Civic Tech’ish Closes the Year With the People Carrying Public Systems

Public systems are built across institutional lines that rarely fit inside one job title. A Civic Tech’ish Happy Hour: Holiday Edition brings public servants, technologists, founders, funders, consultants and nonprofit operators into the same Brooklyn room before the year closes.

Civic Tech’ish NYC will host the gathering on December 7, 2026, from 6 to 8 p.m. EST. Jonathan Internicola is listed as host. Registration is free and requires approval; the exact Brooklyn location is shared with approved guests.

Four years of keeping the room open

The community began as a casual drink among four friends and now reports more than 1,300 members. The holiday event preserves the original format: no panels, no sales pitches and no formal stage separating the people responsible for policy, software, funding and delivery.

That mix matters because civic technology rarely fails inside a single discipline. Procurement affects product design. Policy affects implementation. A technically strong system can still lose the people expected to use it. Relationships across those boundaries become part of the infrastructure, especially when a public project needs to survive a budget cycle or leadership change.

Request approval through the official Civic Tech’ish event page and confirm the private location before attending.