Fonzi’s July Tech Talk

Join us for the July 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: Vinoo Ganesh, CEO & Co-Founder @ KeplerThe Model Never Held the Number: Harness Programming for Reliable Agents LLMs are great at making decisions but unreliable at carrying exact values between tool calls. Learn how Kepler separates model reasoning from deterministic execution to eliminate entire classes of agent errors, using financial statement generation from SEC filings as a real-world example. Edis Gonuler, Core Engineer @ Viridium PartnersBuilding Evidence-Backed Knowledge Graphs from Financial Data Learn how Viridium turns call transcripts, emails, and spreadsheets into structured knowledge graphs, enabling LLMs to extract organizations, deals, contacts, and relationships with evidence-backed suggestions for banker review. Aman Singh, Founding MTS @ ArcaBuilding AI-Native Wealth Management Learn how Arca built an agent orchestration system for long-horizon tasks, coordinating specialized agents, managing context across multi-step workflows, and enabling reliable execution for complex financial planning. 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. Hiring? Want intros to startups?