Fonzi’s November Tech Talk
Hosted by Fonzi, NYC AI Engineers + Gwendolyn Canada + Lauren Cotta
Register with organizer
What to look forward to
The November AI Engineers Tech Talk will spotlight practical AI engineering, from building vertical agents and turning APIs into agent tools to tackling AI-era security risks. Presenters Rick Huang (Pascal co-founder), Adarsh NJ (Patty co-founder and CTO), and Michael Remondi (Adaptive Security CTO) will share real-world approaches and lessons.
Inside the event
About Event
Join us for the November 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 full stack 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
- Rick Huang, Co-Founder @ Pascal
- Building Vertical Agents: from fragmented data to semantic understanding
- Vertical enterprise data lives across many fragmented sources. To interpret the data residing in each source, an agent must reconcile business-specific context with that source's schema and vocabulary. We'll share our approach around a scalable reasoning layer.
- Adarsh NJ, Co-Founder & CTO @ Patty
- When Your Agent’s Tools Are Your App’s API
- Patty turned its existing APIs into tools for its AI agent, eliminating the need to maintain separate tools whenever the UI or API changes. Adarsh will share how they made the switch, gave the agent access to the entire website, and what they learned along the way.
- Michael Remondi, CTO @ Adaptive Security
- Securing the Human Layer in the AI Era
- AI-powered phishing, deepfakes, and agent usage are creating new security risks for organizations. We'll share how Adaptive combines phishing simulations, email security, and AI governance to detect emerging threats and reduce human risk.
- To be announced
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
- 6:00 to 6:45 PM – Networking with pizza, beer, & wine courtesy of Fonzi AI
- 6:45 to 6:50 PM – Opening remarks
- 6:50 to 7:35 PM – Three 10 minutes Tech Talks with 5 minute Q&A
- 7:35 to 8:00 PM – Meet the speakers and connect with other attendees
About the host
Fonzi is a recruiting platform focused exclusively on product and AI engineering hires in NYC and SF. We work with 75+ open roles across the best startups in the city.
Location
25 Kent Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA
Brooklyn, NY
Venue listed by the organizer · Brooklyn, NY. Confirm the final address before traveling.
Open in Google Maps ↗Discovered through Cerebral Valley. Details come from the event listing and the organizer page; registration is managed by the organizer.
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026. Confirm current availability before making plans.
Organizer page checked: Oct 24, 2026. Check registration for the latest details.