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Events, Programming

Boston Tech Events: Idea Week, Breakfast with VCs, and You

Boston Seaport
Credit: Elise Kovi’s Flickr

Another Monday, another work week. Unlike every other Monday, however, today ushers in the month of October and with it Boston’s Idea Week. Reawaken your inspiration, and herald in the new month with this entrepreneurial-centered event, taking place in the Seaport’s Innovation District. Plus, check out a handful of other tech-related events geared toward entrepreneurs, start-ups, and the generally curious. So get out-and-about the city, meet your next VC or co-founder, explore new ideas, welcome the change in season, and add these Boston events to your calendar.

Boston’s Idea Week

When: Oct 1-10

Where: Innovation District – at the Seaport

Details: Each day a new activity. Aimed at furthering the growth of Boston’s Innovation District, this week-long event is working “to bring together Boston’s change-makers, leaders, creative thinkers, entrepreneurs and world-class college students to share and celebrate innovative ideas, products, networks and businesses that are being tested and formed in Boston.”

http://www.bostonideaweek.org/

Twitter: #IdeaWk13 @BosIdeaWk

Boston Tech Breakfast Meetup

When: Oct 1

Where: Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center

Details: Who doesn’t love breakfast? Made for techies, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs, this meetup is true to its namesake. Over a bagel and coffee, share in the monthly show-and-tell format of presentations by local start-ups. Contact them for the opportunity to showcase your company.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-TechBreakfast/events/128096822/

Hacks Hackers Boston Meetup

When: Oct 16

Where: The Boston Globe – 135 Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester, MA

Details: Three Nieman fellows will “discuss the growth and impact of digital and social media in Latin America, India, China—how users are employing technology to report and comment on the news, organize and motivate civic groups, and circumvent government controls.”

Speakers: Leslie Hook, Beijing correspondent for the Financial Times; Hasit Shah, senior broadcast journalist at BBC News in London; Daniel Eilemberg, founder and editor-in-chief of Animal Político

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/hackshackersboston/events/140537532/

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Events, OfficeWriter, SharePoint

SPTechCon Boston 2012 Wrap Up

Going through SPTechCon withdrawals? So are we. That’s why we’re bringing you a (relatively) quick recap from the Twittosphere. We can’t thank everyone who came out to booth #505 enough. We enjoyed meeting/tweeting all of you and learning from the SharePoint community! If you weren’t able to join in the exciting conversation or view OfficeWriter demos on how it can enhance reporting with SharePoint, fear not we have more demos online and the chance to download a free evaluation of OfficeWriter so you can take it for a test drive yourself. In the interim, take a look inside the four days of sessions, networking, and SharePoint learning.

[To view the wrap up on Storify]

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An Event Apart: For People Who Make Websites

Graphic Designer, Christiana, spent some time at An Event Apart last week to pick up a few tips and tricks…and retro swag. She provides a quick recap and takeaways from the speakers. Conclusion: worthwhile event for designers and developers alike.

An Event Apart: The Design Conference for People Who Make Websites came to Boston last week Monday – Wednesday.  I was excited to see what this conference had to offer seeing as this was the first one I attended that had a combined designer/developer track which was not shuffling you off in separate directions. I arrived to a sea of eager people waiting to soak up some creative knowledge, as well as some pretty cool welcome swag. Lunch boxes for all. Continue reading An Event Apart: For People Who Make Websites →

Big Data

Boston’s Big Datascape, Part 1

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[Excerpted from the Riparian Data blog]
Big Data, or the technologies, languages, databases and platforms used to efficiently store, analyze and extract conclusions from massive data sets, is a Big Trend right now. Why? In a nutshell, because a) we are generating ever increasing amounts of data, and b) we keep learning faster, easier and more accurate ways of handling and extracting business value from it. On Wall Street, some investment banks and hedgefunds are incorporating sentiment analysis of web documents into their trading strategies. In healthcare, companies like WellPoint, Explorys and Apixio are using distributed computing to mine health records, practice guidelines, studies and medical/service costs to more accurately and affordably insure, diagnose and treat patients.

Unsurprisingly, Silicon Valley is big data’s epicenter, but Boston, long a bastion of Life Sciences, Healthcare, High Tech and Higher Ed, is becoming an important player, particularly in the storage and analytics arenas. This series aims to spotlight some of the current and future game changers. These companies differ in growth stages, target markets and revenue models, but converge around their belief that the data is the castle, and their tools the keys.

1)      Recorded Future

  • Product: Recorded Future is an API that scans, analyzes and visualizes the sentiment and momentum of specified references in publically available web documents (news sites, blogs, govt. sites, social media sites etc)
  • Founder/CEO: Christopher Ahlberg
  • Technologies used: JSON, real-time data feeds, predictive modeling, sentiment analysis
  • Target Industries: Financial Services, Competitive Intelligence, Defense Intelligence
  • Located: Cambridge, MA

2)      Hadapt

  • Product: The Hadapt Adaptive Analytical Platform is a single system for processing, querying and analyzing both structured and unstructured data. The platform doesn’t need connectors, and supports SQL queries.
  • Founders: Justin Borgman (CEO); Dr. Daniel Abadi (Chief Scientist)
  •  Technologies used: Hadoop, SQL, Adaptive Query Execution™
  • Target Industries: Financial Services, Healthcare, Telecom, Government

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