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Live Social Data Visualization Sculpture the H

Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

The HÜB@Northside, a state of the art inflatable social space with the ability to display a variety of, real-time social connections and data visualizations inspiring you to “Look Up” will be located inside The Entrepreneurship Conference Headquarters, 149 Kent Avenue at North 5th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The HÜB@Northside is the social town square and meeting place that connects innovators by enabling them to use social media to connect in a live environment, with others with similar interests. Contained inside the HÜB will be special events, a pitch space, and unique content not available at other festival venues such as one on one interviews, autograph sessions and contests. Inspired by the need to make meaningful connections at live events.

The HÜB has partnered with award-winning social discovery app Sonar to power a real-life, real-time social network among conference attendees. Sonar is the best way to connect and share with people nearby, and they share the HÜB’s vision for inspiring people to “Look Up” from mobile devices and connect face-to-face. 

You can download Sonar before you arrive at Northside, to know more about and connect with the other people around–people you’re already friends with and people who share your interests and connections.

“We wanted to curate a better way of connecting with others in the context of a live conferences. We asked ourselves, how can we help participants find their next co-founder, funder, or client and make sure they shake hands and not just tweet about it? How many times have we all stared at our mobile devices, endlessly looking for that magic connection, almost like a modern version of the Magic 8-Ball? How can we make sure they leave a venue with a connection that is truly valuable to them? The HÜB is our answer.” – Peter E Raymond – CEO ÜBERANGST

The HÜB will be unveiled at the Northside Festival, NYC’s largest and most accessible discovery festival. Hundreds of bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and over 80,000 fans converge on Brooklyn over eight days to witness the most incredible showcase of “what’s next” in music, film, entrepreneurship, and art.

The Northside Entrepreneurship Conference is focused on design, technology, and business innovation. It consists of a series of major keynotes as well as over 50 panel discussions, a trade show pavalion, and the Startup Campus at NYU-Poly. Hear stories from the CTO of Etsy, Bre Pettis of Makerbot, Brett Martin CEO of Sonar, Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Charlie O’Donnel of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and GZA founding member of Wu-Tang Clan. Meet network, interact, and collaborate with the names and faces of design, innovation and tech in NYC.

Some of the unique content that the HÜB@Northside will curate are specific trending Twitter hashtags; living tag clouds, brilliant real time social data visualizations; curated festival film, music and art content; attendee submitted content “mashed up” live; networking & meet-ups, a live Pintrest bulletin board; and more.  The HÜB@Northside is accepting submissions through its website http://www.hubatnorthside.com to showcase the new innovators and unique startups of NYC.

As part of the special content being curated, the HÜB will accept speakers and content on-site during its “Feasibility Slam”: A hour long, heads up low-risk high-yield ideation event that enables participants to leverage their intellectual capital, while orchestrating and recontextualizing mission statements in a real time/live crowd sourced social network.  Project and implement thoughts on how to seamlessly fuse branded customer interactions with holistic content creators like yourself in the evolving cloud ecosystem. Learn how to fast track key enablers and analyze performance enhancing matrices. Understand how SEO keyword rich trend tracking can lead to ROI while on-boarding the pain points of your stakeholders . This out-of-the-box, non-proprietary, open sourced event with no brandcuffs, absolutely no brandcuffs that will produce concept deliverables via a mash-up, in a real time, live gameifed feasibility slam curated into a compressed format of 30-second intervals. Audience engagement will rearward additional time units. This streamlined format allows for tip of the iceberg thinking, with user-centric cross functionality, agnostic of A-B testing paradigms. This event is sure to be a win-win, best-of-breed, world-class event that is the tipping point among outliers that increases your bandwith and will drive the bottom line.

Really? No, but If you can’t stand the jargon above come and talk about it, you have 30 sec to pitch or bitch, gain more time if the crowd likes you and become the next trendsetter.

After Northside the HÜB@ will continue to curate connections at other conferences and special events such as SxSW, AllThingsD, Comic-Con, CES, international auto shows, consumer and industry event and other unique venues around the globe.

THE HÜB@NORTHSIDE is Made in NYC and is a project of Brooklyn-based ÜBERANGST and Human Condition, in collaboration with Brooklyn-based Northside Media Group during The Entrepreneur Conference of the Northside Festival from June 14-15. HÜB partners include, Sonar, East River Ferry & Clear Wireless.

Learn more: http://www.hubatnorthside.com

About ÜBERANGST:

ÜBERANGST is a high-end design, production and App agency. We push the envelope,  and need to be challenged. We have digitally brought the Mojave to Brooklyn and raced cars through Times Square. We design the future of consumer interaction. We are reinventing vehicle navigation. We are designing augmented reality glasses to change the way we view the world. We develop innovative brand and product interactions for Fortune 500 clients, sometimes even simulators.  We design custom apps for our clients and games for ourselves.

http://www.uberangst.com / @uberhub_hub / @uberangst

About Human Condition:

We are an innovation, R&D, think and do tank.

We steer the strategy of innovation through communication, R&D, and technology. We work with the socially conscious enterprise large and small, universities, governments, and nonprofits to solve their pressing challenges.

Human Condition is certified as a emerging biotechlology company by the City of New York.

http://www.hcxdesign.com / @hcxdesigntweets

About Northside Media Group:

Brooklyn has become an international adjective meaning “What’s next.” The Northside Media Group’s mission is to define and showcase that adjective through media, digital and large-scale events.

http://www.northsidemediagroup.com / @northsidefest

For media inquiries please contact:

Jesse Wachtel

Executive Producer – ÜBERANGST

jesse (at) uberangst (dot) com

347-465-7857

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Staffing Firm Steps In to Sponsor NJIT Entrepreneurship Project

Somerset, New Jersey (PRWEB) June 02, 2013

Currently over 60 students are enrolled in various Interdisciplinary Design Studio (IDS) programs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Rangam Consultants, Inc., which is among the top strategic sourcing services and staffing firms serving its Fortune 500 clients in over 36 states in the United States, together with branding and marketing strategy company The Think Cloud and Brian Kiernan, will invest their money on eight students for summer long sponsorship. The two teams of four were selected at a presentation by 17 IDS teams during a recent workshop. The basic purpose of the workshop is to allow undergrads to use their theoretical knowledge to develop innovative technologies and also to venture into new businesses that justify their invented technologies. The two teams that received the summer stipend of $ 20,000 each were Autismind and TouchCare.

An NJIT bulletin says the students will be mentored by successful entrepreneurs from the corporate world, industry experts, renowned in-house faculty members as well as those from other reputed institutions. The course materials will include professional ethics, project development, global diversity, entrepreneurship and management.

“Practical knowledge and personal self-confidence gained by the students during the project development process is more important than the theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom environment. It is both fascinating and personally very satisfying to see how the students have progressed from being ‘starry-eyed big government program idealists’ to ‘down-to-earth pragmatists’ recognizing that one can also change the world through small incremental steps, while making a profit at the same time,” said Mr Kiernan, who is a charter member of the NJIT IDS External Advisory Board.

The IDS Program was founded in 2011 by Dr Atam Dhawan. In the current season there are three active class years comprising 17 teams. Once the program gets going steadily, there will be four class years at the same time.

“What these students have accomplished in such a short time is nothing short of amazing,” said Dhawan. “I’m so proud of what they’ve done and I know that after they graduate they will improve the technological fabric of American society,” he added.

“Entrepreneurs and small businesses have been playing and will continue to play a key role in the growth of US economy in areas of innovation and technology. So a program like IDS is of paramount importance for engineers to receive better training from industry experts in order to become young, successful entrepreneurs,” said Nish Parikh, Vice President of Rangam Consultants.

“Rangam is really fortunate to participate in and support the IDS Program. We’re looking forward to the success of the Program developed by Dr Dhawan,” said Hetal Parikh, CEO of Rangam.

About Rangam Consultants, Inc.

Founded in 1995, Rangam Consultants, Inc. (RCI) is a privately held multiple service provider with more than 17 years of experience in IT, science and engineering sectors. Rangam provides a wide range of technical and non-technical staffing and consulting services to support information processing, ERP/CRM, scientific research, records management, network ,monitoring, data recovery, and environmental, health and telecommunications support services. Rangam has a proven track record of successfully delivering mission critical IT consulting, support and recruiting services to various government and Fortune 500 clients.

Rangam specializes in staff augmentation services for IT and non-IT categories. It has been serving large pharmaceutical and healthcare clients as well telecommunication and energy sectors. RCI, together with its sister concern WebTeam Corporation, has joined hands with leading industry experts and professionals from healthcare and education sectors to develop mobile applications for special needs education.

About New Jersey Institute of Technology

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Home of the Highlanders, is among the top 200 research universities and among the top 10 technological institutes in the United States.

Developing tomorrow’s leaders has always been NJIT’s primary area of focus. The IDS (Interdisciplinary Design Studio) Program under the aegis of the Albert Dorman Honors College creates opportunities for honors students to research and design innovative technological solutions to various social issues, and then identify a feasible market to implement the solutions.

About The Think Cloud

Based in New York, The Think Cloud is a branding and marketing strategy firm that produces ground breaking brand strategies, product designs and marketing programs for a diverse range of businesses to deliver tangible results. Through their collaborative approach they want to create an emotional experience that resonates with a regional and global customer base while having sound and sustainable business qualities. They identify, create and deliver new customer value in the marketplace through innovation combined with a robust process.

About Mr Brian Kiernan

Mr Brian Kiernan, retired Executive VP and Chief Scientist of InterDigital Communications, LLC and a 1970 NJIT BSSE graduate, played a major role in building and setting up the world’s first commercial digital mobile telephone system and remained involved in digital mobile radio throughout his career, primarily by helping shape various digital cellular standards.

Mr Kiernan’s association with NJIT is in the capacity of a charter member of the IDS External Advisory Board. His decision to sponsor the InterDisciplinary Design Studio program is grounded on the philosophy that for honors students willing to develop a project from the scratch, hands-on experience is far more essential than theoretical insights.