At New York Tech Meetup’s election day event, a bunch of young college-age upstarts stole the show from some of the slightly older incumbents. I’m referring to student projects and hackathon winners who were up on stage at Skirball demoing their software efforts.
The evening’s theme was set by host Evan Korth, assistant professor of computer science at NYU and one of the co-founders of HackNY. Korth laid out his vision of New York City as an East Coast tech hub with NYU, Columbia, Parsons, and Rutgers acting as an educational seedbed for startup activity in this area—i.e., the Stanford University model.
And based on the demos I saw and the various entrepreneurial opportunities and programs around town, I’m becoming more of a believer.