Happy networking!
~Katharine
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Monday, January 31, 2011
Tech and innovation events in NYC this week
I know it's not necessarily kosher to post just lists of events in a blog, but my consulting job keeps me super busy and copy-pasting is fast. My modus operandi is to put in cool events I like best to my Google Calendar at the bottom of this blog on weekends when I have more time, in case you're wondering, dear readers.
Happy networking!
~Katharine
Happy networking!
~Katharine
NYC events in design and social impact this week
From my friend and networking buddy Brielle -
Wednesday, February 2
7:00pm Live With Design Explores Social Design ManifestosThis month Live With Design meets with Manifesto Makers to discuss how to approach creating a manifesto and explore the challenges/victories experienced during the making process. A social design manifesto brings to the forefront a set of ideas and intentions. They showcase the “why?” behind the “what” – that message that makes us into believers. They are call to action. Their function is to locate and ignite the “us.” Urshula Barbour is a designer/writer/educator and founder, Pure + Applied Design Studio www.pureandapplied.com She’s responsible for designing the first edition of Design Like You Give a Damn . David and Mike Radparvar, founders of Holstee, www.holstee.com, created their manifesto as the anthem that embodies the reason for what they do – “selling kick ass products, sustainably made, with social impact”. Interactive Exercise: Led by Pritha RaySircar, Founder & Chief MAKEr of theMAKE www.themake.org/ which is a social activation model. Please bring a t-shirt that needs to be re-purposed! Also get a sneak preview of the www.womenofhaiti.org.. Soon to be launched microsite the result of our collaboration with Digital Democracy. Where:Hive at 55 55 Broad St. 13th Floor New York, NY |
Thursday, February 3 |
6:30 pm A CAMERA, MARKER, PAPER & SCISSORS = CASEY NEISTATit appears to me that Casey Neistat runs D.I.Y Design. Lots to learn from this maverick who taught himself everything from design to filmmaking since he dropped out of high school. Where:The Celeste Bartos Theater
, MoMA The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building 4 West 54th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues |
Community Listing |
Submit a video to DESIGNWALA! Your video will be instrumental in kicking off DESIGNWALA's panel discussion titled 'Parallel Urbanism - local people regulating local spaces'. The conversation will address the issues that you raise, the problems that you face and the future that you envision. Please use this as a platform to state your views and let your voice be heard. DB will keep you updated on when the panel is coming in late March.
Shout out to Ruhi who brought this to my attention !
Got something for our new Community Listing section email me at brielle@livewithdesign.org.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wed. Feb 9 Ignite NYC
Just got this forwarded from a friend and wanted to share!
Happy networking,
Katharine
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Happy networking,
Katharine
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This newsletter is dedicated to the next Ignite NYC taking place during Global Ignite Week and Social Media Week!
Please join us on Wednesday, February 9 to watch another incredible evening of speakers taking the stage to talk about topics they are passionate about.
Start brushing up on your knowledge of the ENTIRE Internet because Geek Jeopardy is making a comeback! The champion will be declared grand master of Internet knowledge and possibly win a nifty prize so study your memes and review your 4chans! Game Designer: Summer Bedard
Details below!
Start brushing up on your knowledge of the ENTIRE Internet because Geek Jeopardy is making a comeback! The champion will be declared grand master of Internet knowledge and possibly win a nifty prize so study your memes and review your 4chans! Game Designer: Summer Bedard
Details below!
Ignite NYC XI Wed, February 9, 2011
Schedule:
6:30 PM -- Doors open
7:30 PM -- Geek Jeopardy
8 PM -- Ignite NYC talks begin
9:45 PM - 12 AM -- Afterparty
6:30 PM -- Doors open
7:30 PM -- Geek Jeopardy
8 PM -- Ignite NYC talks begin
9:45 PM - 12 AM -- Afterparty
Address:
Galapagos Art Space Dumbo
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Map
Please register for tickets on our Eventbrite page
We usually sell out, so register for tickets as soon as possible to be able to attend!
LIKE us on Facebook and FOLLOW us on Twitter for exclusive news about prizes and guests.
If you have any questions, please contact Ignite NYC via nycignite@gmail.com
Galapagos Art Space Dumbo
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Map
Please register for tickets on our Eventbrite page
We usually sell out, so register for tickets as soon as possible to be able to attend!
LIKE us on Facebook and FOLLOW us on Twitter for exclusive news about prizes and guests.
If you have any questions, please contact Ignite NYC via nycignite@gmail.com
Confirmed Speakers:
AARON HARMON: “Person Prototypes”
When was the last time you told someone giving you directions that you were "Recalculating Route?" Why do devices that we talk to fail to speak to us in conversational language? This short talk will provide a "how-to" on prototyping conversational interfaces using people.
Harmon is a mobile specialist at NBC Universal. He spent a few years helping devices listen (and speak!) at Nuance Communications.
@AHarmonica
aaronharmon.com
ADAM LEIBSOHN: “Don't Be Scared of Your Data”
As you're reading this description on Eventbrite, you're creating data that someone else will use... for better or worse. Let's take a look at what we could do if we shared more data with each other... for the benefit of each other.
Liebsohn is the Director of Communications strategy at Anomaly where he studies how people and culture are changing the technology we use and the media we consume. Those insights–combined with a love for data and tech–led him to become the founder and creator of voyurl.com, which just launched in beta. Voyurl is a service founded on the premise of open data; it constantly keeps a dynamic archive of users' clickstreams with the goal of capturing data that gives users rich insight into their behavior and better content recommendations.
@adamcl
voyurl.com
ALEX GODIN: “Highschool In the Age of the Hacker: What's Wrong and What's Right with the High School System”
Early last September two big things happened to Alex. He attended his first New York Tech Meetup, and he launched a startup in 48 hours at NYC Startup weekend (The startup was called Foodo and we took home the grand prize for the weekend). However, two days later he found himself sitting in high school chemistry class, wishing he was hacking away on other projects. This talk will cover what school teaches an up and coming hacker: Teachers are just like clients, how to do something you don't want to do, and how to fake your way through anything.
Godin is a 17 year old high school student who likes startups, internet culture and filmmaking. When he’s not working on school work, he’s hacking away on various startup projects at New Work City. He recently led the team that won the New York City Startup weekend with the following pitch: http://vimeo.com/14924790
@alex_godin
alexgodin.com
CHERYL HELLER: ”One single answer to all the world’s problems”
Feminine energy is not limited to gender, rather it’s the approach to life that is based on integration and collaboration, working together to highlight shared strengths and carry them forward. This mentality is the hope of social innovation – a systemic approach to improving the world.
Heller is a communication strategist, writer, designer, and educator who uses communication design to transform organizations into living systems. She’s the CEO of Heller Communication Design, the Chair of the Board of PopTech, and the Chair of the Design for Social Innovation MFA at School of Visual Arts.
@cherylheller
hellercd.com
EMILY FISCHER: “Stick Maps and Stone Men”
Before GPS and satellite communications, people used sticks and stones to find their way. In 2011 we need to relearn how to use action and our haptic sense to root ourselves to the physical world. People are splitting into two selves: one body is invisible and built of information, bonded to a network via mobile devices— while our other body is still a corporeal lump of nerve endings and immense feelings. What defines our humanness isn’t just our intellectual curiosities but our physical lives and the real physical world our bodies occupy. Stick Maps and Stone Men are more useful than iPhones.
8 years ago Fischer was an architecture student that had a lot of weird interests... quilting, kite-making, literature, non-euclidean geometry... She spent 5 years working professionally as a misfit architect in different NYC firms until she struck out on her own in 2009 when she founded the Haptic Lab. Haptic makes things that promote embodiment through design.
@haptician
hapticlab.com
EMILY JACOBI: “How mobile phones and whistles will save a generation of women in Haiti”
Jacobi has been working with women who lost everything to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which left them vulnerable to horrific things - rape, theft, attacks & cholera. Despite the most brutal obstacles, they are organizing to combat and prevent violence, advocating for justice, and providing critical services to other women and girls facing violence. In partnership with Digital Democracy, these women have been using technology in many exciting ways: documenting their situation through photography, blogs & video, digitizing their knowledge & creating new data sets, and using mobiles to monitor and respond to the crisis, these are empowered women fighting for justice in their community, collectively acting in solidarity to solve these challenges.
Jacobi is co-founder & Executive Director of Digital Democracy, a New York City-based nonprofit that works globally to empower marginalized communities with digital technologies. She has led media & technology projects on four continents, ridden a camel in Timbuktu, and helped organize [name redacted for security purposes], the world's largest barcamp in one of the most repressive countries.
@Emjacobi
digital-democracy.org
EMILY LUTZKER: “The Dog ate my Innovation”
This talk is a semi-humorous infusion of critical thinking into everyday life exploring the concepts "innovation" and "new." Using references from critical theory, Lutzker will discuss "the new," the new fascination with newness, new technology, illusions of the new, allusions to the new and excuses we all have for not recognizing and adopting the new when everyone else does. Then, she will present some theories about "smartness" and the "new smartness" and how that's very 1990's -- read: not new. To wrap up, I will use examples of some smart old things to demonstrate how everything old is smart again or perhaps, the newness doesn't make us smart at all. Instead, she proposes that if we forget our smartness we'll have a chance to remember our innovation.
Emily Lutzker, PhD is the Founder and CEO of OpenInvo.com - a platform for innovation. She is a former artist and stand-up (h)ac(k)ademic turned entrepreneur.
@openinvo
openinvo.com
ERIC SKIFF: “Pluggable Culture”
Increasingly, we live in a world of powerful pluggable pieces. Invention is evolving from engineers’ work into something much more akin to cooking, where creators mix in ingredients to make something delicious and unique. That shift is enabling a new generation of makers and entrepreneurs to fit those prebuilt parts together quickly and build on them. Forget reinventing the wheel - stop reinventing the car!
Skiff is the cofounder of YAYfriends and NYCResistor, a Drop.io alum, BarCamp Organizer, and unapologetic geek!
@ericskiff
ericskiff.com
FERNANDA COHEN: "Art + Commerce"
Fernanda Cohen will talk about how she combines fine arts with commercial art, AKA illustration, along with conferences, networking events, writing and teaching. She will discuss how helping promote other people's careers has helped her build her own, why the more you do for yourself the more you get hired to do for others, and how the day can have more than 24 hours.
Cohen grew up in Buenos Aires and moved to New York City in 2000 to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has received over 50 awards worldwide and she is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts; she’s on the advisory board of 3x3 Magazine, the vice president of ICON6 (The Illustration Conference), and the coordinator of a lecture series at the Society of Illustrators of New York.
@fernandacohen
fernandacohen.com
JERRI CHOU: “Condoms, Enterprise and Making Women's Empowerment Sexy”
Condoms are not sexy. While men are the primary target for purchasing condoms, they have everything to do with women. Yet very few condom companies get anywhere close to first base.... What happens when you put women at the helm of a condom company? More specifically, design savvy social entrepreneurial women who are ambitious enough to take on the AIDS epidemic, experienced enough to address the social side, capable enough to change an industry, and savvy enough to create a movement while doing it. To say that the tone changes is an understatement.
Chou is the co-founder of All Day Buffet, The Feast, TBD, and Lovely Day. She believes we created this world and that we can create a better one.
@jchou
lovebeginswithl.com
NICK GIGLIA: “Around the World in 1,000 Beers”
A random conversation in a London bar completely changed Nick’s life. He was a 20-year-old American student on a semester abroad, who had previously drunk whatever his of-age roommates bought him. One night, when he ordered a Stella Artois the bartender burst out laughing, telling him he needed some taste. Nick challenged himself to get some taste during that semester, and never stopped. He’s now closing in on 1,000 different beers... Join him for a look at his trip around the world (and the beer world), including life lessons through beer, tasting tips, and how you should never consider any conversation insignificant.
Giglia is founder and CEO of Fahros, seeking to democratize corporate IT through cloud computing. He gets inordinately excited about the yearly pumpkin ale release and wishes Samuel Adams would release Old Fezziwig in 6 packs.
@nickgiglia
about.me/nickgiglia
TAHIR HEMPHILL: “Champagne Always Stains My Silk”
Using The Hip-Hop Word Count: A Searchable Rap Almanac, Hemphill will show how one can do a keyword search for the most popular CHAMPAGNE mentioned in Hip-Hop from 1979-2010. He will show beautiful data visualization results of the research: http://bit.ly/kickstarthhwc
Hemphill is an Eyebeam Atleirer Resident. Creative Strategist. Creative Director. Creative Technologist. Reluctant Messiah. Peripheral Visionary. Philologist. Hip-Hop Enthusiast. Native Queens New Yorker.
@Tahero
tahirhemphill.com
TERRY JONES: “What the Post-It Note Can Teach Us About Apps and Data”
In our everyday lives we constantly publish and consume information in ad hoc, unanticipated and highly idiosyncratic ways. But with computers, our experiences are often awkward and rigid, and our actions must be anticipated and permitted. Using familiar examples, this talk will focus on this disparity and argue that people are actually very clever at working with information, and that those things point towards thinner applications that let people interact more directly with information and towards computational storage that works more like Post-it ® notes.
Jones is CEO & founder of Fluidinfo, a New York startup aiming to change how people and companies work with information.
@terrycojones
fluidinfo.com
TODD SAWICKI: “History of Online Advertising: The Real Story”
From Ben Franklin to O'Reilly's own Tim O’Reilly find out who really is responsible for the craziness we call online advertising. Here's the real scoop on everything from the 1st banner ad to where spam came from to the rise of the dreaded pop – its all explained so you’ll really know who to blame!
Sawicki is a geek and with over 15 years of experience with online startups, media companies and everything in between. Todd has been at the intersection of the rise of online content, video and music from its earliest stages to its now emerging dominance. Todd is currently the Chief Revenue Officer for the Cheezburger Network – the leading independent network of online humor sites including ICanHasCheezburger.com and FAILBlog.org.
@sawickipedia
sawickipedia.com
AARON HARMON: “Person Prototypes”
When was the last time you told someone giving you directions that you were "Recalculating Route?" Why do devices that we talk to fail to speak to us in conversational language? This short talk will provide a "how-to" on prototyping conversational interfaces using people.
Harmon is a mobile specialist at NBC Universal. He spent a few years helping devices listen (and speak!) at Nuance Communications.
@AHarmonica
aaronharmon.com
ADAM LEIBSOHN: “Don't Be Scared of Your Data”
As you're reading this description on Eventbrite, you're creating data that someone else will use... for better or worse. Let's take a look at what we could do if we shared more data with each other... for the benefit of each other.
Liebsohn is the Director of Communications strategy at Anomaly where he studies how people and culture are changing the technology we use and the media we consume. Those insights–combined with a love for data and tech–led him to become the founder and creator of voyurl.com, which just launched in beta. Voyurl is a service founded on the premise of open data; it constantly keeps a dynamic archive of users' clickstreams with the goal of capturing data that gives users rich insight into their behavior and better content recommendations.
@adamcl
voyurl.com
ALEX GODIN: “Highschool In the Age of the Hacker: What's Wrong and What's Right with the High School System”
Early last September two big things happened to Alex. He attended his first New York Tech Meetup, and he launched a startup in 48 hours at NYC Startup weekend (The startup was called Foodo and we took home the grand prize for the weekend). However, two days later he found himself sitting in high school chemistry class, wishing he was hacking away on other projects. This talk will cover what school teaches an up and coming hacker: Teachers are just like clients, how to do something you don't want to do, and how to fake your way through anything.
Godin is a 17 year old high school student who likes startups, internet culture and filmmaking. When he’s not working on school work, he’s hacking away on various startup projects at New Work City. He recently led the team that won the New York City Startup weekend with the following pitch: http://vimeo.com/14924790
@alex_godin
alexgodin.com
CHERYL HELLER: ”One single answer to all the world’s problems”
Feminine energy is not limited to gender, rather it’s the approach to life that is based on integration and collaboration, working together to highlight shared strengths and carry them forward. This mentality is the hope of social innovation – a systemic approach to improving the world.
Heller is a communication strategist, writer, designer, and educator who uses communication design to transform organizations into living systems. She’s the CEO of Heller Communication Design, the Chair of the Board of PopTech, and the Chair of the Design for Social Innovation MFA at School of Visual Arts.
@cherylheller
hellercd.com
EMILY FISCHER: “Stick Maps and Stone Men”
Before GPS and satellite communications, people used sticks and stones to find their way. In 2011 we need to relearn how to use action and our haptic sense to root ourselves to the physical world. People are splitting into two selves: one body is invisible and built of information, bonded to a network via mobile devices— while our other body is still a corporeal lump of nerve endings and immense feelings. What defines our humanness isn’t just our intellectual curiosities but our physical lives and the real physical world our bodies occupy. Stick Maps and Stone Men are more useful than iPhones.
8 years ago Fischer was an architecture student that had a lot of weird interests... quilting, kite-making, literature, non-euclidean geometry... She spent 5 years working professionally as a misfit architect in different NYC firms until she struck out on her own in 2009 when she founded the Haptic Lab. Haptic makes things that promote embodiment through design.
@haptician
hapticlab.com
EMILY JACOBI: “How mobile phones and whistles will save a generation of women in Haiti”
Jacobi has been working with women who lost everything to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which left them vulnerable to horrific things - rape, theft, attacks & cholera. Despite the most brutal obstacles, they are organizing to combat and prevent violence, advocating for justice, and providing critical services to other women and girls facing violence. In partnership with Digital Democracy, these women have been using technology in many exciting ways: documenting their situation through photography, blogs & video, digitizing their knowledge & creating new data sets, and using mobiles to monitor and respond to the crisis, these are empowered women fighting for justice in their community, collectively acting in solidarity to solve these challenges.
Jacobi is co-founder & Executive Director of Digital Democracy, a New York City-based nonprofit that works globally to empower marginalized communities with digital technologies. She has led media & technology projects on four continents, ridden a camel in Timbuktu, and helped organize [name redacted for security purposes], the world's largest barcamp in one of the most repressive countries.
@Emjacobi
digital-democracy.org
EMILY LUTZKER: “The Dog ate my Innovation”
This talk is a semi-humorous infusion of critical thinking into everyday life exploring the concepts "innovation" and "new." Using references from critical theory, Lutzker will discuss "the new," the new fascination with newness, new technology, illusions of the new, allusions to the new and excuses we all have for not recognizing and adopting the new when everyone else does. Then, she will present some theories about "smartness" and the "new smartness" and how that's very 1990's -- read: not new. To wrap up, I will use examples of some smart old things to demonstrate how everything old is smart again or perhaps, the newness doesn't make us smart at all. Instead, she proposes that if we forget our smartness we'll have a chance to remember our innovation.
Emily Lutzker, PhD is the Founder and CEO of OpenInvo.com - a platform for innovation. She is a former artist and stand-up (h)ac(k)ademic turned entrepreneur.
@openinvo
openinvo.com
ERIC SKIFF: “Pluggable Culture”
Increasingly, we live in a world of powerful pluggable pieces. Invention is evolving from engineers’ work into something much more akin to cooking, where creators mix in ingredients to make something delicious and unique. That shift is enabling a new generation of makers and entrepreneurs to fit those prebuilt parts together quickly and build on them. Forget reinventing the wheel - stop reinventing the car!
Skiff is the cofounder of YAYfriends and NYCResistor, a Drop.io alum, BarCamp Organizer, and unapologetic geek!
@ericskiff
ericskiff.com
FERNANDA COHEN: "Art + Commerce"
Fernanda Cohen will talk about how she combines fine arts with commercial art, AKA illustration, along with conferences, networking events, writing and teaching. She will discuss how helping promote other people's careers has helped her build her own, why the more you do for yourself the more you get hired to do for others, and how the day can have more than 24 hours.
Cohen grew up in Buenos Aires and moved to New York City in 2000 to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has received over 50 awards worldwide and she is a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts; she’s on the advisory board of 3x3 Magazine, the vice president of ICON6 (The Illustration Conference), and the coordinator of a lecture series at the Society of Illustrators of New York.
@fernandacohen
fernandacohen.com
JERRI CHOU: “Condoms, Enterprise and Making Women's Empowerment Sexy”
Condoms are not sexy. While men are the primary target for purchasing condoms, they have everything to do with women. Yet very few condom companies get anywhere close to first base.... What happens when you put women at the helm of a condom company? More specifically, design savvy social entrepreneurial women who are ambitious enough to take on the AIDS epidemic, experienced enough to address the social side, capable enough to change an industry, and savvy enough to create a movement while doing it. To say that the tone changes is an understatement.
Chou is the co-founder of All Day Buffet, The Feast, TBD, and Lovely Day. She believes we created this world and that we can create a better one.
@jchou
lovebeginswithl.com
NICK GIGLIA: “Around the World in 1,000 Beers”
A random conversation in a London bar completely changed Nick’s life. He was a 20-year-old American student on a semester abroad, who had previously drunk whatever his of-age roommates bought him. One night, when he ordered a Stella Artois the bartender burst out laughing, telling him he needed some taste. Nick challenged himself to get some taste during that semester, and never stopped. He’s now closing in on 1,000 different beers... Join him for a look at his trip around the world (and the beer world), including life lessons through beer, tasting tips, and how you should never consider any conversation insignificant.
Giglia is founder and CEO of Fahros, seeking to democratize corporate IT through cloud computing. He gets inordinately excited about the yearly pumpkin ale release and wishes Samuel Adams would release Old Fezziwig in 6 packs.
@nickgiglia
about.me/nickgiglia
TAHIR HEMPHILL: “Champagne Always Stains My Silk”
Using The Hip-Hop Word Count: A Searchable Rap Almanac, Hemphill will show how one can do a keyword search for the most popular CHAMPAGNE mentioned in Hip-Hop from 1979-2010. He will show beautiful data visualization results of the research: http://bit.ly/kickstarthhwc
Hemphill is an Eyebeam Atleirer Resident. Creative Strategist. Creative Director. Creative Technologist. Reluctant Messiah. Peripheral Visionary. Philologist. Hip-Hop Enthusiast. Native Queens New Yorker.
@Tahero
tahirhemphill.com
TERRY JONES: “What the Post-It Note Can Teach Us About Apps and Data”
In our everyday lives we constantly publish and consume information in ad hoc, unanticipated and highly idiosyncratic ways. But with computers, our experiences are often awkward and rigid, and our actions must be anticipated and permitted. Using familiar examples, this talk will focus on this disparity and argue that people are actually very clever at working with information, and that those things point towards thinner applications that let people interact more directly with information and towards computational storage that works more like Post-it ® notes.
Jones is CEO & founder of Fluidinfo, a New York startup aiming to change how people and companies work with information.
@terrycojones
fluidinfo.com
TODD SAWICKI: “History of Online Advertising: The Real Story”
From Ben Franklin to O'Reilly's own Tim O’Reilly find out who really is responsible for the craziness we call online advertising. Here's the real scoop on everything from the 1st banner ad to where spam came from to the rise of the dreaded pop – its all explained so you’ll really know who to blame!
Sawicki is a geek and with over 15 years of experience with online startups, media companies and everything in between. Todd has been at the intersection of the rise of online content, video and music from its earliest stages to its now emerging dominance. Todd is currently the Chief Revenue Officer for the Cheezburger Network – the leading independent network of online humor sites including ICanHasCheezburger.com and FAILBlog.org.
@sawickipedia
sawickipedia.com
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Feb. 23 sustainability and business event
Just heard about this today - sustainability mavens, check this out!
| Speakers From: Global Reporting Initiative HSBC Lockheed Martin Pepsico PricewaterhouseCoopers WNSF's Next Generation Sustainability Metrics: Theory & Practice Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (ET) Location: PricewaterhouseCoopers 300 Madison Avenue @42nd St. New York NY | |||
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Tech and innovation events in NYC this week
From Charlie O'Donnell's awesome NYC events email list (www.thisisgoingtobebig.com) -
~Katharine
Tuesday, January 25th
6PM Net Zero Energy Buildings: Moving from Demonstration Projects to the Mainstream
Bert Gregory of Mithun will discuss his firms' involvement in net zero energy buildings and neighborhoods such as the Lloyd Crossing and Project Green planning efforts. He will present inspiring projects that are achieving new levels of sustainability in a challenging marketplace and will provide expert insights into metrics, best practices, trends, and prospects in the realm of low/net zero energy buildings. Energon cubes will be provided.
RSVP: http://www.nyas.org/events/
6:30PM New Models for Food Communities
We're holding a conversation with a couple of groups that are developing new models for organizing food communities and getting food to those communities. Wholeshare (www.wholeshare.com) is in town from San Francisco, and This Batch (www.thisbatch.com) will come all the way from Boerum Hill to speak with us about how they're using technology to make food buying more efficient and more community-driven. Nom nom nom.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/food-
6:30PM January 2011 NYVideo Meetup
January GUESTS - Tech: Ken Zamkow from LiveU will present the latest in live, backpack tech for HD broadcasting. (www.liveu.tv) Interview: Joy Marcus, GM North America at Dailymotion.com, will share her vision for the emerging prominence of web video and how it will impact both creators and consumers. (dailymotion.com) Content: Seth and Mike from BeerNation (BeerNationShow.com) will toast the web video revolution - and talk about how Craft Beer is both good business and good fun. Technology Launch: Video Collaboration platform TakeOff Video's Steve Potter will premier an awesome new way to work with a team on a video production. takeoffvideo.com
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/nyvideo/
7PM New Year, New Tech for Non-Profits
It's the new year, and we're going to kick it off with a meetup of a different sort. We'll be opening the stage to a small number of organizations or companies who have interesting products and success stories to share. Think of it like an "open mic night" for non-profit tech! Good lord I hope it's as fun as Showtime at the Apollo. That show was a hoot.
RSVP: http://www.grassrootscamp.org/
Wednesday, January 26th
7PM Pentaho: Business Intelligence and Big Data
Please join us for a night talking business intelligence, predictive analytics, and 'big data' with Pentaho's Founder and Chief Geek, James Dixon! James will discuss Pentaho's open source business intelligence platform and features as detailed below.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-
Thursday, January 27th
6:30PM Digital Dumbo 2 Year Anniversary
Happy Birthday to Digital Dumbo--the party at the heart of the Brooklyn creative social scene. While you're celebrating, thank Kristin Maverick (@kmaverick) for starting the monthly event while she worked at Carrot. Her effort and creativity live on in the connections formed by some of the most interesting outer borough participants.
RSVP: http://digitaldumbo.
Saturday, January 29th
1PM HTML5 and CSS3 Intensive Workshop
You have been hearing all about HTML5, now come find out what all the fuss is about. The course will be a mix of lecture, samples and hands-on labs to get you up and running. You will leave the class with new knowledge AND a ready-reference card! Pre-requisite: The Intro to HTML/CSS class, or a working knowledge of HTML/CSS. DIscuss HTML5 and CSS3 at a high level, examining what it is, where we are now, and who is leading the way. Cover CSS3 effects, including rounded corners, inset and drop shadows, and gradients. Learn how to add audio and video to your sites using HTML5 with no plugins required! Review HTML5 Offline Storage, what it is and how to use it.
RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Technicalities - Events for Developers
Tuesday, January 25th
6:30PM 'The Big Data Analytics Tool Kit’ with James Dixon, Chief Geek, Pentaho
Getting a Hadoop cluster up and running is only the first step in launching a company’s Big Data practices. You will need more than Hadoop to access all these individual data points and quickly deduce informative patterns never available before. This presentation will cover some of the tools necessary to streamline Big Data management: MapReduce, Hive, ETL, BI, etc.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-
7PM Blocks in Objective-C w/ Robert Clair - iPhone Software Developers Meetup
Blocks (also sometimes called anonymous functions or closures) are an Apple-added extension to the C, Objective-C and C++ languages. They are a way of packing up some functionality (executable code) and an execution context (the values of some variables) as a single entity. In this talk you'll learn how to create a block, how to execute a block, about a special type of variable called a block variable, about copying and memory management for blocks, and about some potential "Gotcha's" to avoid when using blocks.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/newyork-
Wednesday, January 26th
6:30PM Introduction to the Go language - Bob Hancock - NYC GTUG
If you don't know what Go is, see golang.org. If you have programmed in C, C++, Java, Python, or Javascript you already have a good foundation for learning Go. The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. In fact, it has caffiene built right into the code.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-
6:30PM Introduction to Android Development Using .NET and MonoDroid
The Android platform has become a major player in the mobile space, but requires writing applications in Java. With the introduction of MonoDroid, .NET developers are now able to leverage the platform and tools they know to write Android applications. You know how everyone wishes Lex Luther would use his powers for good and not evil. This is kinda like that.
RSVP: http://www.nyalt.net/calendar/
Thursday, January 27th
7PM On Cross-Validation and Stacking: Or how to build seemingly predictive models on random data - NYC Machine Learning
We're starting a great new year for NYCML with Claudia Perlich, the chief scientist at Media6Degrees. She worked as a Researcher in the Predictive Modeling Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Her research interests are in practical applications of Machine Learning and Data Mining approaches.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-
Friday, January 28th
At our January session, Sergey Chernyshev will talk about caching in web applications, importance of cache, best practices and how to approach cache planning. He'll also talk cache versus credit, caching out too early, and cache money.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Web-
~Katharine
Tuesday, January 25th
6PM Net Zero Energy Buildings: Moving from Demonstration Projects to the Mainstream
Bert Gregory of Mithun will discuss his firms' involvement in net zero energy buildings and neighborhoods such as the Lloyd Crossing and Project Green planning efforts. He will present inspiring projects that are achieving new levels of sustainability in a challenging marketplace and will provide expert insights into metrics, best practices, trends, and prospects in the realm of low/net zero energy buildings. Energon cubes will be provided.
RSVP: http://www.nyas.org/events/
6:30PM New Models for Food Communities
We're holding a conversation with a couple of groups that are developing new models for organizing food communities and getting food to those communities. Wholeshare (www.wholeshare.com) is in town from San Francisco, and This Batch (www.thisbatch.com) will come all the way from Boerum Hill to speak with us about how they're using technology to make food buying more efficient and more community-driven. Nom nom nom.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/food-
6:30PM January 2011 NYVideo Meetup
January GUESTS - Tech: Ken Zamkow from LiveU will present the latest in live, backpack tech for HD broadcasting. (www.liveu.tv) Interview: Joy Marcus, GM North America at Dailymotion.com, will share her vision for the emerging prominence of web video and how it will impact both creators and consumers. (dailymotion.com) Content: Seth and Mike from BeerNation (BeerNationShow.com) will toast the web video revolution - and talk about how Craft Beer is both good business and good fun. Technology Launch: Video Collaboration platform TakeOff Video's Steve Potter will premier an awesome new way to work with a team on a video production. takeoffvideo.com
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/nyvideo/
7PM New Year, New Tech for Non-Profits
It's the new year, and we're going to kick it off with a meetup of a different sort. We'll be opening the stage to a small number of organizations or companies who have interesting products and success stories to share. Think of it like an "open mic night" for non-profit tech! Good lord I hope it's as fun as Showtime at the Apollo. That show was a hoot.
RSVP: http://www.grassrootscamp.org/
Wednesday, January 26th
7PM Pentaho: Business Intelligence and Big Data
Please join us for a night talking business intelligence, predictive analytics, and 'big data' with Pentaho's Founder and Chief Geek, James Dixon! James will discuss Pentaho's open source business intelligence platform and features as detailed below.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-
Thursday, January 27th
6:30PM Digital Dumbo 2 Year Anniversary
Happy Birthday to Digital Dumbo--the party at the heart of the Brooklyn creative social scene. While you're celebrating, thank Kristin Maverick (@kmaverick) for starting the monthly event while she worked at Carrot. Her effort and creativity live on in the connections formed by some of the most interesting outer borough participants.
RSVP: http://digitaldumbo.
Saturday, January 29th
1PM HTML5 and CSS3 Intensive Workshop
You have been hearing all about HTML5, now come find out what all the fuss is about. The course will be a mix of lecture, samples and hands-on labs to get you up and running. You will leave the class with new knowledge AND a ready-reference card! Pre-requisite: The Intro to HTML/CSS class, or a working knowledge of HTML/CSS. DIscuss HTML5 and CSS3 at a high level, examining what it is, where we are now, and who is leading the way. Cover CSS3 effects, including rounded corners, inset and drop shadows, and gradients. Learn how to add audio and video to your sites using HTML5 with no plugins required! Review HTML5 Offline Storage, what it is and how to use it.
RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/
Technicalities - Events for Developers
Tuesday, January 25th
6:30PM 'The Big Data Analytics Tool Kit’ with James Dixon, Chief Geek, Pentaho
Getting a Hadoop cluster up and running is only the first step in launching a company’s Big Data practices. You will need more than Hadoop to access all these individual data points and quickly deduce informative patterns never available before. This presentation will cover some of the tools necessary to streamline Big Data management: MapReduce, Hive, ETL, BI, etc.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-
7PM Blocks in Objective-C w/ Robert Clair - iPhone Software Developers Meetup
Blocks (also sometimes called anonymous functions or closures) are an Apple-added extension to the C, Objective-C and C++ languages. They are a way of packing up some functionality (executable code) and an execution context (the values of some variables) as a single entity. In this talk you'll learn how to create a block, how to execute a block, about a special type of variable called a block variable, about copying and memory management for blocks, and about some potential "Gotcha's" to avoid when using blocks.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/newyork-
Wednesday, January 26th
6:30PM Introduction to the Go language - Bob Hancock - NYC GTUG
If you don't know what Go is, see golang.org. If you have programmed in C, C++, Java, Python, or Javascript you already have a good foundation for learning Go. The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. In fact, it has caffiene built right into the code.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-
6:30PM Introduction to Android Development Using .NET and MonoDroid
The Android platform has become a major player in the mobile space, but requires writing applications in Java. With the introduction of MonoDroid, .NET developers are now able to leverage the platform and tools they know to write Android applications. You know how everyone wishes Lex Luther would use his powers for good and not evil. This is kinda like that.
RSVP: http://www.nyalt.net/calendar/
Thursday, January 27th
7PM On Cross-Validation and Stacking: Or how to build seemingly predictive models on random data - NYC Machine Learning
We're starting a great new year for NYCML with Claudia Perlich, the chief scientist at Media6Degrees. She worked as a Researcher in the Predictive Modeling Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Her research interests are in practical applications of Machine Learning and Data Mining approaches.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NYC-
Friday, January 28th
At our January session, Sergey Chernyshev will talk about caching in web applications, importance of cache, best practices and how to approach cache planning. He'll also talk cache versus credit, caching out too early, and cache money.
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Web-
Wed-Thurs events for women professionals this week
I went to a High Water Women event a few months ago and met some great people. The idea is that it's mostly women in finance, esp. hedge funds, who also do philanthropy, but you don't have to be making six figures to go to their cool events!
Happy networking,
Katharine Bierce
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Happy networking,
Katharine Bierce
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Y O U N G W O M E N ' S C O U N C I L | |
High Water Women's Young Women's Council (YWC) is presenting a two part series entitled "Women in Finance and an Introspective Look at Our Careers". What better way to kick off 2011 than furthering our careers by gaining a better understanding of how to present ourselves when it's our turn to brag (i.e. performance review time) and a focus on the role of our mentors and sponsors. PART I: Book Discussion: "Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It" by Peggy Klaus Date: Thursday, January 27th Time: 7 PM-8:30 PM Location: Midtown Wine Bar- Details TBA We look forward to a great discussion on how to "self-promote" in a sincere and effective way! This is a great introduction to Peggy Klaus' book, ahead of the April "Brag Party" hosted by Peggy for high school juniors from the Young Women's Leadership Schools. RSVP now for the book discussion as space is limited to the first 15 people. Reading the book before hand is definitely not necessary but is recommended. RSVP to danielle.frissell@jpmorgan.com PART II: Panel Discussion & Networking on the Harvard Business School Case Study: "Why Men Still Get More Promotions than Women". Date: Wednesday, February 23rd Time: 7 PM-9:00 PM Location: TBA Sponsorship versus mentorship? What's the difference? And why is it important to us as women? Meet us for a conversation on why sponsorship matters, especially for women. We look forward to your thoughts as well! A 10 minute interview with the author can be found here: http://hbr.org/2010/09/why- RSVP to danielle.frissell@jpmorgan.com |
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Events in NYC this week
From Gary's Guide.... Happy networking!
~Katharine
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~Katharine
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