We will hold a discussion on the challenges and opportunities that emerging tech has for age, race, gender, income and its ability to further education and inclusion. Other points of discussion will include: definition of cultural diversity spans far wider than ethnicity where technology is concerned. Generational culture has a definite impact on the use of technology in the workplace, and to some extent, racial and socioeconomic differences. The primary reason racial differences are a factor where technology in the workplace is concerned is due to what is called the “digital divide.” In addition, gender may play a role in the use of technology. The workforce comprises four distinct generations: traditionalists, baby boomers, Generation X and Generation Y. Within each generation are habits, norms & preferences that affect their use of technology in the workplace.

Health and Wellness professionals and organizations face unprecedented challenges to improve quality, reduce harm, improve access, increase efficiency, eliminate waste and lower costs. Tech innovation is a major focus and the industry is welcoming an explosion of innovations designed to improve, among other things, life expectancy and quality of life. Radical, transformational and exponential innovations are fundamentally disrupting old systems, creating new market constituents and new markets, while marginalizing old ones. Technologies nonlinear pace of progress will almost certainly create substantial disruption in health, wellness and medical processes, technologies, and business models.

Developments in robotics engineering have resulted in several weird and wonderful advancements across many fields including military, manufacturing, service, and entertainment. As robots get more autonomous and more powerful, we’re going to have to program them to not be evil.

Our next Disruptive Technologists event, brought to you by McCarter & English, is on “Digital Preservation, Privacy and Protocols (ie Blockchain)” on July 30th. We hold our free events quarterly at Microsoft in Times Square. Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet, will open our fun, casual free-flowing interactive panel discussion via audio/video from D.C. and special panelists.

Don’t forget to peel the bananas…

Automation / Artificial Intelligence are becoming omnipresent in business and our daily lives. Technology now allows us to talk to our devices, detect trends in huge data sets, and let our cars drive for us.

The January 29, 2018 event on Monday about AI Upending IoT was tremendous! And we have a very cool Viziotagged video to go with it! Click on the link here:

Disruptive Technologists Conference at Microsoft Offices NYC 29Jan2018

Our next theme is “bots” – – and everything around bots including, why do they always seem to have female voices? The future of computing revolves around these three actors: humans, digital assistants, and bots. Chatbots will work as go-betweens between systems and people…

Augmented Reality (AR) is the technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, thus providing a composite view — it’s the integration of digital information with the user’s environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality, which creates a totally artificial environment, augmented reality uses the existing environment and overlays new information on top of it.

MLBAM powers more live events on the Internet than any other property in the world. Established in June 2000, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, MLB.com, and each of the 30 individual Club sites…

Since technology communities these days are dominated by men, women encounter different challenges that often lead them to leave the tech space. This disruptive event will discuss women in tech and how they dealt with such things as company tech culture, motherhood, gender, sexuality, age, discrimination, pay and flex time.

Since technology communities these days are dominated by men, women encounter different challenges that often lead them to leave the tech space. This disruptive event will discuss women in tech and how they dealt with such things as company tech culture, motherhood, gender, sexuality, age, discrimination, pay and flex time…

THE STARTUP ROADMAP: 10 profit principles get at the nub of how startups makes consistent profits and how they can help you build an enduring business that produces sustainable profits as well (all attendees will receive The Startup Roadmap booklet )…

Skip is an Entrepreneur, Executive, and Author. Founder of four B2B businesses. Investor in start-ups and real estate. Executive with Johnson Controls and Partner at Trammell Crow Company…

Dotcomers don’t HAVE to be glamorous to be profitable. In the late 90s the dot-com boom was in full swing. It seemed that everyone was jumping on the Internet bandwagon to ride the electronic highway to untold fortune and fame. Everyday new businesses were being formed and funded with only a name, a concept, and the promise of future revenues…

Please join DisruptiveTechnologists.com, The Internet Society of NY, Digital.NYC and Gust for a panel discussion moderated by Bruce Bachenheimer, Professor & Director, Entrepreneurship Lab at Pace University, NYC…

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet)-like structure. When trillions of things can be connected, which things should you connect?…

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…

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…

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?…

Connecting and Matching Technology has come a long way. Even dating technology has evolved since its onset not so long ago. In this increasingly fast-paced technological world, people are struggling to find the time to connect data and people and socialize, As a result online dating has become extremely popular and part of the social norm. The draw? It’s cheap, easy, and you can do it with the click of a button…

The event will be all about Food & Tech – lollipops that help you lose weight, texts that tell you when your table is ready, personalized cookbooks and experiences of enterprising foodtech entrepreneurs…

It’s Almost Here! Disruptive Technologists in NYC is Monday June 10th at our additional new venue: AT&T AdWorks Lab, 19th Floor on the upper West Side. Our next event is: Finding, Delving and Keeping your Entrepreneurial Passion. Announcing our Panelists including a professor, an entrepreneur and a corporate lawyer…

MONDAY MARCH 25th! Our next Disruptive Technologists meetup is on its way and this time it’s about the state of technology in NYC — hacking, apping and developing. Inspiring NYC technologists to create the most original tech products and services. Students Free.

Monday, January 28th at 6:15 at NYIT: afterwards we will all be going to the Rooftop Bar Empire Hotel at 44 W. 63rd St at Broadway (they are expecting us and have extended happy hour just for our members) to talk with the speakers and fellow entrepreneurs and any Disrupter can come!!

Wednesday, November 28th: Keep Signing Up even if it says we are fully booked up! You will be automatically put on the waiting list!! And if you can’t get in, afterwards we will all be going to the Rooftop Bar Empire Hotel at 44 W. 63rd St at Broadway (they are expecting us!) to talk with the speakers and fellow entrepreneurs and any Disrupter can come!!…

POSTPONED!! Due to weather, our first disruptive event has to wait — we will send an update on the new rain date once we can pin down a date for the NYIT auditorium. We will have this! I swear! Will keep you posted …Lauren…