Drones New York

On our monthly online meetings, you connect from home (or your favorite spot) and watch the fun, talk to other members or guests, get news updates, see some videos from our database, show some of your own videos and photos (or send me a link to your favorite YouTube video and, 'if appropriate' 😉 I'll show it) and **generally have a great time**..... Minimum of 4 Members (not including the Host) or it will be postponed... I've scheduled this as a two hour event that you can join at any time as long as you have RSVPed to 'Attend' before the event starts (let me know if you're joining us late). We also keep going as long as there are interested active members online, which is often the case... For security\* reasons, RSVP to Attend in the usual way and I'll send you full instructions by eMail the night before on how you access from almost anywhere in the world using the app of your choice (see **[http://alturl.com/tfdiz](http://alturl.com/tfdiz)**) that you can download from **[http://Zoom.us](http://zoom.us/)** * if you haven't got the info message by 2 hours before the meeting, do not post a comment here. Send me a direct message or a TEXT and I'll resend it to you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Please donate towards the group running costs (fees are over $390^ a year) by sending a donation to **Nick@NyDug.org** at **[https://PayPal.com](https://paypal.com/)**.. Thanks to several of you for your past donations... ^ Meetup charges Organizers over $18 per month (it's not free like it is to members) and Zoom $15 per month. * We do it this way, to avoid getting destructive meeting crashers.

1 attendee

Bare Metal Happy Hour: Autonomous Systems & Agent Fleet Orchestration

Fri, Jun 5, 9:00 PM

From Startup Grind NYC

From I wanted to do that...Just not alone!!

🚨 **[CLICK HERE](https://partiful.com/e/jkjGahQgmH9PLIxjfTFt)** to RSVP 👈 Are you an engineer or builder working on **autonomous systems** or **agent fleet orchestration**? We're bringing together practitioners who are **moving beyond individual AI tools** and into autonomous, continuously running systems — whether you're maxing out managed API plans or running open source models on your own hardware. 🚨 **[CLICK HERE](https://partiful.com/e/jkjGahQgmH9PLIxjfTFt)** to RSVP 👈 Join us if you're building toward AI as a scalable workforce: **agent loops that run for hours, parallelized workflows, and the infrastructure decisions** that make or break production systems. Expect to talk about things like: * Scaling agent fleets on managed APIs vs. self-hosted inference * Open source models and where local compute actually makes sense * State persistence, monitoring, and reliability for long-running agents * The real tradeoffs between cost, latency, and control at scale Whether you're orchestrating agents through Claude or running Llama on bare metal, come ready to talk implementation details with people who are building the same way you are. 🚨 **[CLICK HERE](https://partiful.com/e/jkjGahQgmH9PLIxjfTFt)** to RSVP 👈 This event is a part of **#NYTechWeek**—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com

2 attendees

Urban Athletics: Bike the NYC Bridges by Night

Fri, Jun 12, 11:30 PM

4.8

The other night I was on my bike riding around town and was struck by how dramatically the vibe of the city changes once the sun sets. People get out on their cycles and enjoy this town during the day but most of us put them away when the evening comes. That's like ordering a slice of pizza, throwing away the cheese and only eating the crust -- you're only getting half of what makes the experience great. **The plan...** We are going to take a nighttime tour of the East River bridges, we'll wheel through three boroughs and cross over five spans -- the Queensboro, Pulaski, Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn bridges. This ride will highlight the stunning vistas only viewable from our water crossings and take in different views of the sparkling nighttime Manhattan skyline. If there was ever a time to go through the hassle of carrying your camera with you, this will be it. **The important stuff...** • This is going to be a casually-paced ride of about 17 miles. Most of the ride will take place in bike lanes but there will be parts with some automobile congestion. You must be comfortable riding in a group and in traffic. Lights and reflectors for your bike are also REQUIRED by law. **Helmets are mandatory otherwise you will not be allowed to ride with the group.** • This is a night ride so dress to be seen by motorists and pedestrians -- bright or reflective clothing is a must. • Make sure your bike is in good working order before the meetup and bring a lock in case we need to leave our cycles. Also bring a patch repair kit, air pump, and spare inner tube. • Rain cancels the meetup. Here is the map of the ride: TO COME

15 attendees

Dev Community Android Meetup NYC & DC

Thu, Jun 11, 9:30 PM

From New York Android Engineers

From NYC Apache Airflow Meetup

Agenda Networking & Food 5:30 PM- 6:00 PM Speaker 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Closing 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM **Speaker** Mohit Sarveiya Deep Dive into Claude Code Ever wondered what happens under the hood when Claude Code runs your next Android task? This talk dives into the internals of Anthropic's AI coding agent — its bootstrap pipeline and agent loop. You'll see how fork agents share prompt-cache prefixes to cut input token costs and how four-layer context compression keeps long conversations from exhausting the window. You'll leave with a mental model of how this production AI agent actually works. Whether you're building custom MCP integrations, orchestrating multi-agent tasks, or just trying to get more from the tool you use every day, you'll have a toolkit of patterns to apply to your own Android workflows.

19 attendees

NYC Airflow Meetup at Astronomer HQ!

Wed, Jun 10, 9:30 PM

**Join fellow Airflow enthusiasts and leaders at Astronomer HQ for an evening of engaging talks, great food and drinks, and exclusive swag!** **We’re especially excited to welcome Apache Airflow PMC Member Vikram Koka who will be visiting from the Bay Area—don’t miss the chance to meet him in person and hear him speak!** **PRESENTATIONS** ***Talk #1: Airflow + AI : Orchestrating the Intelligent Stack*** * **Speaker**: [Shrividya Hegde](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrividya-hegde-shri-91562365/), Airflow Champion & Sr. AI Data Engineer In this session, we'll explore how Apache Airflow — the battle-tested orchestration platform already running in your data stack — has evolved to become a first-class runtime for AI workloads. We'll dig into the six hardest problems of AI orchestration (reliability, cost control, provider lock-in, human oversight, observability, and integration complexity) and show exactly how Airflow and the new apache-airflow-providers-common-ai package address each one. You'll leave understanding how Airflow's durable execution model eliminates wasted API spend on retries, how HookToolset turns 350+ existing provider hooks into AI agent tools with zero new authentication setup, how built-in Human-in-the-Loop review gates bring enterprise governance to agentic workflows, and why Airflow's provider-agnostic connection layer lets you switch between OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, and 20+ other models without touching a single DAG. We'll also compare Airflow's approach to alternatives like LangChain, CrewAI, Prefect, and AWS Step Functions — and make the case that Airflow isn't competing with AI frameworks; it's the production floor they should run on. ***Talk #2: Airflow DAG Failure Investigator*** * **Speaker**: [Anton Paljusevic](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-paljusevic-67100a170/), Data Engineer at Third Point Debugging a failed DAG run means context-switching across tools: scanning logs in the Airflow UI, grepping through S3, searching GitHub. This session walks through an agent that automates that workflow. The agent fetches task logs from S3, extracts root-cause errors, and cross-references recent PRs and upstream Airflow issues to surface whether the failure is a known regression, a provider bug, or something in your own code. The result is a plain-language report that tells you not just what broke, but why. This talk covers the architecture, prompting strategies for extracting signal from noisy logs, and lessons learned from real production failures. ***Talk #3: Airflow Meets LangChain and LlamaIndex: Production AI Pipelines Without the Black Box*** * **Speaker**: [Vikram Koka](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikramkoka/), Chief Strategy Officer at Astronomer & Airflow Committer & PMC Member AI frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex solve the reasoning problem brilliantly. They do not solve the production operations problem. When an agent makes 15 LLM calls, hits a rate limit on step 5, and retries from scratch, all you see from the outside is: "agent ran." This talk introduces the outer loop / inner loop architecture in Apache Airflow's common.ai provider, which wraps AI framework logic in observable, independently retryable Airflow tasks. We will walk through a live SEC 10-K financial analysis pipeline built with LlamaIndex and LangChain: how Dynamic Task Mapping creates per-company retrieval tasks at runtime, how Human-in-the-Loop gates enforce analyst approval before delivery, and how structured Pydantic output and token usage limits replace manual cost controls. Each step that would be invisible inside agent.run() becomes a named task with logs, retry behavior, and an audit trail. Attendees will leave with a practical mental model for decomposing any AI pipeline into governed Airflow tasks, and a working architecture they can apply to their own LangChain or LlamaIndex workloads. **AGENDA** * **5:30-6 PM:** Arrivals, networking, food & drinks * **6-7:45PM:** Presentations * **7:45-8PM:** Networking

67 attendees

Central Park Bird Walk

Sat, Jun 13, 5:30 PM

From BirdingAroundNYC

Bird walk with an experienced naturalist and bird guide. $20 per person for 2- hour walk.To register please send $20 via Venmo to @Deb-becker-8 or $21 via Paypal to editconsul@aol.com See hawks, eagles, ducks and spring birds. Location will be posted by 10am on the day of the walk. We always meet at a major entrance to Central Park off 5th Avenue.

6 attendees

Central Park Bird, Butterfly, Dragonfly and Nature Walk

Sat, Jun 20, 5:30 PM

From BirdingAroundNYC

From East Coast Experiences

Bird walk with an experienced naturalist and bird guide Debbie Becker. We will look for birds, butterflies, dragonflies and flora and fauna of Central Park. Learn about nature and the environment in this informative and enjoyable tour of Central Park. $15 per person for 1.5- hour walk.To register please send $15 via Venmo to @Deb-becker-8 or $16 via Paypal to editconsul@aol.com Location will be posted by 10am on the day of the walk. We always meet at a major entrance to Central Park off 5th Avenue.

6 attendees

Special NYTW AI/Tech Founders Rooftop Series - #NY — Reverse Network Meet

Sun, Jun 7, 9:30 PM

From NYC Applied AI Builders

We’re closing NY Tech Week with a special rooftop event. This is part of our Reverse Network Rooftop Series. Join us every Sunday at different NYC rooftops to meet founders and people from the tech industry. Reverse Networking events can happen anywhere, from parks and co-working spaces to bars, clubs and more. Invite the people you've connected with online and meet them all in one place in real life. Skip endless coffee meetings and connect with multiple people at once. Get on my list: [https://www.staaake.in/staaake](https://www.staaake.in/staaake) See more reverse network meets: [https://www.reversenetworkmeets.com](https://www.reversenetworkmeets.com) This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at [www.tech-week.com](http://www.tech-week.com). If you’re a founder or investor, **get on the lists**. Used at all our events and conferences worldwide. Founders 👉 [https://www.staaake.in/founders](https://www.staaake.in/founders) Investors👉 [https://www.staaake.in/investors](https://www.staaake.in/investors) Events 👉 [https://www.staaake.in/reversenetwork](https://www.staaake.in/reversenetwork) More 👉 [staaake.com](https://staaake.com) **Location Reveal in the Private LinkedIn** [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13300281/](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13300281/) **Sponsor** SeedLegals [SeedLegals](https://seedlegals.com/ "https://seedlegals.com/") is the platform and team to help you get investment ready and raise investment. staaake **www.staaake.com**

7 attendees

The View From The Tower 🔭

Thu, Jun 11, 10:00 PM

Join us at Westlight, one of Brooklyn's best rooftop bars, for drinks and an open conversation about the state of AI governance, observability, and monitoring with the Manhattan skyline as the backdrop. No slides. No agenda. No vendor pitches. Just the people in NYC who are actually responsible for making AI systems trustworthy in production — getting together for the first time over cocktails at sunset. **The question on the table:** Every company in New York is shipping AI. Agents are making decisions in production. LLMs are processing sensitive data at scale. Models are deploying faster than any risk team can review them. So who's watching? That's what we're here to talk about. Bring your real challenges, your war stories, and your honest takes on what's working and what isn't. Whether you're building observability pipelines, standing up governance frameworks, running red teams, navigating compliance requirements, or just trying to get your org to acknowledge the problem exists — you'll find someone at this bar dealing with the same thing. What to expect: Arrive anytime between 5 and 8 PM. Grab a drink. Find the group. Introduce yourself. We'll have open conversation flowing around the big themes — observability, governance, evals, guardrails, shadow AI, compliance, and whatever else comes up when you put a bunch of AI practitioners on a rooftop with cocktails. We'll also be shaping the future of this community together — what topics to go deep on, what formats work best, who should speak, and what this group needs to become. Who should come: ML engineers, platform engineers, AI architects, observability engineers, governance leads, risk and compliance professionals, CISOs, engineering managers, data scientists, and anyone in NYC whose job involves answering the question: "is this AI system doing what it's supposed to do?" All experience levels welcome. Whether you've been in this space for years or you're just realizing your org has a governance gap the size of Manhattan — come through.

50 attendees

Drone Lab + Open Projector

Sat, Jun 20, 12:00 AM

From Ego Free Jam + Audiovisual Improv @ Delight Factory

5.0

**A Night of Collective Sound + Vision** Join us every 3rd Friday for an evening of improvised ambient music and live visuals. Everyone's welcome, whether you want to play, project, or just relax and listen. **What happens:** Musicians and sound artists create evolving ambient soundscapes together using instruments, voice, or sound equipment. Visual artists and VJs share abstract videos and experimental imagery on screen. Think part performance, part meditation, part creative experiment. Each night is different depending on who participates. **How to join in:** * Music: Open to everyone, anytime during the event. Bring your instrument or use ours. * Visuals: First-come, first-served slots (15-20 minutes each). Bring your laptop. **The vibe:** There’s no setlist, no headliner, just a free-flowing mix of collaboration and exploration. You can join in or relax in the cozy lounge area and take it all in. Feel free to move between the main space, bar, or backyard art installation anytime. No intermissions. Shoes off inside. See website for full participation details. Ticket Price: $20 suggested donation We offer sliding scale because we want to make the event accessible to all. We appreciate your support of our events and community that is forming.

1 attendee

On our monthly online meetings, you connect from home (or your favorite spot) and watch the fun, talk to other members or guests, get news updates, see some videos from our database, show some of your own videos and photos (or send me a link to your favorite YouTube video and, 'if appropriate' 😉 I'll show it) and **generally have a great time**..... Minimum of 4 Members (not including the Host) or it will be postponed... I've scheduled this as a two hour event that you can join at any time as long as you have RSVPed to 'Attend' before the event starts (let me know if you're joining us late). We also keep going as long as there are interested active members online, which is often the case... For security\* reasons, RSVP to Attend in the usual way and I'll send you full instructions by eMail the night before on how you access from almost anywhere in the world using the app of your choice (see **[http://alturl.com/tfdiz](http://alturl.com/tfdiz)**) that you can download from **[http://Zoom.us](http://zoom.us/)** * if you haven't got the info message by 2 hours before the meeting, do not post a comment here. Send me a direct message or a TEXT and I'll resend it to you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Please donate towards the group running costs (fees are over $390^ a year) by sending a donation to **Nick@NyDug.org** at **[https://PayPal.com](https://paypal.com/)**.. Thanks to several of you for your past donations... ^ Meetup charges Organizers over $18 per month (it's not free like it is to members) and Zoom $15 per month. * We do it this way, to avoid getting destructive meeting crashers.

1 attendee

Bare Metal Happy Hour: Autonomous Systems & Agent Fleet Orchestration

Fri, Jun 5, 9:00 PM

From Startup Grind NYC

From I wanted to do that...Just not alone!!

2 attendees

Urban Athletics: Bike the NYC Bridges by Night

Fri, Jun 12, 11:30 PM

4.8

15 attendees

Dev Community Android Meetup NYC & DC

Thu, Jun 11, 9:30 PM

From New York Android Engineers

19 attendees

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