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Join BetaNYC for bagels and coffee with the Housing Data Coalition! Learn how a group of civic technologists came together to harness open data for housing justice, and how creating a shared infrastructure to work with datasets across NYC agencies has enabled them to meet the needs of New Yorkers.
We are thrilled to celebrate our 13th cohort of fellows as they complete their fellowship journey! We hope you can join us as we celebrate their work.
For BetaBagels 016, we’re joined by the NYC Office of Technology & Innovation’s (OTI) Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew. Launched in July 2026, the PIT Crew embeds in-house teams of product managers, designers, engineers, user researchers, and data experts alongside City agencies to build digital public services rather than rent them from vendors.
Can you trust what an AI tool tells you about New York State or City government? BetaBagels goes virtual to recap the City Council’s October 5 hearing on the risks of AI and demo open civic AI tools, including CivicAITools.org and BetaNYC’s open MCP servers.