Verbalizeit / Touch Lab / WayWay

This month we help our members translate (http://www.verbalizeit.com/) their apps in 150+ languages, learn from one of the most highly regarded Android (http://touchlab.co/) Developers in NYC, while finding their way (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wayway-find-restaurants-bars/id694189318?mt=8) to some unique places in the process.

Special thanks to Venmo (https://venmo.com/) for sponsoring.

Overview:

7:00 pm – Drinks, good eats, and networking.

7:15 pm – Discussion on the latest in the mobile landscape.

7:30 pm – Presentations: Get a behind-the-scenes look at the process of building, designing, and executing an app from NY's best. Less demos, more lessons learned.

9:00 pm – NYC Apps After-Party.

Presentations by:

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/e/d/4/600_344028852.jpeg

Kunal Sarda (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalsarda), Co-Founder & COO, Verbalizeit (http://www.verbalizeit.com/)

Kunal Sarda is the co-founder and COO of VerbalizeIt, an international crowdsourced translation company. Previously, Kunal was a management consultant and helped guide global commercial strategy for early stage and Fortune 500 companies Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca and Merck. Having lived in over twenty-five countries, Kunal is passionate about leveraging technology to promote global citizenship and has spoken extensively about the need to break down language barriers to strengthen connections between people. Kunal brings both this experience and passion for breaking down barriers to VerbalizeIt and has helped hundreds of companies refine how they approach and engage with an increasingly influential global customer.

Kunal co-founded VerbalizeIt while pursuing his MBA at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of TechStars, and also holds a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech University. He is an avid international traveler, speaks four languages, and has an undying passion for exploration.

Kunal has been referenced in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and has contributed content to Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2013/11/12/the-secrets-to-taking-your-small-business-global/), FWD.us (http://www.fwd.us/kunal), and Tnooz (http://www.tnooz.com/article/travel-startup-verbalizeit-startup-story). You can watch Kunal and VerbalizeIt’s co-founder Ryan Frankel present VerbalizeIt on ABC’s award-winning television show Shark Tank here (http://www.verbalizeit.com/about/verbalizeit-on-shark-tank).

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/3/8/4/600_344030052.jpeg

Kevin Galligan (http://northamerica.startupbus.com/judges/), President, Touch Lab (http://touchlab.co/)

Kevin Galligan has been coding professionally for 15 years, and currently is the Lead Developer and President of Touch Lab, New York's premiere Android development shop. He and his team have built great Android apps for a number of NY startup and enterprise customers. In the evenings he's either running the NY Android Developer Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/android-developers-nyc/) or playing the guitar with Diesel America (https://www.facebook.com/DieselAmerica).

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/5/6/e/600_344030542.jpeg

Thomas Repelski (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/thomas-repelski/1/39/4a6), CEO, WayWay (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wayway-find-restaurants-bars/id694189318?mt=8)

Raphael Guilleminot (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rguilleminot), UX / UI Designer, WayWay (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wayway-find-restaurants-bars/id694189318?mt=8)

About WayWay

WayWay is a local recommendation app that lets users discover venues through pictures and hashtags sourced from social media. Users get a feel for a venue through a rich and easily consumable visual story. These venues are ranked by popularity –a trustworthy metric as locations with the best of a particular feature will typically generate the most shares and mentions on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. This makes WayWay fast (no reviews only pictures and words), reliable (enormous amount of data creating relevant recommendations) and scalable (two weeks to launch in a new city.)

Thomas Repelski

Thomas is the CEO of WayWay, a visual recommendation mobile application which he co-founded with two former classmates. Before WayWay, he worked for six years in sales, marketing and business development in the pharmaceutical industry. He lived in 3 continents during that time. An engineer by training, he graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford University.

Raphael Guilleminot

Raphaël is the creative force behind WayWay. A self-taught designer, he has worked with design consultancies and startups to craft products and user interfaces for Fortune 500 companies in medical, financial and consumer industries.

This month's App download list:

WayWay: iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wayway-find-restaurants-bars/id694189318?mt=8)

Twitter accounts to follow for this event:

@Verbalize_It (https://twitter.com/Verbalize_It)

@TouchLabNY (https://twitter.com/touchlabny)

@WayWayApp (https://twitter.com/WayWayApp)

The official NYC Apps Twitter accounts:

@nycapps (http://twitter.com/nycapps)

@mobiledivide (http://twitter.com/mobiledivide)

@katykasmai (https://twitter.com/katykasmai)

Our official Twitter hashtag:

#nycapps (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nycapps&src=typd)

We look forward to seeing all of you soon.

-NYC Apps