Hey people, NYC Uncubed is done and here's how I felt about it.
I'm going to give a little description of what happen at the event and the process through the day. So, the day was split into two parts which is the talks by various speakers from 10:30am to about 1pm and then continued on at 2pm-4:30pm. After 1pm, the 1st floor was open to the attendees to go and network with the various companies. Interestingly, all the attendees of Uncubed were giving name tags we wrote our names on that had a certain color which represented which field we were in or interested in applying for. Orange was for Technical, Green was for Sales, Blue for Marketing, Purple for Product, and Red for Operations (I had no clue that there were segmented groups based on your personal field). There is an app called "Yapp" that can be used by the attendees to get full insight on all that was happen at this event such as the various talks, the floor plan of where each company is on the floor, and as well as the as a description of each company and what positions they were hiring for narrowed in the specific categories (i.e. you can search specifically for tech positions and see what they were hiring for).
Being the Tech guy and armed with the intel on who these companies are and what they were hiring for, I ventured out to the sea of companies with my Orange Tech Name Card. There were a-lot companies there from all fields ranging from all sizes (such as big companies to start-ups). To give you example, I met with people from FanDuel, Yodle (Marketing company), Digital Ocean (Cloud Service provider that I actually talked to at the last event I went to, Tech Day), and Cater2me (start-up catering company). In the midst of networking with companies, there were speeches going on other floors so the day consisted of running up and down the stairs to soak up as much useful information that I can and then running back down to talk to so more companies, and then repeating the same process.
Being at this event was a very fruitful experience allowing me to sharpen up my networking skills as well as getting taste of what companies are looking when hiring. I learned a-lot while surveying the company floor as well as from the insightful speakers that were from the same companies that I met. Some the talks featured really technical stuff like using 'Vagrant and Docker for a Web Dev' environment as well as self-growth topics such as 'Public Speaking Like A Boss'. In my opinion, this event is/was perfectly executed, the Met Pavilion's atmosphere was beautiful, and it was easy to direct yourself to the relevant portions/areas of the event using Yapp as a guide to the NYC Uncubed event. In summation, it was well worth the 20$ to go to this event to have a fun time and learn some stuff along the way (by the way, I got the early bird discount so in advance if you want to go to these events, buy the tickets in February or March when they go on sale).
P.S You don't need to be Tech person to go and participate
....now to empty out the Swag bag of goodies I got from all the companies
.....sigh, these networking events are really starting to fill up my room lol
(Picture of the chalk board wall people can write on, this is what it looked like at the end of the event)
