Building a Safer Driver Experience with Waze

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With Google's mission in mind — to make the world's information universally accessible and useful — Waze has been helping millions of users get to where they want to go. Now, we're exploring how to integrate this application into all that you do. With iOS 12, Apple is opening up their in-car system, CarPlay, to third-party navigation applications. Waze is on track to be one of the first navigation applications available on CarPlay when iOS 12 launches this Fall. Join us to learn about the process and challenges of developing Waze for the CarPlay system, while ensuring an engaging and safe hands-free experience.

Waze Team Presenters:

Jon Sharkey

Jon is an an engineering lead at Waze, working on Platforms. In this role, Jon works on partnerships with other apps and car platforms, such as Android Auto and CarPlay. Jon joined Google in the Waterloo, Canada office and later spent five years in the Bay Area before relocating to New York. Prior to Google, Jon worked at Facebook, Reddit, and in mobile gaming in Toronto. He is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada where he received a BSc in Computer Science from Saint Mary's University.

Eytan Biala

Eytan is an engineer on the Waze Platforms and Frameworks team in New York. Previously, he worked on features to help users explore and discover the places around them in Search, Google Maps, and Zagat.
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Agenda:
5:30 - 6:30 pm: Registration & Networking
6:30 - 7:30 pm: Welcome, Tech Talk, Q&A
7:30 - 8:00 pm: Networking & Goodnight

Please note the venue entrance is on 10th Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets. There are several train lines nearby, including the A,C,E and L trains on 14th Street and 8th Avenue. Security requires you to show a form of identification at the time of check-in.

This event is at full capacity. You can sign up for the waitlist at https://goo.gl/forms/C9WIeKuyrQ6lh2kE3 to attend this event. Registering through Meetup does not guarantee admission.

We expect space to fill up quickly. You can typically catch talks once posted to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD8A7B6D66DDD297).

See you there!