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6:30pm - Networking & Food/Drinks
7:00pm - Featured Presentations

Justin Krup & Mirza Joldic - Building meteor-now
In this presentation we'll share how we built meteor-now to enable painless deployments of Meteor applications using zeit.co's now service. (zeit is run by the builders of socket.io & mongoose open source projects.) We'll also explain how we use containers for resource allocation & how zeit supports them.

Mirza Joldic been working with JavaScript & Meteor exclusively for over a year & enjoys building apps that can potentially reach millions of people. He is a co-organizes the Meteor-NY Office Hours meetup. Follow him on Twitter at @purplecones

Justin Krup has been using Meteor in all of his freelance or side projects for over a year & really enjoys it, having come from a Ruby on Rails background. Justin is a frequent speaker & co-organizes the Meteor-NY Office Hours meetup. His website ishttp://bokuga.com; you can follow his tweets at@justkrup

Alim S. Gafar -Rapid Node Development with MeteorJS & MongoDB
MeteorJS is an isomorphic platform for developing JavaScript web & mobile applications. We'll dive deep into this full-stack framework, discuss what makes it especially useful for realtime reactive applications, how it uses MongoDB, & how to make it work with Atlas, MongoDB's DBAAS offering. We'll discuss production deployment options, including Galaxy, MDG's container-based Meteor-specific hosting. And we'll demo how to make getting started even easier & cleaner by building apps in Docker.

Alim S. Gafar is a principal at DIRA Market Dynamics, & a developer advocate & technical evangelist. He co-organizes the Meteor-NY meetup, co-founded the Meteor Camp 2016 conference, & is one of four Meteor Fellows. Today, he works primarily with JavaScript, Python, R, & C & is currently interested in machine learning, game development, community dynamics, blockchain, & market development. To follow him on Twitter click on his handle: @alimgafar

7:45pm - Break

7:50pm - Lightning Talks
8:15pm - Announcements
8:30pm - Tavern 29
We'll head out afterwards to theTavern 29 at 47 E29 Street, New York, NY 10016 (between Madison Avenue & S Park Avenue). Rendezvous at the rooftop bar.

Use our Speaker Form (https://goo.gl/XLQDS0) to suggest a keynote presentation or lightning talk you'd like to give. If there's a topic you'd like someone else to talk about, post that too.

We're looking for tutorials, walkthroughs, talks, discussion topics, personal projects, & production apps about or related to Meteor.

And don't worry, you're not required to get technical. Meteor is new, & we're learning together.