Jessica Lawrence is the Managing Director of NY Tech Meetup (NYTM), the largest Meetup in the world and a 25,500-member non-profit organization supporting New York’s growing technology community. NYTM’s goal is to build a sustainable technology industry that drives economic growth, leads innovation, and creates positive, high-impact change. The organization’s perennially sold-out monthly events have served as a springboard for hundreds of the city’s technology startups from Tumblr to Foursquare.