Data Leaders Dinner · After AIE NYC 2026

​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