June 2nd, 2018 | Events, Hosting, Speaking, TED, Working |
In the fifth year of TEDxFultonStreet, we had 16 speakers explore how decisions are made, and what influences positive or negative reactions.
April 9th, 2018 | Events, Hosting, Speaking, TED, Working |
Before the main conference, pre-events allow enthusiastic participants extra time to meet with one another. I co-hosted this two-day experience for an audience of TEDx producers from around the world.
January 30th, 2018 | Events, Hosting, Speaking, Working |
20 slides, 20 seconds each. Here’s why I love this format.
October 19th, 2017 | Working |
As a TEDx producer, sometimes Senior Executives at major companies hire me to help create that “TED Talk” feeling.
June 8th, 2016 | DRAM, Friends, TED, Working |
Had a great meeting with award-winning Director Jason Moore, about the production requirements for the new DRAM Conference, coming in 2017!
May 31st, 2016 | TED, Working |
Every year, a book called “Marks of Excellence” is produced at CUNY BMCC. This year, I’m proud to announce that three members of the TEDxFultonStreet video production team were profiled!
August 9th, 2015 | Events, Hosting, Working |
In preparation for the 2015 conference, we interviewed a few of our very unusual speakers. They were: the world’s most successful sunken treasure hunter, a major international drug smuggler, a beekeeper, a steampunk designer, and an african-american fashion...
June 10th, 2015 | Hosting, Working |
To celebrate its 125th anniversary, one of the world’s largest financial services groups wanted to produce a “TED-like conference.” I was hired to produce the on-stage speakers for this half-day event at Carnegie Hall.
October 24th, 2014 | Community, Working |
I took a week-long course in executive development, run by professional hostage negotiator George Kohlrieser. Held in São Paulo, Brazil, this course is one of the certificate programs offered by the IMD Business School, based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
October 17th, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Exhibiting, Working |
As part of our casting call for entrepreneurs, Lemonade Heroes took out a booth at a trade show for small business.
October 1st, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Exhibiting, Working |
We set up shop at Eyal Bino’s great event series, “Worldwide Investors Network”, to meet and interview entrepreneurs from overseas.
May 16th, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Exhibiting, Working |
For an audience of small business owners, we offered “Websites that don’t suck”, as well as Training, Workshops, and Branding.
May 18th, 2011 | Working |
The Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY FIT) invited me to review student portfolios and to give feedback, while I was running the web development arm of Sylvan Social Technology.
April 21st, 2011 | Working |
During 2011, after TrustWorks, I spent much of the year building websites for small businesses and private individuals. In this case, my client was Nadine Asin, flutist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Aaron Sylvan consulting with...
September 8th, 2010 | Entrepreneurship, Working |
Hard at work, preparing client demos for TrustWorks, my second serious software startup. This photo was taken just a few months before I made the painful decision to close the business.
June 29th, 2009 | Entrepreneurship, Exhibiting, Working |
The TrustWorks system for advice-exchange among trusted communities was meant as an Enterprise Knowledge Management (EKM) system, so we exhibited at the Society of Human Resource Management (“SHRM”) annual conference in New Orleans.
January 18th, 2001 | Entrepreneurship, Exhibiting, Working |
The 2001 International Poultry Exposition was One Technology’s third year exhibiting at this industry-leading conference, attended by over 50,000 people annually in Atlanta, Georgia.