Princeton Tech Meetup #18 w/ Liz Lempert (Mayor of Princeton)
Details
Keynote: Mayor Liz Lempert (Mayor of Princeton)
Agenda:
7:00 - Arrival - Snacks, Pizza and Networking.
7:30 - Introduction / Announcements by the organizers.
7:45 - Keynote: Mayor Liz Lempert (Mayor of Princeton)
8:00 - Demo 1 - Canvsly.com - Amit Murumkar
8:15 - Demo 2 - Socialblood.org - Karthik Naralasetty
8:30 - Demo 3 - status.io - Joe Nicosia
8:45 - Open-mic to quickly promote your business or broadcast a need that someone in the group might be able to fill.
8:50 - Quiz and vote for Best Startup!
8:55 - Wrap-Up, discussion of Meetup, feedback and opportunities for improvement or future topics.
8:59 - End of formal part of meeting.
9:00 - Exit Venue and head to After Hours Party - Location: TBA
More about the Startups presenting:
Canvsly.com (http://www.canvsly.com/)
Canvsly is a mobile platform that lets you capture, organize, share and cherish your child's art work anywhere, anytime, forever!
Canvsly was nominated as the most creative and groundbreaking app by Kiip and was the Kiip build fund award winner for 2013.
Canvsly is on a mission to save every piece of art, so parents can go clutter free and guilt free while preserving their kids precious handmade memories.
Amit Murumkar is the founder & CEO of Canvsly. He has a Masters from UTD and has been a technology consultant for 13 years.
SocialBloog.Org (http://www.socialbloog.org/)
'Socialblood will disrupt the way people donated blood in the past and the way blood centers operate,recruit donors and retain them.’
They are working towards solving the world’s blood crisis by leveraging the power of human connections. Socialblood.org is on a mission to connect the entire Facebook population of over a billion users to their blood types. So when in need they could help each other and potentially save lives.
Karthik is the founder Socialblood, Inc. He went to Rutgers University in New Jersey to study computer science but dropped out after a year and went back to India to work for SocialBlood.org. In 2011, He won the Ashoka Staple's Youth Entrepreneur Award and Biz Kids made a TV Documentary series about their work, In 2012 They won the Kairos Award as one of the 50 most innovative companies run by young people and in 2013 He was selected as one of the 5 Kairos Impact Fellows and got nominated for the MIT Top Innovators under 35 list (India).
http://Status.io is on a mission to enhance transparency and keep customers in the loop during downtime. Our platform enables organizations to maintain a customized public system status page, external to their infrastructure, that always displays the current health of their app, website or service.
Joe Nicosia is the creator of Status.io. Previously, he co-founded Droplat and held engineering roles with Comcast and Vonage. Joe loves troubleshooting emergency outages in complex environments while under intense pressure.
Follow Joe on Twitter @joet3ch