Dear Friend,
Here's a curated list of events for the upcoming two weeks, hope you will find it useful. Enjoy!
News Digest:
- Clicks to Bricks: Online Retailers Find the Lure of a Store - New York Times
- How predictive AI will change shopping - Harvard Business Review
- Benedict Evans on cameras, e-commerce and machine learning - Benedict Evans
- How Adidas’ m-commerce app takes inspiration from Uber to go beyond influencers - The Drum
- Forget Wearables. In the Future, Your Clothes Will Connect to the Internet - Quartz
- How One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertise - Harvard Business Review
- Luxury industry is severely missing personalization in online experience - Luxury Daily
Events:
Tuesday, Nov 29
1:00pm – 9:00pm Unfiltered: Creatures of Community
The full-day event will feature panel discussions, breakout groups and hands-on workshops, a marketplace of vendors to shop for your #GivingTuesday buys, and an evening of Unfiltered networking with goal-crushing leaders across every creative industry, from fashion and beauty to tech and design. Price: $30 Location: 246 Fifth at The Yard, 246 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
6:00pm - 8:00pm Teaching Watson to See - Custom Learning w/ Visual Recognition & Node-RED
First up will be Watson Visual Recognition, this will includea mostly technical, API-focused talk and demo. Please join Matt Hill, IBM Watson Software Engineer in teaching Watson to see. Price: Free Location: Rise NYC, 43 W 23rd St, 2nd Fl
6:30pm – 9:00pm Startup Grind NYC Hosts Dennis Mortensen, CEO & Founder of x.ai
If you are interested in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Chatbots, you should attend this event. Dennis is a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space – and has been since its inception. He is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and has successfully delivered a number of company exits, so has a great deal of insight on how the industry was formed, grew, and changed, along with what to look for next. Price: $20 Location: DigitalOcean101 Avenue of the Americas
Tuesday, Nov 29, 2016 - Wednesday, Dec 14
12:00pm – 8:00pm Internet, culture and art collide @ The Glass Room
Presented by Mozilla and curated by Tactical Tech, The Glass Room is an interactive exhibit challenging us to critically examine the dynamics of living in the Internet age. At first glance, the space looks like another slick, clean-lined retail store offering the latest in shiny digital consumer products for the holidays. Go inside, and you’ll find something unlike anything you’ve seen before. Price: Free Location: 201 Mulberry St.
Wednesday, Nov 30
12:00pm - 3:00pm LIVE STREAM The Power of Storytelling: Raise Money, Win Your Market, Build Your Brand
Every startup needs to be able to tell a story, to win customers and get funding from investors. Startup entrepreneurs unite for one awesome evening of expert insights! Access Silicon Valley invites you to join us for a highly informative branding and storytelling workshop. Price: Free Location: Online
6:30pm-8:30pm Maximizing LinkedIn For Product Managers
Launching your career in Product Management? Make sure you update the most powerful tool available, your LinkedIn account. Build connections, update your bio, request recommendations, seek out every hack possible to maximize your opportunities. Price: Free Location: Product School, 1412 Broadway, 22nd fl
6:00pm The Pitch NYC 2016
The Pitch NYC features ten startups pitching their ideas/companies to a panel of judges, who will critique the startups’ business plan. Each competing startup will have two minutes to convince the judges why an investor should invest. Participants will undergo Q&A by the panel of judges of various backgrounds, including leaders in technology, experts in business or managers of local venture capital or private equity firms. Price: $20 Location: Galvanize NYC, 315 Hudson St
6:30pm-8:30pm Beyond Budgeting: How To Put Together A Financial Plan You’Ll Actually Use
Financial planning isn't about spreadsheets, graphs, or charts, it's about getting to the root of what you really value and learning how to use money as a tool to help you reach your goals and live your best life. Price: Free Location: GA New York City (East) 902 Broadway, 4th Floor
Thursday, Dec.1st
8:30am - 1:00pm [Starta Accelerator] European Tech Demo Day + Breakfast
Join Starta Accelerator to meet ten innovative startups from Eastern Europe. During the program they worked hard and gained traction in US. Price: Free Location: Microsoft HQ, 11 Times Sq
4:30pm - 8:30pm The Reality in Virtual Reality - A Conversation w/ Practitioners
Virtual and augmented reality are together growing to be arguably the hottest topic in technology today. Their effect on culture has been described as anything from a new kind of cinema to a computational medium that will completely change and replace our interactions in the world as we know it. Price: $35 Location: Microsoft HQ, 11 Times Sq
6:00pm - 8:00pm Podcasts & Virality - This American Lifes Shortcut
Podcasting has never been a particularly viral medium. The connection between technology and audio storytelling as always been clumsy at best. This American Life's 'Shortcut' has tried to change all that, and reach younger, more diverse listeners. Join the team behind 'Shortcut' for a panel discussion about what we've learned in our quest to fix audio sharing. Price: Free Location: Brown Institute for Media Innovation, 2950 Broadway
8:00pm Visions of the Future II (Movie Screening)
ELEKTRA and Hyphen Hub join forces to bring you a night of extraordinary, immersive multimedia showcasing established and up-and-coming artists from Montreal and New York. The evening explores the creative use of technology and how it can reveal new and provocative visions of the future. Price: $20 Location: CultureHub, The Downstairs at La MaMa, 66 E 4th St
Monday, Dec.5th
7:00pm Scala & Computer Vision At Curalate
At Curalate, we love scala because it's elegant, concise, and, perhaps most importantly to a startup, allows us to program things quickly.Many of our core services, however, use advanced computer vision techniques coded for speed in C or C++. This presents an interesting technical challenge: how can we build state of the art computer visionweb services that are both computationally fast and quick to build? Price: Free Location: Canary, 606W 28th St
Tuesday, Dec.6th
8:00am Future.Today Summit 2016 Summit
With Matt Chessen (Int'l Cyber Policy, US Dept of State), Scott Fahrenkrug (CEO, Recombinetics), Neville Sanjana (NY Genome Ctr & Prof., NYU Genomics), Francesca Rossi (Research Scientist @ IBM Watson & Prof. CS @ Univ. of Padova), Jack Balkin (Knight Professor, Yale Law), Amy Webb (Prof. Future Forecasting, NYU Stern), Douglas Rushkoff (Author & Prof. Media & Economics, CUNY), Asha Curran (CIO, Ctr for Innovation & Social Impact, 92Y). Price: Free Location: 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave
6:45pm - 9:00pm Product Tank
At ProductTank NYC we love to hear from fellow product people about their experiences and challenges they've faced and overcome. With Daniella Patrick (Innovation Lab Product Mgr, Accenture), Mita Carriman (Co-Founder/CEO, Adventurely), Jenine Lurie (Founder, DisruptiveExperience).With Daniella Patrick (Innovation Lab Product Mgr, Accenture), Mita Carriman (Co-Founder/CEO, Adventurely), Jenine Lurie (Founder, DisruptiveExperience). Price: Free Location: Lifion by ADP, 135 W 18th St
7:00pm Inclusionnyc: Tech, Mentorship, Inclusion
Inclusion NYC is a tech event that brings together all races, ethnicities, ages and genders for an in-person Twitter chat facilitated in part by student entrepreneurs. Price: Free Location: GA NYC, HQ 902 Broadway, 4th Floor
Wednesday, Dec. 7th
6:00pm - 8:00pm Creating a Data-Driven Organization (with WeWork)
This presentation is both non-technical and high-level, meaning it's accessible to anyone interested, but contains details and actions that data scientists and analysts can enact. It's our belief that both non-technical business leaders and those who work with data regularly will get something out of this talk. Price: Free Location: Metis NYC, 27 E 28th St, 3rd Fl
6:30 - 8:30pm Startup Fundraising: Preparing For Investment Capital
Even the best startup ideas can fall short of their expectations because of a lack of funding. This class will provide you with a practical guide for how to prepare your first (or next) round of investment capital for your startup. You’ll gain an understanding of what investors want to see, learn how to scaffold your fundraising game plan, build and forecast your financials, and craft your finance pitch deck slides. Price: $25 Location: GA Brooklyn, 14 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn
Thursday, Dec. 8th
8:30am - 11:00am Startup Game Changers
Hey founders...it's time to shift your thinking! Startup Game Changers will help you take your startup to the next level with actionable tips from insiders within the startup ecosystem. With David Ehrenberg (CEO, Early Growth Financial Services), Robin Gill (Techn & Venture Capital, City National Bank), David Browne (TriNet), Zander Farkas (Tribeca Venture Partners), Lucas Nelson (Gotham Ventures), Joshua Gilbert (Lerer Hippeau Ventures). Price: Free Location: Goodwin, 620 8th Ave
12:00pm Bowery Capital Presents - Sales Summit 2016
The 4th annual Sales Summit will be the 12th quarterly installment in Bowery Capital's event series, a forum for idea exchange between revenue leaders and high-growth startup stakeholders in the B2B ecosystem. You'll join an intimate group of thought leaders to discuss best sales strategy, process, and execution. Price: Free Location: Rise NYC, 43 W 23rd St
6:00pm - 8:00pm When Robots Rule: A Talk With Robin Hanson
In the future — or so some people think — it will be possible to upload your consciousness into a computer, creating software emulations of human brains, or “ems”. What will it look like if and when they take over the economy and world? Price: Free Location: GA NYC, HQ 902 Broadway, 4th Floor
Monday, Dec. 12
7:00pm Podcast Recording w/ Michael Crooks: Cognitive Psychology & Luxury Marketin
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
Fun & Cool Finds:
- A curated showcase of shit-hot web designs - Httpster
- AI-powered logo maker - Logojoy
- Chrome extension that helps you find ethical shopping alternatives — and saves you money - DoneGood
Stay Inspired,
Nataliya