The View From The 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. No vendor pitches. Just the people in NYC who are actually responsible for making AI systems trustworthy in production — getting together for the first time over cocktails at sunset. 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 and 8 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.