Where did the summer go? With the time flying by, we’re grasping on to the last of the hot summer months with all the civic tech you could hope for. Our top picks for the month:
August 2
Tech Tuesday Open House at Hack Manhattan
Tech Tuesday is Hack Manhattan’s weekly general interest open house. Don’t worry, it’s not just about technology—any kind of project is welcome.
Tech Tuesday is the perfect opportunity to visit Hack Manhattan and check out what it’s all about.
Bring a project and get to work, use our tools, drink a homebrew beer, hang out, and draw on advice from our wonderful community. Visitors are strongly encouraged to bring a project to work on, or at least a laptop.
August 2
Bots are the New Apps: Building with the Bot Framework & Language Understanding
Join us for an exciting talk where we’ll explore the role of bots and conversation agents in various business scenarios. Come learn the fundamentals of the new Bot Framework, including the Bot Connector, the open source Bot Builder SDK for C# and Node.js, and the Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) from Microsoft Cognitive Services.
August 2
August 2016 NY Tech Meetup and Afterparty
Join fellow technologists for an evening of live demos from companies developing great technology in New York, followed by a networking afterparty.
August 4
In partnership with The Next Web and Dumbo Bid, we are hosting a summer party under the archway on August 4th to celebrate the design and tech community and friends! Join us at Live at the Archway, a part of the Live at the Archway series, featuring a musical performance by Madame T and the Starlights with a set of whistleblowing train songs, sizzling summer swing and a journey of high camp performance that will make you want to dance and swoon! There will be beer, wine, and bites from The Lighthouse and epic scenery below the Manhattan Bridge. You will also have a chance to explore all the galleries open for the Dumbo Art Walk.
August 8
Big Data Infrastructure: Streaming, management & analysis with Redshift
As the volume and variety of data continues to grow more and more companies need to implement scalable big data infrastructure that transfers, manages, and analyzes their data in order to support analytics and insights. Developing, maintaining and scaling these technological terrors fall on the shoulders of developers.
Creating infrastructure that can deal with your unique needs, is user friendly, and scales with the influx of data that your company generates is a major hurdle to overcome. We will show you how to use cost-effective, and infinitely scalable data pipelines and management platforms built on top of Redshift, resulting in a simple but powerful data platform tailored to your company.
August 16
Digital Inclusion Summit: Innovating Civic Engagement
Join community members, technologists, non-profit organizations, and members of the New York City Council for conversations about the future of voter engagement, Participatory Budgeting, and other public initiatives!
August 17
Sourcest – Meet HR Tech leaders in NYC, Network and Grab Lunch