Tech undergirds all industries that New York needs to be competitive in. Every industry in New York City and every job in New York City is going to be impacted by technology. Going forward we have to think of technology as the economy.
Watch Mayor Bloomberg’s full remarks at this year’s NYC BigApps 3.0 Awards Ceremony. Meet NYC BigApps winners and find out how the annual competition, which challenges developers to create useful apps using City data, is becoming a catalyst for startups and spurring entrepreneurship across the City at our upcoming Internet Week panel on Thursday, May 17th.
Today, Mayor Bloomberg and NYU President John Sexton announced the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), a new applied sciences center in Downtown Brooklyn. CUSP will be a partnership of top institutions from around the globe, led by NYU and NYU-Poly, and will focus on research and development of technology to address the critical challenges facing cities, including infrastructure, tech integration, energy efficiency, transportation congestion, public safety and public health.
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What we’re seeing is emergence of Hyphen-Tech. Technology plus Media, Technology plus Advertising, Technology plus Finance, Technology plus Fashion. In worlds where tech is driving innovation around industries, being near those industries accelerates innovation and growth. New York is ideally suited to grow technology companies in these verticals and, in particular, in social media software where New York’s diversity, population density, and frenetic pace helps people-powered software innovate in rapid cycles.
