Fonzi’s November Tech Talk

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.
• Michael Remondi, CTO @ Adaptive Security

• Building AI Email Security That Works at Scale

• Catching sophisticated email attacks takes more than a powerful model. I’ll share how we combine machine learning and AI agents at Adaptive Security to build accurate, cost-efficient detection, and the engineering tradeoffs behind deciding which emails deserve a closer look.
• Riley Stephens, Co-Founder &CTO @ Rima

• Bringing Intelligence to Every Member of a Health Plan

• Health plan data is fragmented across multiple systems, making it difficult to answer complex questions about coverage and costs. Riley will share how Rima's AI agent unifies this data, securely verifies members across SMS, chat, and phone interactions, and uses Benefit Bench to evaluate its ability to answer complex, multi-step benefits questions.

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.

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Location

25 Kent Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA