Equal Space ES550 Tech & Innovation Campus

Calling all New Jersey techies to the monthly NJ Code and Coffee meetup! Coffee, good conversation, zero pressure.
Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal networking session for people in tech and the tech-curious. Developers, data engineers, UX/UI designers, data scientists, product managers, solution architects, founders, operators, and investors are all welcome, at every skill and experience level, even first-timers and career-changers.
Most people come to chat, and some bring a laptop to work on a project. Either is welcome. It’s entirely up to you!
Come grab a coffee, meet new people, find collaborators, talk tech (or anything but tech), and take a break from the screen or the job hunt.
Agenda
2:00pm: Doors open, networking starts
2:30pm: Intro circle
3:00pm: Networking continues
3:00-4:00pm: Optional career workshop in a separate space (details/RSVP here: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/nj-code-coffee/events/317224995/)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">meetup.com/nj-code-coffee/events/317224995/)</a>
5:00pm: Event ends
After 5pm: Hang out at a local brewery/restaurant (location TBD, we’ll announce it at the event)
The workshop is totally optional. Skip it and keep chatting if you’d prefer. If you do join, please plan to arrive on time and stay for the full hour.
The Intro Circle
Around 2:30pm, we’ll stand in a circle for a few organizer announcements, then go around the room. Keep it to 10 seconds or less, and share whichever of these apply to you:
<ul><li>Your name and your role, job title, or tech stack</li><li>What you can help others with</li><li>What you’d like help with</li><li>Whether you’re hiring, or looking for work.</li></ul>
Nervous about speaking up? A name and one sentence is plenty. After the circle, everything is self-organized.
Details
<ul><li>Cost: Free!</li><li>Coffee and light refreshments provided</li><li>Getting there: [add entrance/floor, parking, and transit info]</li></ul>
Community Discord: come hang out before and after!
<a href="https://www.codeandcoffee.chat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">codeandcoffee.chat</a>

Local Event: NJ Code & Coffee - November meetup + workshop

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NJ Code & Coffee - November meetup + workshop

Calling all New Jersey techies to the monthly NJ Code and Coffee meetup! Coffee, good conversation, zero pressure.
Code and...

​<a href="https://luma.com/njcodecoffee" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NJ Code and Coffee</a> and <a href="https://luma.com/AYCGTMU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Growing The Middle</a> present "Your Code Speaks for Itself. Can You? An Interactive Workshop for Tech Professionals".
​You’re great at what you do, but can you clearly explain the value you bring?
​In this interactive 60-minute workshop, you’ll learn how to turn your everyday technical work into a compelling story about your skills and impact. Through hands-on activities and peer conversations, you’ll build and practice a stronger professional introduction that helps you stand out when networking, interviewing, and exploring new opportunities.
​About the speaker:
​Mariah Bayne is a Talent Development Strategist, speaker, and Founder of <a href="https://growingthemiddle.com/?utm_source=luma" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Growing the Middle</a> and <a href="https://theworkroom.growingthemiddle.com/?utm_source=luma" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Work Room</a>, a in person professional development community.
​Mariah brings 13 years of experience across Talent Development, Sales, Customer Success, Operations, and Account Management. She has led teams, managed a $500 million enterprise portfolio. She has delivered more than 70 workshops, and built programs that improved employee retention, accelerated performance, while creating new paths into leadership.
​Her belief, most professionals do not have a skill gap; they have a recognition gap.

Local Event: Your Code Speaks for Itself. Can You?

Your Code Speaks for Itself. Can You?

​NJ Code and Coffee and Growing The Middle present "Your Code Speaks for Itself. Can You? An Interactive Workshop for Tech...

Calling all New Jersey techies to the monthly NJ Code and Coffee meetup! Coffee, good conversation, zero pressure.
Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal networking session for people in tech and the tech-curious. Developers, data engineers, UX/UI designers, data scientists, product managers, solution architects, founders, operators, and investors are all welcome, at every skill and experience level, even first-timers and career-changers.
Most people come to chat, and some bring a laptop to work on a project. Either is welcome. It’s entirely up to you!
Come grab a coffee, meet new people, find collaborators, talk tech (or anything but tech), and take a break from the screen or the job hunt.
Agenda
2:00pm: Doors open, networking starts
2:30pm: Intro circle
3:00pm: Networking continues
3:00-4:00pm: Optional career workshop in a separate space (details/RSVP here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.meetup.com/nj-code-coffee/events/317213249" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">meetup.com/nj-code-coffee/events/317213249)</a>
5:00pm: Event ends
After 5pm: Hang out at a local brewery/restaurant (location TBD, we’ll announce it at the event)
The workshop is totally optional. Skip it and keep chatting if you’d prefer. If you do join, please plan to arrive on time and stay for the full hour.
The Intro Circle
Around 2:30pm, we’ll stand in a circle for a few organizer announcements, then go around the room. Keep it to 10 seconds or less, and share whichever of these apply to you:
<ul><li>Your name and your role, job title, or tech stack</li><li>What you can help others with</li><li>What you’d like help with</li><li>Whether you’re hiring, or looking for work.</li></ul>
Nervous about speaking up? A name and one sentence is plenty. After the circle, everything is self-organized.
Details
<ul><li>Cost: Free!</li><li>Coffee and light refreshments provided</li><li>Getting there: [add entrance/floor, parking, and transit info]</li></ul>
Community Discord: come hang out before and after!
<a href="https://www.codeandcoffee.chat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">codeandcoffee.chat</a>

Local Event: NJ Code & Coffee - December meetup + workshop

NJ Code & Coffee - December meetup + workshop

Raphael Husbands

Eric Kiefer

New York City Metropolitan Area

Jamie Gatlin

South Orange

Maplewood

West Orange

Bloomfield

Belleville-Nutley

Hudson County

Caren Lissner

Jersey City

Millburn-Short Hills

Union County

Springfield

Cranford

Montclair

Newark Public Library - Main Branch

Thurs., November 12, 2026 6:30-8pm EST Newark Public Library —Main Branch 5 Washington St. 4th Floor Auditorium





Dinner is served at this event.&nbsp;Please RSVP.



Join us at the Newark Public Library Main Branch at the 4th floor auditorium for a special holiday Our Newark Futures with New Jersey-based musician/composer/ensemble leaders Pheeroan akLaff and Peter Lin. They will be a part of Rutgers University historian Nicole Burrowes’ New Jersey Oral History project she conducting with Nottingham University in England, bringing out voices of cross community relations across the Black and Asian communities here in New Jersey and the UK. We will also hear Pheeroan, Peter and bassist Caylen Bryant play together during the program.

It is hard to categorize akLaff and Lin with the range of their work and the breadth of their musical collaborations. akLaff is a major voice in Jazz in New Jersey with his work with his non-profit organization Seed Artists. He has established a series in New Jersey and New York as well as works globally as an artist, having collaborated extensively with musicians in Asia. Lin is the organizer of the Asian American Jazz Festival in Newark and also bandleader working cross culturally with his Catbus Collective and Asian American Jazz Collective as well as his work abroad in Taiwan. Burrowes will talk about the oral history project and hopes that there may be others who are working across communities that will like to join the project.

Photo of Peter Lin Photo credit Chris Drukker Bios: Pheeroan akLaff is contributing innovative drumming to creative music and interactive arts. His collaborative work with Anthony Braxton, Baikida Carroll, Anthony Davis, Andrew Hill, Oliver Lake, Tom Pierson Orchestra, Liu Sola, Henry Threadgill, Reggie Workman, and Yosuke Yamashita informed his musical vitality and is reflected in his recordings: Sonogram, Global Mantras, Brooklyn Waters, Drums-et Variations, Live in Japan, and the upcoming release Hana Dharma, fusing percussion with the string quintet of Aska Maret. Informed and inspired by his many residencies, research, and tours of Africa and Asia, Pheeroan values the ritual of regeneration in his conduction and live music.&nbsp;Caylen Bryant (she/her)&nbsp;began singing as a child, and at the age of seven, she picked up the cello. Later in her musical journey, she was inspired to migrate to the bass while studying at Oberlin. There, she completed the Double Degree Program and earned her Bachelor’s degrees from the College and the Conservatory. She recently graduated from The Juilliard School with a Master’s in Jazz Bass Performance.
Caylen is a&nbsp;New York based musician and teaching artist and&nbsp;tours nationally and internationally with artist Kandace Springs. Rubén Blades has described Caylen as a wonderful storyteller, remarking on how well she can deliver a story through music.

Nicole Burrowes is a historian of the African Diaspora specializing in twentieth-century Caribbean and African American history. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Associate Director of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies. Her book, Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellions in British Guiana (Cambridge University Press, 2026), explores the historical possibility of a movement forged by those at the edges of empire in the midst of economic, environmental and political crises. She also serves as Oral History Lead for the New Jersey strand of a British Academy–funded project on Black-Asian relations. Beyond academia, she has over twenty-five years of experience working with communities of color for transformative justice.
Peter Lin is a Taiwanese-American trombonist, producer, and educator in the tri-state area. A graduate from both William Paterson University (undergrad) and Rutgers University (graduate), Peter has performed with jazz luminaries including Slide Hampton, Ron Carter, Winard Harper, Charli Persip, JD Allen, Robin Eubanks, Steve Davis, and Steve Turre. He has also been included in notable ensembles such as the Roy Hargrove Big Band, Jimmy Heath Big Band, and Frank Lacy’s Tromboniverse. With three albums under his name, including his most recent release titled “Identity” on Origin Records under the band AAPI Jazz Collective, he continues to perform prolifically worldwide as both a leader and sideman. In addition to his musical endeavors, he is also the founder of Yardbird Entertainment, a music production company providing audio, video, and livestream services, as well as the producer of AAPI Jazz Fest for three years. He currently teaches at Jazz House Kids and New Jersey Youth Symphony as a trombone instructor and ensemble coach.&nbsp;
<a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peterlinmusic.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cac1915%40connect.rutgers.edu%7C59e58dd3b69947ab37cf08df34619999%7Cb92d2b234d35447093ff69aca6632ffe%7C1%7C0%7C639287266021920335%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=iL5vWZJmj6mP6FDQ8sz1BiDeJQBKFrGWvZ0hTadOcm0%3D&amp;reserved=0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.peterlinmusic.com/</a>

Local Event: Black and Asian Cross Convergences: Music in New Jersey and Beyond

Black and Asian Cross Convergences: Music in...

Thurs., November 12, 2026 6:30-8pm EST Newark Public Library —Main Branch 5 Washington St. 4th Floor Auditorium





Dinner is...

Black and Asian Cross Convergences: Music in New Jersey and Beyond

Newark, NJ

Newark nonprofit leaders and their teams are invited to join the Newark Nonprofit Leadership Resilience Fund (<a href="https://www.nnlrf.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NNLRF</a>) on Friday, November 13, for an interactive workshop focused on the financial decisions that sustain their organizations and missions.
Led by <a href="https://www.bdo.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BDO</a>’s Hilda Polanco, <a href="https://resilienceinpracticeNNLRF.eventbrite.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Financial Management in Uncertain Times</a> provides an opportunity to work with your organization’s financial information, ask questions, and build a shared understanding of the decisions ahead.
Bring members of your leadership team, your current budget, and your most recent audit or Form 990. The session is designed to connect learning to your organization’s circumstances and support practical next steps.

Local Event: Resilience In Practice: Financial Management In Uncertain Times

Resilience In Practice: Financial Management In...

Newark nonprofit leaders and their teams are invited to join the Newark Nonprofit Leadership Resilience Fund (NNLRF) on Friday,...

Resilience In Practice: Financial Management In Uncertain Times

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

NJPAC seeks vendors for its 2026 Holiday Market by Nov. 13. The market runs Dec. 10–20 on Chambers Plaza at NJPAC, 1 Center St., Newark, and will feature independent artisans, makers and small businesses selling unique holiday gifts. Vendors may choose which market dates they want to participate in. Applicants must submit a product description, up to three photos of their goods, business name, contact name, phone number, and product category at <a href="https://www.njpac.org/holiday-market-vendors/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.njpac.org/holiday-market-vendors/</a>.

Local Event: NJPAC Seeks Vendors for 2026 Holiday Market

NJPAC Seeks Vendors for 2026 Holiday Market

NJPAC seeks vendors for its 2026 Holiday Market by Nov. 13. The market runs Dec. 10–20 on Chambers Plaza at NJPAC, 1 Center...

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