Technology / Computing

ABOUT THE EVENT Watch Disruptive Technologists in Time Square with the latest LIVE panel and networking event! This free event was co-hosted by the Cal Alumni Association of UC Berkeley Wednesday, January 18, 20235:00 PM to 6:30 PM Microsoft in Times Square Conference Room Floor 6th floor, Conference room “Central Park West” 11 Times Square, Manhattan, NY Come for Education, Food, Drink, Inspiration & Networking either in person at Microsoft, NYC, or online from anywhere in

Join us as we talk with entrepreneur Evangelos Kornaros , the CEO and Co-Founder at IOSEA Inc. He is currently responsible for IOSEA's platform system architecture and developing and commercializing IOSEA's technology solutions. In this interview with Lauren Keyson, Evan answers questions around the stress of being an entrepreneur, how to stay driven, the best location to work from, the need for learning and the differences between formal and experiential education, and the

Sufficiently enlightening and sufficiently confusing The power and awe of what quantum computing means to the 21st Century is immeasurable — but what exactly are we talking about? We spoke with some of the greatest minds in quantum today to find out what their thoughts are on tapping into quantum phenomena and what that means for the future. We asked Mark Mattingley-Scott, the new GM EMEA for Quantum Brilliance who was formerly the IBM Q Ambassador Leader EMEA & AP for IBM

...or How to program a quantum computer Ubiquitous quantum computing raises all sorts of important questions along with a huge amount of uncertainty. Who better to explain this disruptive technology than Mark Mattingley-Scott, the new GM EMEA for the startup Quantum Brilliance – formerly the IBM Q Ambassador Leader EMEA & AP for IBM. After 30 years with Watson and supercomputers, he is now dealing with diamond quantum accelerators in a new quantum reality. Here are a few of M

Join Lauren Keyson of Disruptive Technologists' conversation with Yedid Herskovitz , the Founder and CEO of Rapidream , a design-to-code tool for developers. As a full-stack senior software engineer, Yedid’s has worked on a wide array of exciting development projects. He lead the complete accounting system rewrite for the world’s largest business telephony company, Avaya CPAAS. He was also the core developer for some of the App Store’s biggest business apps including TapeACal

Spend 60 minutes with us as we answer your questions on quantum, like"What exactly is Quantum Computing? " WATCH THE WEBINAR WATCH THE FIRESIDE CHAT ABOUT THE EVENT October 13, 2021, 4 PM to 5 PM EST Quantum computing harnesses the phenomena of quantum mechanics to deliver a huge leap forward in computational power to solve problems. In this October Disruptive Technologists Webinar, you hear from the finest minds in the Quantum arena. Quantum computers will soon be able to so

Minerva Tantoco is currently the Chief Operating Officer of The Common's Project Foundation and was the first-ever Chief Technology Officer of New York City . She has been paving a path of innovation since the beginning of her career working on artificial intelligence in the '80s. As CTO of NYC, Minerva played a pivotal role in bringing technological innovation to the City. She discusses some of her favorite innovations such as the LinkNYC kiosks. Additionally, she talks ab

In this Disruptive Technologists' 5-Minute Podcast, we have a quick conversation with Philipe Michelin the founder of BFD in Paris . Find out how Philipe became an expert in knowledge transfer and how he expanded internationally from what was originally a small, local technology firm out of France.

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco McCarter & English represents about a dozen venture funds, a number of private equity funds, angels and hundreds of tech, tech-enabled and life sciences enterprises. They also created their own unique accelerator program and cofounded a venture fund. Roughly 65% of their client base is the company side now, which crosses virtually every technology center and life sciences. David Sorin is Partner, Co-Chair of the Venture Capital and Emergi

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco An interview with Tom Eck, CTO of Industry Platforms at IBM : Lauren Keyson: What is the premise behind Industry Platforms? Tom Eck : A year or two ago we launched Watson Health , and now we’ve launched Watson Financial Services. The current focus of the Industry Platforms team is in financial services, which is "How do we serve today’s both enterprise and startup entities for building the next generation financial services application.”

By Devin Klos Elon Musk is nothing if not a dreamer . His thinking is always geared toward the future—whether it's electric cars or solar roofs . However, a new project has taken Musk's ambitions and pointed them in a strange direction: underground. Musk has begun doing test digs with new boring machines to showcase what he thinks could be a new solution to the USA's infrastructure issues. Though Musk has been fairly cryptic about exactly why he has become so obsessed wit

An interview with Kurt Steck, Microsoft’s GM By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Kurt Steck , the general manager for Microsoft , was in midtown last month for the opening of Microsoft’s Reactor, a spacious, clean modern workplace for developers. As the evangelist of audience and platform, he was there to develop Microsoft’s outreach efforts to enable the NY tech community to build their own things on top of their platforms. Microsoft’s developer experience (DX) involves a g

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Watch Jeremy Braff’s full sports tech presentation at the May 2016 Disruptive Technologists event at Microsoft in Times Square at http://disruptivetechnologists.com/videos/ Jeremy Braff is an expert software architect working for MLBAM , the technology arm of Major League Baseball which focuses on full service solutions delivering world-class digital experiences across all digital media platforms. Braff helps MLBAM get sports data and infor

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Ingredient1 is a personal food shopper that empowers foodies to discover, locate and share food tailored to their specific needs. It disrupts the way people feel about food because it gives them assurance that it will taste great even before they purchase it. In addition, it provides daily curated recommendations from nutritionists and tastemakers that allows eaters to escape their boring food routines. Founder Taryn Fixel came up with the

Watch full presentation of Sports Tech and Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media at: http://disruptivetechnologists.com/videos/ Monday, May 16, 2016 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM Microsoft 11 Times Square, 6th floor, corner of 41st & 8th Ave., New York, NY www.DisruptiveTechnologists.com Price: $15.00 /per person 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 inte

Event Details June 2, 2014 NY Institute of Technology (NYIT) 16 West 61st Street,11th floor auditorium, New York, NY Networking at 8:30 pm after the discussion. 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. Agenda 6:15 to 6:45: Networking, Pizza, Beer 6:45 to 8:15: Discussion with the four

by Zak Niazi I had a chance to talk to the founders of Blokify , a startup that creates 3D modeling software allowing kids to create toys physically or virtually via an app and 3D printers. The company is co-founded by Jenny Kortina and Brett Cupta . I met Brett in NYC at an Ultralight Startup event in downtown Manhattan. We were standing near the doors because it was a packed house. The story of Blokify goes back to 2012 when Jenny fell in love with 3D printing. Impressed b

by Dana Stevens We got a chance to ask Nate Westheimer , president and board member of NY Tech Meetup , what he liked about KeyMe , a crazy new app that was demoed at a recent meetup: “The KeyMe demo, where they scanned in a key with their phone and they can immediately get it delivered to you, was very cool. What I love about that, and I think it’s sort of representative of a lot of the things that are going on which it incorporates, is that they have the computer vision and

by Zak Niazi and Lauren Keyson Brandon Diamond loves startups, community, and code. He is the Director & Co-Founder, HuffPost Labs , the Director & Founder of Hacker Union, and a Director for NY Tech Meetup . We caught up with him at the last NY Tech Meetup. He tells us what’s up with hackers and how he feels about having a startup. Lauren Keyson: Tell me what you’re doing. I guess after trying to do the startup thing, which is where we last left off, I went to 10Gen, which

by Danielle Brody When developers, entrepreneurs, and designers meet for the first time and spend 48 hours together at an AngelHack competition, real businesses are born. AngelHack , an international San Francisco-based events and marketing company, hosts hackathon competitions in more than 35 cities across the world, bringing strangers together to create new ideas. At these bi-yearly hackathons, attendees form teams for a weekend of rapid-prototyping sessions. “We are const