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Plated Tech Talk with Daniel Doubrovkine (CTO @ Artsy)
Please join us at the Plated HQ for an evening of Tech Talks featuring Daniel Doubrovkine. Daniel (aka dB.) is a seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, CTO at Artsy.net in New York, the largest online fine art marketplace and publication. Daniel graduated from University of Geneva in late 90s with a degree in Computer Science. Daniel is the creator and maintainer of many popular open-source projects and a lifetime artist. Tech Talk Subject: 33 minutes, slack bots and solving human challenges with…
Find out more »Future Hamburg Award Deadline 1/31 – Expand your Startup to Europe
FUTURE HAMBURG AWARD This new startup award provides fast track to one of Europe’s most dynamic regions The Future Hamburg Award for provides startup teams with immediate access to one of the most vibrant startup ecosystems in Europe. Innovative entrepreneurs can apply at www.future.hamburg/award/ until January 31, 2019. Hamburg (Germany) offers the perfect breeding ground for international businesses. Recently Hamburg’s startup scene was invigorated in 2018 with venture capital to the tune of €548 million. The award is aimed at innovative startup…
Find out more »Design Experimentation: a special Design Driven from FirstMark & Oscar
For the first Design Driven of 2019, Oscar and FirstMark are excited to co-host a special event on DESIGN EXPERIMENTATION. In addition to talks from incredibly accomplished speakers, we will also for the first time host semi-structured discussion groups to help you meet new peers and share ideas. IMPORTANT: note that because of space constraints, and the special nature of this event, our RSVP process will be different than usual. We ask that attendees be actively working in software design…
Find out more »Blockchain CommunityNYC: Action items for 2019
This is a workshop-based session to explore what everyone is looking for when coming to *Women in Blockchain* and to introduce existing efforts covering social change movements, female-led entrepreneurship, blockchain education and diversity solutions in corporate consulting. If you are not a Woman in Blockchain yet but a novice-wanting to be in Blockchain, please join with an idea of how we can best support you. If you are not a woman, please join and help us ideate how you can…
Find out more »Hack the Solar System at the American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is now accepting applications for the 5th annual hackathon night at the Museum; at last year’s hackathon "Hack the Deep," participants hacked in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life and slept beneath the blue whale! This year, the Museum is organizing "Hack the Solar System", with challenges relating to 3D modeling and graphics processing, data visualization, mixed reality, machine learning, and computer vision coming from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. We'll be…
Find out more »Virginia Tech Online Master of Information Technology Information Session
The VT-MIT program offers eight optional areas of study (modules) from a variety of industries allowing a student to customize their program; examples include Security, Software Development, Big Data and Health Information Technology. Learn more about Virginia Tech's 100% online Master of Information Technology and our online IT Graduate Certificates. REGISTER NOW
Find out more »Cybersecurity & Machines
As robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, and sensors enter our workplaces, homes and lives hackers are planning ever more nefarious attacks. RobotLab will take a deep dive with the investors, innovators, and leaders of New York's planned Global Cybersecurity Center to understand the security challenges and opportunities on the horizon with John Frankel of ffVC and Guy Frankin of SOSA NY.
Find out more »SGO+ Workshop: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
You may have heard about unconscious or implicit bias, but aren't quite sure what it is or have a rudimentary understanding of it. At its core, unconscious bias is just what it sounds like. Bias that we don't consciously register. In this interactive workshop, we'll walk you through its meaning and show you several types of unconscious biases that can play out specifically in the workplace. You'll walk away with a strong grasp of unconscious bias - yes, this means…
Find out more »The Art of Data Journalism with The New York Times & Financial Times
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the world is awash in data. Distilling all of that wonderful data into clear, compelling stories is the job of an increasingly important group of journalists. For this Meetup, we'll discuss the art of data journalism with masters of the craft, including: - Lindsey Rogers Cook, Editor, Digital Storytelling at The New York Times - Brooke Fox, Data Journalist at The Financial Times Max Willens of Digiday has graciously agreed to moderate. As…
Find out more »2019 Zahn Innovation Summit
Join us on March 6th for the second Zahn Innovation Summit, a premiere event in Harlem featuring thought provoking conversation from NYC government officials, investors and entrepreneurs. Our theme is "our problems, our solutions, our unicorns." We’ll be talking about the diversity of NYC’s population--the unique challenges we face--and how we can take ownership of the solutions for our own community’s problem sets. The event includes: WORKSHOPS As part of Open Data Week, we'll offer a workshop around Open Data & how to…
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