Building the Digital City, Nov. 1

Building the Digital City

The Altman Building
Friday, November 1, 9am-6pm
On November 1, 2013, the Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE.) will host the Building the Digitial CityTech and the Transformation of New York — day long multi-disciplinary conference exploring the dramatic rise of the tech industry in New York and its growing impact on the planning, development and urbanism of the city. Organizaed by Senior Fellow James Sanders, AIA, together with Prof.
Jesse M. Keenan, Research Director of CURE., and Prof. Andrew Laing, the event will feature distinquished participants from a wide variety of sectors, including MaryAnne Gilmartin, CEO, Forest City Ratner; Craig Nevil-Manning, Director of Engineering, Google; David Hantman, Head of Global Public Policy, Airbnb; Kevin Ryan, former CEO, DoubleClick, and founder of the start-ups Gilt Groupe, Business Insider and MongoDB; Jed Walentas, Managing Partner, Two Trees Management; Ben Fried, CIO, Google; Andrew Rasiej, Board Chair, NY Tech Meetup; and Rachel Stern Haot, NYC Chief Digital Officer, among others.
Focused on issues and opportunities in New York, Building the Digital City will present state-of-the-art (and science) research and will feature innovative projects from across the five boroughs, as well as urban centers from across the globe. In turn, the signifigance of the conference will extended to cities everywhere, which are increasingly looking to tech and digital enterprises as a source of urban growth and innovation in the 21st century.

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