BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//AlleyWatch//Events//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:legacy-48fe0661615dd0a2fc9cf1b7@events.alleywatch.com DTSTAMP:20261114T185319Z DTSTART:20171129T230000Z DTEND:20171130T010000Z SUMMARY:The Future of Autonomous Transportation with Dan Burstein & Rh onda Binda DESCRIPTION:RobotLab is pleased to host an evening focusing on autonom ous vehicles\, smart cities and the future of society with Dan Burstei n & Rhonda Binda. \n\nDan is a partner of Millennium Technology Value Partners. Dan is also a prolific writer of 14 NY Times best selling bo oks about technology trends\, global economic issues\, and popular cul ture (see bio below). \n\nIn light of the recent announcement by GM Cr uise to begin autonomous testing in Manhattan\, Rhonda Binda a leading policy maker and co-founder of Venture Smarter will speak about the f uture of Smart Cities and New York (see bio below). \n\nConcluding the evening we will review the role of drones played in helping relief or ganizations service victims of the recent wave of natural disasters (H urricanes Harvey\, Irma and Maria). In the spirit of the Holidays\, we will also have the opportunity to GIVE to UJA in continuing their soc ial services... \n\nPlease note: due to unforeseen circumstances Steve Girsky is unable to attend the RobotLab event\, we apologize for any inconvenience. \n\nDan Burstein \n\nDan Burstein co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners with Sam Schwerin in 2002. He has been acti vely involved in many of Millennium's most important investments inclu ding Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Alibaba (NYSE: BABA)\, and led the firm 's investment in Twitter (NYSE: TWTR).\n\nBefore Millennium\, Dan was Senior Advisor at The Blackstone Group\, where he worked for 12 years in a variety of capacities. Over the course of his career\, he has bee n a consultant to the CEOs and senior executives of major global corpo rations including Sony\, Toyota\, Microsoft\, and Sun Microsystems.\n\ nDuring the last two decades\, Dan has served on more than a dozen pub lic and private company boards. He has also been a forum fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos and has been honored many times for his books and journalistic work\, including awards from the Overseas Pres s Club and Sigma Delta Chi. He and Sam Schwerin have co-authored sever al thought-leading articles and white papers on the Direct Secondary M arket and the ever-growing\, ever-evolving role of alternative liquidi ty solutions to address the needs of constituents in the venture capit al ecosystem.\n\nDan has made personal venture capital investments sin ce 1983\, when he first worked as a consultant in Silicon Valley. He b egan making institutional venture capital investments in the second ha lf of the 1990s. He articulated and led an investment thesis that focu sed on early stage companies building backbone infrastructure for the internet and enhancing the security\, reliability\, and user experienc e of the web. The small funds he led experienced extraordinary returns available in that time period for this investment thesis.\n\nThe New York Times bestselling author of 14 books\, Dan has written about tech nology trends\, global economic issues\, and popular culture. Among hi s path-breaking books are Yen! a 1988 global bestseller about the rise of Japanese financial power\; Road Warriors\, a 1995 book about the b irth of digital media and the internet\; Big Dragon\, a 1998 book abou t China's future\; Secrets of the Code\, a 2004 guidebook to the Da Vi nci Code that was on the New York Times bestseller list for six months \; Blog!a pioneering 2005 book about the birth of social media\; and S ecrets of 24\, about the political\, moral\, and technological issues in the TV series "24." His 2011 book\, THE TATTOOED GIRL: The Enigma o f Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers o f our Time\, was nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award from the My stery Writers of America. His l most recent book is Secrets of Inferno : In the Footsteps of Dante and Dan Brown (2013). His books have been published in 33 languages and several have been turned into documentar y films. He is a frequent speaker at venture capital events and is oft en asked to help judge venture capital competitions. He has made numer ous TV appearances on CNN\, CNBC\, MSNBC\, the History Channel\, and C harlie Rose and has written more than a thousand articles for well-kno wn magazines and newspapers.\n\nActively involved in several community initiatives in Connecticut where he lives\, Dan was a founding Board member of the Weston Education Foundation and served on the Advisory B oard for the Westport Youth Film Festival (WYFF) from its inception in 2004 to 2011. He was honored with WYFF’s Founder’s Award for his comm unity service.\n\nAlwaysOn has named Dan to its lists of the "Power Pl ayers" in New York’s venture capital community\, the top 100 Power Pla yers in Digital Media\, and the top venture capitalists in the U.S.\n\ nRhonda Binda \n\nRhonda Binda is VP Policy for Venture Smarter and se rves as the Executive Director of Regional Smart Cities Initiatives. S he formerly served as Deputy Director for the U.S. Department of State ’s Global Intergovernmental Affairs Division in the Office of the Secr etary\, and in the West Wing of the White House under two administrati ons\, respectively. In between her tours with the government\, Rhonda practiced technology and telecommunications law with Alston & Bird\, L LP. \n\nBinda most recently served as the Executive Director of the Ja maica Center Business Improvement District. Binda revitalized downtown by leveraging the 3-Ts strategy: technology\, transportation and tour ism. In 2016 Jamaica was named #1 hottest neighborhood in NYC (WSJ) an d was winner of the NYC Small Business Services Neighborhood Challenge Grant (SBS). Governor Cuomo also awarded Jamaica $10 million for down town revitalization in 2016\, the #1 prize state-wide. She advocated f or digital inclusion so that the majority of the Governor's award was allocated to closing the digital divide in downtown Jamaica\, Queens f or its over 300+ businesses.\n\nBinda is graduate of Duke University\, Georgetown University Law Center and is a Lord Rothermere Scholar of New College\, Oxford University. She is from and lives in New York Cit y. LOCATION:WeWork Grand Central\, 450 Lexington Ave\, 4th Floor\, New Yo rk URL:https://www.meetup.com/RobotLab/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR