Creative, Fashion, Technology Start Ups Events this December + Year 2016 Reflection Message <3

Dear Friend,

This is the last email I'm sending in 2016 and wanted to take this chance to reflect a tiny bit. And thank you, my subscribers!

Life is so beautiful. We always need to remember that and notice the positive side of all things that happen to us. Even if it feels like today was the worst day, we know that tomorrow there will always be a new day and things won't seem as bad as they did. In New York, it's easy to forget to stay present. Every hour we need to pause, reflect on a moment, focus on a positive and thankful thought, let it warm you up and go on with our lives with a genuine smile. 

Happy Holidays, my friends! Let's calmly let the 2016 go and know that 2017 will bring us more happiness, inspiration and great experience. Because I believe that our future is bright. That's why I love technology so much - it encourages us to be better humans and build a better world. 

Hope this list of December's events make you happy and encourage you to learn something new and love yourself more! Thank you so much for reading my newsletter, I value your time & attention tremendously.

News Digest:

  • The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots: Why they’re disrupting UX and best practices for building - Medium

  • Farfetch to unveil ‘store of the future’ vision - Drapers
  • Google & British Fashion Council - Online fashion exhibitions platform
  • Amazon Go Debuts as a New Grocery Store Without Checkout Lines - Fortune
  • Fossil CTO Sonny Vu: 'Data is the new material for fashion' - Silicon Republic

Events: 


Monday, Dec. 12

5:00pm re\VISION NYC

A Happy Hour and Speaker Series on Omni-Channel User Experiences Open bar cocktail hour, networking, and expert-led talks on how to prepare, plan and launch effective omni-channel user experiences. Price: Free Location: Foundation Center, 32 Old Slip, 24th Fl

6:00pm - 9:00pm Podcast Recording w/ Michael Crooks: Cognitive Psychology & Luxury Marketing

Luxury marketing is a finesse game, and our conversation with Michael will circle around how he thinks about the science and strategy of building long-term customer relationships via emotional connection – starting with data, and, where appropriate, subsequently shaping the nuances of design and behavior. Join us as we dive deep into the psyche, tracking tools, and technologies that aid his team's effort. Price: $20 Location: Sennheiser Store, 134 Prince Street

Tuesday, Dec.13th

5:30pm - 8:30pm Design Driven

Speakers: Emery Wells, founder and CEO of frame.io, Alvin Zhou, of Buzzfeed's Tasty, Laney Caldwell, Product Manager at x.ai. Price: Free Location: Design Driven Buzzfeed HQ, 111 E 18th St

6:00pm Entrepreneurs Roundtable 101

 Our speaker at this event will be: Joanne Wilson (Gotham gal ventures) Format: Introductions, Q&A, 5 Pitches and Feedback. Price: Free Location: Microsoft 11 Times Square (8th Ave between 41 and 42)

7:00pm December 2016 NY Tech Meetup and Afterparty

Join us for NYC's most famous and longest running monthly tech event! This month, we've partnered with the NYC DOE iZone to feature a fantastic lineup of edtech companies presenting live demos of their products in front of 50 NYC schools educators. The demos will be followed by an afterparty where you can network with the community and meet our demoers and sponsors. Price: $10 Location: NYU Skirball Center For The Performing Arts 566 Laguardia Place

Wednesday, Dec 14th

6:00am Daybreaker NYC - Ugly Sweater & Pants Party

At Daybreaker, we dance our faces off before work and feel gloriously healthy while doing so. We gather in community to participate in something greater than ourselves. Daybreaker is about choosing to live life differently, choosing to be happy, and choosing to pursue the best versions of ourselves. See you on the dance floor. Price: $35 Location: Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Pl

6:00pm IBM THINK Leaders

Join us at Splash HQ on Tuesday, December 14th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm for a fireside chat between Robert Schwartz, Global Leader of Strategy & Design, IBM iX, and Lisa M. Shalett, former Goldman Sachs partner and active startup investor and advisor. Price: Free Location: Splash HQ, 122 W 26 St, 4th Fl

6:00pm eCommerce Meetup - Dropshipping 101 

For the last meetup of 2016 we have one an introduction to a relatively low cost sustainable business model: Drop Shipping. Speaker: Jill Sherman CEO and Co-Founder of Modalyst.Price: Free Location: Microsoft HQ, 11 Times Sq

6:30pm How To Find & Build The Right Product

Lean Startup practitioners have tons of great advice on how to discover the right product, but even these practices can sometimes be hard to introduce to your team. It's all about helping your team ask the right questions and letting them help you find the answers. With Selena Hadzibabic (Product-Expert-In-Residence, NYU Steinhardt and StartEd EdTech Accelerator). Price: $10 Location: Product School, 1412 Broadway, 22nd Fl

Thursday, Dec. 15th

6:00pm New York VR Meetup

James Andrew (YouVisit) will present several unique and exciting technical innovations that he has been developing for YouVisit including the Liquid Flow process and The Looking Glass Technique. Afterwards attendees will be able to experience an exciting demo which will showcase these innovations. Price: $5 Location: Microsoft HQ, 11 Times Sq

Friday, Dec. 16th

6:00pm Economics & Big Data - Interpreting, Training & Distilling Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Deep Sequence-to-sequence models have rapidly become an indispensable general-purpose tool for many applications in natural language processing, such as machine translation, summarization, and dialogue. Many problems that once required careful domain-specific engineering can now be tackled using off-the-shelf systems by interested tinkerers. However, even with the evident early success of these models, the seq2seq framework itself is still relatively unexplored. Price: Free Location: NYU Courant Institute, 251 Mercer St, Rm 109

6:30pm The Music Mind - The New Digital Latin Wave

The second edition of our Music Mind series will explore Latin music in the age of digitalization, globalization - and its transition from a minority to a mainstream movement. With Rocio Guerrero (Global Head of Latin Content Programming, Spotify), Leandro Gonzalez (Founder, Stereodisk), Nicolas Losada (Singer, Salt Cathedral), Sokio (Founder, Ponk Records), Isabelia Herrera (Editor, Remezcla).Price: Free Location: Knotel Bryant, 22 W 38th St, 3rd Fl

Sunday, Dec. 18th - Monday, Dec 19th. 

2-6pm NYU ITP Winter Show 2016 

2 day exhibition of recent creative interactive projects by grad students of NYU ITP. Price: Free Location: NYU ITP Tisch School of Arts, 721 Broadway, 4th Fl

Tuesday, Dec. 20

6:00pm - 9:00pm Winter IoT Demo Night & Networking Bash

Join us for a night of IoT Demos and Professional Networking in which people will get to interact with IoT applications and network with Internet of Things Leaders & Professionals in the NYC Metro area! Price: Free Location: Galvanize NYC, 315 Hudson St

Fun & Cool Finds:

Stay Inspired and enjoy time off during Holidays!

Hugs,

Nataliya