Sign up for our awesome New York Tech Events weekly email newsletter.     EVENT DETAILS Get Smart is an event series where friends & soon-to-be friends come together to learn about new & weird things. 6 people will give talks that are 15 minutes each about niche interests they have, & hopefully you'll learn something & meet other people that love learning. Get Smart is one event under the Get Real umbrella, helping people make friends by bridging an online & offline community together. You can join here & learn more about the experiment here. SCHEDULE: 6:00 - 6:45 PM - Hanging out & Food, Beer 6:45 - 7:30 PM - Introduction + Talks 1-3 7:30 - 7:45 PM - Intermission 7:45 - 8:30 PM - Talks 4-6 8:30 - 9:00 PM Hanging out SPEAKERS -Leo Lu - "Side Projects for Career Advancement" -Ruthie Nachmany - "How to Practice Traveling in the Place Where You Live" -Oliver Wang - "The Banzhaf Power Index" -Matt Dreiling - "Poetry" -Matt Piccolella - "Urban Design & the future of Cities" -Sumanth Srinivasan - "Live Coded Music & Algoraves" Nikhil is strategic partnerships manager at TrialSpark, making sense of healthcare, tech, & everything between the two. Also a street food connoisseur. IHe writes things at nikhilkrishnan.com, can be found on Twitter as @nikillinit.