The DUMBO Innovators Meet-Up is a new monthly series from the DUMBO BID and the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, highlighting innovative companies right here in our own neighborhood. DUMBO has long been home to individuals and companies with equal parts creativity and business acumen. Each month, we’ll be shining a spotlight on the vanguard, cutting edge companies and people who call DUMBO their home. During a brief moderated discussion, industry leaders in storytelling, media, and tech will share their philosophy around innovation: what it means for their company, and how to approach innovation in business as well

Q&A is a speaker series hosted by Work & Co that features inspiring people across a variety of industries. Yvette Pasqua is the CTO of Meetup. She leads one of the top engineering teams in New York City with a focus on continuous learning, innovation, and using data to launch software that brings people together around the world to do what matters to them. With over 32 million members in over 180 countries, Meetup’s members build networking groups and communities based on shared passions that range from figure drawing to robotics to marathon training. At any given time, there are 6,000 meetups happening, and

Join David Dabscheck, CEO of GIANT Innovation, for a 2-hour, highly interactive workshop that will give you the knowledge and skills to understand what business model innovation is and how you can use it to bring new products, services and business models to market. Together, we’ll go through a number of examples to show how market leaders have built strong models and how you can too. We’ll learn how to adopt Lean Startup principles to outline, test and refine your business model, including how to design hypothesis-driven lean experiments. With this workshop, you will understand how they can turn a great product into an even greater commercial

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LIGHT YEAR 30: Open to Interpretation Video Art Exhibit projected onto the Manhattan Bridge Thursday, October 5 7 - 10pm In the Pearl Street Triangle (Water St & Pearl St.) DUMBO, Brooklyn Curated by Glowing Bulbs Artists: Cyriac Harris, Yannick Jacquet (Legoman), Chi Ka, Dev Harlan, Viktor Vicsek, Andrea Sztojánovits, Martin Daniel Gabor and Albin Bousquet “Open to Interpretation” is a publicly-presented video art show that explores the dynamic relationship between contemporary video art, sonic art, live performance and cultural reflection. Where does VJing end and Video Art begin? And how do music videos fit into this dynamic puzzle? Are there boundaries or just overlapping categories? VJing

Four days. Seven stages. The Brooklyn Americana Music Festival is back for a third year. Live bands will bring Folk, Bluegrass, Jazz and Blues music to DUMBO for a hollering Brooklyn hootenanny! Free concerts at 68 Jay St Bar, Superfine, Brooklyn Bridge Park and The Archway under the Manhattan Bridge. In the Archway on Friday Sept 22: 5pm Aron Blue and the Bootleggers 6pm Truckstop Honeymoon 7pm Session Americana 8pm The Maybelles -Album Release Show 9pm The Four O'clock Flowers Check out the full line up here: http://www.bkamf.com/