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New York Portuguese Meetup - Outubro 2026

We're back with our monthly social for connection and conversation with fellow Portuguese learners in NYC. Whether you're starting out or a fluent speaker, ALL levels and backgrounds are welcome. Come for the conversation and stay for the connections. We will be at the walk-in bar area. See you! Join our network on Meetup: [https://www.meetup.com/new-york-portuguese-learners/](https://www.meetup.com/new-york-portuguese-learners/)

GUMBO Sunday Sprints (FREE COWORKING!)

Gumbo's monthly open coworking day! Meet other devs, focus, and get some work done on your games. **AGENDA:** *10:30-11am* \- croissants \+ coffee \(free\!\)\, hang out\, meet people\, set a goal for the day *11am-6pm* \- work\! *6pm* \- demos \- show what we got done for the day\! (Huddles are optional- if you're feeling shy, just hang out and work) Sunday Sprints will be a held monthly, the day before Playtest Mondays (second Monday of the month). *Pro tip: Bring what you get done on your Sunday Sprint to Playtest Monday!*

IN-PERSON SUPPORT GROUP MEETING AT SAGE IN CHELSEA

Game Day at La Diaspora

**Game Day Returns at La Diaspora** Game Day, a community favorite since 2008, is officially back after its hiatus and we’re celebrating its return at **La Diaspora**. Enjoy **all‑day happy hour**, a **full food and drink menu**, and a fun, social atmosphere built for game lovers. Please note: **a card is required for all tabs**, and **tax & gratuity will be added**. Each attendee will have a **minimum spend of $20**. We’ll have multiple tables reserved for card players Spades **and Bid Whist players, represent!** plus a selection of board games for anyone who wants to jump in and play. **Transportation:** 6, J, Z, N, Q, R, W-Canal Street 4, 5, -Brooklyn Bridge \*Street parking is limited, there is a garage right next door Game Day is back. Come eat, drink, play, and reconnect with the tradition.

Virtual Support Hours (Beta Program)

Come play tennis and party with us.

The event is 8:00 - 11:00. Check in starts at 7:30. You are guaranteed 1.5 hours of play. We offer doubles games and drill courts with pros. The last 20 minutes, we play our infamous "sky ball" game, or there is free play on the other courts. There are refreshments out all night, including beer, wine, chips, and dips. Tennis levels from advanced beginner and up are welcome, ages 21 and up. Games are made by level. You must know how to play. This event is not for beginners who don't know how to play a game or how to serve. The fee is $55 per person during the first week of the pre-sale. The pre-sale is $60 per person, one week before the event. If the presale is sold out, you can pay $65 at the door, but spots are not guaranteed. Please pay on our website to reserve your spot: [http://www.metrotennis.com/tennisonthetown](https://metrotennis.com/tennisOnTheTown)

🎂 NYCYDC Birthday Beatdown: Cake, Cards, Teams & Chaos!

🎴 **NYCYDC PRESENTS: THE BIRTHDAY BEATDOWN TOURNAMENT BASH!** 🎂🔥 It’s time to duel, celebrate, eat, laugh, and bring the NYC Yu-Gi-Oh! community together for a very special gathering! On **Saturday, September 26, 2026**, NYCYDC will be celebrating one of our own with a **Birthday Beatdown Tournament Bash** — a full day of Yu-Gi-Oh!, friendly competition, birthday festivities, food, fellowship, and good vibes. But this meetup is even more special because **NYCYDC will also have the honor of welcoming our friends from Team Dark Phoenix Ashdoll and Team Top Deck Syndicate!** Different teams. Different styles. **One love for the game.** 🔥 **TEAM DARK PHOENIX ASHDOLL** 🎴 **TEAM TOP DECK SYNDICATE** 🏙️ **NEW YORK CITY YU-GI-OH! DUEL CLUB (NYCYDC)** This isn't about proving which community is “better.” It's about getting people around the same tables, meeting fellow duelists, building friendships, enjoying some competition, and strengthening the Yu-Gi-Oh! community here in New York City. Expect plenty of dueling, laughs, birthday celebration, friendly competition, bragging rights, and maybe a little bit of **Birthday Beatdown chaos.** 😂 **📅 Date:** Saturday, September 26, 2026 **⏰ Time:** 11:00 AM – 9:30 PM **🎂 Occasion:** Birthday Beatdown Tournament Bash **🎴 Hosted By:** NYCYDC **🤝 Honored Guest Teams:** Team Dark Phoenix Ashdoll & Team Top Deck Syndicate **🔞 Ages:** 18+ **🎒 Bring:** Your deck, your cards, and your dueling spirit! ⚠️ **PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A PRIVATE EVENT.** Attendance is reserved for **NYCYDC members and members/invited guests of our honored participating teams.** The location is therefore not being publicly advertised. Please do not bring additional guests without prior approval. This gathering is about more than cards. **Good Duels. Better People.** **Different Teams. Same Passion. Stronger Community.** 🎴 **PLAY • CONNECT • GROW • TOGETHER** **NYCYDC — New York City Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Club**

Rust NYC: Zero Knowledge Proofs & GPUs in Rendering

Join us on **Thursday, October 8th at our sponsor Materialize**. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talk begin at 7:15 p.m.We have two incredible speakers for y'all! **John Wu is a Research Engineer at Nethermind and will be speaking on Building Zero Knowledge Applications in Rust.** I work in cryptography and high-performance computing: my research is on making zero-knowledge proofs much faster, which turns out to be as much about data representation and memory behavior as it is about the mathematics. One thing that buys you: proving your identity directly from a government-issue id without having to share your personal information like name or address to other people. Before that I built security tooling for Apple's SRE team that deployed seamlessly onto Kubernetes across AWS and Apple's bare-metal machines, consensus and networking systems for Mina Protocol's zero-knowledge blockchain, and operator lowerings in LLVM's torch-mlir. I like ZK most when the math and the machine code have to agree. This talk demystifies zero-knowledge proofs for Rust developers by breaking them down from first principles: arithmetic constraints, witnesses, finite-field polynomials, sum-check, commitments, and folding schemes. We'll explain how a computation becomes something a prover can convince a verifier about, without revealing the underlying data. Then we'll connect the math to real implementation work with a Rust case study: a small-value optimization I implemented in Microsoft's open-source prover, speeding up exactly the repetitive hashing and signature checks that a passport proof is built from, by letting small values stay small instead of paying full field width for every one. That's what makes the application real — proving your identity from a government passport in real time, rather than as an offline batch job. The goal is to leave attendees with both a conceptual map of ZK and a concrete feel for how high-performance proving systems are built. **Austin Matthies is an engine/animation systems programmer and will be speaking on how Rust intersects with GPU compute and graphics through modern graphics APIs.** How can we leverage the power of modern GPUs to perform rendering while offloading our massively parallel work via general purpose compute? In this talk, we will explore how to utilize Rust, Modern Graphics APIs/frameworks, and the open-source software ecosystem to build fast, efficient, and reliable applications. Many supporting libraries can be found in Rust, but we will consider where C++ libraries can accelerate our progress. Next, we will compare shading languages and cover interoperability of graphics APIs and vendor-specific compute frameworks. Lastly, we will address some common challenges that may come up when developing your application **[Lawrence Harvey](https://www.lawrenceharvey.com/)** is Rust NYC's official recruitment partner, with Ross providing support as a co-organizer and financial support. The space is generously sponsored by our partner **Materialize.**

Puff-Puff Playtest (NY Games Week Special)

🎮**We're Pumped to be part of the [Inaugural New York Games Week!](https://nygamesweek.com/ "https://nygamesweek.com/")**👽👽 We'll be meeting up at **[Coexist Gamehouse](https://www.coexistgaming.com/ "https://www.coexistgaming.com/")** the **Saturday October 10th** for an **Extra Special Pop-up Game Night!** It's a great chance to check out some of the latest amazing indie games being made right here in NYC! **✨✨✨[THE EVENT IS FREE. BUT ONLY IF YOU RSVP ON OUR EVENTBRITE PAGE](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1999720799743?aff=oddtdtcreator) (not on Meetup)✨✨✨** If your email isn't on the list, you will be charged a **$20 cover by CoExist** at the door.

Exclusive Event: AWS and Apress - Book publishing in the AI age

**IMPORTANT!** Registration w/ work email through **[Luma](https://luma.com/5kyvqxgw)** is required. Space is limited. **Do books still matter?** **Have you ever wanted to publish a book?** **A book launch and panel discussion on publishing in the AI age — Times Square, Thursday, October 8th, 2026** Agentic AI is automating every layer of the tech stack — code, infrastructure, testing, ops. If AI writes the code, drafts the docs, and answers the question before you finish typing it — *do books still matter?* That's the question we're putting to 60 - 80 humans from the NYC AI tech scene — startup founders, tech leaders and practitioners, AI specialists on October 8th. **Justin Leto**, author of *[Data Engineering with Generative and Agentic AI on AWS](http://agenticdataengineering.ai/)* (Apress, 2026), shares his journey as a first-time author. Apress commissioning editor **Shaul Elson** joins from the publishing side. **Ben Schreiner**, Head of AI and Modern Data Strategy - AWS, moderates. They take on the topic head-on and press into the harder question underneath it: what does it actually take to make enterprise data ready for generative and agentic AI? **Details:** * Thursday, October 8 · 5:00–8:00 PM. * Location restricted to invited guests. Near Times Square. * Free to attend. Registration via \*\*[Luma ](https://luma.com/5kyvqxgw)\*\*required. * Food and drinks provided. **The evening:** * The launch of a key Apress technical title * A candid panel with the author, his editor, and an AI strategy leader * 60 - 80 people from the NYC AI tech scene — startup founders, tech leaders and practitioners, AI specialists **About our Sponsor** **Pearl Cohen** is an international law firm with offices in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, London, and Munich. Representing innovation-driven companies, inventors, and their investors, we serve clients worldwide, from Fortune 500 companies to promising start-ups. Our professionals come from an impressive array of academic and professional backgrounds, serving as your partner in the business of innovation.

Agentic AI Modernization on AWS

Registration required: [Please provide your company name.](https://luma.com/s6t4ytls) Full day: 2 technical sessions: 1 morning, 1 afternoon with hands-on workshops ## ​**Executive panel (4PM)** ​**Build, buy, or partner: the capital-markets technology stack in the agentic AI age.** A senior executive from each partner brings today's challenges up to the moment with an AWS FSI leader as moderator. ## **What you'll learn** * ​**Intel — Xeon 6:** "HPC without the accelerator tax." Monte Carlo/VaR risk grids, low-latency pricing, and CPU-based AI inference. On-prem or anchored to AWS EC2 instances on the newest Xeon. * ​**KX — kdb+ / kdb Insights:** "Tick-to-trade analytics at scale." — real-time and historical market data, TCA, surveillance. * ​**Cockroach Labs:** "Resilient ledgers and global consistency." — trading/settlement systems that survive region failure, distributed transactions for post-trade and payments. * ​**Neo4j:** "Graph for surveillance, AML/KYC, and counterparty risk." Plus GraphRAG as the bridge into the AI sessions. * ​**Cohere:** "Research-analyst and document-intelligence copilots." RAG over filings/prospectuses, secure enterprise deployment (North platform), on AWS/Bedrock. * ​**DataMasque:** "DataMasque is designed to secure sensitive information by replacing it with realistic, functional, and anonymous data across non-production environments. This event takes place at a secure facility. Please bring a government-issued photo ID for entry. Your photo will be taken at reception.