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We'll be meeting at Planet Rose again! February is Black History Month, so be prepared to sing songs by your favorite Black singers and songwriters!

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”.

Admission to the museum is free. This exhibition will be on display from February 19 until April 19, 2026. If you cannot attend the opening, please stop in and see the show at your convenience. Call ahead for hours. This exhibition is a comprehensive exploration of the symbiotic relationship between the world of fashion and fine art. Featuring more than 140 objects, including garments, accessories, textiles, photographs, and original artworks drawn from MFIT's permanent collection, *Art X Fashion* challenges the traditional hierarchies of visual culture, presenting fashion and art each as parallel, potent expressions of social, intellectual, and creative forces. Curated by Dr. Elizabeth Way, curator of costume and accessories at MFIT, the exhibition reflects MFIT's mission to advance the understanding and appreciation of fashion's critical role in culture. The core of *Art X Fashion* lies in its profound engagement with the eternal question: "Is fashion art?" The exhibition explores the ways that fashion has always been a partner, not a follower, of fine art, highlighting typically overlooked integrations throughout history. This includes examples of how the two disciplines have worked together to create European styles, from the drama of Rococo and Neoclassical grandeur to the unsettling world of Surrealism, to the shock of Pop Art and postmodernism. **Share your excitement using #ArtXFashionMFIT** **Go to https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/art-fashion/index.php for more information.**

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 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.

**🚀 Calling all tech enthusiasts 🚀** Come and join us every 2 weeks from 4 PM - 6 PM at Queens College, Flushing! Bring your laptops, your brightest ideas, and/or on-going projects – and let's build something extraordinary together! The Flushing Tech Meetup invites you to a free-form, self-organized 2-hour mini-hackathon where creativity knows no bounds. We welcome: * Software Engineers & Developers * UX/UI Designers & Design Thinkers * Product & Project Managers * Data Scientists & Analysts * Tech Entrepreneurs & Idea People * Students & Tech Enthusiasts of all levels **All are welcome** The Hackathon is open to the public! You do not need to be a student of Queens College to attend. **Agenda** 1. Welcome and introductions (5min) 2. Ideation - 3-5 ideas will be selected after brainstorming and voting (5-10min) 3. Build build build - meet with your group to build and have fun (1.5hr) 4. Presentations and voting - Present your work and participate in some friendly competition (10min) 5. Closing and networking Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to be part of something big! Mark your calendar, gather your tech gear, and join us bi-weekly in Flushing on Saturday from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Let's build the future together! **Wanna get your gears turning before the big day? Here are some fun ways to prep:** * Git good at Git! 😉 Sharpen those version control skills: https://learngitbranching.js.org/ * Arm yourself with a trusty IDE. VSCode is a fan favorite if you're looking for suggestions! * Designers: Bring your favorite prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD) * PMs: Brush up on your user story creation and team facilitation skills * Everyone: Let those creative juices flow! **Jot down some wild project ideas:** * No idea is too crazy! The sky's the limit! 🌈 * Just make sure the idea is clearly defined so you can show off something cool as a team when we're done. * It could be anything from a wacky concept to a working prototype. Or maybe you just want to dive into a new tech toy? Go for it! We hope to see you there! --- The address of the Tech Incubator is: CEP Hall #2 65-30 Kissena Blvd Flushing NY 11367 As a courtesy, kindly register with the Tech Incubator too (we're working on linking our systems, bear with us!): https://techincubatorqc.com/flushing-tech-meetup/ If you are driving and need parking, please stop at the main gate to get a temporary parking pass from the public safety.

Location: Google Chelsea Market (75 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011), 2nd Floor **6:30 - Arrival and chill** **7:00 - Intros and welcome** **7:20 - Gabriel Paunescu - Beyond the vibe: Code-generation for big UI components** Code generation is notorious for introducing small errors that take a long time to debug, specially when doing UI work. We will present methods to safely generate thousands of lines, introduce new ways to do grounding and show methodologies that help steer the LLMs away from the drift. **7:45 - Break** **8:00 - Tony Scialo - Signals: the What and the Why** Signals are one of the hot new topics in the Angular community, but what exactly are they and why are they useful? In this talk Tony will take you through signals at a quick glance, showing you where they can be easily added to a project and why they could be useful to you. **8:30 - Post event hangout** We'll decide together If you’re interested in giving a talk, please let us know! Speakers of all levels and backgrounds are welcome, and we have experienced mentors who can help you prepare your talk! Check out our Speaker FAQ: https://Angular.NYC/faq Fill out the Speaker Form: https://Angular.NYC/speak Code Of Conduct We expect all speakers and attendees to follow the JSConf code of conduct ( https://Angular.NYC/conduct ) Find us at: Website: https://Angular.NYC Youtube: [https://youtube.com/AngularNYC](https://youtube.com/AngularNYC) Slack: [http://nycjsorg.now.sh](http://nycjsorg.now.sh/) Twitter: [https://twitter.com/AngularNYC](https://twitter.com/AngularNYC)

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!

Join Tech Gather NYC for our Women in Tech mixer! This is an awesome opportunity to connect and vibe with women from all corners of the tech universe, whether you’re a developer, founder, product or anything in between, you belong in our [she, her, they] array. Sign up now to meet like-minded women, share stories, and spark new collaborations.

**Join the OWASP NYC Chapter for a NYC Hackfest with a AWS / Secure Code Showdown Tournament** Date: February 19th 2026 Where: AWS NYC JFK Office - 410 10th Ave, New York, NY 10001 (Corner of 33 Street and 10th Avenue ) Time: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm Lunch: Provided Register Required: https://tinyurl.com/OWASP-Feb-19-Hackfest Happy Hour VIP: CyCode will be sponsoring a wonderful Happy Hour!!! Come and test your wonderful skill against others in a series of vulnerable code challenges that ask you to identify a problem, locate insecure code, and fix a vulnerability. You don’t need extensive programming knowledge, as this will be a great way to learn the foundations and intermediates of leveraging code that is not only functional but also secure. Players can choose to compete in their preferred software language, including Java Spring, C# MVC, C# WebForms, Go, Ruby on Rails, Python Django & Flask, Scala Play, Node.js, React, and both iOS and Android development languages. Join industry experts and fellow cybersecurity enthusiasts to share knowledge and experiences in this ever-evolving field. Don't miss this opportunity to network, learn, and stay updated on the latest in application security.

Mingle, network, and imbibe with fellow UXers and whoever else wants to join. Everyone is welcome regardless of your levels! We're normally seated by the ATM at the back,. If you can't find us, ask the bartender. **Interested in sponsoring this event?** Contact Danny (one of the organizers) for our sponsorship rate card

Hola neighbors, hope you're staying warm 🥶 Our next evening meetup will be on **Wed, February 25th** at **6:30pm**. As per usual, we'll be hosting the meetup at **[Our House Queens](https://ourhousequeens.com)**, a co-working & event space here in Astoria. We'll be continuing our community demos this month. So if you want to share something you've been working on, or a cool tool you discovered recently, come on by! You can bring your own laptop or use one of ours. It'll be a night of learning and discussion, so come out and hang with the local tech & tech-adjacent community. See you there. ✌️ **AGENDA:** * 6:30 - 7:15pm: Open discussion * 7:15 - 8:00pm: Community demos * 8:00 - 8:30pm: Open discussion Follow us on IG and join our Discord: [https://astoria.app/links](https://astoria.app/links)

[Code and Coffee](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ny-code-coffee/) is an inclusive, informal co-working session. People of all skill levels attend, and we love it that way. Many people (optionally) bring projects to work on, and many other people (optionally) socialize the entire time. It's entirely up to you! **The Intro Circle** **Near the beginning of the event (2:30 pm), we do a standup in a circle:** * We first share organizer announcements, updates, and logistics **Introductions (7 secs max):** * Your name * Tech/coding topic(s) you want to talk about * Non-tech topic(s) you want to talk about * Job **opportunities you're hiring for OR announce that you are looking for one**. If none, that's cool. *After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized. We sometimes have FEATURES in a nearby room; check out those events on Meetup as well.* Doors close at 4:00pm. Please keep us updated in the comments if you're intending to show up late, as we want to ensure our venue hosts are able to clean up in time to get out by 5pm and enjoy their weekends. **🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community Discord - come hang out before and after!:** [www.codeandcoffee.chat](http://www.codeandcoffee.chat) **Our Venue and Coffee Sponsor** Fractal Tech is a meeting place in the heart of Williamsburg for startup founders and engineers to do their most ambitious work. We offer daily events, a startup engineer accelerator, and 24/7 coworking access. Find out more at [http://fractaltechhub.com/](http://fractaltechhub.com/). \*\*\*

If you are running a WordPress site and are having issues and would like some help, then this Meetup is for you! If you know some things, expert or not, and want to give back to the WordPress community, then this Meetup is for you too! We will do our best to match a problem with a problem-solver. On-site and in real-time. Just bring yourself, your laptop, and your WordPress problems. It's OK if you attend and only want to observe. We recognize this is how people learn. Given our time limit of two hours, we may not be able to solve everyone's issues, but we will try! If you are seeking help, please come prepared. Have your web site loaded in a browser, have your WordPress admin ready, along with a short list of issues you are trying to solve. People helping are volunteers and may not be experts. There is risk to breaking your site! Please do not bring client or business sites that can impact reputations or revenue. If you have a staging site we can test things with, that is always preferred. If it is a production site, please create a site backup before having someone do any work on your site. If you cannot find the group, please ask the front desk where the WordPress meetup group is meeting. **PARKING**: We've been asked to not park in the United Way lot behind the library as it could result in a parking ticket. Please find street parking or a parking deck. \-\-\- Join the **JerseyPress Slack** group to chat with others in our community and get help: [https://jerseypress.org/slack/](https://jerseypress.org/slack/)

### **NEW YORK - TECH PITCH & INVESTOR NETWORKING** Join us for an exciting evening where founders, investors, and innovators in **AI, SaaS, Tech and Tech fields** come together to connect, collaborate, and create opportunities. 🚀 **What to expect:** * **Startup Pitches** – Founders present their projects to investors & peers. * **Networking Sessions** – Meet like-minded entrepreneurs, potential partners, and investors. * **Keynote Insights** – Hear from speakers on the future of AI, Web3, and venture opportunities. * **Open Discussions** – Exchange ideas, challenges, and solutions in an informal setting. 🎯 **Who should attend:** * Startup founders looking for funding & exposure * Investors exploring high-potential opportunities * Tech enthusiasts & builders in Tech industry * Professionals curious about the startup ecosystem or expanding networking 📍 **Details:** * **Time:** 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM * **Dress Code:** Smart casual * **Bring:** Business cards / LinkedIn ready to connect ✨ Whether you’re raising capital, looking for a co-founder, or simply want to expand your network, this is the room you need to be in. 🎟 Tickets & Registration: If PayPal is not convenient for you, you can also register or purchase tickets via our official platforms: • Luma:[https://luma.com/ikrz81ou](https://luma.com/ikrz81ou) • Eventbrite:[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980582004090?aff=oddtdtcreator](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980582004090?aff=oddtdtcreator) Choose the option that works best for you. See you there!

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In this presentation, we’ll walk through a couple of practical use cases for the new WordPress Abilities API, which lets AI models discover and run your WordPress functions. This unlocks a new way for plugins to add real, hands-on AI features, allowing the same actions you’d normally perform in the UI to happen through prompts, faster and with far less friction. Jeff Marx has been a software engineer at People Inc. for more than seven years, with roots in the WordPress community going back to 2006. While he no longer works in WordPress code every day, his experience spans a wide range of projects, from large-scale WordPress VIP media sites to small business and community sites. Jeff is also a longtime contributor to the [GatherPress project](https://gatherpress.org/) and an organizer of the [WordPress NYC Meetup group](https://www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc/). \-\-\- If you would like to speak at a future meetup, please reach out to any of our organizers in a meetup.com message or on our Slack. **PARKING**: We've been asked to not park in the United Way lot behind the library as it could result in a parking ticket. Please find street parking or a parking deck. \-\-\- Join the **JerseyPress Slack** group to chat with others in our community and get help: [https://jerseypress.org/slack/](https://jerseypress.org/slack/)

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