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EVENT SPOTLIGHT

		Oct 19: Techstars Startup Weekend Blockchain Edition Focus on ideas that utilize power & potential of blockchain technology & design to solve problems.

		Oct 20: ARROW Conference - Bridging Gender Gap One Girl At A Time For girls in middle school, high school & beyond who are interested in intersection of tech & business.

		Oct 21: Brunchwork w/ Eniac Ventures With Hadley Harris (Founding General Partner, Eniac Ventures).

		Oct 24: Getting Into An Accelerator With Pano Anthos (Founder, XRC Labs), Kevin Siskar (MD, Founder Institute), Jeremy Harper (Principal, ERA Accelerator), Sarah Milewski (Platform & Program Mgr, Dreamit Ventures).

		Oct 25: Brunchwork w/ Gotham Gal Ventures & StartupCareerAdvice With Joanne Wilson (Investor @ Gotham Gal Ventures) & John Gannon (Founder, StartupCareerAdvice).

		Oct 25: [AI In Brain Imaging] Brain Backups - What Are They Good For? With Russell Hanson (Chief Scientific Officer, Endjinn).

		Oct 30: Building A Food Startup With Amanda Hesser (Co-Founder/CEO, Food52), Caron Proschan (Founder/CEO, Simply Gum), Peter Bodenheimer (Program Dir., Food-X), Nicole Centeno (Founder/CEO, Splendid Spoon).

		Nov 15: EGG2018 NYC With Haftan Eckholdt (Chief Data Science Officer, Plated), Yael Elmatad (Lead Data Scientist, Giphy), Somesh Saxena (Product, GE Aviation), Mariem Ayadi (Data Scientist, Credit Suisse).

CLASS SPOTLIGHT

		Which Coding Program To Choose There are many programs to learn to code, from free online resources to immersive in-person coding bootcamps. Find out the best approach.

		Fast Track To Computing @ NJIT Bridge program @ NJIT to allow non-computing STEM grads to enroll in master's degree computing programs

		Ethical Hacking Bootcamp Learn to legally hack into cyber infrastructures, evaluate scenarios & pinpoint system vulnerabilities via hands-on simulation lab.

		Oct 29: How To Get Hired As A Data Scientist With Andrew Savage (Sr Career Advisor & Head of Employer Partnerships, Metis).

		Jan 22: Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Program Develop entrepreneurial skills & build media or journalism-related product or service. 15 week program @ CUNY Journalism School.

COMPANIES HIRING SPOTLIGHT

WeWork is transforming buildings into beautiful, collaborative workspaces for creators.

EquityZen is a secondary marketplace for-approved pre-IPO stock transactions.

Roman Health Roman is direct-to-consumer men's health company

WEEK OF OCT 15

Saturday, Oct 20

Oct 20
8:00am

Future Of Care FOC 2018
Rockefeller University
With founder/CEOs Piraye Beim (Celmatix), Richard Park (CityMD), John Hervey (Cota), Ali Brivanlou (Rumi Scientific), Greg Peters (BetterPT), Olivier Elemento (Dir., Englander Institute for Precision Medicine), Doug Thiede (Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare, NYCEDC), Mark Morris (VP R&D, Elysium Health).

Oct 20
9:00am

Free

REcon 2018 - Designing The Future Of Research
Bloomberg LP
With Dali Szostak (UX Research, Jigsaw), Eugenio Santiago (VP User Research, Key), Mindy Eng (UX Strategist, Key Lime Interactive), Michael Morgann (UX Researcher, Bloomberg), Rob Strati (Founder, First Blush).

Oct 20
9:30am

$40

Ethical Tech Summit
ThoughtWorks
With Sara Holoubek (Founder, Luminary Labs), Douglas Rushkoff (Author, Team Human), Charlie Oliver (Founder, Tech 2025), Cassie Robinson (Dir. Strategy, Dot everyone), Devin Jackson (Founder, We Build Black), Mitu Khandaker (Prof., NYU Game Center), John Havens (Dir., IEEE Global Ethics of Autonomous & Intelligent Systems).

Oct 20
9:30am

$30

Girl Develop It Hackathon
Amazon AWS Loft

Oct 20
10:00am

Free

One Day At Bootcamp - Python Focusing On Pandas & SciKit Learn
Metis NYC
With Sophie Searcy (Sr Data Scientist, Metis).

Oct 20
1:00pm

Free

ARROW Conference - Bridging Gender Gap One Girl At A Time
Hunter College High School
For girls in middle school, high school & beyond who are interested in intersection of tech & business.

Sunday, Oct 21

Oct 21+
11:30am

$40

Brunchwork w/ Vogue & Eniac Ventures
General Assembly
With Sally Singer (Creative Dir., Vogue) & Hadley Harris (Founding General Partner, Eniac Ventures).

Tuesday, Oct 23

Oct 23
5:30pm

Free

Apache Ignite - The In-Memory Hammer In Your Data Science Toolkit
Metis NYC
With Akmal Chaudhri (Technology Evangelist, GridGain).

Wednesday, Oct 24

Oct 24
6:30pm

$20

Getting Into An Accelerator
Alley Chelsea
With Pano Anthos (Founder, XRC Labs), Kevin Siskar (MD, Founder Institute), Jeremy Harper (Principal, ERA Accelerator), Sarah Milewski (Platform & Program Mgr, Dreamit Ventures).

Thursday, Oct 25

Oct 25
6:00pm

[AI In Brain Imaging] Brain Backups - What Are They Good For?
Qplum HQ
With Russell Hanson (Chief Scientific Officer, Endjinn).

Oct 25
6:30pm

$45

Brunchwork w/ Gotham Gal Ventures & StartupCareerAdvice
Venue
With Joanne Wilson (Investor @ Gotham Gal Ventures) & John Gannon (Founder, StartupCareerAdvice).

Saturday, Oct 27

Oct 27+
7:00am

Ethical Hacking Bootcamp
TurnToTech
Learn to legally hack into cyber infrastructures, evaluate scenarios & pinpoint system vulnerabilities via hands-on simulation lab.

WEEK OF OCT 29

Monday, Oct 29

Oct 29
8:30pm

Free

How To Get Hired As A Data Scientist
Metis
With Andrew Savage (Sr Career Advisor & Head of Employer Partnerships, Metis).

Tuesday, Oct 30

Oct 30
6:30pm

$20

Building A Food Startup
Alley Chelsea
With Amanda Hesser (Co-Founder/CEO, Food52), Caron Proschan (Founder/CEO, Simply Gum), Peter Bodenheimer (Program Dir., Food-X), Nicole Centeno (Founder/CEO, Splendid Spoon).

Oct 30
6:30pm

Data Visualization With D3
Metis

Oct 30
6:30pm

$1900

Data Visualization With D3
Metis
With Paul Buffa (Data Visualization Expert).

Wednesday, Nov 07

Nov 07
6:30pm

$50

Brunchwork w/ FirstMark Capital
Venue
With Catherine Ulrich (Dir., FirstMark Capital).

Thursday, Nov 15

Nov 15
8:00am

$355

EGG2018 NYC
Venue
With Haftan Eckholdt (Chief Data Science Officer, Plated), Yael Elmatad (Lead Data Scientist, Giphy), Somesh Saxena (Product Mgr, GE Aviation), Ashok Kumar (Global Head of Analytics, Avis), Kenny Ning (Data Enggr, Better Mortgage), Mariem Ayadi (Data Scientist, Credit Suisse), Alla Kramskaia (SVP, Dun & Bradstreet), Jeff Parker (Data Scientist, Qualtrics), Andrew Conklin (Dir. Technology, Origent Data Sciences).

Saturday, Nov 17

Nov 17
9:00am

$499

SQL Fundamentals
Metis
With John Navarro (Sr Data Scientist).

Saturday, Oct 20

Jan 22
10:00am

Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Program
CUNY Grad School of Journalism
Develop entrepreneurial skills & build media or journalism-related product or service. 15 week program @ CUNY Journalism School.