Drones New York

From NY Drone User Group

On our monthly online meetings, you connect from home (or your favorite spot) and watch the fun, talk to other members or guests, get news updates, see some videos from our database, show some of your own videos and photos (or send me a link to your favorite YouTube video and, 'if appropriate' 😉 I'll show it) and **generally have a great time**..... Minimum of 4 Members (not including the Host) or it will be postponed... I've scheduled this as a two hour event that you can join at any time as long as you have RSVPed to 'Attend' before the event starts (let me know if you're joining us late). We also keep going as long as there are interested active members online, which is often the case... For security\* reasons, RSVP to Attend in the usual way and I'll send you full instructions by eMail the night before on how you access from almost anywhere in the world using the app of your choice (see **[http://alturl.com/tfdiz](http://alturl.com/tfdiz)**) that you can download from **[http://Zoom.us](http://zoom.us/)** * if you haven't got the info message by 2 hours before the meeting, do not post a comment here. Send me a direct message or a TEXT and I'll resend it to you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Please donate towards the group running costs (fees are over $390^ a year) by sending a donation to **Nick@NyDug.org** at **[https://PayPal.com](https://paypal.com/)**.. Thanks to several of you for your past donations... ^ Meetup charges Organizers over $18 per month (it's not free like it is to members) and Zoom $15 per month. * We do it this way, to avoid getting destructive meeting crashers.

The Drone Group online

From NJ Drone User Group

4.8

On our monthly online meetings, you connect from home (or your favorite spot) and watch the fun, talk to other members or guests, get news updates, see some videos from our database, show some of your own videos and photos (or send me a link to your favorite YouTube video and, 'if appropriate' 😉 I'll show it) and **generally have a great time**..... Minimum of 4 Members (not including the Host) or it will be postponed... I've scheduled this as a two hour event that you can join at any time as long as you have RSVPed to 'Attend' before the event starts (let me know if you're joining us late). We also keep going as long as there are interested active members online, which is often the case... For security\*\*\*\*\* reasons, RSVP to Attend in the usual way and I'll send you full instructions by eMail on how you access from almost anywhere in the world using the app of your choice (see **[http://alturl.com/tfdiz](http://alturl.com/tfdiz)**) that you can download from **[http://Zoom.us](http://Zoom.us)** * if you haven't got the info message by 2 hours before the meeting, do not post a comment here. Send me a direct message or a TEXT and I'll resend it to you. **=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=** Please donate towards the group running costs (fees are over $390\* a year) by sending a donation to **Nick@NjDug.org** on **[https://PayPal.com](https://PayPal.com)**.. Thanks to several of you for your past donations... \* Meetup charges Organizers over $18 per month (it's not free like it is to members) and Zoom $15 per month **=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=** **\*\*\*\*\*** We do it this way, to avoid getting destructive meeting crashers.

From New York Computer Vision Meetup

Nov 14 - Physical AI Workshop and Meetup

Sat, Nov 14, 6:30 PM

4.5

Join us at NYU on Nov 14 for the NYC Physical AI Workshop and Meetup, co-presented by Nebius and Voxel51. Seats are limited, **[Pre-registration is mandatory.](https://voxel51.com/events/nyc-physical-ai-workshop-and-meetup-november-14-2026)** **Date, Time and Location** Nov 14, 2026 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM NYU Kimmel Center - Room 914 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 **Meetup Agenda** *5:30–6:30 PM* * Networking, food, drinks, and lightning talks **Workshop Agenda** This hands-on session uses DROID, a real-world robotics dataset loaded into FiftyOne as a native multimodal MCAP recording, and YOLO11n, fine-tuned live during the session. *6:30–7:30 PM* * Welcome + framing: from raw robot logs to a trained detector * Explore a real DROID robotics recording in FiftyOne's native multimodal MCAP viewer: camera, proprioception, and language on one synced timeline, no ROS install required * Curate: extract and browse frames from the recording, filter and deduplicate * Compute embeddings on the curated frames; explore via similarity search and embeddings visualization (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs) *7:30–8:00 PM* * Auto-label: open-vocabulary detection to generate bounding boxes for the robot gripper and target objects * Train: fine-tune a YOLO11n detector on the auto-labeled frames (via Nebius Serverless AI Jobs) * Evaluate results and close the loop: view predictions back on the original MCAP timeline *8:00–8:30 PM* * What else Nebius offers: Token Factory walkthrough — chat/vision models, fine-tuning, credits

6 attendees

Bronx C@L Meetup #02

Fri, Nov 6, 11:00 PM

From Bronx CRAFT@large Meetup Group

A monthly meetup for Bronx based makers, creatives and builders ages 18 and older exploring the future of making and workforce development. For this meetup, we will gather at the [NYC FIRST STEM Center](https://www.nycfirst.org/stem-center-locations/afh) at [Andrew Freedman Home](https://www.theafh.org/) for a hands on activity using a laser machine, offering an opportunity to explore digital fabrication and learn by making. We will rotate locations around the borough and meet up every month for a presentation, discussion, hands on activity, or just time to talk shop. If you are not an expert, do not fret! It is about showing up, sharing what you are working on, and meeting other people making things with their hands in the Bronx. Beginners and pros are welcome. Just come as you are! *This event is for people 18 years of age or older*

8 attendees

Nov 14 - NYC Physical AI Workshop and Meetup

Sat, Nov 14, 6:30 PM

From AI Professionals NYC Machine Learning

4.5

38 attendees

Stonewall Senders - an LGBTQ+ monthly climbing meetup group

Wed, Nov 4, 11:30 PM

From Stonewall Senders

From NYC Applied AI Builders

Please arrive around 630pm and come to the front desk, make sure you sign a waiver beforehand! First time climbers will need a brief orientation, this is run by the Goat staff (they're super friendly!) After that come find us, we'll be on the ground floor in the bouldering area! Comfy clothes and a water bottle are a smart move, and if you have your own climbing gear feel free to bring it with you! Discount day passes are available to the group, simply RSVP here and let the front desk know you're here for the meetup!

5 attendees

Caven Point, NJ. Wildlife Photowalk

Sat, Nov 7, 6:30 PM

From NYC Shutterbugs

4.5

We are going to Caven Point natural reserve, between Port Liberty and Liberty State Park. Please note: There is no public transport available. But for those arriving by car there is parking. Parking is free and so is the entrance to the park. Caven Point is an ecologically unique area; habitat for many species including migrating birds. It features sandy beach, saltwater marshland, and boardwalk trail. it is one of two wetlands in NYC to have survived in its natural state. It is an important site for native birds nesting as it is positioned right on the Hudson River Estuary, serving as a critical late-fall pitstop and overwintering ground. Waterfowl usually spotted in November is the brant, mallard, horned grebe, and peregrine falcon among others. Bring waterproof boots and telephoto lenses.

9 attendees

The View From The Tower 🔭

Thu, Nov 5, 11:30 PM

*AI Control Tower Launch Event — Drinks & The State of AI Governance* We’re launching The AI Control Tower the only way that makes sense — from an actual tower. Join us at Westlight, one of Brooklyn’s best rooftop bars, for drinks and an open conversation about the state of AI governance, observability, and monitoring with the Manhattan skyline as the backdrop. No slides. No agenda. Just the people in NYC who are actually responsible for making AI systems trustworthy in production — getting together for the first time over cocktails. **The question on the table:** Every company in New York is shipping AI. Agents are making decisions in production. LLMs are processing sensitive data at scale. Models are deploying faster than any risk team can review them. So who’s watching? That’s what we’re here to talk about. Bring your real challenges, your war stories, and your honest takes on what’s working and what isn’t. Whether you’re building observability pipelines, standing up governance frameworks, running red teams, navigating compliance requirements, or just trying to get your org to acknowledge the problem exists — you’ll find someone at this bar dealing with the same thing. **What to expect:** Arrive anytime between 5:30 and 6 PM. Grab a drink. Find the group. Introduce yourself. We’ll have open conversation flowing around the big themes — observability, governance, evals, guardrails, shadow AI, compliance, and whatever else comes up when you put a bunch of AI practitioners on a rooftop with cocktails. We’ll also be shaping the future of this community together — what topics to go deep on, what formats work best, who should speak, and what this group needs to become. **Who should come:** ML engineers, platform engineers, AI architects, observability engineers, governance leads, risk and compliance professionals, CISOs, engineering managers, data scientists, and anyone in NYC whose job involves answering the question: “is this AI system doing what it’s supposed to do?” All experience levels welcome. Whether you’ve been in this space for years or you’re just realizing your org has a governance gap the size of Manhattan — come through. **The details:** 📍 Westlight Rooftop — 111 N 12th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249 (inside The William Vale hotel) 🕐 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 🍸 Drinks and food available for individual purchase at the bar (not a hosted bar)

15 attendees

Central Park Bird Walk - Bluebirds!

Sat, Nov 14, 6:30 PM

From BirdingAroundNYC

4.9

Central Park Bird Walk - Paid event $20/person Beginners Welcome! We will be looking for eastern bluebirds that migrate through our area at this time of year. They will be eating berries, brightly colored, orange and red, and it will truly be a fall experience. We will also be looking for Hawks, Eagles, and owls. And other fall migrants. Pay by Venmo @ Deb-Becker-8 PayPal editconsul@aol.com Or in person with cash.

6 attendees

Governors Island: Phone Photo Walk for the Jazz age Lawn Party

Sat, Nov 7, 4:00 PM

From Appalachian Mountain Club New York-North Jersey

4.8

**Let’s go to a a 2 to 3 miles Phone Photo Walk to Governors Island for the Jazz Age Lawn Party Autumn edition! We will be at the free grassy Area by the Stage and enjoy the 1920s music from the Dreamland Orchestra and watch the dancers dressed like Gatsby Area. Group meets at Governors Island Side ( not Manhattan Side) at 11am to use bathrooms close to the Ferry Dock. Ferry is free on Saturday before 11am. Bring snacks and water, use supportive shoes to walk on grass, dirt trails and uneven steps. Leader will use a pink cap. This will be a Social gathering and we plan to picnic and practice some fun photo skills. Please also register on the AMC website.** **https://activities.outdoors.org/s/oc-activity/a5UVX000001LlUn2AK/act00024505**

25 attendees

GolangNYC: Building a static analyzer on top of Go's SSA Backend

Tue, Nov 17, 11:30 PM

From GolangNYC

From New York AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision Meetup

Get ready to stuff your faces with knowledge with this month's GolangNYC meetup and learn about building on top of the Go compiler's Static Single Assignment (SSA) and a technical deep dive of [gohawk](https://gohawk.dev/) with James Ko. **Talk Synopsis:** As AI-generated code becomes more common, static analysis tooling is becoming more and more invaluable as a way to catch programming errors before they happen at runtime. This talk will provide an overview of Gohawk, a static analyzer that flags resource leaks and concurrency issues in Go code. It will include a technical deep dive that explains how it builds on Go SSA to perform interprocedural analysis. Food and drinks generously provided by Lawrence Harvey **Agenda:** **6:30PM** - **7:00pm -** Doors Open and Netwoking **7:00PM - 7:10PM -** Introductions **7:10PM - 7:40PM -** Building a static analyzer and deep dive into gohawk with James Ko **Where:** Lawrence Harvey, 123 William St, New York, NY 10038 **When:** Tuesday November 17, 2026 @ 6:30pm Space is limited, so please only update your attendance if you cannot attend.

24 attendees

Nov 13 - NYC Physical AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

Fri, Nov 13, 10:30 PM

4.6

Join our in-person meetup to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. **[Register to reserve your spot.](https://voxel51.com/events/nyc-physical-ai-ml-and-computer-vision-meetup-november-13-2026)** Seats are limited. **Date, Time and Location** Nov 13, 2026 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM EST Fractal, 111 Conselyea St, Fl 2, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Closing the human to robot gap for dexterous hands Collecting task-specific robot data for multi-fingered hands is challenging due to the many difficulties that arise in teleoperation. That is why recently there has been a major focus on learning robot policies directly from human demonstrations. However, human demonstrations are difficult to work with; there is a major morphological and visual gap between human and robot hands, as well as between the environments they operate in. In this talk, I'd like to discuss my efforts on closing this gap. *About the Speaker* [Irmak Guzey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/irmak-guzey-6a9010175) is a rising 3rd year PhD student at New York University, currently advised by Lerrel Pinto. Her research focuses on robot learning for dexterous manipulation. She has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship and NYU's Best Master's Thesis Award. **Beyond Frames: Searching Hours of Footage with One Natural-Language Query** Most computer vision pipelines still treat video as a pile of frames, which makes 'find the moment where X happens' surprisingly hard at archive scale. This lightning talk shows how video-native embeddings and video-language models change that, turning hours of footage into something you can search with a single natural-language query. I'll cover how video is segmented and embedded, how retrieval works across visual, audio and text signals, where temporal context gets lost, and the evaluation problems teams hit when there's no clean ground truth. The examples come from field work deploying video understanding for media, news, streaming and sports organizations. You'll leave with a mental model and a checklist for building video search that holds up beyond the demo. *About the Speaker* [Yash Gugale](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashgugale/) is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at TwelveLabs in New York, integrating video foundation models (Marengo for embeddings and search, Pegasus for video-language understanding) for media, news, streaming and sports customers. He previously spent about six years in video streaming engineering at Peloton and Samsung TV Plus. **Learning the Geometry of Compression: OrBIT** Most embedding compression methods impose a predefined coding geometry, such as coordinate partitions, low-rank subspaces, or unrestricted codebooks. In this talk, I introduce OrBIT, a framework that instead learns reusable geometric structure from operator dynamics to guide the compression of large language model embeddings. Using orbit-generated dictionaries, shared additive codewords, and redundant overlapping representations, OrBIT combines local compression with global reconstruction, allowing errors across representations to compensate for one another. I will explain the mathematical principles behind this construction, its compact decoder, and experiments demonstrating up to 37.9× compression on GPT-2 embeddings and over 23× on several 7B-model embedding tables, with competitive rate–distortion performance. The talk will explore how learning representation geometry can open new directions for efficient and structure-aware machine learning. *About the Speaker* [Yunied Puig ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yunied-puig-de-dios-6282a8217/)is a mathematician and machine learning researcher with a PhD specializing in functional analysis, operator theory, and linear dynamics. His research has appeared in leading mathematics journals, including the Journal of Functional Analysis, Mathematische Annalen, and Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. **Building Real-World Computer Vision Systems with Voxel51** This talk will explore practical workflows for building, evaluating, and improving modern computer vision systems. We'll dive into real-world approaches to dataset curation, model analysis, multimodal AI workflows, and production-ready vision pipelines using open-source technologies. The session is designed for engineers, researchers, and AI practitioners looking to better understand how teams are developing and scaling computer vision applications today. Expect practical demos, technical insights, and discussions around the evolving AI tooling ecosystem. *About the Speaker* [Dan Gural](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-gural/) leads technical partnerships at Voxel51, where he's building the Physical AI Workbench, a platform that connects real-world sensor data with realistic simulation to help engineers better understand, validate, and improve their perception systems.

7 attendees

The Drone Group online

From NY Drone User Group

The Drone Group online

From NJ Drone User Group

4.8

On our monthly online meetings, you connect from home (or your favorite spot) and watch the fun, talk to other members or guests, get news updates, see some videos from our database, show some of your own videos and photos (or send me a link to your favorite YouTube video and, 'if appropriate' 😉 I'll show it) and **generally have a great time**..... Minimum of 4 Members (not including the Host) or it will be postponed... I've scheduled this as a two hour event that you can join at any time as long as you have RSVPed to 'Attend' before the event starts (let me know if you're joining us late). We also keep going as long as there are interested active members online, which is often the case... For security\*\*\*\*\* reasons, RSVP to Attend in the usual way and I'll send you full instructions by eMail on how you access from almost anywhere in the world using the app of your choice (see **[http://alturl.com/tfdiz](http://alturl.com/tfdiz)**) that you can download from **[http://Zoom.us](http://Zoom.us)** * if you haven't got the info message by 2 hours before the meeting, do not post a comment here. Send me a direct message or a TEXT and I'll resend it to you. **=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=** Please donate towards the group running costs (fees are over $390\* a year) by sending a donation to **Nick@NjDug.org** on **[https://PayPal.com](https://PayPal.com)**.. Thanks to several of you for your past donations... \* Meetup charges Organizers over $18 per month (it's not free like it is to members) and Zoom $15 per month **=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=** **\*\*\*\*\*** We do it this way, to avoid getting destructive meeting crashers.

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