AI Socratic Jan 2026 — Claude Code Workshop 🚀
A Symposium with the brightest minds in the NYC AI scene — applied AI engineers, ML researchers, and founders pushing AI forward.
We have Socratic conversations on the latest in AI including frontier models, research, coding agents, AGI, robotics, philosophy, geo-politics, and more.
We're very selective to keep this community high signal and low noise.
We structure the conversations with this blog post:
https://www.aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-jan-2026
Agenda
6:30 PM Dinner starts
7:00 PM Socratic Conversations
7:45 PM Presentation: Nano Banana Pro - Toward Production Segmentation — Ethan Otto
8:00 PM Claude Code Workshop — Bring your laptop 🚀
9:30 PM Networking at a bar nearby
Socratic Conversations
We start with a quick round of intro around the room, then dedicate 1 hour to discussing the latest in AI from the following blog post: https://www.aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-jan-2026
Everyone is encouraged to contribute. Federico & Ivo moderates to keep the conversation flowing, ensuring everyone has a chance to speak.
Vibe Coding Workshop — Bring your laptop 🚀
🏺🐺 Rome was not built in a day.. because they didn't have Claude Code!
In this session everyone in the room will have a chance to share their vibe coding setup, tips and tricks. We'll learn how everyone uses Claude Code, Cowork, skills, MCP, plugins (Ralph Wiggum anyone?), AMP, Open Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI... you name it. The goal of this session will be to 10x our productivity across the board.
Sponsors
Event hosted by Pendo — The analytics and adoption platform for AI agents.
DM us to sponsor or hosts this event or one of our next events: [email protected].
Team
We're an exclusive community of of top-tier engineers, researchers, and founders working frontier AI. We meet monthly to discuss new models, papers, frameworks, and more.
Join us at aisocratic.org