Fashion Campus NYC

Last year's Fashion Campus NYC. Photo credit: Jonathan Grassi

By Meghana Gandhi, Senior Project Manager, Fashion/Retail Team

NYCEDC and Parsons The New School for Design are again joining forces for Fashion Campus NYC, an exciting, intensive weekend immersion to educate and inspire NYC’s future fashion and retail management leaders.

This year’s event, free and open to college students interning in New York City this summer, will take place from June 15th – 16th at the Parsons campus in Greenwich...

Edutech.NYC.2020

NYCEDC’s new Edutech.NYC.2020 report investigates New York City’s Edutech industry, an emerging sector that applies innovative technology to deliver learner-centric, personalized educational methods with the potential to be more effective, efficient, and scalable than traditional approaches.

Conducted in partnership with the Bridgespan Group, and aided by discussions with industry leaders, our research study presents Edutech’s vast global growth opportunities and New York City’s local competitive advantages.

Edutech can provide students with greater and easier access to educational material; more...

NYC Next Idea Finalist: Stylsize

Stylsize is an international track team, with both members based in Canada.

NYC Next Idea: Stylsize has developed a mobile-optimized fitting platform to enhance the shopping experience for the ready-to-wear apparel industry, enabling shoppers to visualize how a garment fits and flatters the body without the frustrating guesswork associated with today’s online shopping .

Team: Amy Bergenwall, Queen’s University in Ontario, PhD in Management Candidate and Stylsize CFO (left) and Dan McCann, Founder and CEO of Stylsize (right)

Why did you choose New York City to turn your idea into...

NYC Next Idea Finalist: TaxiTreats

TaxiTreats is a NYC Connect Track team, with one NYC-based full-time student on board.

NYC Next Idea: TaxiTreats provides and manages vending machines and proprietary convenience solutions for the transportation industry, including NYC taxi cabs.

Team: Tomas Grosskopf, Universidad de Buenos Aires (left) and Brian Shimmerlik, NYU Stern School of Business, MBA Candidate (right). We sit down with Brian Shimmerlik for this Q&A.

Why did you choose New York City to turn your idea into reality?
NYC is the ideal location to launch TaxiTreats due to the...

Industrial Business Advisory Council: Call for Nominations

New York City’s industrial sector is an integral part of the City’s economy that has faced serious challenges in recent decades, but now offers real opportunities for growth and development. We’re now seeking candidates for a new Industrial Business Advisory Council, which will consist of individuals with a variety of expertise pertaining to New York City’s industrial sector. This Council will provide a forum for feedback on the City’s industrial policies and programs, including financing, incentives, regulatory mechanisms, and land use. We are seeking...

Fashion Draft NYC: Recruiting Fashion’s Future Leaders

By Meghana Gandhi, Senior Project Manager, Fashion/Retail Team

Twenty-five fantastic college seniors from 21 schools across the country had a uniquely unconventional and exciting Presidents’ Day weekend, which included meeting fashion industry leaders and interviewing for full-time jobs. (See more photos on NYCEDC's Tumblr!)

NYCEDC partnered with Parsons The New School for Design for

World to NYC Recap

We held our first World to NYC session of the year this past week and received an excellent response. With over 50 participants representing 32 companies from over 10 countries (including five Latin American nations), the program apprised key business leaders of how they can thrive in the New York City tech landscape.

The three-day event consisted of company tours, panel discussions, lectures, and multiple networking events. Panels of successful foreign entrepreneurs, legal advisors, HR representatives, and venture capitalists instructed attendees how to...

Cornell NYC Tech Talent Draft

Han Solo, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO were instrumental in the Draft.

By Betsy Scherzer, Project Manager, Media & Emerging Technology and Lushi Li, Senior Project Manager

On February 1, NYCEDC and seven of NYC’s hottest startups boarded the NYC Startup Bus to journey to galaxies far, far away…err, Ithaca, for the first-ever Cornell University Startup Career Fair.

Following a busy afternoon of career fair booth visits, startup...