​This AI Alliance event is sponsored by St. John's University and Collings College of Professional Studies.

​This AI Alliance Meetup is a place for AI Agent Developers, Engineers, UX, Ops, and Applied Researchers exploring and leading the evolution of AI agents. Whether you're building autonomous systems, experimenting with LLM-powered assistants, or integrating AI agents into real-world applications, this meetup is the place to discover, share insights, and collaborate with your peers. Join us for talks, demos, discussions and networking with like-minded innovators shaping the next generation of AI.

​Theme: Open/Responsible

​​📆 Agenda

• ​​5:30 pm - Arrival and Registration

• ​​6:00 pm - Welcome

• ​​6:05 pm - SYNTH Initiative

• ​6:30 pm - Deep Research Agent with MCP

• ​6:55 pm - Panel Discussion

• ​7:35 pm - Open Networking with Refreshments

• ​8:30 pm - Close

​Talk descriptions:

​Talk #1 - SYNTH Initiative is an open science project sponsored by AI Alliance, IBM, and Pleias, dedicated to building the ultimate synthetic multilingual open data corpus for advancing frontier models and intelligent agents. We invite the global community to contribute high-quality multilingual seed datasets that can serve as the foundation for creating robust synthetic data—particularly focusing on underrepresented languages from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and other regions. Beyond data creation, our mission includes establishing standards for both general-purpose and domain-specific synthetic data generation pipelines, guided by a strong commitment to responsible AI practices and robust compliance frameworks. These principles ensure that all resulting datasets are open, reusable, and free from restrictive licensing.

​Talk #2 - Deep Research Agent with MCP - Deep Research architectures have become increasingly popular over the past three months as users want more complex tasks to be handled by LLMs. The LastMile AI team has gone through a journey to understand what core components are needed for a Deep Research Agent and what qualities enable it to be ready for production. We'll be sharing the core architecture for a Deep Research Agent and how these components influence the behavior of the agent.

​Talk #3 - This panel brings together leading voices at the intersection of responsible innovation, AI policy and governance, and engineering for enterprise-scale AI systems with a focus on the role open source plays in building AI solutions that are ethical, compliant, and future-ready.

​​Speaker Bios:

​Agata Ferretti, PhD is an ethicist and AI governance expert currently serving as the European Lead of the AI Alliance at IBM. She holds a PhD from ETH Zurich, where her research centered on the ethical and governance challenges of big data and digital health, particularly in biomedical research and generative AI.

​Hanieh Zahiremami from Last Mile AI spearheads the development and go-to-market strategy for the mcp-agent framework, which enables developers to orchestrate AI agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

​Panelist Bios:

​Moderator: Andrea Greggo is a business development executive from IBM focused on open source AI partnerships and leads membership for the AI Alliance.

​Annabelle Blangero, PhD is the Lead of Responsible AI and a Senior Manager at Ekimetrics, based in Paris, France and is known for her work at the intersection of neuroscience, data science, and responsible AI initiatives.

​Snigdha Banda is leading the forward deployed engineering team for Patronus AI, a NYC AI start-up.

​Victoria Matthews is an AI Policy Specialist on the AI Ethics team at Sony, where her work centers on global AI regulation, data governance, and developing policy tools to enhance fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI technologies

​This AI Alliance event is sponsored by TBD.

​Why join?
This is your chance to dive deep into the world of AI agents, connect with a new and emerging developer community. This event is designed for experienced developers, and those who are curious about agents.

​​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. We appreciate your application and are looking forward to seeing you at a future even!

​​Code of Conduct: We expect our members to treat each other like family, so please click here to read our Code of Conduct. If you see someone violating it, please speak with your event organizer or reach out to [email protected].

​​​​The AI Alliance is a non-profit, grassroots community of 190+ companies, startups, researchers, and nonprofits. Through world-class events, online events, and workshops, members leverage their diverse perspectives and innovative minds to foster meaningful relationships, solve challenging problems, and define the future of AI.