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BE.INnovative Symposium to connect Brooklyn students, alumni, faculty to local innovators, startups

Symposium Hosted by D’town B’klyn Partnership And BE.IN Higher Ed Member Institutions

March 31, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
A photo from last year's hackathon. Credit: Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
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The Brooklyn Education Innovation Network (BE.IN) is hosting its third annual BE.INnovative Symposium to connect the tech, creative and academic communities in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle from April 7-10. This year’s focus is on Innovation for All, highlighting ways innovation plays a key role in industry and academia. The event consists of innovation panels bridging the work within academia and industry, practical discussions geared toward students and graduates looking to land a position in one of Brooklyn’s innovation economy firms (or create their own) and the Hack Brooklyn Innovation Challenge, open to all students, tackling local sustainability challenges.

Formerly known as Tech Triangle U, the symposium is hosted by BE.IN higher education member institutions in collaboration with the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. 

BE.IN is an alliance of nine Downtown Brooklyn higher education institutions, which was announced in 2014 by Mayor Bill de Blasio and received $200,000 in seed funding from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, along with contributions from the participating colleges and universities to focus on connecting with local industry to secure jobs, internships and academic partnerships.

 

Full symposium agenda below:

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

 

All Star Innovators: A discussion featuring key innovators of major companies in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle.

11 a.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Lutney Commons

Panelists: Matthew Burnett, co-founder and CEO, Maker’s Row; Tanya Menendez, co-founder, Maker’s Row; Jesse Middleton, co-founder, WeWork Labs; Elisa Padilla, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Barclays Center; Ted Southern, president, Final Frontier Design; Christopher Wink (moderator), co-founder and editorial director, Technical.ly.

 

Her Innovation: Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling.

1 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Sanford Lecture Hall

Panelists: DJ Martin, founder, Astia Angels; Edward Rogoff, dean of the School of Management, LIU Brooklyn; Rhonda Schaller, director of career and professional development, Pratt Institute; Calena Jamieson, East Coast program manager, Black Girls CODE; Brooke McIntyre (moderator), founder, Inked Voices.

 

Civic Innovation: Opportunities for a Better Brooklyn.

2:30 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Sanford Lecture Hall

Panelists: Jonathan Askin, founder/director, Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic; Hannah Calhoon, director, Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood; Dinorah Cantú-Pedraza, director, The GovLab Academy, GovLab; Noel Hidalgo, co-founder, BetaNYC; Matthew Stempeck, director of civic technology, Microsoft.

 

Inclusive Innovation: Communities Empowering Themselves Through Technology.

4 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Sanford Lecture Hall

Panelists: Jason DaSilva, founder AXS Map; Darshan Desai, professor, Berkeley College; Allan Goldstein, senior lecturer, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Jenny Young, owner, Brooklyn Robot Foundry; Paul Russo (moderator) current vice provost and dean, YU School of Graduate and Professional Studies.

 

Networking Mixer

5:30 p.m. at Ava Brew — 100 Willoughby St.

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Open Office Tours at HappyFunCorp, WeWork Dumbo Heights, Macy’s Fashion Incubator and This Also

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

 

Get the Job: Recruiters from companies in the Tech Triangle discuss what potential job candidates should know about getting in the door and how to be successful once they get there.

12 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Sanford Lecture Hall

Panelists: John Jeltema, executive director, JPMorgan Corporate and Investment Bank Global Fund Services Product Development; Dawn Kissi, CEO, Emerging Market Media; Sean Petterson, CEO and founder, Strong Arm Technologies; Eugene Yee, lead iOS engineer, Teleport; John Edwards (moderator), executive director, Brooklyn Navy Yard Employment Center.

 

Create the Job: If you don’t see the job you want, create it!

1:30 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Sanford Lecture Hall

Panelists: Elana Duffy, CEO and co-founder, Pathfinder; Robert Gelabert, entrepreneurship student, LIU; Steven Kuyan, managing director of incubators and entrepreneurship, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Katja Schroeder, managing director, Bloom PR; John Coghlan, founder, DUMBO Startup Lab.

 

Hack Your Way to The Top: How hackathons help your career, even if you’re not a coder.

3 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Sanford Lecture Hall

Panelists: Shaun Johnson, co-founder and New York program director, Startup Institute; Alyson Martin, co-founder, Cannabis Wire; Jeff Soto, founder and CEO, Tendigi; Robert Wu (moderator), director, St. Francis College Center for Entrepreneurship.

 

BE.IN Hack Brooklyn Innovation Challenge

5:30 p.m. at LIU Brooklyn — Entrepreneurship Center

If you’re a student in Downtown Brooklyn studying to become the next marketing genius, sales expert, design guru, data scientist, app developer, successful entrepreneur, political maneuverer or you just love Brooklyn, take part in this weekend’s hackathon. You’ll form a team of fellow students and spend the weekend using your entrepreneurial skills to build prototype products and services for a greener, more sustainable Brooklyn — with dedicated mentoring by top Brooklyn innovation professionals. Hackathon winners receive a $2,000 cash prize.

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