No taxies at 4pm in NYC? Load up the carriage full of luggage and go! On our way to #sharenyc #shareconomyfilm pic.twitter.com/1IjA5DHY4L
— Shareconomy (@shareconomyfilm) May 30, 2014

Today Greg and Jillian headed to the inaugral Share NYC conference at NYU. Hosted by Arun Sundararajan, Luke Williams, and Cynthia Franklin, #ShareNYC featured speakers and panels discussing current hot topics in the sharing economy. The event joined together "entrepreneurs, government leaders, academics, business executives, VCs and students for a unique day of discussion and thought leadership about the emerging collaborative, peer-to-peer and sharing economies." Unfortunately the event was not live-streamed, however Twitter gave us a pretty decent play by play on the main points of discussion.

.@digitalarun framing #sharenyc and announcing http://t.co/V8E4qW2plj a collective #sharingeconomy research platform pic.twitter.com/9H7Y3QwmBH
— Benjamin Tincq (@btincq) May 30, 2014

So true:"Institutions will always work to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" @cshirky #sharenyc
— Jennifer Bradley (@JBradley_DC) May 30, 2014

The sharing economy is a way to address inequality- it's a way to share wealth via @Sara_Horowitz #sharenyc
— Let's Collaborate! (@letscollabnyc) May 30, 2014

the new collectives: @cshirky chats w/@rasiej @nataliefoster @dkrugman @cshapiro @btincq #sharenyc pic.twitter.com/6FHpGWhLfa
— Arun Sundararajan (@digitalarun) May 30, 2014

Welcome @freelancersu, largest group for freelancers in US. Shifting risk from individuals to a collective. #sharenyc pic.twitter.com/AinapjKPNS
— sydney campos (@sydcampos415) May 30, 2014

Yes! Thrilled to see published. MT @obeniflah Proposed Principles for Peer Economy by Sarah Cannon, Harvard pic.twitter.com/0AxXlkSvi0 #sharenyc
— April Rinne (@aprilrinne) May 30, 2014

.@fredwilson closing at #sharenyc: what will be the role of govt, capitalism when we move to true distributed systems #thoughtprovoking
— sidbhatia (@sidbhatia) May 30, 2014

The first Share NYC conference seemed to be a success and continues to confirm the interest society has in the sharing economy. It's excellent to see such a young economic model hashed out by groups of educators, regulators and enthusiasts while still in development. Did you have an opportunity to attend #ShareNYC? What did you think? Are these conferences developing the sharing economy or not?

a regulator, a lawyer and an economist walk into a bar... #sharenyc
— jen lemen (@jenlemen) May 30, 2014