Tech:NYC Digest: November 4

Tech:NYC Digest: November 4

November 04, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Friday, November 4, 2022 

Happy Friday! Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour this Sunday (especially if you’re running the marathon or heading to the polls for the final day of early voting)! We’re back with another “Friday Five” roundup of our top stories in New York tech.

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Could tech workers do Peace Corps-like stints working for NYC too? (City & State)

  • Mayor Eric Adams is partnering with law firms to address the city’s current shortage of city lawyers, but he wants to push ahead in replicating the idea for other municipal needs, particularly in tech and public health. (It’s a worthwhile idea, especially since the city’s Office of Technology and Innovation currently has 140+ jobs open, not to mention the 500 additional tech and data roles open across other City agencies.)

Google unfurls whiz-bang projects and vision for future of AI (Axios) 

  • This past Wednesday, we were excited to attend the inaugural AI@Google event at the new Pier 57 space, where the company debuted more than a dozen projects to harness AI technologies and develop systems to deploy them responsibly. The event was an exciting first look at demos on AI for mitigating climate change, providing language translation and writing services for job applicants, preventing blindness, and more.

More than 70 VC firms join VCs for Repro coalition to support reproductive rights (TechCrunch)

  • Earlier this year, a handful of venture capital leaders kicked off conversations on how to prepare the VC and finance communities for what would eventually become the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The new coalition was announced this week, with participation from our friends at AlleyCorp, Bloomberg Beta, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Female Founders Fund, Oceans, and more. Learn more here.

Nearly 1,000 women got a spot at a tech company after this experience (Crain’s New York Business)

  • Tech:NYC has always been a big cheerleader for Break Through Tech, the program founded by former Verizon CIO Judith Spitz to expand access to tech careers for women. Now five years since it began, 60% of CUNY students with a “Sprintership” went on to get a paid offer from a tech company, compared to just 4% for comparable female students. Get more impact metrics about the program here.

There’s A Campaign-Sign War Happening in Brooklyn (Curbed)

  • T – 4 days until Election Day (which hopefully will be followed by a slight slowdown in the news cycle)!

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