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Business Models for Product Startups
14 Sep - 06:30 PM
Brooklyn, United States
We teamed up with some of New York City's best talent for the Futureworks Incubator Workshop Series.
Futureworks Incubator champions and supports the growth of hardware startups across New York City. Made possible by NYCEDC and spearheaded by SecondMuse and Imagination in Space, the Incubator's workshop series focuses on the top priorities in a company's journey. On September 14 we focus on Business Models for Product Startups.
Our panelists will address questions like: Which business model would work for my product? What are some ways I can think about revenue streams? What business models are out there that I should know about?
Workshop includes:
Maaike Doyer, Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc
Carley Jacobson, Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc
Chelsea Brownridge, CEO Dog Parker
TBA
Agenda6:30 Networking7:00 Panel + Workshop9:00 Networking and Office Hours with Futureworks Incubator entrepreneurs and Mentors
Hosted by Craftsman Ave, the Futureworks Incubator workshop Business Models for Product Startups is free. Food and drink provided by The Bronx Beer Hall.
Workshop Leaders:
Maaike Doyer, Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc
Maaike gets stuff done and moves mountains. Maaike is professor at the Californian College of the Arts where she teaches design thinking in practice. She is responsible for our American offices. Her roots are in finance and consulting. It is hard to stop Maaike from going. So don’t try.
Carley Jacobson, Strategy Designer, Business Models Inc
Carley loves to break things to make new cooler things. She has helped coordinate hundreds of hackathons around the world on all continents excluding Antartica (maybe one day!). Carley has an MBA in Design Strategy from the Californian College of the Arts. Carley empowers others because she knows how goods it feels to learn and build.
For more great tools like the ones we will use in this workshop see the Design a Better Business Toolbox (Free online tools from the Design a Better Business Book)
Featured Founders:
Chelsea Brownridge, CEO Dog Parker
Dog Parker is a smart dog house located outside of storefronts that provides a safe and comfortable place for your dog to stay while you're inside.
UX Mini Hackathon with Education Startup Client @ NYU EdTech Accelerator
13 Sep - 06:00 PM
New York, United States
UX and UI designers, researchers, developers, and other professionals in the Greater New York area! You're invited to sign up to participate in a UX Mini Hackathon at NYU's EdTech Accelerator. This event is intended to help design the user experience for an actual EdTech startup. This company will provide a problem statement and you will be challenged to conceive and prototype a UX solution for them. You'll be part of a team and present their project to the startup. Winning teams may be offered the opportunity to productize their prototype.
Hackathon
09 Sep - 10:00 AM
New York, United States
Date is still uncertain. Numbers are pretty accurate with respects to last years try swift conference. A hackathon is a new addition to the conference. NYC is a bit expensive but we were hoping you can sponsor office space (with Internet) and food to accommodate that many people. Thank you for taking your time to read this email. For more information about try swift, check out
Internet of Things (IoT), AI & Robotics - Hackathon
31 Aug - 06:00 PM
New York City, United States
IoT, AI and Robotics startups around the world! OneTraction -- the first open innovation accelerator in Silicon Valley -- invites you to sign up to participate in their Internet of Things (IoT), AI & Robotics - Hackathon. This virtual event is open to anyone seeking to join or launch a startup. Register with your startup team -- or join one prior to the event -- and compete for up to $250k in startup funding and a place in OneTraction's accelerator.
Yale Innovation & Entrepreneurship Bazaar
29 Aug - 10:00 AM
New Haven, United States
THE YALE INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP BAZAAR brings together Yale’s many entrepreneurial organizations and clubs under one big tent. More than 30 campus organizations are represented including design and consulting clubs, makers, social entrepreneurship groups and coding clubs. Find out about the latest Yale entrepreneurship prizes, programs, hackathons, classes and opportunities, sign up for mailing lists, ask questions of Yale entrepreneurs, sample food from Yale startups, take photos in our photobooth and pick up fun swag!
3-day Hyperledger Fabric Training - NYC
28 Aug - 09:00 AM
New York, United States
Hyperledger Fabric is the leading open source software platform for permissioned enterprise blockchains. Learn how to use the latest version (1.0) of Hyperledger Fabric codebase in a real blockchain network environment where you can play with smart contract deployments.
Is your team planning to build blockchain applications for your industry use case or project? Do you want to become fully skilled for building commercial-grade blockchain applications on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 and deploying private blockchain networks? Then this advanced course is what you need!
Course duration:
3 days (8 hrs per day).
Objectives:
Learn concepts and use cases of permissioned blockchains.
Learn architecture of Fabric 1.0, setup network, run smart contracts.
Learn to write smart contracts and deploy them in a complete blockchain application.
Benefits to you:
Solid hands-on technical skills developing and deploying blockchain applications with Hyperledger Fabric.
Interactive experience with expert trainers who have built working blockchain apps, an opportunity to ask questions and get real-life examples.
Who should attend?
Developers who have understanding of blockchains and want to know how to design and write their own blockchain applications on top of Hyperledger Fabric V1.0.
If you experimented with smart contracts, or worked with Ethereum, other blockchains, and want to dive into Fabric 1.0 - this is the right course for you.
Prerequisites:
Working knowledge of Java
Basic understanding of PKI and docker
Development environment with JDK 1.8, Gradle or Go, and Docker Compose (docker is optional)
ssh access to AWS EC2, IBM Bluemix or local Ubuntu
Bring your laptop
Training Program
Day 1
Introduction
Introduction to blockchain technology
Public and permissioned blockchains
Use cases for permissioned blockchains
Hyperledger project
Fabric 1.0 Workshop
Fabric 1.0 architecture
Endorsers, orderers, clients, smart contracts
Set up development network
Anatomy of config files and crypto material
Deploy and exercise example smart contracts
Day 2
Fabric 1.0 Workshop
You will study in detail the transactions workflow and spend a sizable amount of time on experiments with blockchain.
The training helps developers acquire solid technical skills in building blockchain applications on Hyperledger Fabric v1.0. The students will learn how to develop working blockchain apps with Hyperledger Fabric SDK, how to deploy local blockchain networks, as well as understand the confidentiality basics in Hyperledger Fabric.
Agenda:
Write your own smart contract in Java
Custom Events
Endorsement policies
Overview of SDKs for Node and Java
Overview of Fabric Composer
Day 3
Hackathon
Students will leave with the ability to develop full-featured blockchain applications, write not only a smart contract in Java, but also the client code and full interface of the application.
Learn from an experienced trainer who has delivered working blockchain solutions.
Agenda:
Identify a use case for a blockchain application
Design identities, entities, transactions
Design network, consortium
Use Node SDK to create application API
Create secure web front end
About the Trainer:
Oleg Abdrashitov, Blockchain Practice Lead, Trainer
Oleg Abdrashitov heads the Blockchain Practice at Altoros and the Requirements Working Group at Hyperledger.
Oleg's career spans 19 years in software development for the financial services companies. He has built systems supporting high frequency trading, middle office and online exchanges. Oleg has worked at top investment banks, hedge funds and has founded startups and consultancies. He is currently engaged by clients in finance and insurance to train engineers and architects on blockchain.
Together with team Altoros, Oleg won the blockchain hackathon at Consensus 2016 with Decentralized Energy Utility Project, and delivered two working prototypes for the financial industry - Distributed Clearing Platform For Derivatives, and Bond Issuance and Trading.
Contact the Organizers:
Please email at training@altoros.com if you:
have questions about the training agenda
need an invoice for your company to pay for this training
need this training on alternate dates or need private training for your team on-site
Please send us a note at training@altoros.com!
About the Organizer:
Altoros is a digital transformation consultancy that has built a reputation in blockchain space. We are an active member of Hyperledger project, contributing expertise of our engineers.
We have built a number of blockchain application prototypes for insurance and financial services clients and conducted technical training on Hyperledger Fabric 0.6 for a large financial services corporation, as well as a number of blockchain workshops for executives in (Re)Insurance, Lending & Securitization field.
HACK HISTORY
18 Aug - 10:00 AM
Jersey City, United States
Teachers in New Jersey and adjacent states! Are you enthusiastic about using technology in your classroom? Early-Adopter & HamiltonBuhl invite you to come and participate in TEACHERS HACK HISTORY. At this curriculum-based hackathon, you'll be challenged to create the most engaging lesson plan using ChronoQuest™ -- the augmented reality timeline.
SOURCE360: Hip-Hop Youth Tech & Music Hackathon
10 Aug - 09:00 AM
Brooklyn, United States
Music-minded kids -- grades 6 -12 -- in Brooklyn and the Greater New York area! The Source and Blue 1647 invite you to sign up to participate in the SOURCE360 Youth Hackathon. You'll be challenged to be creative about how hip hop and technology can help solve community problems. You don't need to know how to code -- there will be plenty of people who can do that. Come join a team and build an awesome web or mobile app!
MusED Hackathon
05 Aug - 11:30 AM
New York, United States
Musicians and sound engineers! Come along to the monthly Music Hackathon NYC. This month's topic is Music Education. It's a free, non-competitive monthly all-day event for participants to create new music-related projects from scratch, develop them over a period of ~8 hours, then perform or present them in a concert format.
Global Blockchain Hackathon
04 Aug - 06:00 PM
New York, United States
Fintech and blockchain enthusiasts in the Greater New York area! The Professional Hackathon League invites you to participate in the Global Blockchain Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype Blockchain solutions for security, transaction management, and other areas. Collaborate with like-minded individuals, present your project solution to an expert panel of judges and compete for awesome prizes.