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EVENT SPOTLIGHT

		Apr 24: Impact Jobs With David Ferrucci (Inventor, IBM Watson), Andrew Yang (Founder, Venture for America & Democratic Candidate for President 2020).

		Apr 25: RecSys Meetup With Dhaval Shah (Head of Machine Learning & Big Data Engg, Bloomberg), Marc Jansen (Data Scientist, Gousto), Adam Hajari (Sr Scientist, Pandora).

		Apr 26: Creating New Goods - Product Development Advice For Startups With founder/CEOs Stephen Kuhl (Burrow), Gabby Slome (Ollie), Matteo Franceschetti (Eight), Janet Lieberman (Dame).

		May 02: DLD 2018 With Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon), Albert Wenger (Partner, Union Square Ventures), John Borthwick (Betaworks), Yossi Vardi (Angel Investor).

		May 02: Future Forum - HealthTech Innovation With Stuart McGuigan (CIO, J&J), Tejash Shah (Dir., Samsung), Lynn McMahon (MD, Accenture), Lisa Burton (Dir., Hearst Lab), Kathleen Coviello (VP, NJEDA).

		May 03: Accelerate Boston 2018 With Carmelita Jeter (Olympic medalist & fastest women in the world), Katherine Kostereva (CEO, BPM'online), John Rymer (VP, Forrester).

		May 06: Blockchain Brunchwork w/ ConsenSys With Akshi Federici (Exec Dir. Strategic Projects, Consensys).

		May 10: TechDay New York Featuring 500 of most innovative startups, accelerator programs, tech talent & investors. Early bird pricing for startup booths ends Feb 02.

		May 11: Ethereal Summit Hang w/ futurists, entrepreneurs, investors, media icons, government officials, artists, musicians & humanitarians.

		May 12: Brunchwork w/ Instagram With Kay Hsu (Global Dir., Instagram's Creative Shop).

		May 22: DataDisrupt 2018 With Lynne Laube (Co-Founder, Cardlytics), Peter Bailey (CSO, Dataminr), Amir Orad (CEO, Sisense), Douglas Merrill (Founder, ZestFinance).

CLASS SPOTLIGHT

		Apr 19: Web Development Final Projects Science Fair Check out the apps that the Flatiron School students have been working on.

		Apr 24: TEALS Volunteering Info Session TEALS is grassroots program that partners w/ 100s of enggrs from 300+ companies who team teach high school CS & help schools throughout US.

		May 21: Digital Psychology & Emotional Design (Training Week) With Brian Cugelman (Dir., AlterSpark). Essentials of applying psychology to human-centered websites & apps. 3 workshops over 5 days.

COMPANIES HIRING SPOTLIGHT

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WEEK OF APR 16

Saturday, Apr 21

Apr 21
10:00am

Free

One Day At Bootcamp - Intro To Python
Metis NYC
With Vinny Senguttuvan (Sr Data Scientist, Metis).

Apr 21+
7:00pm

$14

IDT Unchained Hackathon
Venue

Sunday, Apr 22

Apr 22
11:30am

$45

AI Brunchwork w/ Clarifai
Rise NYC
With Matthew Zeiler (Founder/CEO, Clarifai).

Apr 22
6:00pm

Free

Black Startup Founders Happy Hour
Solomon & Kuff Rum Hall

Tuesday, Apr 24

Apr 24
6:00pm

[FinTech Week] Kickoff Reception
Rise NYC

Apr 24
6:30pm

Free

TEALS Volunteering Info Session
Microsoft
TEALS is grassroots program that partners w/ 100s of enggrs from 300+ companies who team teach high school CS & help schools throughout US.

Apr 24
6:30pm

Free

Intro To Data Science
The Flatiron School
With Jeff Katz (Lead Instructor, The Flatiron School).

Apr 24
7:00pm

$50

Impact Jobs
WeWork Bryant Park
With David Ferrucci (Inventor, IBM Watson), Andrew Yang (Founder, Venture for America & Democratic Candidate for President 2020), Heidi Shierholz (ex-Chief Economist, Dept. of Labor), Liz Shuler (Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO), James Bessen (Prof., Boston University Law). 20% off w/ code "Gary".

Wednesday, Apr 25

Apr 25
6:15pm

RecSys Meetup
eBay HQ
With Dhaval Shah (Head of Machine Learning & Big Data Engg, Bloomberg), Adam Hajari (Sr Scientist, Pandora), Marc Jansen (Data Scientist, Gousto), Samir Rayani (Enggr, Pandora).

Thursday, Apr 26

Apr 26+
6:30pm

$20

Creating New Goods - Product Development Advice For Startups
Alley Chelsea
With founder/CEOs Stephen Kuhl (Burrow), Gabby Slome (Ollie), Matteo Franceschetti (Eight), Janet Lieberman (Dame).

Tuesday, May 01

May 01
7:00am

Statistics For Math
Venue
Hone in on statistics skills to apply them to data science projects. May 01 - Jun 07. Tuesdays & Thursdays.

May 01
6:30pm

Statistics For Data Science
Venue
With Nathan Grossman (Data Scientist, Wells Fargo).

Wednesday, May 02

May 02
8:30am

$300

Future Forum - HealthTech Innovation
Venue
With Stuart McGuigan (CIO, J&J), Tejash Shah (Dir., Samsung), Lynn McMahon (MD, Accenture), Lisa Burton (Dir., Hearst Lab), Kathleen Coviello (VP, Tech & Life Sciences Investments, NJEDA), Sastry Chilukuri (Partner, McKinsey), Rob Cohen (Dir., Gensler), Jayashree Raman (CIO, Cooper University), Sarah Knapp (EVP, Spruce), Greg Hedges (VP, RAIN).

Thursday, May 03

May 03
7:00am

Free

Accelerate Boston 2018
Conference Center
With Carmelita Jeter (Olympic medalist & fastest women in the world), Katherine Kostereva (CEO, BPM'online), John Rymer (VP, Forrester), John Kariotis (President, AmberLeaf Partners), Rebecca Wettemann (VP, Nucleus Research).

Saturday, May 05

May 05
12:30pm

$1900

Data Visualization With D3
Venue
Deep dive into D3.js, the JavaScript library used to create data visualizations on the web. May 5-6 & May 12-13. Saturdays & Sundays.

Thursday, May 10

May 10
9:30am

$135

TechDay Talks
Pier 94
With Manash Bhattacharjee (Dir. Innovation, Mastercard), Andrew Askedall (Dir. Product Design, MakerBot), Sara Wajnberg (SVP Product, Oscar), Oisin Hanrahan (Founder, Handy), Dean McRobie (CTO, CommonBond), Elaine Gilde (NY Angels), Karen Bhatia (VP, NYCEDC), Jackson Jeyanayagam (CMO, Boxed).

May 10
10:00am

Free

TechDay New York
Pier 94
Featuring 500 of most innovative startups, accelerator programs, tech talent & investors. Early bird pricing for startup booths ends Feb 02.

Friday, May 11

May 11
8:00am

$1250

Ethereal Summit
Knockdown Center
With Joseph Lubin (Co-Founder, Ethereum), Eva Kaili (Member, European Parliament), Sheila Warren (Head of Blockchain, World Economic Forum), Ayako Miyaguchi (Dir., Ethereum Foundation), Beatriz Ramos (Founder, DADA.nyc), Vanessa Grellet (Dir., ConsenSys), Amber Baldet (Blockchain Lead, JPMorgan), Michael Casey (Advisor, MIT Digital Currency Initiative), Yorke Rhodes (Blockchain Strategist, Microsoft), Kavita Gupta (ConsenSys Ventures), Ryan Selkis (Founder, Messari), Leonardo Gammar (Founder, Agora).

Saturday, May 12

May 12
11:30am

$45

Brunchwork w/ Instagram
Galvanize
With Kay Hsu (Global Dir., Instagram's Creative Shop).

Sunday, May 20

May 20
11:30am

$45

Brunchwork w/ Sidewalk Labs
Galvanize
With Craig Nevill-Manning (Head of Engg, Sidewalk Labs).

WEEK OF MAY 21

Monday, May 21

May 21
9:00am

$699

Digital Psychology & Emotional Design (Training Week)
Centre For Social Innovation
With Brian Cugelman (Sr Scientist & Dir. @ AlterSpark). Essentials of applying psychology to human-centered websites, apps & campaigns. 3 workshops over 5 days w/ certification options.

Tuesday, May 22

May 22
8:00am

$895

DataDisrupt 2018
Alfred Lerner Hall at Columbia University
With Lynne Laube (Co-Founder, Cardlytics), Peter Bailey (CSO, Dataminr), Anil Arora (CEO, Envestnet Yodlee), Kathryn Petralia (Head of Ops, Kabbage), Daniel Nadler (Founder, Kensho), Jeffrey McMillan (Chief Data Officer, Morgan Stanley), Amir Orad (CEO, Sisense), Douglas Merrill (Founder, ZestFinance), Dan Ciporin (Canaan Partners).

Thursday, May 24

May 24
9:00am

$699

Emotional Design Psychology & Neuroscience
Centre For Social Innovation
With Brian Cugelman (Sr Scientist & Dir. @ AlterSpark). Learn human-centered design strategies based on psychology & neuroscience of user emotion, cognition, & behavior.