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This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

10AM through the weekend Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Saturday, January 30th. In addition, people with specialized skills such as translation, computer programing and literacy advocates are encouraged to participate. RSVP: [link].

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Looking to the use cases of big data

The Equity Kicker

GigaOM chose to highlight a datacentre management assistant technology called Autopilot from a German company called Arago. Tracking disease epidemics – GigaOM tracks the story of how Twitter tracked a recent outbreak of cholera in Haiti and how that can be of use to aid agencies. Ultimately I see this as a subset of the 3.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

He was the White House Ebola Response Coordinator in 2014 and 2015, when the Obama administration set up a pandemic prevention office and created a playbook for managing future outbreaks. The two have worked together for the last 30 years, and Ron also served as Biden's chief of staff during the Obama administration.