TEDxNY every Friday - including Dec. 17

I went to one of these events (it's weekly) earlier this month and met some great people!
Cheers,
Katharine
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TEDxNewYork  

Description:

TEDxNewYork is held at GreyNY, 200 Fifth Ave (at 23rd St), NYC We meet every week (mostly) on Fridays, now from 1-2pm. We are open to guests. If you want to attend, send a note to admin@tedxnewyork.com with your vitals. Hope to see you at one of our events soon. TEDxNY is a weekly informal event- it typically runs an hour long and consists of watching a TED talk and having conversation about it. We have guest speakers from time to time as well. We do not publish a list of talks to be watched ahead of time though if we are having a guest speaker we do let people know in advance something about who/what to expect. ------------------ In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is call TEDxNewYork, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxNY event, TEDTalks video (and live speakers) will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

Watch a TED talk and discuss with other cool members of the TED NY community.

Every Friday from 1-2 pm, at 200 Fifth Ave, NW corner of 23rd St & Fifth Ave

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: please oh please RSVP to TRAINING@GREY.COM
Please allow for a few extra minutes as Security has to process each guest.

Info: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78470527131

Women Advancing Microfinance members only event Dec. 16

If you're interested in microfinance, check this out!  Also a few men have gone to WAM events before, but I'm not sure whether membership is necessarily gender specific.  Details on this cool panel discussion are below.

Cheers,

Katharine
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We have a special members-only opportunity to join a small group presentation and discussion tomorrow Thurs. December 16 with Alexandra Fiorillo, Vice President of Microfinance Transparency.
Microfinance Transparency is the microfinance industry's primary resource on pricing transparency and integrity.
As Vice President of MicroFinance Transparency, Alexandra oversees international operations and global data collection on product pricing. Alexandra has almost ten years of experience in the microfinance industry in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Most recently, she worked at ACCION International on the Marketing and Product Development and Global Investments teams. Prior to ACCION, Alexandra worked as a microfinance consultant to numerous organizations including Microfund for Women in Jordan, DFID’s Financial Sector Deepening Project of Uganda, Agora Partnerships in Nicaragua, and Development Alternatives, Inc./USAID. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador and conducted research on rural and indigenous microfinance in the Amazon jungle.
The event will be held from 6:30 - 8:30 at NYU's off-campus facility at 111 East 33rd (at Park Ave). Please contact Sarah Leshner at Sarah.Leshner@BlueOrchard.com for room number.

Dec. 16 - " Bring Your Own Cause" with Catchafire and Community Lab

I went to a "BYOC" event in August and it was great!  Catchafire.org is a new service like match.com for nonprofits and volunteers.  They're co-hosting this event.  I met the CEO and CTO and they're super cool!
Happy networking,
Katharine Bierce
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Bring Your Own Cause with Catchafire and Community Lab

Time	Thursday, December 16 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location	Delancey Lounge 168 Delancey Street (Delancey St. and Clinton St.) New York, NY
Created By	Phi Pham, Wes Moe, Nahiyan Chowdhury, Adam Winski, Justin KazmarkShow all (5)
More Info	This December, Bring Your Own Cause, co-hosted by Catchafire and Community Lab aims to bring together entrepreneurs, organizations and changemakers with the common cause of helping others thrive. Are you looking to meet others with the same interests? B.Y.O.C. is a perfect platform to come meet other organizations and individuals in an effort to establish connections and collaborations that lead to positive change. --------------...-------------------------------------------------- In the spirit of giving, feel free to bring a canned food or coat to donate to our friends at NYC Coalition Against Hunger and NY Cares. ---------------------------------------------------------------- As always, B.Y.O.C. is an event where we encourage you to bring your own cause and leave with another. We will have a B.Y.O.C. live text vote for the Featured Cause of the Night with donations raised throughout the night going to the winning cause. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Featured Causes for the Night are: -Grameen America -NY Cares -Tagai Mentorship Program, Inc. -Community Development International ------------------------------------------------------------------ If your organization is interested in being a Featured Cause in the future, please visit http://bit.ly/byocapplication Come thirsty and ready to mingle. Don't miss this opportunity to network, collaborate and enjoy cheap drinks at the same time. We'll have Happy Hour specials until 8 p.m., so come early! Feel free to share the event with anyone you know who may be interested! http://bit.ly/byoc1216 Twitter hashtag #BYOC for updates!

Yet another awesome list of NYC events Dec 13-17

Gary's Guide is FREAKIN' AWESOME.
Cheers,
Katharine

You can also find the list of events online at http://garysguide.org/events

Monday, Dec 13 8:00am    Free      Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Crimes (CLE Available)  Wells Fargo, 375 Park Avenue 10th Floor 11:00am          League Technology Summit  New York Hilton Hotel, 1335 Avenue Of The Americas 6:30pm          Monthly NYC-GTUG Meeting  Google Chelsea Market Office, 75 Ninth Ave Floor 2 6:30pm    $5      Building Fast Webapps  Meetup HQ, 632 Broadway 3rd floor 6:30pm    Free      Hoboken Tech Meetup 7: Gary Tuerack + 3 startups  Stevens Institute of Technology, Babbio Center, Hoboken 6:30pm    $27      Entrepreneurs Roundtable 31  Hodgson Russ, 1540 Broadway 7:00pm          Viral Video Secrets: Using Video to Engage your Organizations Members  New Work City, 412 Broadway Floor 2 7:00pm    $10      Y+ 30: The Future of Digital Communication  92YTribecca, 200 Hudson Street 7:00pm          December NYC Web Design Meetup  AOL Ventures, 770 Broadway 6th Floor 7:00pm    Free      Using Curated Video and UGC to Engage your Community  New Work City, 412 Broadway 2nd Floor, New York. NY   Tuesday, Dec 14 8:00am    Free      FT Portugal Breakfast Meeting: The Road Ahead  Harvard Club of New York City, 35 West 44th St. 9:00am    $12      NY Nightowls coworking meetup  New Work City, 412 Broadway Floor 2 5:30pm    Free      NYC SPIN Meeting: Agile: A Value Driven Culture  Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas 6:00pm          The Creative Pro Mixer by Black Creatives  Fashion 40 Lounge & Restaurant, 202 West 40th Street 6:00pm    Free      NY Entrepreneurs Business Network Holiday Party II @ The Delancey  The Delancey, 168 Delancey St 6:30pm          Food+Tech December Meetup  Jimmy's No. 43, 43 East 7th Street 6:30pm    $5      CMMeetup: Holiday Party With Crafts at Etsy  Etsy Labs DUMBO, 55 Washington St Suite 512, Brooklyn 6:30pm          Scaling foursquare with MongoDB  SpringSource @ EMC, 2 Penn Plaza 18th Floor 6:30pm    Free      J Dynamic Functional Language Meetup  ThomasNet, 5 Penn Plaza (between 33rd and 34th) 7:00pm    $10      December 2010 NY Tech Meetup  New World Stages, 340 W 50th St. 7:00pm    $10      The Masters Series: Darko Hrelic, SVP & CIO of Gartner  Epoca Restaurant, 136 West 31st St 7:00pm    $15      Presentation and Q&A with Mike Hudack Co-Founder and CEO of Blip.tv  Pearl Studios NYC, 500 8th Avenue 12th floor 7:00pm    Free      Milton Mueller: Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance  Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 251 Mercer St Rm 317 7:00pm          Django-NYC: Celery  New Work City, 412 Broadway Floor 2 9:00pm    Free      NY Tech Meetup Afterparty  Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan St   Wednesday, Dec 15 8:00am    $195      B2B Social Communications Leadership Forum  New York University, 11 West 42nd Street Midtown Campus Room 421 9:00am          Mediabistros eBook Summit  The New Yorker Hotel, 481 8th Avenue (at 34th St.) 4:00pm          Vator Splash NYC  Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street 5:30pm          The New York City SharePoint Developers User Group Monthly Meetup  Microsoft Office NYC, 1290 Avenue of the Americas 6th Floor 6:00pm    Free      Startup Best Practices Series: Demystifying Compensation Arrangements  Herrick, Feinstein LLP, 2 Park Avenue 6:00pm          StartupAlpha.com VC Entrepreneur Holiday Bash: Food, Drink, Deals, THE TREE!  Baker Hostetler, 45 Rockefeller Plaza 6:00pm    Free      Hive Member Holiday Party  Hive @ 55, 55 Broad St 15th Floor 6:30pm    Free      Digital DUMBO #22 Ugly Holiday Sweater Party  The Dumbo Loft, 155 Water Street, Brooklyn 6:30pm          NYC ALT.NET Group: Annual Holiday Social Event  EMC/VMWare/SpringSource NYC offices, 2 Penn Plaza 18th Floor 6:30pm    $10      December 2010 NY Video Meetup  NYU Stern School of Business, 40 West 4th Street Room M1-100 6:30pm          Scaling Apps for Monster Traffic: A crash-course by the CEO of Percona  NYCTechnologyLadder, 205 Hudson St. 6th Floor 7:00pm          Documentum Meetup Group Monthly Meetup  Beekman Pub, 15 Beekman St   Thursday, Dec 16 7:30am    $25      Women in Media & Technology: Making Deals and Making News  The Samsung Experience at Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle 3rd Floor 8:00am          Jeff Gomez, CEO Starlight Runner Entertainment to host NY Open Coffee  Taralluci e Vino, 15 E 18th St 6:00pm    $40      NYTECH Holiday Networking Party  Houndstooth, 520 8th Ave. 6:00pm          TechDrinks XXmas  Amity Hall, 80 W. 3rd Street 6:00pm    $30      Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Media  Met Life Bldg, 200 Park Ave. 7:00pm          Flash Happy Hour Holiday Party  Whiskey Town, 29 E 3rd St 7:00pm    $5      Meet for SPEED  LogicWorks, 155 Avenue of the Americas   Friday, Dec 17 8:30am          DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup  Choice Market, 108 Jay Street, Brooklyn 9:30am    Free      Jelly Coworking Manhattan  New Work City, 412 Broadway Floor 2

Dec. 14-17 Designers Bulletin

From Brielle Maxwell's "Designers Bulletin" email list - check out ithese innovative, design-oriented, architecture/art/technology shindigs!
Happy networking,
Katharine Bierce
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Tuesday, December 14

6pm Victoria Milne, “We Built This City: How Art, Graphics, and Design Policy Take Shape for New Yorkers” Friends. New Yorkers share one thing in common: we're generally from other places. Yet, when we come together we do but one thing: we build this city. As an 80s reminder: http://bit.ly/14MYd. Show up and take a bow. This apple exists because you bite it. Where: SVA DCRIT 136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor, New York NY RSVP

7pm Hobby You know that stuff you do at home, when you cancel those drinks invites in favor of the macrame moment? Yeah. Hobbies. We have them. Come into the light. And be at home with yourself in this pecha kucha hobby smackdown. Where: Harvest HQ 187 Lafayette St. 6th Floor New York, NY 10013 RSVP

Wednesday, December 15

7PM Hive Holiday Party It's nice to be with a bunch of people who care about the same stuff you do. The Hive. 'nuff said. Where: Hive at 55 55 Broad Street 13th Floor New York, NY 10004 RSVP

Thursday, December 16

8-11 PM Monthly Design Review with Simon Sinek As designers, we often reflexively start with THE HOW or THE WHAT -- listen, we're human; it's forgivable. Come and learn why good design needs to orient at THE WHY. In case some motivation is required: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/848 Where: Salt Space 1158 Broadway 5th FL New York, NY RSVP

Friday, December 17

9-6 PM THE CRITICAL GIFT OF DESIGN (CONFERENCE) Have you ever wondered what your worth is? We mean as designers? Nope. Not an existential question. More of a validation. Come. Listen. Be. This conference will critically examine what design and designers have "given" to the world, in action and in theory, and what more they might give as the concept of design evolves and expands. Where Parsons Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue RSVP

6 -11PM theMAKE Cookie-X-travaganza Part II

We know you baked those cookies last week, wrapped them up, and gave them away. New York thanks you!

Designers Bulletin wants to take your sweetness to the next level. Could you bake another batch, take a picture and send it to us? We're building a cookie compendium to show what this city's transactional sweetness can look like.

Tag your flickr.com pix with theMAKECookieGiveAway and hashtag on Twitter #theMAKEDB @designbulletin.

In return, an invite awaits. (psssst: egg nog & elves ...)

Cost:

Not very much!

Benefit:

Cookies for all!

Where:

All. Five. Boroughs.

NYC Innovation and Tech events, Dec. 14-17

This is copied shamelessly from www.thisisgoingtobebig.com - the email list Charlie O'Donnell sends out for NYC tech and innovation events.
Happy networking!
~Katharine Bierce

Tuesday, December 14th

 

6:30PM Scaling foursquare with MongoDB

 

Harry Heymann, the Engineering Lead for Foursquare, will present on scaling Foursquare with MongoDB.  Try not to all check-in at once.

 

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/New-York-MongoDB-User-Group/calendar/13817235/

 

 

7PM New York Tech Meetup

 

You'll enjoy demos from:

 

Marco -- The fastest way to find your friends. 

XYDO -- Get news from people you trust. 

Instinctiv -- A better music experience. 

Food52's Foodpickle -- Real-time food Q/A. 

Wanderfly -- Discover new experiences. 

Cleargears -- Continuous employee feedback.

 

Plus, you'll hear from fellow meetupsters running for a seat on the NY Tech Meetup Board.

 

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/calendar/15468817/

 

 

7PM The Masters Series - Darko Hrelic, SVP and CIO, Gartner

 

Tech Career Advice and Industry Outlook From the Expert of the Experts.  Darko Joined Gartner in January 2007 from ADP, where he led all aspects of ADP’s technical Strategy, Architecture and Technology as VP & CTO of Employer Services... but what's really going to knock your socks off with this talk is when Darko introduces you to his friend Frank in the giant bunny suit.  

 

RSVP: http://nyctechnologyladder-gg.eventbrite.com/

 

 

7PM Milton Mueller: Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance

 

Prof. Mueller is a co-founder of ICANN’s NonCommercial User’s Constituency and a renowned cyberlibertarian.  Honestly, can you ever even say that you've said the word cyberlibertarian before?  Go ahead... say it now to yourself.  Cyberlibertarian.  Now say it into your phone, so the government can hear you.

 

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175907139093951

 

9PM New York Night Owls

 

It's another night of coworking between the hours of 9AM - 3AM (or 4AMish). Bring your laptops and your projects for some late night hacking at New Work City. Expect pizza and lots of time to get your work done.  Free Four Loko's for all!

 

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/NY-Nightowls/calendar/15676825/

 

 

Wednesday, December 15th

 

6:30PM Digital Dumbo Ugly Holiday Sweater Party

 

You know some furry guy is just going to come shirtless for this, so not sure it's worth even participating in the contest.  Yes, I went there.  Still, fun times with Brooklyn creatives will be had.

 

RSVP: http://digitaldumbo.eventbrite.com/

 

 

6:30PM December 2010 NY Video Meetup

 

vYou.com: The hottest new start up for CONVERSATIONAL VIDEO. What is that? CEO Steve Spurgat will unveil his fast growing ny video startup.

 

Taboola. Want to learn how to convert traffic from your article, video pages, and your affiliates’ sites to additional views and traffic? CEO Adam Singolda will show you.

 

INTERVIEW: 2011: What Is the Future of Web Video? Consultant, Author, Professor Ava Seave will share her predictions and vision for 2011.

 

And Dan Grey presents: MPGomatic.com. Daniel Gray, best-selling tech author, lifelong automotive enthusiast, and breakfast serial entrepreneur.

 

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/nyvideo/calendar/15639991/

 

 

Thursday, December 16th

 

6PM TechDrinks XXmas!

 

Bring a Santa hat, enjoy a special holiday drink, and befriend some of the awesomest people in NYC.

 

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/coworking-nyc/calendar/15596040/

7PM Digital Learning: Demos and Discussion

 

Come gather with other NY Education Technologists!

Wondering who you'll see? Here's a sneak peek:

 

Aviary, Better Lesson, Neverware, Red Rover, Kno, Zooburst, Easel

 

RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1085818713

 

 

Friday, December 17th

 

8:30AM DUMBO Tech Breakfast 

 

Everybody grabs some food (you have to pay for your own, sorry), grabs a seat, and talks tech. There's no particular focus other than meeting some new people hand having some interesting conversations.

 

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/DUMBO-Tech-Breakfast/calendar/15494290/

 

 

9:30AM Jelly in Manhattan @ New Work City 

 

Leave your apartment, and come to NYC's mostest awesomest coworking space: New Work City!  Odd, that's the second time the term awesomest came up and both times it somehow related to Tony B.  Interesting...

 

RSVP: http://wiki.workatjelly.com/w/page/33721182/JellyManhattan-2010-12-17

Dec. 16 SheSays NY event

Check out this great event for women innovators and have fun!
Happy holidays,
Katharine Bierce

It's December, so let’s raise a glass to all the things you learned this year from SheSays: from making apps to creating innovation, from preparing for the jobs of the future to working with technology and from how to tell great stories and present killer pitches. As you can see it's been a packed year. You deserve a drink. We all do. So this month, no speakers, no presentations or homework, just a little seasonal party. So come to Destination Bar on Thursday December 16th at 7PM and you shall be given some ‘toast’ implements. Destination Bar is located at 211 Avenue A (at the corner of 13th Street). Please also raise a glass to the speakers, hosts and the wonderful ladies who helped us this year: Kelly Clark – she does all the tweets Yawen Chen – she updates the site Melissa Andrada – she updates Facebook Meghan and Abby - who film the events And let’s not forget to celebrate YOU! You who come to our events, who design our invites, who did sauna with us at Orchard St when the AC wasn’t working, who went through a whole session while roadworkers deafened us with their jackhammers outside. You who starved through sessions and swapped food and drink for some brain power. Thank you. We love you guys and SheSays would be nothing without you. And we're inviting Girl Develop It to join - so you never know, you may even meet some other cool ladies to do a project with in 2011. So upwards and onwards. Drinks here we come ~ Lots of love from Ale & Lillian from SheSays You are invited to the following event: SHE SAYS //// : HOLIDAY CHEERS - PART 2 /// DEC 16th EVENT Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET) Location: Destination Bar 211 Avenue A New York NY

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