🧠GenAI Collective NYC 🧠x Permanence x AI Review Presents: March Technical Roundtable
​Join us for the third technical event of 2025! The focus this time is on open source.
​The event is cohosted with AI Review and Permanence and takes place in a beautiful venue near Grand Central Terminal.
​Who Should Attend
​This event is designed for researchers, engineers, founders, investors, and all enthusiasts passionate about the latest in Generative AI.
​What to Expect
​Speaker Presentations: Learn from top researchers about the latest in AI research.
​Interactive Q&A Sessions: Engage with experts, ask questions, and gain a deeper understanding of the topics discussed.
​Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded professionals, exchange ideas, and explore collaborative opportunities in the field of Generative AI and software development.
​Featured Speakers
​Ganapathi Krishnamoorthi is a Principal ML Solutions Architect at AWS. He creates and evolves solutions architecture strategies to drive customer success. With a strong background in data engineering and cloud migration, he leads clients through complex ML deployments, focusing on Generative AI and open-source solutions.
​Kunal Sawarkar is a highly accomplished AI expert and entrepreneur, serving as Distinguished Engineer & Chief AI Scientist at IBM. His expertise spans the entire machine learning lifecycle, with a focus on Generative AI and deep learning. A Master Inventor with 20+ patents, he also actively invests in and advises startups focused on ClimateTech and AI4Good. Additionally, he is the author of "Deep Learning with Pytorch Lightning" and serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the digest "Towards Generative AI". He has been featured in 40under40 innovators.
​Event Details
​6:15 Doors Open
​6:30 - 7:00 Networking w/ Food and Drinks
​7:00 - 8:00 Speaker Sessions
​8:00 - 9:00 More Networking
​As always, food, beer, drinks, cocktails, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
​We look forward to seeing you there!
​​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
​Your Host
​This event is made possible due to the generous support of Permanence and AI Review.
​The GenAI Collective is a growing community of 10,000+ founders, researchers, operators, and investors built around a shared curiosity for AI. Through incredible in-person events and vibrant online forums, members leverage their diverse perspectives and innovative minds to foster meaningful relationships, solve challenging problems, and define the future of AI.
​AI Review is a year-long conversation series on the current and future state of AI, presented by Company Ventures and Every. The series will consist of a variety of formats from conversations with industry luminaries, to product demos, to applied learning opportunities where folks can learn new skills. AI Review launched in 2025 with the support of Rho, NYCEDC, Tech:NYC and Gunderson Dettmer - organizations who have consistently supported the startup community in NYC.
​Permanence is a company built by a group of AI practitioners with deep experience, building systems to control Generative AI, and make modern AI advances useful, safe, and suitable for humans
​Joseph Hackman is the Founder/CEO of Permanence. With over a decade of industry language model experience, Joseph has led AI teams at Intel, Attentive, and ASAPP. Joseph is an inventor on a dozen granted AI patents, contributed to the IEEE 7010 AI Ethics standard, and is on the faculty of Columbia University.
​Ethan Elenberg, PhD is the Founding Scientist of Permanence. After his doctoral studies and spending time at Apple and Twitter, Ethan led a research group at ASAPP that improved language model training, fine-tuning, summarization, and text classification. His current research focus is in-context learning.
​​Your Organizers
​Prithvi Rajasekaran is a Software & Applied AI Engineer with experience building AI systems at scale. Previously at MIT's Auto ID Lab and C3.AI, he developed AI applications for Fortune 500 companies and led research initiatives across IoT, voice recognition, and medical domains. Currently, he leads GenAI Collective's NYC chapter and international presence, and is always looking for ways to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI technology and practical applications.
​Alex Pizzirani is a quantitative researcher at AllianceBernstein L.P.
​Saurav Velleleth is a Solutions Architect at Cohere advising enterprises on building AI systems. He was previously at Retool and C3 AI, as well as a co-founder of Dogwood Technology Associates.
​​Rahul Verma is a senior software engineer at AppliedXL.
​Questions, comments, concerns? Reach out to us at nyc@genaicollective.ai.