Events / New York

Token Economics: Why Cost Kills More AI Projects Than Hallucinations

A small, invite-style evening gathering in New York where enterprise AI leaders sit down over drinks to work through why inference spend, not model accuracy, is now the thing killing production AI projects.

Mon, Sep 28, 9:30 PMNew York City · New York · NY

Why it matters

This is one of the few event formats built entirely around cost, not capability. Anyone justifying an LLM budget to finance or ops will find the framing (cost as a design constraint, not a surprise bill) directly useful.

The tokenmaxxing angle

The organizers cite architecting for token cost from day one, not bolting on savings later, plus new survey data on how enterprises measure AI economics. That's the whole tokenmaxxing thesis validated by an outside industry source.

From the organizers

The event page states 29% of technical leaders now name cost as the top reason AI projects die before production, ahead of every reliability failure combined, and opens with new VentureBeat Pulse Research on enterprise AI cost measurement.