NYC AI Builder Nights: Build Your First Agent Loop
Join Vonage and TechWalk for an evening of conversation, practical AI, and hands-on building.
Start with an optional guided TechWalk from Birch Coffee across the Brooklyn Bridge to Fabrik in DUMBO (see below). Then continue with lightning talks, a workshop on loop engineering, and open build time with other AI builders, founders, and curious tinkerers.
Come for the walk, the workshop, or both. Bring your laptop and come ready to build.
Optional Pre-Event TechWalk
Meet at Birch Coffee at 4:30 p.m. for a relaxed, guided networking walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to Fabrik.
TechWalk will use partner swaps along the route to make it easier to meet new people and start conversations before the workshop begins. The walk takes about an hour.
Separate registration is required for the TechWalk: https://luma.com/pwofwe4n
Featured Workshop: Build Your First Agent Loop
AI development is moving beyond one-off prompts. Builders are designing repeatable agent loops: systems that receive a task, perform the work, verify the result, save what happened, and run again until they reach a measurable goal.
In this hands-on workshop, Vince DiPaola (https://teamvince.com/) will show you how to turn an AI workflow into a practical loop with:
A clear trigger
A defined task
Limits for time, cost, or attempts
An independent verification step
A measurable stopping condition
Human approval where it matters
You will apply the pattern to your own project or workflow and leave with a starting point you can continue developing after the event.
You do not need an advanced AI system to participate. Bring an existing project, a workflow you want to automate, or an idea you want to explore.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of the workshop, you will understand how to:
Decide whether a task is suitable for an autonomous loop
Prevent an agent from running indefinitely
Verify results without asking the same agent to grade its own work
Define where human review should remain part of the process
Use each run to improve the next one
Run of Show
4:30 p.m. — Brooklyn Bridge TechWalk
Meet at Birch Coffee for an optional guided networking walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to Fabrik. Separate TechWalk registration is required.
5:30 p.m. — Doors Open
Grab food and a drink, meet other builders, and get set up for the evening.
6 p.m. — Lightning Talks
Community speakers will share what they are building, what surprised them, and what they learned along the way.
6:20 p.m. — AI Anonymous
A quick round of introductions: who you are, what you are working on, and what you hope to learn or build during the evening.
6:45 p.m. — Featured Workshop: Build Your First Agent Loop
Vince DiPaola will introduce the core loop engineering pattern and help you apply it to your own workflow.
Bring your laptop.
7:30 p.m. — Open Build Time
Continue working on your loop or another AI project. Pair with someone you met during the evening, compare approaches, or ask a technical volunteer for help.
Featured Speaker: Vince DiPaola
Vince DiPaola runs teamvince, an AI product studio and consulting practice in Brooklyn. He builds agent workflows, automation systems, and practical AI tools designed for repeated use rather than one-time demonstrations.
His workshop will focus on the parts of agent development that matter after the first successful prompt: repeatability, verification, limits, state, and human oversight.
Lightning Talks
A TechWalk community speaker will open the talks, with more details coming soon.
We are also looking for one additional lightning talk of 10 minutes or less. Reach out to the organizers if you are building something interesting or have a lesson worth sharing.
The Format
This is not a sit-and-watch event. Tables will be available for laptop work throughout the evening, and food and drinks will be provided by Vonage.
More technical attendees are encouraged to circulate during open build time and help other builders work through problems.
Come with a project, a workflow, or an idea. Leave with new connections and a clearer system for making AI work repeatably.
Partners
Co-hosted by Vonage and TechWalk. Food and drinks provided by Vonage.