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One month after launch, it's time to put some meat on those bones. Join us at WeWork's latest LoMa location to drill down on your product's purpose, code, and design. Come tinker with Google Glass enthusiasts, recruit new teammates, get inspired by Hardware Experts, and visit the BigApps Mentor Station to tap into the expertise of the sharpest minds in tech.
9:00 AM -Â Doors open + breakfast + Team Networking
10:00 AM - Welcome + Morning Inspiration (Kuan Huang, Founder of Poncho)
11:00 AM-1:00 PM - Open Build + 'Lighting Round' Workshops
SOFTWARE CLASSES
Session 1 (11:00AM - 11:30AM)
Vivian Zhang, NYC Data Science Academy - "Introduction to Getting, Analyzing and Visualizing 311 data in R"
Session 2 (11:45AM - 12:15PM)
Eric Schles, Lyte - "Introduction to Getting, Analyzing, and Storing data in Python"
Session 3 (12:30PM - 1:00PM)
Mina Kim, Director of User Experience at Adjacent to One - "Mobile UX Design Essentials"
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1:00 PM - Lunch + Special keynote presentation by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer
HARDWARE CLASSES
Session 4 (1:15PM - 1:45PM)
Ted Ullrich, founder of Tomorrow Lab - "Prototyping Hardware Products"
Session 5 (2:00PM - 2:30PM)
Dario Laverde, NYC-GDG Organizer and HTC Developer Evangelist - "Intro to Android Wear and Google Glass GDK"
Session 6 (2:45PM - 3:15PM)
Ellen Pearlman, Volumetric Society of NY - "The Brain as a Visual Device"
Session 7 (3:30PM - 4:00PM)
Alan Hyman, MakeSimply - "Going to Manufacturing. Are you ready?"
Session 8 (4:15PM - 4:45PM)
Mary Beckman & Justin Berger, General Electric/FirstBuild - "Co-Creation: A New Model for Open Innovation"
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2:00 PM-7:00 PM - Open Build + Experts 'Office Hours'
6:30 PM - DinnerÂ
7:00 PM - Team Pitches / Live Feedback
Judges from Comcast Ventures, R/GA, and StartupGrind.
Event ends at 9:00 PM
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Featured Challenge: Help General Electric design a Micro-Kitchen for urban dwellers at this BigBuild
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Visit our "Mentor Station" throughout the day to get advice from BigApps Mentors:
Ted Ullrich - Partner, Connected Technologies Design & Engineering at Tomorrow Lab
Will Turnage - VP, Technology & Invention at R/GA
Jennifer Vargas - Head of Product at ClassPass, formerly at Yahoo, Flickr, Etsy, Birchbox
Diego Mayer-Cantu - CEO at Inventively and Presidential Innovation Fellow at US Government
Alec Hartman - Founder, NY Tech Day and CEO of DevShop
Alexander Rea - Technology Producer at IPG Media Lab & CTO at Trubbelmaker
Arun Nagarajan - Developer Relations at Google
Christopher Daggett - Vice President at ideas42
Daniel Gulati - Entrepreneur in Residence at Comcast Ventures
Hamdan Azhar - Researcher at Facebook
Jessica Peltz - VP, Business Development at Evol8tion
Mary Hermant - COO at Fresh Digital Group
Mina Kim - Director of User Experience at Adjacent to One
Peter Crysdale - Founder and CEO at StrategyHack
Eric Schles - Community Organizer for Hacker Union
Evan Rose - Presentation Layer Architect
Alizah Herman - Mobile Designer at Yahoo
Dario Laverde - NYC-GDG Organizer and HTC Developer Evangelist
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Visit the "Connected Devices" Room to borrow the below equipment:
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Tessels (with the following modules):
-BLE modules
-camera modules
-audio module
-relay modules
-ambient modules
-RFID modules
-GPS modules
-GPRS modules
-accelerometer modules
-climate modules
-infrared module
-microSD card module
-nRF modules
-servo modules
Arduinos
Nomi beacons
Pebble smartwatches
littleBits kits
White Foam Core
Hot Glue
Cutting Mats
Box Cutters
X-acto Knife
Cutting Blades
Let us feature your photos, posts and tweets throughout our social media channels - use #BigApps to tag memorable moments and we will share them with the world.
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