The BE.INnovative Symposium is a veritable who’s who of the Brooklyn tech scene.*
This year’s symposium will cover women in tech, civic innovation, a tour of workspaces, job and hiring advice, hackathons, and, oh yeah, hella networking.
BE.INnovative is the work, primarily, of Eddie Summers, the executive director of BE.IN, the Brooklyn Education Innovation Network. The mission of the group is to match as many as possible of the borough’s 66,000 college students with internships in the Brooklyn tech and business world. It was founded in 2014 by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.
Speakers and panelists at this year’s symposium include Matthew Burnett and Tanya Menendez, cofounders of Maker’s Row, which recently moved into a large office space in Downtown Brooklyn, who will be talking on the opening panel about innovation.
Brooke McIntyre, the founder of Inked Voices, will moderate the panel on women in tech, called Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling.
Brooke McIntyre is the founder of InkedVoices. (Photo by Tyler Woods)
The Civic Innovation panel will include Jonathan Askin, a Brooklyn Law School professor currently teaching at MIT for the semester, who thinks we’re due for a revolution, and Hannah Calhoon, the director of Blue Ridge Labs, which is incubating some of the most interesting civic tech startups out there.
Jonathan Askin. (Courtesy photo)
The cofounder of StrongArm Technologies, Sean Petterson, will be on the recruiting panel. His Navy Yard-based company recently inked a deal with 3M to provide work gear for blue-collar workers. And that panel will be moderated by Jonathan Edwards of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Employment Center, a fantastic operation that matches workers, particularly local, underutilized labor, with jobs at the Navy Yard, which is expanding in a big way as we speak.
A rendering of Building 77 at the Navy Yard. (Courtesy image)
It should be informative.
Also, it’s completely free.
It’s all going down April 7-10 in various locations in Downtown Brooklyn.
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*And we’re not saying that only because Technically Media cofounder Chris Wink is moderating the opening panel discussion.
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