

Fonzi’s November Tech Talk
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.
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Location
25 Kent Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11249, USA