502?aff=oddtdtcreator)! *Presented in partnership with Brooklyn Roots Collective* Join Plant Powered Metro New York for an engaging demo featuring whole plant foods, inspired by the bold flavors of Mexican cuisine. Chef Mariana Tamiozzy, PPMNY Culinary Educator, will share practical techniques, flavor pairings, and ideas you can bring home to make nourishing meals with ease. **Mariana Tamiozzy** is a plant-based chef from São Paulo, Brazil, known for creating vibrant dishes with seasonal and organic ingredients. Now based in Brooklyn, she brings her global experience to make healthy eating both flavorful and approachable. *Cost includes tastings of the featured dishes with take-home recipes. Early bird rate is available through February 13. To help us plan food quantities, **please register by 12:00 PM on Tuesday, February 24**. Last minute registrants may still be accepted.*

WE ARE BACK IN PERSON!

**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

😎It's here! Our next dbt meetup is coming up and will be hosted at the **Datadog** office: * New York Times Bldg, 620 8th Ave - 45th floor * New York, NY 10018 We are looking forward to socializing and seeing all of the new and familiar faces! 💡dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. **Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come** and reach out to \**partnerships@brooklyndata.co*\* if you need to cancel last minute. At anytime, you may update your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going." ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: [https://www.getdbt.com/community/](https://www.getdbt.com/community/) 🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the **#local-nyc** channel in dbt Slack ([https://slack.getdbt.com/](https://slack.getdbt.com/)) dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: [https://www.getdbt.com/](https://www.getdbt.com/) \*\*\* 🏠**Venue Host**: Datadog 🍕**Catering**: TBD 🤝**Organizer**: Brooklyn Data 📣 Agenda and additional details below: * 5:30pm Networking * 6:00pm Intro remarks \| Refreshments & Conversation * Additional Sessions and Times Coming Soon ✨Speakers and Topics: * Maksim Romanchuk, Analytics Engineer at Westchester Medical Center on **One Model, Two Pipelines: Environment Variables Beyond Feature Flags** * Stephen Sciortino, Founder at DatabaseTycoon on **How to introduce dbt to your team** 🎤 Interested in speaking at a future meetup? Submit your interest using [this form](https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xIkPdS1TOUOf2bYF7KJByN1Oqcs2pwhFhb9JprUBxnpUMjJQMEFFSDQ4TUtYUEY2N0dPV0dLUlRBUy4u), and we'll be in touch! To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy) *All participants are welcome. For questions regarding access and accommodation, please contact partnerships@brooklyndata.co in advance.*

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

*The only comedy show where you can win prizes by playing bingo.* Get ready for a comedy show with a twist. At **Bingo Comedy**, audience members play along by crossing off joke premises on their bingo cards for the chance to win **free drinks and prizes**. Hosted by **Joey Rinaldi** (NPR) and **Aditya Mayya** (Food Network), this monthly show features comedians who have appeared on **Netflix, Comedy Central, Barstool**, and more. 🍻 **When:** First Thursday of every month ⏰ **Doors:** 7:30 PM \| **Show:** 8:00 PM 📍 **Where:** Ernie O’Malley’s Bar, 140 E 27th St, New York, NY 10016 🎟️ **Tickets:** $5 to $10 It is part stand-up show, part drinking game, and the most fun you can have on a Thursday night in Manhattan. Come for the jokes, stay for the bingo, and maybe leave with a buzz and a prize. Reserve your spot today. Seats go fast for this one. Buy tickets here: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bingo-comedy-show-tickets-998610770697?aff=oddtdtcreator](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bingo-comedy-show-tickets-998610770697?aff=oddtdtcreator)