Name: ELC%20NYC%20Roundtables:%20The%20AI%20Budget%20Reckoning%20-%20Making%20Smart%20Bets%20in%202026
Start: 2025-11-12T23:00:00.676Z
End: 2025-11-13T01:30:20.000Z
Location: LinkedIn New York

ELC x NYC's mission is to foster a strong sense of community among NYC-based engineering leaders by providing a consistent series of virtual and in-person events, high quality, relevant, and immediately applicable programming, and an opportunity to make meaningful and useful professional connections.

Whether you're an engineering manager, startup lead, director, principal engineer, or CTO - this is your space to learn, grow, and connect.

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Day 1

The AI experimentation phase is over (or is it…?). As we head into 2026 planning cycles, engineering leaders face hard questions: Which AI investments actually pay off? What can we afford to build vs buy? How do we justify GPU costs and AI tooling spend while also being asked to "do more with less"?

Join fellow engineering leaders at ELC x NYC's final meetup of 2025 to discuss the financial and strategic realities of scaling AI in your organization, from infrastructure costs and talent decisions to measuring real ROI and making defensible budget cases. This isn't about AI's potential; it's about the dollars, trade-offs and tough calls you're making right now.

Light refreshments will be served, with plenty of time for networking before and afterwards.

Space is limited. Register now to secure your spot!

ELC NYC Roundtables: The AI Budget Reckoning - Making Smart Bets in 2026

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