Disruptive Technologists, Inc. is known for creating events and meetups that attract the most forward-thinking and innovative business leaders, bold entrepreneurs, and groundbreaking technologists in every industry. Even though Covid-19 has shut down in-person meetups, we are still putting on those same energetic and thought-provoking events in an online format. Now you can join us for an ever-growing calendar of Zoom events that will continue to expand the view of technology and its effects on the world today.
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Disruptive Technologists Webinar on Why is Cyber Security So Elusive?
Webinar: Why is Cyber Security So Elusive?
July 7, 2021
In these advanced times, why is Cyber Security still an Issue?
From the rampant unemployment identity theft that is in California, to ransomware hacks behind a major US pipeline to the huge spike in digital fraud created by the pandemic -- cybercrime is rampant. It’s incredible to think our most brilliant technologists haven’t found a way to make us safe. So what do these great minds think about what is going on in cybersecurity and what can be done to protect against these digital attacks? Join our panelists in the conversation.
MEET THE PANELISTS
1. Minerva Tantoco: is an Innovator, investor, startup founder, author, and advisor, and speaker on AI, cybersecurity, and mobile technology. Tantoco served as New York City’s first-ever Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
2. Imran Anwar, innovation & Digital Transformation, Microsoft: At Microsoft he has led engagements at US DoD, GE, 21st Century, and now Secure Modern Work initiatives at global banks like BNYM.
3. Ryan Burkett, Cyber Security Specialist: Noblis ESI & Excel Energy & US Army. Advanced threat & Networking Knowledge.
Join us for this and other 1-hour webinars on what impacts innovative technology most today!
Other things we will be covering:
a. Cyber Advisory Services
b. Secure Modern Workplace (Email, Cloud, App, Assets & Network)
c. Information Security
d. Compliance
E. Info sharing of intelligence threats
F. Critical Infrastructure Risk
Moderator: Oliver Christie, Futurist & AI Strategist
MC: Sep DiMeglio, UX & Accessibility Engineer, Microsoft
Interactive Videographer:
Jeffrey Paul, Ziotag: advanced deep-tagging.
** Thanks to Microsoft Reactor #MSFTReactor
** Thanks to Ramona Wright
** Thanks to Esther Dyson
** Thanks to Scott Moss
** Thanks to Ziotag -
Big Data: New Initiatives, Opinions & Future
Disruptive Technologists Event - Big Data: New Initiatives, Opinions & Future - at NYIT on Jun 2, 2014.
Big Data is a collection of data from traditional and digital sources inside and outside your company that represents a source for ongoing discovery and analysis, including social media, text, visual images, and metadata. We'll explore the new initiatives, new products, opinions, and the future of data.
PANELISTS
Sage Wohns, CEO & Founder, Agolo
Sage Wohns is the CEO & Founder of Agolo, a Natural Language Processing Engine that is making sense of real-time web content. This application alerts users to what’s immediately relevant for them and answers their questions automatically.
Rick O'Toole, Founder & CTO, Rockerbox
Rick O'Toole is the founder and CTO of Rockerbox, the leader in Momentum-Marketing. Rockerbox processes and analyzes over 4 billion ad impressions a day to determine the real-time intent of millions of web browsers.
Tom Anderson, CEO, Anderson Analytics
Tom Anderson is the CEO of Anderson Analytics and an award-winning data scientist specializing in unstructured (text) data.
Aldrin Rafael Bonilla, Manhattan Deputy Borough President
Gale A. Brewer is the 27th Manhattan Borough President, responsible for advising the Mayor and City Council on borough concerns, commenting on all land-use matters in the borough, advocating for the borough in the municipal budget process, and appointing members of Manhattan's 12 Community Boards.
Andrew Lerner, CEO of Trust Metrics
Andrew Lerner is the CEO of Metrics which collects about 17,000 unique data measurements per web page and has developed several dozen algorithms that apply that data.
Disruptive Moderator: David Carlos, CTO, Myhomepayge
http://myhomepayge.com
BIOS/COMMENTS
http://www.meetup.com/Disruptive-Technologists-in-NYC/events/176473882/
VIDEO SPONSOR: Internet Society New York Chapter
http://isoc-ny.org
CAMERA/EDIT: Joly MacFie
TITLE MUSIC: Francois Grillot
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Disruptive Technologists Event: Digital Media - TV, Video and Publishing
Disruptive Technologists in NYC meetup - Digital Media: TV, Video and Publishing - at AT&T Adworks Lab on Mar 31, 2014.
There is a radical transformation taking place in the entertainment and media industries. Music, film, TV, newspapers, and magazines have all been intensely affected by the explosion of new devices that enable the consumption of digital media. We will explore the ways the creative industries are remaking themselves and what can be expected in the future.
Investors are betting on the next generation of innovative companies: Angel and VC funds are behind the companies pushing this transformation. In 2010, angel investments in the U.S. exceeded $20 billion and VC investments exceeded $22 billion.
PANELISTS:
* Ben Boissevain, VC, Bois Capital, Managing Director: Digital Media
http://www.boiscapital.com
* Andrew Boer, Founder and President, Movable Media
http://www.movablemedia.com
* James Cox, Director of Technology XO Group Inc
http://www.xogroupinc.com
* David Polinchock, Director, AT&T Adworks Lab
http://www.adworks.att.com
* Steve Rosenbaum, Founder & CEO, Magnify.net; Chief Curator, WayWire.com
http://enterprise.waywire.com
MODERATOR:
* David Carlos, CTO, Myhomepayge.com
http://www.myhomepayge.com
BIOS/COMMENTS
http://www.meetup.com/Disruptive-Technologists-in-NYC/events/166063012/
VIDEO SPONSOR: Internet Society New York Chapter
http://isoc-ny.org
CAMERA/EDIT: Joly MacFie
TITLE MUSIC: Francois Grillot
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Disruptive Technologists in NYC Event On Social Media: Is Social Media still Fundable?
Disruptive Technologists in NYC Meetup On Social Media at AT&T AdWorks Lab NYC on January 27 2014.
Is Social Media still Fundable? How is it used for data mining? What are the new insights on Twitter and marketing? What are the cool new apps out there, and are there any more new ones to create? Has it all been done?
PANELISTS:
Bruce Bachenheimer, Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship Lab at Pace University - http://webpage.pace.edu/bbachenheimer/
Bruce Bachenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Management and the Director of the Entrepreneurship Lab at Pace University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, primarily in the areas of entrepreneurship, management and strategy. He is also the organizer of the annual Pace Pitch Contest and Business Plan Competition.
David Rose, VC - http://www.rose.vc/
David S. Rose is a serial entrepreneur, Inc. 500 CEO, and active early-stage investor who has founded or funded over 90 high-tech companies. He has been described by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel" and by Crain's New York Business as "The father of angel investing in New York."
Graham Gullans, Co-Founder of Empire Angels - http://empireangels.com/
Graham Gullans is currently the Founding Managing Director of Empire Angels, a member-led NYC Angel group for 35 active young investors. The group focuses on investing in early-stage startups, primarily focusing on Fintech and Mobile.
Jim Tousignant, Founder & CEO of Positive Talk & Executive Vice President, Sales and Business Development, Scivantage - http://www.scivantage.com/
Jim is a dedicated and accomplished serial entrepreneur and business executive with broad experience as both company co-founder and leading sales and business development teams at high-growth internet, software and information services companies.
Ajay Yadav, Founder of Roomi - http://roomiapp.com/
Ajay Yadav's story: "I had a terrible roommate experience. One summer, I went back home for 3 months and I came back to find all my stuff was gone and the apartment was empty -- he had even taken my deposit. Another time I had a roommate who had lots of problems.
MODERATOR:
David Carlos, Disruptive Moderator and Tech Geek - http://www.myhomepayge.com/
PUNKCAST #2561
Video sponsored by Internet Society New York http://isoc-ny.org
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Disruptive Technologists Webinar on Tech Disrupts Democracy
Watch the January 13, 2021 Disruptive Technologists Webinar: Tech Disrupts Democracy... with Data & Innovation
Our panelists go into a variety of topics relating to how technology has become a major disruptor when it comes to democracy today.
They go into such valuable topics like:
Democracy and Tech – How can data and technology can help improve democracy?
What technology innovations can improve the way we engage in our democracy?
What will be the next disruptive technology that will come into play in the future?
How does online voting and apps impact voting and democracy?
How do we ensure the integrity of online voting?
Does innovation make voting more or less inclusive?
How are politicians using tech to influence us?
MEET THE PANELISTS
1. Richard Hill, Founder & CEO, VoteOurVoice
2. Micah Sifry, Co-founder & President, Civic Hall
3. Jess Riegel, Founder, Motivote & Social Innovation Fellow, StartingBloc
4. Bruce Bachenheimer, Clinical Professor & Director Entrepreneur Lab, Pace University
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Disruptive Technologists Fireside Chat on Tech Disrupts Democracy
Watch the January 27, 2021, Disruptive Technology Fireside Chat for the webinar Tech Disrupts Democracy.
Here we answered questions from attendees from the original webinar: Tech Disrupts Democracy. These questions focusing on how today's technology is impacting democracy and the face of democracy today - what this means now and what it means for the future.
Our panelists all bring an interesting perspective on improving our democratic processes through disruptive technology and get into a variety of topics such as voting, data, political accountability, and voter education.
MEET THE PANELISTS
1. Richard Hill, Founder & CEO, VoteOurVoice
2. Micah Sifry, Co-founder & President, Civic Hall
3. Jess Riegel, Founder, Motivote & Social Innovation Fellow, StartingBloc
4. Bruce Bachenheimer, Clinical Professor & Director Entrepreneur Lab, Pace University
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Disruptive Technologists: Humans, Digital Assistants and Bots -- Oh My!
Disruptive Technologists: Humans, Digital Assistants and Bots -- Oh My! June 5, 2017
Panelists:
1. Bruce Weed | Developer Advocate for the East Coast, IBM
Bruce Weed is the City Leader/Developer Advocate (New York) for IBM’s Digital Business Group. Bruce covers the Eastern part of the U.S. with a main focus in NYC. Bruce engages directly around latest technologies with partners and customers alike, his expertise is around Watson/AI, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud and Bots, Digital Assistants and Big Data. Bruce also has industry knowledge in Retail, Finance, Healthcare, and Automotive and has extensive experience in technology, sales, business development and marketing.
Additional skills and experience lie in software development, product and brand management. He runs LinkedIn groups with over 50K+ members on IBM Watson & IoT, IBM Big Data and Analytics, and Blockchain for Business; these groups look at both use cases and technology trends. Bruce also runs the IBM Watson - Cognitive Business & IoT Meetup in NYC with over 1600 members. He is a Watson/IoT, Blockchain and Big Data evangelist who keynotes many major conferences around the world.
2. David J. Sorin | Partner, Co-Chair - Venture Capital McCarter & English, LLP
Dave Sorin is an office managing partner of McCarter & English and Co-Chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies practice. He focuses primarily on privately- and publicly-owned startup, early stage, emerging growth, and middle market technology, tech-enabled and life science enterprises, and is up to date on the bots revolution, where it's going, and where it stands financially; as well as the investors, executives, and boards of directors who support and lead them. He has been recognized as one of New Jersey’s top 100 business people, categorizing him within an “elite group” of executives who “are the voices of their industries.” He was later identified by another industry publication as one of the region’s “top deal makers” Chambers USA, an international guide to lawyers and law firms, called Dave the State’s top corporate lawyer. Most recently, SmartCEO Magazine named McCarter the large law firm of the year in the tech and tech-enabled industry sector and named Dave the leading lawyer in the industry. In addition, Dave Sorin received the Star Influencer Award at SmartCEO’s Centers of Influence Event.
3. Heather Shapiro, Microsoft Bots Expert
Heather Shapiro is a Technical Evangelist in Microsoft's Developer Experience group, where she educates developers on Microsoft's new technologies. In this role, Heather works closely with students and developer communities across the North East to understand the newest technologies and architectures. Prior to becoming a Technical Evangelist, Heather completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University and graduated in the Class of 2015. She received her Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and Statistical Science and completed an Honors Thesis about employing Bayesian Approaches to Understanding Music Popularity. Heather blogs at http://microheather.com (http://microheather.com) and tweets at http://twitter.com/microheather . (http://twitter.com/microheather.)
4. Tom Eck, CTO of Industry Platforms at IBM
He joined IBM in December 2016. His current industry focus is digital payments and fintech. Prior to joining IBM, Tom served as the Head of Emerging Technologies at First Data Corporation. He holds an MS in BioTechnology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics from Rutgers University.
5. Howie Schwartz, CEO of Crowded.com
CEO and Co-founder of Crowded.com - "Building Bots for Recruitment Marketing". Howie Schwartz is also a serial entrepreneur and an active Angel Investor and Venture Capital Fund investor in early-stage technology companies. Previously, Howie founded and was the CEO of VC-backed Human Demand (Mobile DSP / DMP) acquired by IgnitionOne in August 2014. Co-founded FundingPost (the largest network of early-stage investors) and Offermobi (acquired by Moko Media), as well as product & marketing training companies with over 120,000 customers worldwide.
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Disruptive Technologists Webinar: Tech Disrupts the Unbanked and Underbanked
Watch the April 7th, 2021 Disruptive Technologists Webinar: Tech Disrupts the Unbanked and Underbanked.
“Bank transfers, e-wallets, cash-based payments, and other local payment methods have previously been called alternative payment methods. But they are no longer the alternative; they are the norm for most of the world.” - James Booth, Finance Monthly
Disrupting Finance: A discussion on the Unbanked and Underbanked
11% or 350,000 people in New York City are Unbanked (have no bank account) and a further 22% or 700,000 people are Underbanked. This lack of access to financial services for the most vulnerable encourages a cycle of poverty.
What are the reasons for people being unbanked or underbanked?
How can this be solved and what are our financial and government institutions doing right now?
What other answers are out there to help solve the unbanked and underbanked problem?
MEET THE PANELISTS
1. Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville & acclaimed Angel Investor
2. Mark Mattingley-Scott, IBM Quantum Ambassador Leader EMEA & AP and Principal
3. Amy Young, Industry Digital Strategist, Microsoft
4. Frank La Vigne, Data & Digital Tech Architect & Evangelist, Microsoft
5. Kathryn Garcia, New York City Mayoral Candidate / former NYC Sanitation Dept. Commissioner -
Disruptive Technologists Fireside Chat on Tech Disrupts the Unbanked and Underbanked
Disruptive Technologists Fireside Chat with panelists from the Tech Disrupts the Unbanked and Underbanked Webinar and moderated by Bruce Epstein.
In this Fireside Chat, we answer questions viewers had during the previous webinar on the unbanked. During these live fireside chats, we have free giveaways for attendees as well as other surprises. Please visit https://www.disruptivetechnologists.com to find the upcoming events.
Who are the Unbanked?
"Unbanked" is a term for people who do not use banks, credit unions or any similar type of formalized financial institution. Typically these people use cash, pre-paid credit cards, and money orders, and end up dealing with check-cashing and payday lending services, which leads to excessive interest, more debt and keeps them in a cycle of debt.
Some of the questions in this Disruptive Technologists' Fireside Chat include:
How can we get access to financial systems for the unbanked?
How can we address people that have this issue?
Are we too dependant on technology and have we lost a sense of humanity?
How do you get the unbanked population to trust in a system that has let them down in the past?
What are "banking deserts"?
THE PANELISTS
1. Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Wellville & acclaimed Angel Investor
2. Mark Mattingley-Scott, IBM Quantum Ambassador Leader EMEA & AP and Principal
3. Amy Young, Industry Digital Strategist, Microsoft -
Disruptive Technologists' Event: Is Blockchain & Bitcoin Our New Banking?
Disruptive Technologists' Event: Is Blockchain & Bitcoin Our New Banking?
March 26, 2018
Microsoft Offices in Times Square, NYC
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Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies. Smart Contracts -- many people have now heard of the rapidly changing ecosystem of financial technology, but few have wrapped their heads around it. Hundreds of central banks and corporations are incubating a game-changing technology called blockchain—and investors are betting billions on it. Yet only 24 percent of global financial services professionals surveyed in 2017 by PwC described themselves as “extremely” or “very” familiar with it. Much of the public is unsure if any of this is legal if they understand it at all. Evangelists say it has the power to upend entire economic systems. Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell's blockchain researcher warns '"a lot of hokum out there.” http://www.AmericanScientific.com Study
"Cryptocurrencies could possibly be the single most disruptive technology to global financial and economic systems. If cryptocurrencies become the global norm for transactions, long-standing systems for trade would need to be completely reformed to deal with this type of competition,
by virtue of the fact that current financial and legal structures were designed with a completely different mindset and purpose." -- Peter DeVries, International Journal of Business Management & Commerce
Our events are fun and freewheeling -- 5 expert panelists share their expertise -- bit edgier and a bit wilder than other tech events -- our attendees can ask questions throughout the panel discussion, there is wine, beer, gourmet sandwiches and cookies, pizza, and Hint Water.
Fireside Chat: Directly following we have a smaller hosted fireside chat with wine, cheese & crackers. This special 30-minute session is for attendees who really want to get into a high-level deep discussion without being videotaped.
Meet The Panelists:
1st Panelist:
Yorke Rhodes, Global Business Strategist, Microsoft
In addition to his Blockchain & Identity work at Microsoft, he is also an Adjunct Professor Digital & Ecommerce Marketing at NYU.
2nd Panelist:
Ali Hasan, CEO & Co-Founder, Crescent Crypto
An investor & advocate for passive investing looking to fill the demand for an institutional quality vehicle in the cryptocurrency asset class. Was investment analyst at Goldman Sachs executing syndicate sales for the bank’s IPO and follow-on offerings, managing a book of $4.5B in private assets.
3rd Panelist:
Lauren Stephanian, Blockchain Consultant
Experience: National Science Foundation, Blockchain Working Group Advisor; Blockx2, Blockchain/Crypto Consultant; Flat World Partners; Mosaic.
4th Panelist:
Chris Matta, Co-Founder, Crescent Crypto
He is an investor, entrepreneur & philanthropist who is looking to bring cryptocurrencies to mainstream investors through passive vehicle. Experience: VP at Goldman Sachs.
5th Panelist:
Graham Mosley, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
In addition to his work on Azure Engineering and Blockchain at Microsoft, he is also a Co-Founder and Shareholder at NY Interactive Advertising Exchange (NYIAX).
Moderator: David Sorin, Managing Partner & Co-Chair Venture Capital & Emerging Growth, McCarter & English
He focuses primarily on privately- and publicly-owned startups, early-stage, emerging growth, and middle-market technology, tech-enabled & life sciences.
Master of Ceremonies: David Franklin, CTO of B&L Management
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Disruptive Technologists Discuss "Smart Communities -- Smart Futures w/ Tech Innovation"
Disruptive Technologists Event on Smart Cities/Smart Communities
December 16, 2019 at Miscrosoft Headquarters NYC
Meet Brooklyn Borough Eric Adams, Civic Hall Chairman Andrew Rasiej, Tara Phan, Sree Sreenivasan & Jordan Gitterman as they discuss tech disruption in your community.
A smart city uses multiple sources of data to improve the lives of citizens and visitors. In addition, connected sensors and tech give real-time insights to aid city government, public and private companies. “Data science is the key – the secret sauce to optimizing services,” Cornelia Levy-Bencheton and Mike Barlow, "Smart Cities" Experts.
Discover the smart technologies that keep your community connected. By incorporating information and communication technologies, smart cities can enhance the quality and performance of services such as art, health, and even financial security.
We will hold a discussion about how smart communities use multiple sources of data, online resources & social connectedness to improve the communities for both the residents and their visitors. -
Disruptive Technologists Event: AI & Ethics? The Big Questions
Disruptive Technologists In-Person Event at Microsoft Headquarters in NYC
Dec 10th, 2018
Developments in robotics engineering have resulted in several weird and wonderful advancements across many fields including military, manufacturing, service, and entertainment. We will discuss the new applied ethics in Robo-morality: Machine Learning & Roboethics is concerned with what rules should be created for machines and robots to guarantee -their design for ethical behavior. Should we ensure that machines with artificial intelligence behave in ways that prioritize human safety as well as their own safety, above their assigned tasks? And can we do this in accordance with the accepted precepts of human morality?
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: Symon Perriman leads business development for Express, the world’s most secure communications network, and productivity tools. He is an internationally recognized business leader, industry expert, author, presenter, technology influencer, and multi-patent holder. He spent eight years at Microsoft in a variety of technical and strategic roles before running several technology startups in the security and sports industries.
1. Tameka Vasquez, Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University & Marketing Director at Eigen Technologies, an international artificial intelligence company. She is also a Strategic Advisor to Opus AI, a startup that is focused on using AI to simplify the diversity process at large companies.
2. Manojit Nandi, Senior Data Scientist, Rocketrip
Manojit builds machine learning models in Python for automating expense approval and deploys these models into production using AWS Lambda. Rocketrip helps businesses reduce travel spend by incentivizing employees to save when they travel for business.
3. Claudia Perlich, Senior Data Scientist, Two Sigma & NYU Adjunct Professor started her career at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, concentrating on research in data analytics and machine learning for complex real-world domains. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from Stern School of Business, NYU.
4. Imran Anwar, Disruptive Technologist in Customer Success Unit at Microsoft & Introduced the Internet and E-mail for Pakistan (among early providers of their internet). Earlier he was Enterprise Architect for the US Department of Defense & for General Electric.
5. Hugh Seaton Founder of the Nationwide Practical AI Community & Founder & CEO of Aquinas Learning, a software company that provides an AI learning coach to corporate learners. As for Practical AI in NYC, Cambridge, Toronto & Silicon Valley; he is also Founder of the NYVR Expo, the largest East coast VR/AR event on the East coast, and is fluent in Mandarin; MBA: Columbia Business School & London Business.
Moderator:
Oliver Christie, Founder, Foxy Machine, an artificial intelligence consulting, strategy & research company for companies seeking to leverage new and future technologies. They implement a data-driven approach to decision-making.
Master of Ceremonies:
Jim Williams, Physics & Chemistry
B.S. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!)
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