Cheers,
Katharine Bierce
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Monday, November 29th
3:30PM Susan Crawford at NYU
Susan Crawford (former Special Assistant to President Obama for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy) will talk about the state of telecommunications policy in the United States today. This talk is part of Evan Korth's Computers and Society speaker series sponsored by NYU-ACM and ISOC-NY. And no, she did not pop the President in the mouth trying to pull down an offensive rebound.
6:30PM Be Thankful for Short Scala Talks
It's getting cold, sort of, and everyone is reviewing their finances to see how many MacBooks Air they can afford to give (themselves) this year. But what would a holiday season be without sharing stories by the fire?
It would be terrible! So we're having a special meetup exclusively composed of five-minute talks. Yes, speakers will really be limited to five minutes: we're using Hack and Tell's patented "kill them with kindness" lightning talk timer. It's better this way.
Tuesday, November 30th
6:30PM Node.js and Hadoop use at Xydo - NYC Tech Talks Meetup
This month, we will have Charles Anderson (lead back-end dev) and Steven Soroka (lead app/front-end dev) from Xydo presenting on how they use Node.js and Hadoop in their new startup.
6:30PM Fall 2010 Founder Speakers Session With Esther Dyson
Ester Dyson's father is the physicist Freeman Dyson; her mother is mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson. If you didn't know better, you might imagine that she was the product of some mad James Bond villian's plot to repopulate the earth with a race of supergeeks. Dyson is currently focusing her career on preemptive healthcare and continues to invest in health technology.
6:30PM NY Video Meetup
-David Otten, Long Tail Video - home of the massively popular JW player.
-Grace & Michelle - the creators and hosts of The Grace And Michelle Show.
-Kevin Wassong - President of Minyanville Media. A New York based company that has a large
and growing subscription business based on exclusive content and video.
...and a Special Guest... the CEO of New York's latest Video phenomenon and
the biggest win yet for a NYVM alum to make it to to a big exit. How did they do
it? What's next for the NY Video scene?
-Ran Harnevo - 5min's $64.7 million dollar man!
7:00PM NYC EdTech Meetup
Who Should Attend?
You care about education and student success
You get excited about the impact technology can have on education
You either work in an institution or are working on a solution outside the institution
You currently are, or want to become, an EdTech champion
You believe collaboratively we can do more
You believe EdTech is more than just a smart board in the classroom
You generally consider yourself filled with awesome sauce...and so do others
Wednesday, Dec 1st
6PM Social Gaming Summit East Afterparty
The NY Gaming Meetup has partnered with the new Social Gaming Summit East to host the conference afterparty on Wednesday, December 1st!
Enjoy drinks with your fellow NY Gaming Meetupers as well as SGS East attendees from around the world!
6:30PM Metrics & Analytics
There are so many numbers to parse when analyzing web and mobile metrics – which are the most important? How can you tell if your customer acquisition efforts are effective? Are your customers adequately engaged?
At the upcoming nextNY talk on metrics, you'll learn what key measurements you should analyze, what tools to use, best practices and how to build these metrics into your company culture. From customer acquisition to ongoing engagement, the distinguished panel will cover metrics in the context of mobile, social, location based services and e-commerce businesses.
Leticia Colon - Senior Analyst, Social Media/Analytics at WCG Insights
Matt LeMay - Manager of Platform, Bitly
Jonathan Mendez - Founder & CEO, Yieldbot
Dagny Prieto - Principal, dp ux & design
Greg Yardley - VP of Product, Flurry
7PM Hacks and Hackers Demo Day
The Hacks/Hackers presenting are...
Kushal Dave, FourSquare engineer, who will present an advance off-the-recordish look at the new FourSquare API. (See the current API)
Dan Nguyen of ProPublica, who will review the data gathering and data structuring behind Docs for Dollars.
Jeff Larson of ProPublica uncovering financial self-dealing with a network graph.
David Moore with OpenGovernment.org, a version of OpenCongress for states and cities that will be launched in public beta in December with five state legislatures.
Jeremy Singer-Vine with Text Toggle, developed with Slate, which gives publishers an easy way to create, embed, and present interactive translations.
Shafqat Islam of Newscred with an experimental curation tool. (See the live demo)
Erik Hinton & Al Shaw with the TPM election night app, a high-class production made with limited resources.
Daniel Bachhuber with the EditFlow WordPress plug-in, now in version 0.6 which will let you control the whole editing process — from pitch to publishing — within WordPress.
7PM Quora New York City Meetup #3
We are long overdue for a Quora NYC Meetup! Since the last meetup, Quora and the NYC Quora community have grown tremendously. Come out and meet the people from the NYC area creating Quora content. Just don't ask any questions at the event... j/k.
Thursday, Dec 2nd
7:30AM The Rationale For Early Exits in New Ventures - A NY Angels Education Workshop
Early Exits describes a strategy for startup investors and entrepreneurs to build a new ventures, prove business models and exit companies in 2-3 years without the need for multi-million dollar investments. Bill Payne is an active angel investor, board member, and advisor to entrepreneurs. He assisted in founding four angel groups, including the Frontier Angel Fund in 2005.
6:30PM Ultra Light Startups: From Concept to Website
Paul Berry, CTO of HuffingtonPost
Gil Beyda, Founder and Managing Partner of Genacast Ventures
Steve Bruner, Founder of SlipFire, Organizer of WordCampNYC
Vinicius Vacanti, Co-Founder of Yipit.com
7PM The Product Group
Wind Products is dedicated to making distributed wind turbines more viable in places where people live and work. Sounds like an awesome company. I'd like a wind turbine. I hear that GaryVee is moving towards being powered by at least 15% renewable energy by the end of the year. Of course, the remainder will still come from a potent mixture of Malbec, Redbull, and Darrelle Revis sweat.
8PM Ignite Holiday Party
As a way of saying thank you for being such a great crowd for the past two-and-a-half years, the first 300 people to arrive will receive their first drink on Solvate, and we'll also have drink specials all night long!
Drinks, dancing, an awesome photobooth + lots of Ignite NYC speakers-- we'd love to see you there!
Saturday, December 4th
8AM Food+Tech Hackathon
Join Food+Tech Connect, Open Source Cities, and Gojee on December 4th for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. This open-source hacking event will bring together developers from all over the state to hack on real-world problems relating to how we grow, prepare, and interact with food.
Join Food+Tech Connect, Open Source Cities, and Gojee on December 4th for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. This open-source hacking event will bring together developers from all over the state to hack on real-world problems relating to how we grow, prepare, and interact with food.
