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Strategic Influence for Human-Centered Leaders

Tue, Oct 20, 10:00 PM

From SDN New York Chapter (NYC Service Design Collective)

4.8

**Tuesday, October 20th, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT** **Presentation & Discussion** **Strategic Influence for Human-Centered Leaders** Presented by Misha Energí **Event Description** As service designers mature into senior leadership, our mandate shifts from advising on customer experience to defending headcount, budget, and bottom-line impact. This transition can feel jarring: leadership politics often seem counter to our core values like empathy and collaboration, while our classic defense, “the work speaks for itself,” no longer holds. To keep growing, we need to evolve how we position our work and our roles, and mastering peer advocacy is a key driver in this shift. But winning support doesn't require a ruthless posture. Nor do we need to abandon our human-centric values. In fact, as service designers, we already hold the tools for strategic leadership; we simply need to redirect our empathy, systems thinking, and co-design methods toward internal dynamics. This interactive session introduces **Strategic Influence for Human-Centered Leaders**: a practical advocacy framework to align user-centric goals, complex stakeholder interests, and our own aspirations. Aimed at senior contributors and team leads who are thinking about “what’s next” in their careers, the session will unpack four leadership personas: **Visionary, Driver, Partner, and Diplomat**. Interactive exercises will show how inspiration, persuasion, collaboration, and consultation come together to reposition service design seniors as valuable business partners. **About Our Speaker** **Misha Energí** Misha Energí is an executive coach, facilitator, and founder of Speak Human Studio. They partner with professionals in tech and media to transform high potential talent into impactful leadership. With almost two decades of advisory experience in organizations like Google, Deloitte, and Cognizant, Misha’s coaching empowers under-represented talent to navigate corporate politics, claim authority, and prevent burnout. Misha’s "full-stack" coaching method combines advanced degrees in psychology with trainings in applied emotional intelligence, and evidence-based adult learning. Beyond their coaching practice, Misha runs The Queens Well (a wellness studio in Ridgewood, Queens), is a professor at Parsons School of Design, and serves as Donor Relations Lead for QARAVAN, an NGO supporting LGBTQ+ refugees. **Agenda** * 6:00-6:30PM Meet & mingle over food and drink * 6:30-7:30PM Presentation * 7:30-8:00PM Discussion & Networking * 8:00PM - ? After-Party **Address** Intuit 51 Astor Place New York, NY 10003 **After-Party**: Cuna Bar The Standard 25 Cooper Sq **Financial Transparency & Scholarships** As a non-profit, we do our best to strike a balance between making our events available to all and ensuring we keep the lights on. For this event, we are charging $10. * If this amount is prohibitive for you to attend this event, please email [Barr](https://www.meetup.com/sdnnyc/members/267573171/)y at sdn.newyorkchapter@gmail.com as we may miss messages on this platform. * If you’d like to **provide** scholarships, please message [Barry](https://www.meetup.com/sdnnyc/members/267573171/) at at sdn.newyorkchapter@gmail.com and he will follow up with you. See you there :) David, Francesco, Yasmin, Lynn, Nicholas, & Barry

31 attendees

Co-Working Session @ DVC

Sat, Oct 10, 3:00 PM

From Jersey City Entrepreneurs

## Venture Garden Co-Working Sessions **Build independently. Work alongside other builders. Leave with momentum.** Venture Garden is a relaxed co-working session for entrepreneurs, creatives, operators, and curious people building something of their own. There’s no presentation, no pitch deck, and no pressure to network. Bring your laptop, notebook, project, business idea, or unfinished task. Grab a coffee or tea, find a seat, and spend focused time working alongside other people who are doing the same. The idea is simple: **individual work, shared energy.** You might spend the entire session quietly working. You might ask someone for feedback on an idea. You might meet a designer, founder, consultant, developer, or future collaborator at the table next to you. Both are equally encouraged. ### What We’re Doing Each week, Venture Garden works from a different café in Jersey City as part of our **Venture Garden Café Crawl**. We’re exploring the city while creating an informal network of places where builders can regularly meet, work, and connect. During the session, you can work on things like: * Building or growing your business * Developing a new idea or side project * Writing, designing, researching, or planning * Working through pricing, positioning, or customer questions * Applying for opportunities or finding clients * Getting feedback from another builder * Simply getting an important piece of work finished ### What to Expect The format is intentionally simple. **Arrive. Order something. Introduce yourself. Then work.** There may be a quick introduction at the beginning so everyone knows who is in the room and what people are working on, but most of the session is dedicated to **focused individual work**. Conversation is welcome, but nobody is expected to participate in a group discussion. Think of it less like a traditional meetup and more like a **temporary neighborhood workspace filled with interesting people.** ### Who It’s For Founders. Freelancers. Side hustlers. Consultants. Creatives. Remote workers. Small-business owners. People exploring their next idea. You do not need to already have a company. You just need something you want to work on. ### The Venture Garden Idea Venture Garden is building a local community around entrepreneurship, creativity, and action in Jersey City. Some connections may eventually turn into collaborations, businesses, friendships, clients, investments, or new projects. Others may simply be two people sharing a table and getting a productive hour of work done. Both matter. ### What to Bring Bring your laptop, notebook, headphones, charger, and whatever you’re currently building. Order something from the café, settle in, and work alongside us. **Build your thing. Meet good people. Explore Jersey City.** **Individual work. Shared energy. Real momentum.**

1 attendee

Moving Forward NYC: AI & Tech Small Business Relaunch Mixer

Thu, Oct 15, 10:00 PM

From Moving Forward with AI & Tech: Small Business Community

4.6

*Connect with local SMB owners, marketers, and founders to kick off Q3/Q4, share practical ideas, and build high-value connections.* Kick off Q3/Q4 with New Connections, Practical Strategy, and Community! Welcome to the official in-person relaunch of the Moving Forward with AI & Tech: Small Business Community! Whether you’ve been a member of this group for years or you’re joining us for the first time, this is our flagship gathering to meet in person, build meaningful business relationships, and share ideas on how AI and modern technology are helping local businesses scale. Hosted and sponsored by [Moving Forward Small Business](https://movingforwardsmallbusiness.com), this high-energy networking mixer brings together small business owners across all verticals, founders, operators, and marketing professionals in the NYC metro area. **What to Expect** * **High-Impact Networking**: Skip the awkward small talk. We’ll have structured icebreakers and industry-focused nametags so you can meet the right contacts fast. * **The New Community Roadmap**: Get a quick 15-minute look at what’s coming for our community, including upcoming virtual workshops, expert trainings, and tools. * **Call for Member Speakers**: Want to present at one of our future events? We are officially opening up stage spots for members to showcase their expertise, tech hacks, and business success stories. * **Q4 Momentum**: Connect with potential clients, referral partners, and collaborators as everyone gets back to business post-summer. **Event Agenda:** * **6:00 PM – 6:30 PM** \| Arrival & Open Networking Grab your badge, check in, and connect with fellow attendees. * **6:30 PM – 6:45 PM** \| State of the Community & Speaker Announcement A quick welcome from our leadership team, our vision for the group, and how you can apply to present at upcoming events. * **6:45 PM – 7:15 PM** \| Fast\-Track Connections A quick, fun, structured 2-minute rotation game to make sure you meet at least 5 new business owners in the room. * **7:15 PM – 8:00 PM** \| Open Mingling & Wrap\-Up Deepen the conversations you started, take group photos, and exchange contacts. **Who Should Attend?** * Small Business Owners & Founders looking to optimize operations, sales, finance, and marketing using technology. * Marketing Professionals & Consultants serving SMB clients. * Entrepreneurs & Operators hungry for practical strategies and high-value local networking. **RSVP Note:** Space is limited by venue capacity. Please RSVP early to secure your spot on the guest list!

25 attendees

Co-Working Session @ Madelaine

Sat, Oct 17, 3:00 PM

From Jersey City Entrepreneurs

1 attendee

The Past, Present, and Future of Performance Engineering

Thu, Oct 22, 11:00 PM

From New York UX Speed and Web Performance Group

4.8

Performance engineering has never been static. From the early days of mainframes and transaction processing to distributed systems, cloud computing, agile development, and DevOps, performance professionals have repeatedly had to adapt to changes in how software is built and operated. Artificial Intelligence is now accelerating that transformation once again. This talk looks at the evolution of performance engineering through three lenses: what changed in the past, what is changing today, and what those changes may tell us about the future. We will examine how cloud, DevOps, and AI are reshaping performance practices, where traditional approaches are becoming less effective, and how the boundaries between development, operations, observability, and performance engineering are increasingly blurred. Finally, we will explore what this means for performance engineers themselves. Which responsibilities may disappear or be automated? Which new ones will emerge? And what skills will performance professionals need as performance engineering continues to evolve? The future is not set in stone, but the patterns of the past may offer useful clues about where the discipline is heading. [Alex Podelko](https://alexanderpodelko.com/Bio.html) is a **Senior Performance Engineer** at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he focuses on performance testing and optimization of Amazon Aurora. He has worked in performance engineering since 1997, holding performance-focused roles at MongoDB, Oracle/Hyperion, Aetna, and Intel before joining AWS. Alex writes and speaks regularly on performance engineering, with a particular interest in how the discipline is evolving and how performance professionals can work more effectively across development, operations, architecture, and other traditionally separate disciplines. He currently serves on the SPEC Research Group Steering Committee. We will have **food and drinks** and as always, we are going to have **geekaways** with **geeky prizes** provided by our sponsors. **Agenda:** 6:00PM - Arrive at the venue, meet other members 6:15PM - Event starts 6:30PM - **The Past, Present, and Future of Performance Engineering** (Alexander Podelko) 7:15PM - Q&A 7:45PM - "Books and Stuff" geekaways 8:00PM - Open Discussion, Networking Make sure to **fill out your legal name** and **bring your ID** to show at security desk. Please make sure to allow for additional time to go through security downstairs and be prepared to put all your electronics through security screening. Then **take** **G elevator to 64th** floor and transfer to the second bank **and** **take elevator to 88th floor**. Interested in speaking at a NY Web Performance event in the future? Fill out our [speaker application](https://nywebperf.com/speak), or reach out to your organizers with any questions!

18 attendees

Co-Working Session @ Busy Bee

Thu, Oct 22, 3:00 PM

From Jersey City Entrepreneurs

1 attendee

[In-person] Meet for SPEED

Thu, Oct 15, 10:00 PM

From New York UX Speed and Web Performance Group

4.8

Join up for an opportunity to work together on optimizing our sites. [Paul Calvano](https://paulcalvano.com/) and [Sergey Chernyshev](https://www.sergeychernyshev.com/) guide the discussion and help you understand the speed of your pages and how optimize them. Have a site you'd like us to analyze? Add it here - [https://nywebperf.com/meet4speed](https://nywebperf.com/meet4speed) 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 tools Chrome DevTools, WebPageTest and Telescope. * 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.

5 attendees

AI Implementation for Your Business: Where Do You Start?

Sat, Oct 10, 9:00 PM

From AI implementation for small to midsize businesses

AI Implementation for Your Business: Where Do You Start? AI is moving quickly, but knowing what to actually implement in your business can be overwhelming. Join us for a practical, interactive session where we’ll identify real business tasks that AI can handle, from customer inquiries and lead follow-up to appointment booking, content, and workflow automation. No technical background required. Bring a business problem, question, or process you’d like to improve, and we’ll explore how AI could be applied to it. Agenda • Introductions & networking • Where AI can actually help a small or midsize business • Real-world AI implementation examples • Live demonstrations • Identify AI opportunities in your own business • Q&A and discussion • Networking What to Bring Bring your business, your questions, and one task or problem you'd love to make easier with AI. A laptop is optional but recommended if you'd like to follow along.

4 attendees

UX Happy Hour irl (open to all levels)

Thu, Oct 15, 10:00 PM

From UX Support Group

4.8

######## You need to bring a physical Government Issued ID to be allowed to stay. It's the Law. ######## Whether you're a seasoned UX pro, just breaking into the field, or simply curious about design — this is your invite to pull up a chair and join the conversation. UX Happy Hour is a laid-back, no-agenda gathering where designers, researchers, product thinkers, and anyone design-curious can connect over drinks in a low-pressure setting. No slides. No networking theater. **Why attend:** • Meet new connection in organic way • Get feedback and fresh perspectives on your work (i.e. portfolio) or advice for your career • Stay sharp on what's happening in UX, AI, product, and tech right now • Meet potential collaborators, mentors, or future coworkers • Cheap drinks ($5 Guinness) **What to expect:** • Warm, welcoming crowd across all experience levels • Candid conversations about design, careers, tools, and everything in between • A great chill bar in the East Village to do it all in **Where to find us:** We're usually tucked in by the ATM at the back of Mona's. If you're not sure where we are, just ask the bartender — they know us! Come solo, bring a friend, or drag a coworker along. The more the merrier. Interested in sponsoring this event? Reach out to Danny (one of the organizers) for our sponsorship rate card.

4 attendees

Forward Pass 📊 — Applied AI Builders at Time Out Market DUMBO

Thu, Oct 22, 10:00 PM

From NYC Applied AI Builders

**We're heading to the waterfront for this one.** Join us at Time Out Market in DUMBO — upstairs and on the rooftop — with panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, Brooklyn Bridge, and the East River. An evening of conversation with the engineers, researchers, data scientists, and builders in NYC who are working on applied AI. From production ML systems and agentic workflows to quantitative methods and AI for financial data. No slides. No presentations. No pitches. Just good food, great views, honest conversation, and meeting the people in this city who care about the same hard problems you do — shipping AI that actually works in the real world. **Why we keep showing up:** The applied AI community in New York is massive but fragmented. The quant researchers are behind NDAs. The startup engineers are heads-down building. The ML platform teams are buried in infrastructure. The academics are publishing papers nobody in industry reads. The governance people are writing policies nobody in engineering follows. This group puts all of those people in the same room — and the conversations that come out of it are why people keep coming back. Come with whatever you're building, whatever you're stuck on, or whatever problem you've been wrestling with this week. Bring your questions, your half-baked architectures, and your honest takes on what's actually working versus what's just demo magic. Whether you've been to every event or this is your first time — you'll fit right in. **What the evening looks like:** Show up. Grab food from any of the 15+ vendors on the ground floor — tacos, burgers, poke, pizza, dumplings, whatever you're in the mood for. Grab a drink from the bar. Head upstairs and find the group. If the weather's right we'll be on the rooftop with the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline behind us. Introduce yourself. Talk about what you're building, what stack you're using, what's breaking in production, and what problems keep you up at night. Time Out Market is spacious, casual, and built for exactly this kind of gathering — enough room to move around and meet new people, relaxed enough to settle into a real conversation, and a backdrop that reminds you why you live in this city. **Who should come:** ML engineers, data scientists, AI researchers, platform engineers, quantitative researchers, financial engineers, product managers building AI products, startup founders, data engineers, students, and anyone in NYC who is serious about applied AI. Whether you're shipping agents at a startup, building ML infrastructure at a bank, researching deep learning for time series, or just trying to get your first model into production — you belong here. **What we talk about:** Agentic AI — orchestration, tool use, multi-agent systems, evaluation, and what it actually takes to run autonomous systems in production. LLMs in the real world — RAG architectures, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and the gap between what works in a notebook and what works at scale. AI for financial data — deep learning for time series, NLP on earnings calls and SEC filings, reinforcement learning for sequential decision-making, factor modeling, and backtesting methodology. Observability and governance — tracing, monitoring, model risk, compliance, and the oversight layer that determines whether your AI system is trustworthy. Infrastructure and engineering — data pipelines, feature stores, model serving, MLOps, and the unglamorous work that makes everything else possible. And whatever else comes up when you put a room full of builders together over food and drinks with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. **A few notes:** 🍕 15+ food vendors on the ground floor — grab whatever you want, pay for what you order. There's something for every budget and every diet. 🍸 Full bar available upstairs ⏰ Arrive when you can — the earlier you come, the more people you'll meet 🌇 If weather permits we'll be on the rooftop — dress accordingly 📍 Look for the NYC Applied AI Builders group upstairs or on the rooftop — we'll post the exact location in the discussion on event day 🚇 **Getting there** — F train to York St, 5 minute walk. A/C to High St, 7 minute walk. 📍 **Time Out Market New York** — 55 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (DUMBO) 🕐 **6:00 PM – 8:00 PM** See you on the waterfront. 📊

22 attendees

Building a Model Evaluation Practice for Production AI

Mon, Oct 26, 8:30 PM

From AWS New York | Official Meetup

4.6

Most teams pick an AI model the same way they pick a coffee machine - the demo looks good or they hear about it from someone, so they assume it works. But in production, evaluation decisions directly impact cost, latency, accuracy, and user trust. Without a structured eval practice, you're flying blind when a model regresses, or a new release claims to be better. This session gives you a framework for evaluating LLMs against *your* workloads and operationalizing evaluation as a continuous practice, not a one-time exercise. **What we'll cover:** * Why standard benchmarks are often misleading for enterprise use cases * Building a golden dataset: how to sample, label, and version evaluation sets from real production traffic * Key metrics beyond accuracy: hallucination rates, precision/recall tradeoffs, cost-per-correct-answer, and latency percentiles * Running evals at scale: open-source tools (Ragas, PromptFoo, LangSmith) and using Amazon Bedrock Model Evaluation * Setting a model evaluation gate: how to enforce a promotion threshold before any model goes to production * Demo: running a side-by-side eval across two models on a real classification task **High level schedule:** * 4:30 - 4:45: Arrivals * 4:45 - 5:45: Presentation & Demo * 5:45 - 6:00: Q&A * 6:00 - 6:30: Networking **Important instructions** * Event starts at 4:45 pm EST, but please allow at least 15 minutes for security to process registration * Please ensure that your meetup profile has your **full name.** Both first and last name are required and we will not be able to register attendees with just abbreviations or incomplete names. * There is an optional networking and Q&A event at the end of the meetup

259 attendees

🚀 17 Years of NYC SUG | Community, Agile Games & Birthday Celebration

Wed, Oct 21, 10:00 PM

From NYC Scrum User Group

4.7

**Celebrate 17 years of the NYC Scrum User Group!** For 17 years, practitioners have come together through this community to share ideas, learn from one another, organize local conferences, and explore better ways of working. Now it’s time to celebrate! This special event is part **reunion, new members introduction, learning experience, and birthday party**. We'll bring longtime members and new participants together through fun, interactive activities - including **Agile games, icebreakers, and team-building exercises** that demonstrate practical ways to improve collaboration and team dynamics. And, of course, there will be **pizza, cake, memories, and plenty of conversation.** 🍕🎂 **Who should join?** Anyone interested in improving teams, collaboration, and ways of working - including practitioners and leaders in **Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Lean, coaching, facilitation, AI-DLC, and related fields.** No matter how long you've been part of the community, **there's a place for you at this celebration.** \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- You too can become a speaker at our meetups! If you have an idea you would like to share, come see us at the Meetup, or tell us about it here: \*\*[https://www.papercall.io/nyc-sug**](https://www.papercall.io/nyc-sug**) \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Meetings are now the **3rd WEDNESDAY** of the month **In person** meetings: **6-6:30 Networking, 6:30 session start** =======Would you company be interested in hosting us?======= The NYC Scrum User Group meets monthly to talk about Agile and Scrum, to share experiences, to network, and to provide support for local Scrum practitioners. We are on the look-out for in-person venues, either as a one-off or ongoing. DM us to let us know if you're interested!

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