Swiftly
Phil Cline is a Brooklyn-based software engineer originally from Toronto who has worked in the transit industry for over 7 years and has a lot of experience with transit data standards like GTFS and GTFS-RT. He will share some of his work on assisting transit agencies with better drawing and dissemination of bus detours.
WalkNYC
Joe Puccio is a designer and programmer based in NYC. He is the founder of Coursicle, an app used by millions of college students to manage their class schedules and assignments. In May, Joe created WalkNYC, an app that tracks which blocks you've walked. He built it as a personal project while trying to walk every block in Manhattan. Since launch over 25,000 New Yorkers have started using WalkNYC to stay active and explore the city.
A central focus of Joe’s work is running his companies ethically and building products that are fundamentally beneficial to people’s lives. At Coursicle, all employees receive the same salary, and profits are split among employees at the end of each year.
Joe graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2016 with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science. He writes about design, technology, and other ideas at joepuccio.com.