List of hackathons in Waurn Ponds, Australia in 2017

Aussie Rules football analyst, developer, software engineer, developer, maker, story tellers! The City of Ballarat and the Western Bulldogs invite you to participate in the Ballarat Hackathon. You'll be challenged to apply your creativity and technical know how to develop new insights, innovative visual apps and more to promote the Western Bulldogs in Ballarat.

Interested in developing new services? Come and participate in the Global Service Jam - Melbourne. You will collaborate with like-minded individuals in a small team to build an entirely new service solution. You'll get to take your service solution from concept to working prototype.

The importance of user experience has become increasingly recognised by employers and businesses as a strategic role in the delivery of successful products and services. Understanding the WHY first and not designing solutions based on assumptions is where User Experience Design excels. This panel of experts will discuss, define and deconstruct the key concepts of User Experience Design; and how to effectively apply these concepts to your strategy and consequently further yours or your client’s business. Come have a slice of pizza, a beer or cider, meet some great people and learn something new!Presenters Charbel Zeaiter Managing Director at Velvet Onion & Co-founder Academy XI - Lead Instructor Charbel is the co-founder of Velvet Onion, a UX & Service Design agency and Academy Xi, a school that teaches innovation in UX, Service Design, Virtual Reality & Product Management – both based in Surry Hills, Sydney. “I believe we’re here to improve life through meaningful design and to change the world through education, empowering people with the skills and confidence to create their own ripples of change.” “I’m passionate about creating great experiences that solve real problems for real people in their contexts. At Velvet Onion and Academy Xi, we consciously live and breathe our experience process, investing time by collaborating with people who create, deliver and experience products and services.” “Bringing people to the centre of a deliberate and structured innovation and teaching process, we create bridges between problem and solution, remove barriers between people and technology and we create meaningful, long lasting experiences for clients and students.” BACKGROUND:Since starting his design career in 1998, he’s helped iconic brands and organisations and eager startups improve their ability to create long lasting relationships with their customers. By combining his fanatical belief in customer centred design, research and collaboration he’s helped create countless successful solutions. Standing with giants large and small he has helped create many great experiences for likes of ING Direct, Aussie, IAG, IAG Ventures, AMEX, CBA, Enablr, AMP, Evergen, CGU, OneShift, JobVibe, NRMA, M&C Saatchi, AMEX, Salmat Digital, ParcelPoint and Siteminder … just to name drop a few. Megan Dell Head of User Experience - 99designs Megan began working in the field of user experience over 10 years ago, designing online quoting applications for Australia’s largest personal insurance brands at Suncorp. After a stint in agency-land, where she also worked as a visual designer, Megan has since worked in-house at tech companies such as MYOB, Australia Post, REA Group, and now 99designs – an online graphic design marketplace. Matt Smith Regional Manager - MitchelLake Consulting Melbourne Matt works with the Melbourne MitchelLake Consulting team to source strategic talent across experience and service design, technology, product, digital marketing, growth and data science/digital analytics. MitchelLake exists to help great ideas succeed by enabling entrepreneurs to scale and companies of scale innovate. They do this through truly embedding themselves in the local ecosystem and instilling curiosity, partnerships and being mindful of everyone they work with. Cory-Ann Joseph UX Lead Cory started working with the internet way back in 2001 when she chanced her way into a position as web content editor for the Aussie version of the X-Games. Since then she’s dabbled in PR, marketing, events management, a skateboard shop, worked as a barista, accrued a blank IMDB profile, run pub poker tournaments in rural NSW, and dropped out of Bible college – amongst other things. Cory recently returned to Melbourne from Dublin, where she managed design teams at Paddy Power and Mobile Travel Technologies. She’s currently working as a freelance UX Lead on a project which she has sworn to secrecy. Danya Azzopardi UX Designer at REA group Danya is a UX designer and occasional copywriter at REA Group in Melbourne. Danya made her way into UX from a communications background via a brief stint as a software engineer. She loves a good hackathon and is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.