The Brooklyn Tech Meetup is back and better than ever, with an incredible new space at the Brooklyn Law School (205 State Street) in Downtown Brooklyn. This month’s meeting takes place at 7pm on Tuesday, December 4th and will feature guest speaker Charlie O’Donnell, a partner at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and representatives from SPUN and Aggregift. For more details and to sign up, click here.
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Kurrenci.com invites you to “Smart-Up Brooklyn: a celebration of the Brooklyn start-up renaissance.” Join members of New York City’s tech community as well as local entrepreneurs, for a night of music, food, drinks, and fun. The party takes place on November 15 from 6pm-midnight at The DUMBO Loft, 155 Water Street. Reserve your ticket(s) here and use code DBP1115 for 50% off. See you there!
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University will be hosting a free symposium from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct 26th, which honors the legacy of George Bugliarello, its late President, Professor and Urban Developer who was instrumental in creating MetroTech.
Information and registration: http://www.poly.edu/bugliarellosymposium
Confirmed speakers include, in order of presentation:
Robert K. Steel
New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development
Ruth David
President & CEO, Analytic Services, Inc.
Patrick Foye
CEO, Port Authority of New York/New Jersey
Andrew Herrmann
President, American Society of Civil Engineers
Craig Ivey
President of Con Edison Company of New York
Daniel Peter Loucks
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Joan McDonald
Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation
Ruthie Lyle-Cannon
IBM Patent Engineer
Upmanu Lall
Director, Columbia Water Center, Columbia University Earth Institute
Carter Strickland
Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Steven Koonin
Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)
David Miller
Former Mayor of Toronto and NYU-Poly Future of Cities Global Fellow
Gerard M. Mooney
General Manager, IBM Global Smarter Cities
Theodore Rappaport
David Lee/Ernst Weber Chair of Electrical Engineering, NYU-Poly
7pm at Brooklyn Law School (250 Joralemon Street), Downtown Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Future Meet-up will discuss which new innovation paradigms should be pursued and why there has been so little change in the way we innovate, market and communicate to people in the past 10 years. This will include a debate on new thinking like the notion of the feminine science of invention and design.
Panel Participants:
Alessandra Lariu – Co-Founder of SheSays, CEO of Shout (Everybodyshout.com), Fast Company’s 2012 League of Extraordinary Women and top 100 most creative people
Heidi Dangelmeier – Founder of Girlapproved, a global authority on feminine technology, product and brand innovation to cover a breakthrough innovation methodology
Jacob Cohen - Principal, Experience Strategy for frog (Design)
Ted McConnell – Former Head of Innovation from TMD, Ad Age writer to cover the marketing and measurement side of things
The group meets monthly at Brooklyn Law School at 250 Joralemon Street in Downtown Brooklyn. For more information and to register, click here.
The DUMBO Spot, 160 Water Street, Doors open at 3:00pm - Click here for more information.
Keynote and panel speakers include:
- Ping Fu - co-founder and CEO of Geomagic, a leading provider of 3D software for creating digital models of physical objects.
- Mark Hatch - CEO of TechShop, a platform focused on radically democratizing access to the tools, information, resources and community needed to design and innovate.
- Stephan Clambaneva - New York City Chapter Chair of the Industrial Designers Society of America and director Global PLM Industry Consultant at Dassault Systemes.
- Tara Stand - Operations Consultant at the Industrial + Technology Assistance Corporation (ITAC).
- Michael Greenstein - Program Director and Industry Professor for Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a design for manufacturability (DFM) expert.
- Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis - entrepreneur and Adjunct Professor at NYU-ITP. She recently launched T4D Lab LLC.
- James Wolff - founder and director at Buildatron, a Dumbo-based 3D rapid prototyping research and developing company.
- Xanthe Matychak - artist and designer who has taught design thinking in the Saunders College of Business and in the Innovation Center at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
- Kostika Spaho - artist with a Master’s Degree in Architecture who uses 3D printing to produce coffee cups, jewelry, iPhone cases and recently shoes.
The DUMBO Spot, 160 Water Street - Doors open at 3:00pm. Click here for more information.
Social retail is a new approach to customer relations for multichannel retail, upgrading retail marketing and advertising to the latest technologies and consumer behaviors. In events and research the Social Retail Forum will explore ways to create communities around the offline store and make retail brands part of the online conversation.
The mission of the Social Retail Forum is to support retailers in taking and keeping control of their brand and customer relations in digital channels. Social Retail Forum is a project by Modified Ventures LLC, a post-internet market development company founded by Dutch business and retail industry journalist Peter Verkooijen.
6:45pm - Huge, Inc. - 45 Main Street, DUMBO. Check out more information here.
In 2006, The New York Times Company was one of the first media companies to introduce a research and development department. This year, they announced a new addition, called R&D Ventures, and two products the team is taking to market: CascadeTM and RicochetTM.
Join Huge, Inc. and the NYT R&D Lab’s Director of Product Strategy and Business Development, Amy Hyde, to discuss the development, strategy, usage and future of these products, and how they affect both the technology and journalism industries.
7:00 pm - Huge, Inc., 45 Main Street, DUMBO - on the second floor in the general room upstairs. Click here for more information.
Join us for our first Brooklyn Tech Meetup to see some amazing people display incredible ideas and software. Enjoy some light food and beverages and meet your fellow creators!
The City of New York is excited to announce its first sustainability hackathon: Reinvent Green, a joint initiative of NYC Digital and the Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability. Hosted at NYU-Poly in Downtown Brooklyn over the weekend of Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1, 2012, the hackathon aims to rally and incentivize the City’s best technology talent to create digital tools and apps that encourage a greener, greater New York. The City is very excited to partner with two great Brooklyn technology institutions on this initiative – NYU-Poly and Brooklyn Beta. Click here for more information.
LIU Brooklyn will host a major conference on educational technology on Friday, June 8. The conference is being organized by the New York City Department of Education and will feature keynote speaker Alan November, an international leader for educational technology. Click here for more info.
