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Hello NY Techies, 

 It’s certainly been a mild winter, but NYC’s tech ecosystem continues to heat up with spring on the horizon, and we have some great announcements and tech events for you to check out!

 Questions? Contact [email protected]

Best,  

Andy + the NY Tech Alliance Team

UPCOMING NY TECH ALLIANCE EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

****VC UPDATE 2020: MARKET OUTLOOK & STRATEGIES FOR GETTING TO A TERM SHEET – FEBRUARY 27****

Join us for our first event of our Foundations of Entrepreneurship series of 2020! We will be presenting our 2020 update on the venture capital financing market for early-stage companies. The panel will feature representatives from some of the top funds and organizations, both large and small. Together, they will be addressing the outlook for early-stage VC financing for the coming year, as well as providing attendees with practical advice on identifying and connecting with VCs.

 GET YOUR TICKETS AT: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vc-update-2020-market-outlook-strategies-for-getting-to-a-term-sheet-tickets-91339634305?discount=NYTECH2020

****MARCH 2020 NY TECH MEETUP - MARCH 3****

Join us for NYC's most famous and longest running monthly tech event! You'll see a fantastic lineup of New York tech companies presenting live demos of their products, followed by an afterparty where you can network with the community and meet our demoers and sponsors.

 GET YOUR TICKETS AT: http://bit.ly/mar2020nytm

****NY TECH MEETUP: CLEANTECH DEMO NIGHT EVENT – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS****

On Tuesday April 7, NY Tech Meetup will be partnering with NYSERDA to spotlight tech companies who are focused on creating new sustainable technologies in the clean energy sector. Applications are now open, with the submission deadline being Friday, February 28. Applicants will be notified on whether they have been selected by Monday, March 9. Good luck, and we hope to see you at the event to show your support for sustainability and a greener future!

 Apply today at https://forms.gle/1zoaE9WFqxygkXpR9

****NY TECH ALLIANCE CEO ROUNDTABLE - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS****

CALLING ALL CEOs! NY Tech Alliance is currently accepting applications for a limited number of spaces for our CEO Roundtable Program. This small group of committed CEOs from growing technology companies meets monthly to discuss issues each is facing in their day-to-day. Conversations are kept confidential and participating CEOs are selected to ensure non-competitive participation.

 Meets Monthly on Monday Evenings

Midtown Manhattan Location

6:00-9:00 pm

 Apply today at https://goo.gl/forms/FdtmC3OqNC40ejiw2, or email [email protected] with any questions.

****STAY CONNECTED WITH NY TECH ALLIANCE*****

To better help our members stay connected before, during, and following our events, we have incorporated Hio into our ecosystem.

 DOWNLOAD Hio

During our events, use Hio and connect with other attendees by checking-in and sharing contact info across all social media platforms!

Download Hio today at https://hiosocial.app.link/2vqxMnML71 and sign into the NY Tech Meetup events with the passcode: nytech.

  UPCOMING PARTNER EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

****Black Women Talk Tech: 2020 Roadmap to Billions Conference – February 27-29****

Roadmap to Billions is for self-identified black women founders with scalable businesses and technology companies, investors, tech evangelists and their allies. The immersive three-day tech conference, designed by black women founders for black women founders, includes keynote speakers, panel discussions, networking, and more!

 Use the code RTB-DXE3EP3M for a 25% registration discount!

For more info and to register: https://www.blackwomentalktech.com/

****LYLAS Labs: Open Data Hack on Pay Parity - March 1****

Submitted by: Margaret Smiley

LYLAS Labs is uniting with 50+ New Yorkers across industries on Sunday, March 1 to develop open data solutions to advance pay parity.

The day-long hackathon will engage interdisciplinary teams to propose creative technical solutions to the gender pay gap as part of NYC's annual Open Data Week.

LYLAS Labs hackathons are open to all participants, regardless of technical experience or subject matter expertise.

 Use the code lylaspartner for a 20% registration discount!

To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lylas-labs-open-data-hack-on-pay-parity-tickets-91444550111

****SportTechie's State of the Industry - March 26-27****

Submitted by: Dan Kaufman

SportTechie's State of the Industry is the world's premier conference on how technology is changing the way we play, consume, produce and train for sports. We will focus on the following tracks, which include keynote conversations, TED-talk style presentations, and panels, all at Barclays Center in Brooklyn:

- Athlete Performance Tech

- Sports Venue Tech

- Sports Media Tech

- Sports Sponsorship Tech

 Use the code SOTI_NYTECH for a 10% registration discount!

For more info and to register: https://events.sporttechie.com/SOTI

****The Emotion AI Conference - March 30****

Submitted by: Seth Grimes

The Emotion AI Conference offers an industry perspective on affective technologies, taking place March 30 in New York. Research speakers from tech firms, industry, and academia will speak on use of natural language processing, voice tech, facial coding, and neuro methods to detect and apply emotion in and via social and online media, in-vehicle and in-lab, and conversational interfaces.

Use the code NYTECH for a 20% registration discount!

http://emotionai20.com

****Veritonic Job Opportunities****

Veritonic is looking to hire for both a Director of Business Development, and a Sales Development Representative. Please use the following links to apply!

Director of Business Development 

Sales Development Representative

 Veritonic is the audio intelligence platform, empowering marketers to understand and quantify the most effective way to use sound.  We help platforms like Pandora and brands like Visa win the audio renaissance.

    THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

Annual Premier Sponsors:   Xandr

Annual Sustaining Sponsors:  

EisnerAmper EY

NYIT Work Better

Annual Supporting Sponsors:

Accenture

Propeller Industries

Sabety+associates Withum

Annual Contributing Sponsors:

Corsis

Crown Castle

DWT Digital Counsel

Google  

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HOW TO REACH NY Tech Alliance and NY Tech Meetup 

Website: nytech.org 

Page for Applying to Demo: https://nytech.org/about/apply-to-demo 

Site for Tickets:  https://nytech.org/monthly_meetup 

Newsletter Submissions: https://nytech.org/events 

To our tech community,

Like everyone, the NY Tech Alliance is closely monitoring both the local and global situations regarding COVID-19. We have decided in the name of caution and safety to suspend all of our in-person events for the time being. Stay tuned for updates regarding virtual events and other online programming supporting our amazing community.  

We ask that you all do your part to stay in good health. Use information from reliable and verified sources only. Stay cautious, but do not panic, and remember that we each play a role in making this incredible tech ecosystem the best in the world!

In the meantime, here are helpful resources both general and specific to the NYC tech community.

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Official Information:

CDC COVID-19

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/

NYS Department of Health

https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/coronavirus/

Assistance & Guidance for Businesses Impacted Due to Novel Coronavirus

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/sbs/businesses/covid19-business-outreach.page

Text 'COVID' to 692-692 to receive COVID-19 updates and information from

NotifyNYC

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Updates and Resources from our Partners:

Our friends at Tech:NYC have put together a great resource kit and daily newsletter specific to the tech community. 

Tech:NYC Daily COVID-19 Update - https://www.technyc.org/covid-digest

Tech:NYC COVID-19 Tech Resource Guide - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12KbEKMrLrZf-nUvuHoFtLPHAARIDEc7kcWTUwBnI8dw/preview#

Our partners at Civic Hall have put together a ton of great resources listed in the last few newsletters. They contain great reads, tech tools, and upcoming useful webinars. Check them out at https://civichall.org/

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Virtual Events from Our Community

As we move from in-person to virtual events, many organizations in the community have already programmed a number of interesting virtual events. If you have a virtual event you would like to share with the community, please submit them to https://nytech.org/events.

Building a Wellness Startup - Webinar

Wellness is indisputably having an impact on culture, in addition to how we think about health. The wellness landscape has been full of emerging opportunities, and we want to dive into a conversation about how to grow and thrive in this space. Join us on March 18th for a panel featuring leaders in the space from Thrive Global, meditation.live, Bravely, and Session Together for a discussion on what it takes to build an authentic wellness brand and what it takes to launch and succeed in such a competitive market. 

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s8CXgRjYR1uF0FtIUETcBg

Healthtech, the FDA and What Startups Need to Know: An Expert Discussion - Online Conference

On March 27th, VentureOut and MedStartr are excited to host our first virtual expert discussion: Healthtech, the FDA and What Startups Need to Know.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to hear a veteran health tech panel discuss one of the most pressing topics in the industry over your morning coffee.

https://v-o.io/38JZBJi

SportTechie's State of the Industry - Virtual Conference

SportTechie's State Of The Industry is the world's premier conference on how technology is changing the way we play, consume, produce and train for sports. We will focus on the following tracks, which include keynote conversations, TED-talk style presentations, and panels:

- Athlete Performance Tech

- Sports Venue Tech

- Sports Media Tech

- Sports Sponsorship Tech

Info and register here: https://events.sporttechie.com/SOTI

What the Health? A Virtual Healthtech Pitch Event!

On March 27th, VentureOut and MedStartr excited to host What the Health?, our first virtual Healthtech pitch event featuring some of the most promising startups in the Healthtech space and our panel of seasoned venture investors focused on innovations in the sector.

This pitch event is the capstone of the 1-Week VentureOut Healthtech program, a hyper-acceleration program for the most promising startups in the industry.

https://v-o.io/2Q95wkV

Her Future Summit (NYC) - Virtual Conference

Her Future Summit returns with the 3rd annual series to identify, train, and empower the next generation of female pioneers.The Her Future Summit series was launched in 2018 to accelerate humanity’s success with Sustainable Development Goal #5- Gender Equality and has quickly become the fastest growing platform for women in tech. Each summit provides access to over 100 global speakers and partners with exclusive opportunities to connect with ecosystem builders from around the world.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/her-future-summit-global-virtual-2020-tickets-97441982593

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Thank you for being part of the NY Tech Alliance community and we look forward to continuing to support you, your ventures, your education and your network through these times and beyond!

Andy + The NY Tech Alliance Team

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HOW TO REACH NY Tech Alliance and NY Tech Meetup 

Website:  nytech.org 

Newsletter Submissions:  https://nytech.org/events 

Hello NY Techies,

We are in June, and that means we are officially in Pride Month! June is a time to celebrate the vibrant LGBTQ+ community, and its continued fight for equality and inclusion. 2019 is a landmark year, as it is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, considered one of the most monumental events of  LGBTQ+ civil rights movement. In commemoration and celebration, New York City is proud to host WorldPride and welcomes citizens from around the world to participate in a month long series of events. This special edition of our newsletter is a listing dedicated to the many of the conferences, talks, tours, exhibits and social activities happening in celebration.

Happy Pride and remember to be kind to all! ️💖

Be sure to read on for information on networking, professional, and tech events taking place this month, as well as for a list of exciting events in celebration of Pride!

Join us for NYC's most famous and longest running monthly tech event! You'll see a fantastic lineup of New York tech companies presenting live demos of their products, followed by an afterparty where you can network with the community and meet our demoers and sponsors.

This Month's Amazing Lineup:

Please join us on Tuesday, August 6th, when we host a special Meetup and Summer Celebration at the American Museum of Natural History!

The program will showcase the amazing projects created by the students of the BridgeUP:STEM program and community volunteers during the Hack the Solar System hackathon that took place earlier this year.

The very special afterparty will take place under the Great Canoe in the Grand Gallery and will be a celebration of the BridgeUP:STEM current students and alumni, the NY Tech Alliance family, and all those that make this community thrive!

So whether you can make it for the program or just the reception, we encourage you to RSVP now for a fantastic night of summer celebration. There will be delicious bites, wine, beer, refreshments, and of course, the best networking in town!

About the Hackathon The Museum’s BridgeUP: STEM hackathon is a conduit for citizen science where our public participants create real tools and build solutions to real problems in scientific education, communication, and research.

Join us for NYC's most famous and longest-running monthly tech event! You'll see a fantastic lineup of New York tech companies presenting live demos of their products, followed by an afterparty where you can network with the community and meet our demoers and sponsors. THANK YOU TO OUR HOST - CONVENE! Convene designs and services premium places to work, meet, and host inspiring events. Learn more at https://convene.com/ This Month's Incredible Lineup: Catapult @Fire_Catapult Zack Rosenberg, Co-Founder + CEO Catapult is a new platform where you can license, brand, and distribute premium video content in minutes!

Outro Taylor Crane, Maker How to build a more effective, more close-knit team in 30 minutes a week.

Palapod @Palapod Kaiwen "Tia" Wan, Founder     Ken Chester, Founder Palapod exists to bring entrepreneurship to the masses by helping people build their founding teams.

Real World Playbook @Realworldplaybk    Genevieve Ryan Bellaire, Founder + CEO Real World Playbook helps recent college grads transition to adulthood by providing helpful resources, educational materials, and products from trusted vendors.

Join us for NYC's most famous and longest running monthly tech event! You'll see a fantastic lineup of New York tech companies presenting live demos of their products, followed by an afterparty where you can network with the community and meet our demoers and sponsors.

This month we are partnering with Direct Travel to showcase some of NYC's best in travel tech! About Our Partner and Sponsor: Direct Travel @DirectTravelInc

Direct Travel is one of the most technologically advanced travel management companies in North America and around the world, providing corporate travel, meetings and events, and leisure services. Direct Travel designs customized corporate travel programs for organizations of all sizes featuring: managed self-booking tools, mobile apps, 24-hour emergency support, advanced technologies ensuring lowest fares, discounted air/hotel and car programs, corporate travel policy development and more.

About the Demoers: Rocketrip @Rocketrip Dan Ruch, Founder + CEO at Rocketrip For too long, the interests of the individual business travelers and those of their companies have been misaligned.  It is challenging balancing personal traveler preferences with corporate goals that support preferred travel suppliers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, etc.) offering discounted rates to the company as a whole.  Rocketrip is a business travel rewards platform that motivates employees to spend less on business travel. By introducing the motivation to save, Rocketrip is fundamentally changing the way employees spend money on business travel.  Travelers who use Rocketrip when booking air, hotel and more, are rewarded with 50% of the savings their company receives. Rocketrip is neither a travel agency nor an online booking tool. Rather, it works with companies’ existing travel tools and policies to motivate cost conscious spending decisions among employees. Direct2U Brianna Conway, Director of Technology Solutions at Direct Travel Direct2U is a mobile platform providing a variety of functionalities for business travelers including itinerary management.  The app also provides travelers with flight notification, flight check-in, weather and additional functionalities impacting a business traveler’s trip.   With the “Duty of Care” organizations have in supporting travelers while on business travel, it has become increasingly important to locate travelers at all times, identify those in potentially vulnerable locations and provide immediate and relevant assistance.    Utilizing Direct2U’s Safety and Security Check-in functionality, the traveler’s GPS location is sent directly to the traveler tracking map managed by the company’s management and agency partner.  Proactive assistance to the impacted traveler(s) can then be provided. Direct2U automatically monitors, identifies and alerts travelers to disruptive events around the globe.   TripBam @Tripbamrocks David Mollov, Managing Director at Hotel Solutions + TripBam TripBam is a new sourcing solution using analytics to identify lower hotel rates within a company’s corporate travel policy.  TripBam begins with searching for better rates than an existing booking and monitors rate fluctuation over time. The powerful engine evaluates potential new, lower rates by focusing on travel manager approved amenities and filtering out rates that aren't applicable to corporate travel.  TripBam continuously searches using the traveler’s and the corporation’s criteria up until the cancellation policy. When found, TripBam can automatically re-book the better rate and lock in the savings.   Interactions @Interactionsco Bob Sullebarger, Vice President at Interactions Steve Tanner, Sales Director at Interactions

Join NY Tech Alliance for the next amazing edition of NY Tech Meetup on Tuesday, April 14th! Five companies will virtually demo their technology to the ecosystem, with networking before and after the program!

About the Demoers:

Coalition

@coalition_app

Garrett Kinsman, Co-Founder

Coalition is an app to help trace and eradicate COVID-19 while preserving your privacy.

Da Vinci Eye

Samuel Gherman, Founder

Charissa Castillo, Co-Founder

Seth Dale, Co-Founder

Anyone can learn to draw!

MeetFox

@myMeetFox

Susanne Klepsch, Co-Founder + CEO

Online meetings made easy with easy scheduling, one-click video calls and automatic payment.

Salut

@saluthq

Uri Soroka, CEO

Vova Soroka, CTO

Salut is helping communities connect by bringing order to the chaos of group conversations.

Switch

@wanted_off

Jean Meyer, CEO

Eva Peris, CMO