AI Socratic December — 10x engineers
A Symposium with the brightest minds in the NYC AI scene — applied AI engineers, ML researchers, and founders pushing AI forward.
We run it with Socratic dialogues with engineering topics like AI research papers, LLMs, MCP, RAG, and sometimes we dive into AGI alignment, philosophy, geo-politics, and more.
We use this blog posts to structure the conversations: https://aisocratic.org/blog
To keep our discussions high signal and low noise we review every application.
Agenda
6:00 PM Dinner starts
6:30 PM Socratic dialogues — https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-dec-2025
8:00 PM Presentation & demos
AI, my first 40 years — Roberto Pieraccini
Nano Banana Pro - Toward Production Segmentation — Ethan Otto
WIP Paper: Durable Agent Loop Architecture — Stenio Ferreira
9:00 PM 10x Engineer: share your dev workflow — from IDE to vibe coding to MCP
9:30 PM Networking at a bar nearby
Sponsors
Food for this event is sponsored by charm the coolest coding agent out there.
Venue and drinks are sponsored by Sei Labs
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Team
We're a global community of of top-tier applied AI engineers, researchers, and founders working on advancing AI. We meet once a month to discuss new AI models, papers, frameworks, and more. Some of our past discussions include:
MCP Workshop: we focused the entire event on learning how MCP works and showing demos.
DeepSeek Study Group, we read the R1 and V3 papers and went into the rabbit hole of reasoners and show how to install DeepSeek.
SOTA RAG: integrating search and retrieval mechanisms like HyDE with LLMs for enhanced knowledge retrieval in real-time applications.