Welcome to the weekly and as yet un-named newsletter from TechWalk. We are a networking community for Tech and SaaS professionals that offers weekly walks hosted by industry experts and interesting individuals.

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Volunteer Opportunity: Take part in the biggest TechWalk thus far - we’re participating in NY Techweek in a big way. 200+ RSVPs and counting 🚶 join the movement 🚶‍♀️ 

5.22 TechWalk

Who’s excited about the long holiday weekend? But first we TechWalk 🙂 

Let’s meet our Co-Hosts

•  Jeff Bonar, CEO, CapCO2 Solutions - Jeff is an expert at working with disparate stakeholders to deliver complex systems and meet challenges with innovative use of technology. In his work at CapCO2 Solutions, they have gathered input from farmers, chemical engineers, agricultural business leaders, and leaders in decarbonization to serve agricultural communities,  address climate needs, and drive the future of the biofuel business. The biofuels industry has  an amazing ability to harness natural processes to utilize carbon and build useful products. They are building a network of small, modular green fuel factories distributed across the biofuels heartland. Their patented green fuel technology cuts the CO2 footprint in half (GREET verified) and they upgrade existing biofuel  ethanol plants to make valuable new products and deliver $50M new revenues per plant each year. He’s interested in discussing: climate and agriculture focused technologies and starting small tech companies.

• Abigail Meisterman, UX and Content Strategy Director, MISC - In her former life, Abigail was a young adult librarian at NYPL. In this new era she works in/with agencies, non-profits, education, and tech companies across a range of content-related disciplines. Currently, she’s helping clients with their UX and content strategies with MISC, a digital design and technology agency. Her thoughts on tech “Warily curious: AI is obviously on everyone’s mind and lips, but there’s a lot that can go wrong. (And I don’t just mean Terminator-level extinction.) With hallucinations comes a strong need for information literacy. And although it’s always been necessary, it isn’t everyone’s strong suit and can lead to a lot of misinformation. We’re living in tumultuous times and getting accurate information is incredibly important. I’m also worried about the carbon emissions and how hot this planet is getting!”

• João Ferreira, Managing Director, Runtime Revolution - João has been a software engineer for the past 16 years, with a passion for helping startups bring their innovative ideas to life. He loves collaborating with these young companies, using his experience to build the tech backbone that fuels their products and propels them forward. It's incredibly rewarding to see these startups grow and make a real impact on the world. He’s ready to share his expertise on anything related to building a product, João loves understanding someone’s vision and idea and discussing plans and alternatives to bring it to life. He also likes sharing his professional experience, hoping it will help someone figure out what’s the next best move. 🗣️ Here’s a tip he gives on the approach to networking and professional relationship building:

  "Be honest, be real, and be ready to give something. Generosity goes a long way in building professional relationships."

Volunteer with TechWalk for NY TechWeek

We’re hosting an event for NY TechWeek! You could attend five networking events this Spring / Summer or you could volunteer at one and probably achieve the same impact. How? The volunteers at our special events interact deeply with TechWalk community members by leading smaller cohorts of participants, facilitating engagement, answering questions and ensuring folks enjoy their TechWalk experience. Plus we showcase all of our volunteers and yeah, you’ll be kinda TechWalk famous. So if you are free on Monday morning June 3rd at 8:00 and would like to supercharge your connections and spark a few new meaningful relationships - sign up to volunteer with us!

You will be volunteering with:

• Hilary Watson - GTM Specialist, Xmartlabs

• Andrea Di Castro - Product Manager and Digital Transformation Leader, DiCastro Consulting

• Stephanie Denis - TechWalk Ambassador

• Hammad Usmani - formerly Senior Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer, Lockheed Martin

• Nora Wong - Counsel, Scale LLP

• Ruben Guardardo - TechWalk Ambassador

• Sherie Zhou - Director, Commercial Strategy, Viz.ai

• Wendy Shlensky - Vice President, Analyst and Advisor Relations, Partner Marketing, First Source

• Matthew Norton - Account Executive, Clarity Recruiting

• Nigel Rosemin - Sr. Director of IT, Human Security

• Shiva Prakesh Perumal - Graduate Research Assistant, NJ Institute of Technology

• Gabriela Romero - Technical Project Manager, EXL

NY TechWeek Announcement

It’s happening! Our NY TechWeek TechWalk is on the official calendar.

Our April FINTech Week event attracted close to 300 registrants and a walk that bordered on a march! I guess we were protesting stale networking events?

We’re working hard to finalize all of our headliners, but in the meantime, please meet our anchor Co-Hosts. Connect and let them know you are looking forward to chatting with them on the walk.

• Cordelro Brown, Investment Analyst, Techstars - the world’s most active pre-seed investor

• Jasmine Takanikos, Founder, BrandHuman - a brand design agency with global reach that integrates the exploration of psychology, strategy, lifestyle, and relationship to self

• NEW Henry Poydar, Founder, Steady Space Corporation - the async coordination solution for software product teams

• NEW Stacey Dolchin, Senior Field Marketing Manager, Rippling - San Francisco-based workforce management unicorn that has raised $1.2 Billion (open positions)
  

Upcoming TechWalk Schedule

• Register for 5/29 TechWalk Ambassador Day - Co-Hosted by Ruben Guardado, Equity Research, Evercore, Vansh Bataviya, Incoming Software Engineer Intern, Capital One, and Stephanie Denis, Physical Therapist Assistant, formerly with Rehab Alternatives

• Register for 5/29 TechWalk Silicon Valley - Co-Hosted by Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder, Women and AI; Deal Partner, Ganas Ventures; Mobile App Expert & Advisor, Reut Lazo, Co-Founder, Women and AI; Deal Partner, Ganas Ventures; AI Entrepreneur and R&D Product Lead AI2030, and Lana Dubinskiy, Co-Founder, Women and AI; Digital Services Expert - AI Product, Executive Office of the President

• Register for 6/3 NY #TechWeek TechWalk - Co-Hosted by Jasmine Takanikos, Founder, BrandHuman, Cordelro Brown, Investment Analyst, Techstars, Stacey Dolchin, Senior Field Marketing Manager, Channel, Rippling, Henry Poydar, Founder & CEO, Steady Space Corporation, and Samantha Alfaro, Talent Acquisition Partner, Stensul

• Register for 6/5 - Co-Hosted by Clint Osterholz, Sales Engineer, Datadog, Tonille Miller, Founder, EXT - Experience and Transformation, and Swamini Khanvilkar, Venture Fellow, VC University

• Register for 6/12 - Co-Hosted by Glenelys Jimenez, Founder, Levanto Collective, Yuliya Mykhaylovska, Founder, Yuliya Talent, and Jacqueline Escobar, Associate (Lawyer for Fintech and Blockchain), Sterlington

• Register for 6/12 TechWalk Silicon Valley

• Register for 6/14 TechWalk Brooklyn - Co-Hosted by Emily Frenkel, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Ukrainian Jersey City

• Register for 6/19 Schmooze x TechWalk; Co-Hosted by Shelly Lombard, Founder of Schmooze, Andrea Henderson, Partner Life Sciences, Healthcare, Diversity, CEO and Board Practices, DHR Global, Paula Edgar, CEO, PGE Consulting Group LLC, Katrin de Haën, Co-Founder, The Fourth Effect, and Breen Sullivan, Founder, The Fourth Effect.

• Register for 6/26 - Co-Hosted by Miroslav Kriz, Founder & CEO, Stealth Startup, Chantal Wirekoh, Sr. Product Manager (Formely with SwiftConnect), and Kelly Lynn Adams, Life Coach, KLA Productions, LLC

• Register for 6/26 TechWalk Silicon Valley

Congrats on reaching the end of this newsletter. If you would like information on sponsoring our next edition, being a featured member, or joining a future walk as a Co-Host, simply contact us at [email protected]

Happy Walking,

Christine Farrier Rosemin

Founder

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