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"People wonder why their daughter taking 10,000 photos a day, They don't realize that she isn't preserving images. She's talking." - Evan Spiegel (Founder, Snapchat) // Snapchat & Hardware
"Human driving decisions carry ethical considerations. How self-driving cars are programmed also carry ethical consequences. So programming decisions should be clearly disclosed." // US Dept of Transportation's 15-point Checklist of Safety Guidelines for Self-Driving Cars
"Recent solar bid (2.42 cents/kwh) in Abu Dhabi is cheapest contract for electricity, anywhere on Earth, using any technology, EVER." // Solar Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected
Yahoo breach (500M+ accts); largest hack ever? Terabit Internet (125 GB/s) tested. Zuck & Priscilla investing $3B over 10 yrs to cure disease. BofA, Santander, RBC creating blockchain n/w. AT&T testing broadband over power lines. Tiangong-1 (Chinese space stn) out of control. Twitter for sale? Apple interested in formula-1 car-maker McLaren? And Airbnb raising $555M ($30B val).
Watch livestream (Sep 27 @ 2pm) of SpaceX founder Elon Musk's speech "Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species" @ Int'l Astronautical Conference in Mexico.
As y'all know, my New Years Resolution is to get to know GarysGuide members & subscribers better :) So shoot me an email & introduce yourself!
ANNOUNCING ==> The Hub @ GCT (2 months FREE at new 50K sq ft space @ 335 Madison Ave; For Urban Tech growth-stage & post accelerator/coworking companies w/[masked] ppl; With NYCEDC & GCT Accelerator); apply by Oct 31. Venturewell Grants (For student founders); apply by Oct 05.
ANNOUNCING ==> YCombinator Winter 2017 ($120K for 7% equity; Alums incl. Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe); apply by Oct 04. Summit-at-Sea Scholarship (Invite for 4 female founders to Summit-at-Sea in Nov); apply by Oct 05. Sandhill NYC (VCs @ Sequoia, Kleiner, A16Z visiting in Oct), request invite.
ANNOUNCING ==> Singularity University Labs Startup Accelerator ($100K funding for 7% equity; Co-work @ NASA Research Park; Focus on hard sciences, space & energy; Starts Feb 2017); apply by Sep 30. Mobileys Competition ($20K prizes; For apps/services making difference); apply by Oct 05.
ANNOUNCING ==> Techstars NYC Winter 2017 Session ($120K funding; Starts Jan; One of top accelerator programs in world; < 1% acceptance rate; World-class mentors & investors; KPI-focused curriculum; Alums incl. DigitalOcean, ClassPass, Plated); apply by Oct 15.
ANNOUNCING ==> Extreme Tech Startup Challenge (Seeking wicked-smart entrepreneurs executing big ideas; Top 10 startups pitch on Jan 07 @ CES in Las Vegas; Top 3 pitches invited on Feb 02 to Necker Island in Caribbean w/ Sir Richard Branson); apply by Sep 30.
BOOK DEAL! ==> Masters of Corporate Venture Capital (By author Andrew Romans of Rubicon VC; Collective wisdom from 50 VCs incl. best practices for corporate venturing, accessing startup innovation & getting funded); 5 FREE Copies ($35 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 30 Social Enterprise Conference w/ Anthony Foxx (Secretary, US Dept of Transportation), Chris Davis (CFO, Managed by Q), Manik Bhat (Founder, Healthify), Amy Houston (MD, Robin Hood), John Farmer (Dir. Tech & Civic Innovation, Microsoft); 2 FREE Passes ($150 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 05 MIPIM Proptech Real Estate Tech Summit w/ founders Michael Mandel (CompStak), Arie Barendrecht (Wired Score), David Eisenberg (Floored), Nick Romito (VTS), Paul Massey (ex-Pres., Cushman Wakefield & Mayoral Candidate); Invite only; 5 FREE Passes!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 30 #TECHmunch Food Blogger Conference w/ Cap Watkins (VP Design, BuzzFeed), Jessica Randazza (Mktg Head, Danone), Amie Valpone (Author, Eating Clean), Deborah Smith (Founder, JerseyBites), Kara Rota (Host, Clever Cookstr); 3 FREE Passes ($105 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 28 TEDxNJIT w/ Gerard Adams (Co-Founder, Elite Daily), Tara Alvarez (Prof. Biomedical Engg, NJIT), Donald Sebastian (NJ Innovation); 5 FREE Passes! Oct 06 CRE // Tech: The Intersect (Honest Bldgs, Reonomy, Compstak, VTS, Hightower, SiteCompli); 5 FREE Passes ($80)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 12 Brunchwork+ w/ Casper execs Neil Parikh (Co-Founder/COO), Taryn Laeben (CXO), Scott Breitenother (VP Data), Terri Rockovich (VP Mktg); 2 FREE Passes ($40)! Sep 27 Hustle Summit (Conde Nast, Etsy, Ralph Lauren, Livestream); 10 FREE Passes ($99)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Sep 26-30 Ad Week. Sep 27 BrexitCon w/ Wharton. Sep 28 ERA Demo Day. Sep 29 Techstars Demo Day. Sep 30 SheHacks. Sep 30 - Oct 16 NY Film Festival (Lucasfilm, AR/VR, Sherlock Holmes: IoT). Oct 01-31 Archtober. Oct 02 Giphy Loop Dreams (GIF Art).
DON'T MISS! ==> Oct 01-02 Maker Faire. Oct 07 IBM Blockchain Hackathon. Oct 08 Lady Problems Hackathon. Thru Oct 22 Blockchain Future States Exhibit. Oct 25 Matter Demo Day. Nov 01-06 Harlem Tech Week. Oct 28 OpenSpace Buildathon w/ NASA @ Natural History Museum.
Sep 26 Data Science Fall Bootcamp (12 Wks; Only bootcamp teaching Python, R, Hadoop, Spark). Sep 28 Kilobytes & Bagpipes: Scottish Pitch Night w/ Eric Vreeland (Bowery Cap), Ulrich Quay (BMW i Ventures), Sutian Dong (Female Founders Fund), Raju Rishi (RRE); 3 FREE Passes!
Sep 27 Startup Tour NYC w/ Julie Samuels (Exec Director, Tech NYC), Christiana Ting (Samsung Global Innovation Ctr), Lindsay Avagliano (NYS Innovation VC Fund), Chris Fortunato (KEC VC), Jason Shuman (Corigin VC). Sep 30 Raising Startup Capital w/ ICONYC; 2 FREE Passes ($90)!
Sep 28 Make It In Brooklyn Innovation Summit w/ Claude Silver (Vayner Media), John Frankel (ffVC), Peter Boyce (General Catalyst), Rachel Haot (1776), Katepalli Sreenivasan (Dean, Tandon Engg), Shawn Cheng (Vayner/RSE), Sherine Kazim (Huge), Dana Mauriello (Etsy); 5 FREE Passes ($399)!
Sep 28 Health Tech Panel + Pitch w/ Steve Barsh (CIO, DreamIt Health), Anthony Mason (CDO, MD Alert), Peter Fleischut (CIO, NY Presbyterian Innovation), Brad Weinburg (Blueprint Health). Sep 29-30 Droidcon (60+ Android talks w/ Google, Uber, Facebook, Instagram); 5 FREE Passes ($60)!
Sep 29 TAP Conference w/ Bonin Bough (Host, CNBC), Margaret Stewart (VP Product, Facebook), Gary Fritz (Chief Growth Officer, TripAdvisor), Lisa Manowitz (Partnerships, Pinterest), Lisa Gersh (CEO, Goop), Julia Beizer (Product Head, HuffPo), Ellie Wheeler (Greycroft); 4 FREE Passes ($499)!
Oct 03 Front-End Web Designer Bootcamp (Flex sched; Real-world examples). Oct 11 International Founders Dinners (Curated roundtables during International Week; Wanna participate? Email Marc & mention expertise eg. biz dev, mktg, fundraising, mentoring).
Oct 08 Brunchwork w/ Brian Cohen (Chairman, NY Angels) & Sara Chipps (Co-Founder, Jewelbots); 2 FREE Passes ($40)! Oct 15 / Oct 18 Product School incl. Weekend Edition (Oct 15 - Dec 17; Sat: 9:30am - 3:30pm) & Weekday Edition (Oct 18 - Dec 15; Tue & Thu 6:30-9pm).
FREE PASSES! (details) ==> Sep 26 Pricing Strategy. Sep 27 RE Tech Startups w/ founders of Naked Apts (acqd by Zillow), HoM, Joinery, FloorHacker, Founder House. Sep 27 Founders Freestyle. Sep 28 IBM THINK Leaders. Sep 28 SheWorx Breakfast w/ Sara Weinheimer (BroadMic).
Mo' FREE Passes! (details) ==> Sep 28 Ladies@ Workshop: Elevate Your Life IQ (Health Class 2.0, Trunk Club). Sep 28 Startup Rock Climbing. Sep 28 Caribbeans In Tech. Sep 29 Augmented Reality: Beyond Pokemon Go (Augment, Blippar, Samsung).
Mo' FREE Passes! (details) ==> Sep 29 Aging 2.0: Tech Enabled Concierge. Sep 29 Company Culture w/ Jeff Fernandez (CEO, Grovo). Sep 30 Lean Startup Night w/ Daniel Burka (Design Partner, Google Ventures). Sep 30 Lair East Fall Party. Oct 07 Blogologues.
UPCOMING EVENTS ==> Sep 27 Cocktails & Conversation w/ Chris Sacca (Star of ABC's Shark Tank & Investor in Twitter). Oct 10 Privacy & Internet of Things. Oct 12 Agile Environment. Oct 26 Product Mgmt Happy Hour.
CLASSES ==> Data Science + Fintech. Sep 26 Dev Bootcamp Interviews. Sep 28 Adobe After Effects Intro. Sep 28 Users & Product Adoption. Sep 29 Web Design Intro. Oct 04 Careers Job Search & Teamwork. Oct 05 Product Mgmt Info Session. Oct 19 Get Hired: Landing Product Job.
Mo' Classes ==> Sep 27 ML & Big Data Show Day. Oct 22 Data Science w/ R: Data Analysis & Visualization. Oct 23 Data Science w/ Python: Data Analysis & Visualization. Oct 23 Data Science w/ Python: Machine Learning.
DEADLINES ==> Oct 01 Emerging Writers Fellowship (For non-fiction writers; $12K stipend + mentorship by BuzzFeed). Oct 03 A.I. NexusLab (4 months; $100k; 8% equity; With NYU Future Labs, Tandon Engg & ffVC).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Dream Start (1 yr free mentoring for startups w/ 1 French founder & presence in US; With CCE, French Tech Hub, Consulate General of France). Square Roots Urban Farming Accelerator (1 yr; With Tobias Peggs & Kimbal Musk).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Dropout TV (Casting founders dropping out of school to pursue biz idea, record label, clothing line, restaurant). Flow Journeys (Sep 29 - Oct 02; @ Iceland; Ice-climbing, volcano lunch, secret lagoon). Unsettled: Buenos Aires (Nov 05 - Dec 04; Co-working w/ 40 entrepreneurs).
DEALS ==> Shutterstock PowerPoint Add-in (Millions of high-quality photos & illustrations; Free image for first 25K folks). Phone.com (1 year basic service FREE w/ code "GarysGuide"; Customers incl. BarkBox, Trello, Insightly).
CONGRATS! ==> Trade Desk (self-serve digital ad platform) went IPO at $30.10 / share. Paul & BrightFarm (futuristic greenhouses) raised $30.1M. Jacqueline & BrightLine (advanced TV solns) raised $20M. Michael & White Ops (invalid traffic detection) raised $20M.
Mo' Congrats! ==> Scott, Greg, Dan & Troops (slackbot for sales) raised $7M. Tirath, Chris & TrueFacet (preowned luxury jewelry & watch mktplace) raised $6M. Nucleus (smart intercom) raised $5.6M from Amazon Alexa Fund. Andre & LiveLike (streaming sports VR) raised $5M.
Mo' Congrats! ==> ACV Auctions raised $5M. Aaron & Vestwell (white-label retirement platform) raised $4.5M. Rebecca & Imbellus (job candidate screening) raised $4M.
WHO'S HIRING? ==> Mktg at SHO Nutrition, Sr Front End Dev at Troops, Talent Coordinator at Thrillist , Data Analyst at Vimeo, Community at WeWork, Design at Warby Parker, Social Media Intern at BuzzFeed, Design at Honest Bldgs, Transportation Reporter at Mashable, Music & Talent Mgr at Vevo, Design at Codecademy, Biz Dev at Headout, Design at Livestream, Customer Support at Ando, Design at Kickstarter, Venture Biz Dev at Dentons, JS Dev at Gamechat, & more!
Mo' Hiring! ==> Content Editor @ Shutterstock, Dir. Web Security @ Shutterstock, VP Data Governance @ Shutterstock, VP Product @ Shutterstock, Mktg @ Shutterstock.
RECENTLY READ ==> Dark Net, Palantir In NYC, Women Of CIA, Amazon Pricing Algo, Apple-IBM Partnership, Cruise Automation, Fake Mayo, Ghost In VC Machine, Modern Comedy, Shakespeare's Most Popular Play & I'm From New York!
NYC ==> Thru Sep 27 Christie's First Open Auction @ 20 Rock. Thru Sep 30 Consciousness Hacking. Oct 06-09 ComicCon. Oct 13-16 Chelsea Film Festival. Oct 13-17 CMJ Music Marathon. Oct 27 Great Night In Harlem w/ Jazz Fdn.
Now watch Daddy's Car (1st ever pop song composed entirely by artificial intelligence), NYPL Book Train, Netflix Meridian and Westworld Dreams.
Until next week :)
Gary
(aka "The Guy with the Red Tie")
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Thanks, Anita! :)
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Spectacles are new video-grabbing sunglasses by Snapchat (Snap Inc), will retail for $130 and be able to record 10-second bursts of circular video. Nice, yo!
Port Authority unveiled 5 finalist proposals (Arcadis, Archilier, Hudson Terminal, Pelli Clarke, Perkins Eastman) for redesign of Bus Terminal & proposals will now be judged by the public.
Letrons (by Turkish company Letvision) are re-creations of the famous Autobots from Transformers & made from a BMW 3-Series. Want!
Nike's HyperAdapt 1.0 (designed by Tinker Hatfield) are power-lacing shoes mimicking the kicks from Back to the Future & will be available starting Nov 28.
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OReilly Artificial Intelligence Conference
Javits Center, 655 W 34th St
With Genevieve Bell (Dir. Interaction, Intel), Pieter Abbeel (Assoc. Prof., OpenAI @ UC Berkeley), Amitai Armon (Chief Data Scientist, Intel Advanced Analytics), Guruduth Banavar (Chief Science Officer, Cognitive Computing @ IBM). |
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NYC Real Estate Tech Week 2016
Venues, All over town
20+ Events, 50+ Startups, 5000+ Leaders & Innovators. |
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$3295 |
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Skift Global Forum 2016
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, 1941 Broadway
With Robert Albert (CEO, Routehappy), Sally Balcombe (CEO, VisitBritain), Rich Barton (Founder, Zillow Group), Ruzwana Bashir (Founder, Peek), Kevin Cohn (SVP of Operations, Smartling), Julia Cosgrove (Vice President & Editor in Chief, AFAR), Arnold Donald (CEO, Carnival), Roger Dow (CEO, U.S. Travel Association), Paul English (Founder, Lola), Brad Gerstner (Founder, Altimeter Capital). |
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$808 |
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NY Media Festival 2016
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place
With Andy Swanson (VP, eSports & Events, Twitch), Alex White (Founder, Next Big Sound / Pandora), Angela Northington (GM, Urban Movie Channel), Bill Grosso (Founder, Scientific Revenue), Chris Pizzurro (Canoe Ventures), Christy Tanner (GM, CBS News Digital), Cliff Plumer (President, Jaunt Studios), David Griffith (VP Mktg Partnerships, Food Network). |
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$16000 |
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12-Week Data Science Fall Bootcamp
NYC Data Science Academy, 500 8th Ave, Ste 905
The only data science bootcamp that teaches not just Python but also R, Hadoop, Spark and more! |
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Free |
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IoT Architecture Week
AWS Loft, 350 W Broadway |
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| 3:30pm |
Free |
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Algorithm Development, Micro-Services & Deep Learning
Lerner Hall @ Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, 5th Fl
With Diego & Kenny (Co-Founders @ Algorithmia). |
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| 4:00pm |
Free |
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Bridging the Digital Divide
Apella at Alexandria Center, 450 E 29th St
With Kevin Delaney (Co-President & Editor-in-Chief, Quartz), Mark Latonero (Dir. Research, USC Annenberg School), Olivia White (McKinsey), Shamina Singh (President, MasterCard Ctr for Inclusive Growth). |
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Free |
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Six Degrees of Education - Changing Careers
Throckmorton Gallery, 145 E 57 St
With Ignatius Chithelen (Fund Mgr, Startup Advisor and former Journalist) & Gary Shapiro (former Skadden Arps Lawyer). |
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Free |
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Drones, Wearables, IoT & Personal Privacy
LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Fl
With James Pasquale (Digi.me), Gareth Price (Ready Set Rocket). |
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Free |
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The Future: AI-Driven Analytics - An Evening Of Deep Learning
37 Pillars, 517 W 37th St
With Jim McHugh (VP, NVIDIA), Ram Sriharsha (Product Mgr, Apache Spark, DataBricks), Randy Swanberg (IBM Power Systems), Josh Patterson (Dir. Field Engg, Skymind), Peter Burris (Chief Research Officer, SiliconANGLE), Mark Brooks (Systems Enggr, Kinetica). |
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$20 |
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Lavans Startup Impact Booster
Orrick @ CBS Building, 51 W 52nd St
Featuring VoiceIt and VR Physio. |
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| 6:00pm |
$40 |
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Intro to Pricing Strategy
General Assembly West, 10 E 21st St, 3rd Fl
With Arie Abecassis (Co-Founder & Venture Partner, ICONYC Labs). |
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| 6:30pm |
Free |
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How to Ace Your Dev Bootcamp Interview
Dev Bootcamp, 48 Wall St, 15 Fl
Dev Bootcamp NY admissions & interview team members take you thru important steps to help you ace the interview. |
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Free |
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Making the Switch to Data Scientist
Microsoft Flagship, 677 Fifth Ave
With Mita Carriman (Co-Founder/CEO, Adventurely). |
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Free |
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Prodduct NYC - Talking Health Apps
Noom, 229 W 28th St, 9th Fl
Discussion + dinner & drinks. |
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Free |
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Digital Echoes - Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence w/ Data & Statistics
New School Auditorium, 66 W 12th St
With Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group), Megan Price (Human Rights Data Analysis Group). |
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Free |
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Measuring Software Quality at Cloudera
Pricewaterhouse Coopers, 300 Madison Ave, #24
With Juliet Hougland (Head of Data Science Engg, Cloudera). |
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Free |
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Augmented Reality For Producers - Bending The Curve In Real Life
The New School, 63 Fifth Ave
With Diego Florentin (VP Biz Dev, Squadability), Ted Iannuzzi (Creative Technologist, Ixonos), Oskari Hakkinen (Founder, Futurefly), Ariff Quli (CCO, Blippar), Chris Pfaff (PGA New Media Council East). |
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Free |
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MomentumX
W Union Square, 201 Park Ave S
With Neil Hudspith (President, Docusign), Woodrow Levin (VP Growth, DocuSign). |
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$129 |
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Startup Tour NYC
Rise NYC, 24 W 24th St
With Julie Samuels (Exec Director, Tech NYC), Christiana Ting (Samsung Global Innovation Ctr), Lindsay Avagliano (NYS Innovation VC Fund), Chris Fortunato (KEC VC), Jason Shuman (Corigin VC), Lena Kuznetsova (Starta Accelerator). |
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$25 |
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New York Health Forum
Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave
With DoHyun Cho (CEO, W Medical Strategy Group), Ki Young Sohn (CEO, Enzychem Lifesciences), Tae Sik Han (Dir., KOTRA), Judith Kim (Chair IP Practice, Rubin & Rudman), S Hwang (Dir., Pfizer). |
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$99 |
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Hustle Summit 2016
Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Pl
With Diane Dragan (Dir. Editorial, Conde Nast), Anne Hathaway (Program Mgr, Etsy), Stephanie Jacobson (Dir. Sponsorship Sales, IMG), Jennifer Ngo (Merchandiser, Ralph Lauren), Mallory Blair (Co-Founder, Small Girls PR), Carly Walsh (Curator, Livestream). |
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Free |
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Symposium on Driverless Cars in NYC
Municipal Building, 1 Centre St, 19th Fl
With Gale Brewer (Manhattan Borough President). |
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Free |
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Innovation in Europes Newsrooms
CUNY Grad School of Journalism, 219 W 40th St
With Kevin Delaney (Editor-in-chief, Quartz), Bild, Financial Times, De Correspondent, The Guardian. |
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Free |
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AdTech Connect
Davis & Gilbert, 1740 Broadway
With Alex Rosen (MD, IDG Ventures), Derek Reisfield (VP Strategy & Biz Dev, Wayfare Interactive), Gil Eyal (Founder, HYPR), Ali Abdullah (Founder, Claim It). |
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Free |
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Action Design Happy Hour
Public House, 140 E 41st St |
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Free |
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Data Driven
AXA Equitable Center, 787 7th Ave
With Noah Weiss (Head of Search, Learning & Intelligence, Slack), Praveen Murugesan (Engg Mgr, Uber), Jeremy Stanley (VP Data Science, Instacart), Carlos Guestrin (Founder, Turi & Prof. of Machine Learning, U. of Washington), Kostas Tzoumas (Founder, Data Artisans). |
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$30 |
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Founders Freestyle
Galvanize NYC, 315 Hudson St
With Christine Souffrant Ntim (Founder, Vendedy & BrandEntrepreneurs) and Michael Lisovetsky (Co-Founder, Skylight). |
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Free |
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IBM DataFirst Launch Event
Hudson Mercantile, 500 W 36th St
With Mukesh Sehgal (Founder, RSG Media), Nik Green (Dir. BI & Data Mgmt, Delhaize), Peter Wagner (Founder, Wing VC), Jim Deters (Founder, Galvanize), Travis Oliphant (Founder, Continuum Analytics), Bob Picciano (SVP, IBM Analytics). |
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$6 |
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[NYC Real Estate Week] - RE Tech Startups
The Mez, 55 Broadway
With founders Joe Charat (Naked Apts, acquired by Zillow), Ryan Freed (HoM), Julia Ramsey (Joinery), German Valencia (FloorHacker), James Ingallinera (Founder House). |
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Free |
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IoT & Open Source Hardware Communities
AWS Loft, 350 W Broadway
With Alex Glow (Hackster Community Lead & Hardware Chief). |
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Free |
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Brooklyn UX
Lavender Lake, 383 Carroll St, Brooklyn |
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Free |
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IBM Watson Update
Rise NYC, 24 W 24th St
With Bruce Weed (Biz Dev, IBM NYC Startups & Developers). |
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Free |
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Machine Learning & Big Data Show Day
NYC Data Science Academy, 500 8th Ave, Ste 905
Projects incl. Enigma, Predicting Consumer Credit Default, Uber Driver Optimization System, Yelp Nearby. |
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Free |
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Nifty Assignments
WeWork Chelsea, 115 W 18th St, 2nd Fl
With Meg Ray (Teacher in Residence, Cornell Tech), Lionel Bergeron (Tech Coach, NYCDOE), Carlos Leon (Code/Interactive), Gordon Smith (Founder, Codesters), Leigh Ann DeLyser (Dir. Edu & Research, CSNYC), Sean Stern (CS Teacher, AFSE). |
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Cocktails & Conversation
To Be Decided
With Chris Sacca (Star of ABC's Shark Tank and Chairman, Lowercase Capital). |
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Free |
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Intro to Apache Kudu - Fast Analytics on Fast Data
777 Theater, 777 8th Ave, 2nd Fl
With Michael Crutcher (Dir. Product Mgmt, Cloudera). |
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Free |
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From Reservoir to Drain - Analyzing Urban Water Flows
Urban Future Lab, 15 Metrotech Center, 19th Fl, Brooklyn
With Yannis Orfanos (Research Associate, Harvard School of Design). |
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Free |
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All About The Money - How to Secure Sponsorships & Build Partnerships
WeWork Soho, 173 Lafayette St
With founders/CEOs of Wall Street Paper, Groomed Success, House of Success, Essence Live Events, Racked Stretch, MLN Ventures. |
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| Wednesday, Sep 28 |
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$325 |
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Health Tech Summit 2016
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 455 S Broadway, Tarrytown
With IBM Healthcare, Dreamit Health, Northwell Health, NY Presbyterian Innovation Center, GNS Healthcare, Health 2.0, BioLabs NY. |
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| 7:30am |
$20 |
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Media Disruptors
UJA Conference Center, 130 E 59th St
With Julie Hansen (President/COO, Business Insider) and Ava Seave (Quantum Media). |
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| 8:00am |
$399 |
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Make It In Brooklyn Innovation Summit
City Point, 1 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn
With Claude Silver (Vayner Media), John Frankel (ffVC), Peter Boyce (General Catalyst), Rachel Haot (1776), Katepalli Sreenivasan (Dean, Tandon Engg), Shawn Cheng (Vayner/RSE), Michael Duda (Bullish), Sherine Kazim (Huge), Dana Mauriello (Etsy), JB Osborne (Red Antler), Marco Perry (Pensa). |
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DC Finance East Coast Family Office Conference
The Union League Club, 38E 37th St
With Sam Zell (Founder, Equity Group Investments), Ben Bryce (Founder, Align Ventures), Jason Ma (Founder, ThreeEQ), Mark Shafir (Citi Group), Michael Spencer (CipherLoc), Chris Kollas (TCS Travel). |
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Free |
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Cybersecurity Symposium - Security & IoT
Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Ave, Madison
With Ron Ross (Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology), Yingying Chen (Prof. Computer Engg, Stevens Inst. of Technology), Christopher Rodriguez (Director, NJ Office of Homeland Security). |
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$25 |
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SheWorx Breakfast
Duane Morris, 1540 Broadway
With Sara Weinheimer (Founder & Exec Producer, BroadMic). |
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Unify Tech Summit
NASDAQ MarketSite, 4 Times Sq
With Bob Garfield (Public Broadcaster & Author), Mahzarin Banaji (Prof. Social Ethics, Harvard University), T.J. Miller (Actor, HBO's Silicon Valley), Are Traasdahl (Founder, Tapad). |
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$100 |
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Health Tech Pitch Contest, Panel + Networking
Doubletree Hotel by Hiton, 455 S Broadway, Tarrytown
With Steve Barsh (CIO, DreamIt Health), Anthony Mason (Chief Digital Officer, MD Alert), Peter Fleischut (CIO, NY Presbyterian Innovation Center), Nicole McKnight (Director, BioLabs NY), Brad Weinburg (Founder, Blueprint Health). |
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$30 |
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TEDxNJIT Innovation & Collaboration
NJIT Kupfrian Hall, 154 Summit St, Newark
With Gerard Adams (Co-Founder, Elite Daily), Tara Alvarez (Prof. Biomedical Engg, NJIT), Ron Gold (Founder, LeanOnWe), David Rothenberg (Philosopher & Musician), Mark Scotland (Founder, 4.0 Analytics), Donald Sebastian (President, NJ Innovation Institute). |
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$20 |
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Caribbeans In Tech & Entrepreneurship
WeWork Charging Bull, 25 Broadway
With Jessica Santana (New York On Tech) and Cavaughn Noel (All Star Code). |
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$20 |
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VentureOut - Kilobytes & Bagpipes: Scottish Pitch Night
WeWork Charging Bull, 25 Broadway, 10th Fl
With Scottish Enterprise, Eric Vreeland (Bowery Capital), Ulrich Quay (BMW i Ventures), Sutian Dong (Female Founders Fund), Raju Rishi (RRE Ventures). |
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| 6:00pm |
Free |
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Intro to After Effects
Noble Desktop, 594 Broadway, Ste 1202
Adobe After Effects is powerful tool for motion graphics & video post-production. |
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$10 |
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NYC Marketing Mixer Presents - IBM THINK Leaders
Build Grand Central, 335 Madison Ave, 16th Fl
With Nick Johnson (SVP Ad Strategy, Turner) & Robert Schwartz (Global Leader of Strategy & Design, IBM iX). |
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$10 |
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Ladies@ Workshop - Elevate Your Life IQ
Lifion by ADP, 135 W 18th St, 5th Fl
With Jess Grippo (Founder, You Can Dance Again), Natalia Petrzela (Founder, HealthClass2.0 and Professor, New School), Sandy Smith (Author, Yes I Am Cheap), Anne Adams & Julie Schweigert (Trunk Club). |
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Free |
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How to Understand Users to Drive Adoption of Your Product
Product School, 1412 Broadway, 22nd fl
With Jesse Owens (Sr Product Manager, MasterCard). |
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Free |
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Tap into Tech
General Assembly East, 902 Broadway, 4th Fl
With Stephen Acunto (VP Biz Dev, Bringhub) & Adam Kossoff (Brand Mktg, Karhoo). |
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| 6:30pm |
Free |
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How the Internet Works
XO Group, 195 Broadway, 24th Fl
With Lena Krug (Principal Engineer, Meetup). |
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| 6:30pm |
Free |
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Hardware Hacklab VR/AR Party
ThoughtWorks, 99 Madison Ave, 15th Fl |
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| 7:00pm |
$30 |
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Startup Rock Climbing
Brooklyn Boulders, 575 Degraw St, Brooklyn
Hang out w/ some of the city's coolest startups. Beer by Sierra Nevada. |
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| 7:00pm |
$20 |
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NY Media Festival - The After-Party
Clinton Hall, 90 Washington St |
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| Thursday, Sep 29 |
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| 8:00am |
$49 |
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MivaCon X - The Future of E-Commerce
W Hoboken, 225 River St, Hoboken |
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| 8:00am |
$312 |
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Droidcon
Convene, 32 Old Slip
Android Developer & Designer Conf w/ Google, Square, Amex, Trello, Pinterest, Lyft, Uber, Facebook, Tumblr, Yahoo, Instagram. 2 days of 60+ technical talks. |
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| 9:00am |
$499 |
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TAP Conference
New World Stages, 340 W 50th St
With Bonin Bough (Host, CNBC), Margaret Stewart (VP Product, Facebook), Gary Fritz (Chief Growth Officer, TripAdvisor), Lisa Manowitz (Head of Partnerships, Pinterest), Lisa Gersh (CEO, Goop), Julia Beizer (Head of Product, HuffPo), Ellie Wheeler (Greycroft). |
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| 9:00am |
$75 |
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Hardware Workshop
New Lab, 63 Flushing Ave
With founders Marc Barros (Moment), Limor Fried & Phillip Torrone (Adafruit), Alexandra Fine (Dame), Idan Cohen (Grow & Boxee), Matt O'Connor (Director, Kinsa), Anna Thornton (Dragon Innovation), Ben Einstein (Bolt), Ryan Vinyard (Highway 1). |
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| 10:00am |
$875 |
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LAVCA Venture Investors Summit
Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Desbrosses St
With Andy Tsao (MD, Silicon Valley Bank), Ann Newman (EVP, WPP), Claudio Sassaki (Founder, Geekie), Diego Dzodan (VP Sales LATAM, Facebook), Eliza Erikson (Omidyar Network). |
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| 5:00pm |
Free |
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Biotech Innovation Roundtable
To Be Decided
Pitches by 3 Global Genomics and OmniCyte. |
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| 6:00pm |
Free |
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How to Get Started in Web Design
Noble Desktop, 594 Broadway, Ste 1202
Intro to HTML & CSS and learn how to layout webpages & style content. |
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| 6:00pm |
Free |
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Revolutionizing Customer Acquisition
Work-Bench, 110 5th Ave, 5th Fl
With Gary Kreissman (Founder, KeyVersion), Dean Eaker (CDO, Wired Assets), Karen Koslow (Wellness Amplified). |
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| 6:00pm |
$15 |
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Augmented Reality Beyond Pokemon Go
Dentons, 1221 Ave of the Americas
With Lindsay Boyajian (CMO, Augment), Heidi Braunstein (Product & Growth Hacker, Samsung Accelerator) & Blippar. |
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| 6:30pm |
$15 |
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Evolving Company Culture
Alley Chelsea, 119 W 24th St
With Jeff Fernandez (CEO, Grovo). |
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| 6:30pm |
$25 |
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RE:Tech - Emerging Trends in Office Leasing
WeWork, 115 W 18th St
With Nick Romito (Founder/CEO, VTS), Michael Mandel (Founder/CEO, Compstak), Al Baumol (Founder/CEO, Tensource). |
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| 6:30pm |
$10 |
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Aging 2.0 - Tech Enabled Concierge
Brookdale Battery Park, 455 N End Ave
With founders Rachel Doyle (GlamourGals), Carla Caramat (House Call Dentists), Zachary Jones (Head of Biz Dev, Nancy). |
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| 6:30pm |
Free |
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Data Science Meetup
LinkedIn @ Empire State Bldg, 350 5th Ave, 22nd Fl
With Shirshanka Das (Principal S/w Enggr, LinkedIn), Yael Garten (Dir. Data Science, LinkedIn), Xiaoqiang Luo (NLP Data Scientist, LinkedIn), Fei Huang (Lead Research Scientist, Facebook). |
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| 6:30pm |
Free |
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Hackaday MakeItNYC
Pivotal Labs, 625 Ave of Americas, 2nd Fl
With Holly Cohen & John Schimmel (Co-Founders, DIYAbility), Johnny Falla (Enable Community), Nisan Larea (WAZER). |
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| 6:30pm |
Free |
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Trust & Safety - Anti-Money Laundering & Compliance
DigitalOcean, 101 Ave of the Americas, 2nd Fl
With Kevin Nelson (ex-Dir. Global Investigations, JP Morgan Chase), Zack Pumerantz (Fraud Mgr, FanDuel), Patrick Murray (VP Products, DataVisor), Richard Barbieri (Risk Ops Mgr, Etsy). |
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| Friday, Sep 30 |
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| 8:00am |
$150 |
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Social Enterprise Conference
Lerner Hall @ Columbia University, 2920 Broadway
With Anthony Foxx (Secy, US Dept of Transportation), Clayton Lane (CEO, Transportation Policy Inst.), Chris Davis (CFO, Managed by Q), Manik Bhat (Founder, Healthify), Jimmy Chen (CEO, Propel), Rachel Diller (Bridges VC), John Farmer (Dir. Tech & Civic Innovation, Microsoft), Cyrus Garrett (NYC Office of Mayor), Amy Houston (MD, Robin Hood). |
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| 9:00am |
$105 |
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#TECHmunch - Food Blogger Conference
Home Studios, 873 Broadway, Studio 2
With Cap Watkins (VP Design, BuzzFeed), Jessica Randazza (Head of Mktg, Danone), Tania Yuki (Founder, Shareablee), Amie Valpone (Author, Eating Clean), Deborah Smith (Founder, JerseyBites), Babette Pepaj (Founder, BakeSpace), J.M. Hirsch (Editorial Director, Milk St Kitchen), Kara Rota (Host, Clever Cookstr). |
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| 12:00pm |
$90 |
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Raising Startup Capital
General Assembly East, 902 Broadway, 4th Fl
With Arie Abecassis (Co-Founder & Venture Partner, ICONYC Labs). |
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| 5:00pm |
$5 |
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Lean Startup Night
Rise NYC, 24 W 24th St, 2nd Fl
With Daniel Burka (Design Partner, Google Ventures). |
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| 6:00pm |
Free |
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SheHacksNYC 2016
Grind Park, 419 Park Ave S
Weekend-long convening of engineers, software developers, designers, data nerds & marketers. |
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| 7:00pm |
$25 |
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Lair East Fall Party
Lair East Startup Community, 424 Broadway, Ste 602
Evening of fun & networking w/ entrepreneurs, music, games, snacks, cocktails & more. |
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| Saturday, Oct 01 |
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| 10:00am |
$30 |
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World Maker Faire 2016
NY Hall of Science,[masked]th St, Queens
With founders Dina El-Zanfaly (Fab Lab Egypt), Dale Dougherty (Maker Media), Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research), Ellen Jorgensen (Genspace). |
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| 10:00am |
Free |
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Influencers & Brands Networking Expo
Chelsea Piers |
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| Sunday, Oct 02 |
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| 10:00am |
Free |
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Giphy Presents - Loop Dreams: IRL Exhibition of GIF Art
201 Mulberry St
Browse work of 25 GIF artists brought to life through holographic posters, projections, VR & interactive installations. |
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