Changing Digital Landscape of 2016 NYC: Speakers from Link.nyc and Mayors office

What You Should Know About the Changing Digital Landscape of NYC

Get an insider’s view to NYC’s digital programs – LinkNYC + neighborhoods.nyc + .NYC domains

Speakers :

Stacey Levine- Communications Director at Intersection and Head of Communications for Link.NYC.

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communications network that will replace over 7,500 pay phones across the five boroughs with new structures called Links. Each Link will provide superfast, free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging and a tablet for Internet browsing, access to city services, maps and directions.

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Mayor De Blasio using LinkNYC kiosk during launch of Link.nyc on February 19th, 2016

Erica Gonzalez New York City Council Digital Strategy Director
( http://labs.council.nyc )

Together, we make the laws governing New York City.

In April 2015, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito introduced Council 2.0, a roadmap for making the Council more accessible and transparent through digital technology. This plan includes the “Council Labs” website, engagement through social media and SMS, and working with Open Data.

http://Neighborhoods.nyc - Hyper Local City Wide Community

Aileen Gemma Smith - CEO - Brain behind Neighborhoods.nyc development

Chris Smith - CTO - Tech muscle behind Neighborhoods.nyc

Vizalytics partnered with the New York City Mayor's office of Technology and Innovation to build Neighborhoods.nyc, a website that draws from the Knowledge Graph to provide traffic, transit, quality of life, health, inspection, event, and other information about each of the more than 400 neighborhoods in the city’s five boroughs.
Launching in mid march 2016 (Few weeks away!).

Erik Grimmelman - CEO of The New York Technology Council - He has served on Counter-Terrorism Technology Oversight Panel, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, National Security Telecommunications

Dmitry Dragilev - CEO of JustReachOut -
In 2014 Dmitry used JustReachOut to scale a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews and get acquired by Google
In 2008 he helped grow another startup from 0 to 5+ million users and eventually get acquired by AVG.

Clayton Banks -CEO of Silicon Harlem - The mission of Silicon Harlem is to transform Harlem into a Innovation and Technology Hub.

Erica Hatfield - Communication Director forTransit Wireless - NYC wireless network currently provides. Wireless and Wi-Fi coverage extension to 145+ underground NYC subway stations. Services to all 279 underground stations will be rolled out over the next few years

Hello NYC ( http://www.sayhello.nyc ) and Meetup.nyc invite you to our upcoming Meetup. We will be sharing news on two very exciting projects - LinkNYC + neighborhoods.nyc and how every New Yorker’s life will be affected by these initiatives in 2016 and beyond.

We will have speakers from Link.nyc and Neighborhoods.nyc as well as Mayors Tech Development office.

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We have limited sitting, so please make sure to RSVP on our meet up page.

Free Wifi on every street + digital neighborhoods and hyper-local marketing, all built on .nyc domains.

In the meetup we will share news on the latest on these programs, what they mean for New Yorkers and how everyone will benefit.

Complimentary drinks will be served to attendees.

Please join us to learn, network and have fun!

When: Thursday, March 10th
Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm
Where: Interface – 140 W 30th Street (Btwn 6th & 7th / Next to Till & Sprocket Restaurant)

Sponsors:

NeedGrowth.com (http://www.NeedGrowth.com)

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