Vol. 4 No. 36; Oct. 8, 2016

First EntreprenYOURS Cohort Pitches, NJ Tech Council Leadership Summit, Tech Town Hall In Newark And 6th Asbury Agile

• EntreprenYOURS, the accelerator entity designed by David and Jared Sorin, father and son, held its first pitch event on Thursday.
• Startups pitched to a standing-room-only crowd at CohnReznick's New York office.
• Two companies from New Jersey were in the group.
• Frictionless Motors, which works out of Vi Collaboration Hub at Bell Works in Holmdel, says it makes buying or leasing a car a "fast, fun and awesome" experience for consumers and auto retailers.
• BarbrDo is an East Brunswick startup aiming to become the world's unrivaled barber on demand platform, disrupting men's grooming.
• At the NJ Tech Council Leadership Summit, Celgene's Mark Alles said that one of the keys to growing a company is making bold choices to move forward on risky projects when times are good.

• A panel discussion touched on how leaders can envision and maintain a company culture and also strive for diversity.
• Equal Space, the coworking venue now in 2 Gateway Center, hosted a Newark Tech Town Hall with Mayor Ras J. Baraka Thursday.
• The audience heard short talks about almost everything that is going on in Newark in tech.
• Newark has made considerable progress in its quest to be a tech hub in the last year.
• Newark Venture Partners, NVP Labs, and new ventures like Fownders, Sociosmith, Locus Labs and Gadget Software are adding to the city's momentum.

• Baraka, in a Q & A with Melissa Jackson, talked about his dream that Newark become a place where coders would be inspired to undertake civic tech projects to make the city better.
• To make this dream more of a reality, Baraka announced a hackathon with a $50,000 prize, for coders to develop an app or software project for women's safety.
• More than 200 enthusiastic tech entrepreneurs, professionals and students gathered at the Asbury Park Hotel Friday for the sixth annual Asbury Agile.

• Gad Berger of Jet.com advocated for building projects using microservices.
• Jonnie Hallman talked about how he developed Cushion to help others avoid burnout.
• Mona Soni from Dow Jones spoke about making test engineering an automatic part of a company's culture at every stage of development.
• Jonny McLaughlin of GIPHY demonstrated different forms of animation to show which are best for various projects.
• Congratulations to Kevin Fricovsky and Bret Morgan, Asbury Agile organizers, for once again bringing their unique conference to the Jersey Shore.

Events / Deadlines:

• AITP-Garden State Chapter will feature Philip Frigm of the FBI Cyber Division Oct. 11.
• Jersey Shore Tech hosts a user experience and web-design bootcamp for beginners Oct. 12.
• The NJ Tech Council's "Information Communications Technology Industry Forecast" event is Oct. 13.
• The 2nd Annual Unmanned Aircraft Systems Conference will be held in Cape May Oct. 13–14.
• Newark's Mayor Ras Baraka will discuss Newark's journey to become a smart city, Oct. 17 at NJIT.
• The Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship holds the Women Entrepreneurship Week Conference Oct. 18–19.
• Microsoft Mobile Application Developers holds a session on "Building Mixed Reality Experiences for Microsoft HoloLens in Unity," Oct. 18.
• "Foundations are the New VCs" is the topic of a free event Oct. 18.
• Bob Dorf, author of the Startup Owners Manual, will be at the Morris Tech Meetup, Oct.19.
• The Delaware Valley/NJHIMSS conference Oct. 19–21 will cover the role of technology in population health.
• NJ Tech Council presents a program called "Competing for Tech Talent: Keeping Tech Jobs in New Jersey," Oct. 20.
• The NJIT Enterprise Development Center holds its annual EDC Venture Summit on Oct. 21.
• The Jersey City Tech Meetup will hear about the future of apps with AppMakr CEO Jay Shapiro Oct. 24.
• Scarlet Startups presents "What I Learned from the $3 Billion Jet Sale Plus Other Stories of Unicorns" Oct. 26.
• "Closing the Threat Gap: Executive Perspectives on the Cybersecurity Landscape" takes place at Stevens Institute of Technology Oct. 26.
• A conference on "Re-imagining Calculus Education” happens at Stevens Institute of Technology Oct. 28.
• Gamecon Game and Arts Conference comes to Atlantic City, Oct. 28–30.
• A conference on high-frequency finance and data analytics will be held Nov. 3–5 at Stevens Institute of Technology.
• Please check our Events Page for additional events.

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