Data Leaders Dinner · After AIE 2026

Inside the event

An intimate, invite-only dinner for data and AI leaders, on the closing night of AI Engineer NYC 2026. This is an independent community event. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by AI Engineer or its organizers. AI agents can write SQL in seconds. Getting them to understand your data stack, including the lineage, the business context, and what breaks downstream, is the hard part. Join a small group of peers at Le Bernardin for an evening of great food and candid conversation about what it really takes to trust agents with production data. Who it's for Heads of Data, VPs and Directors of Data & Analytics, Chief Data Officers, and data platform leaders responsible for the pipelines, warehouses, and teams behind AI in their organizations. Conversation topics Where AI is actually delivering ROI in data orgs, and where it's still hype The biggest pains slowing AI adoption across the organization The developments you find most exciting, and most concerning, for your organization Is your data ready for AI? Why context and trust, not models, are the real bottleneck