List of hackathons in Bridgeport, United States in 2017

The "2nd Annual NYC ACM Celebration of Women in Computing" is a one-day conference featuring panel discussions, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities for undergraduate women studying computer science. Attendees will learn and be inspired by a carefully curated selection of speakers; explore potential career paths; explore current trends and software being used in the industry; and expand their personal networks by meeting peers and industry professionals. In 2016, the conference attracted 125+ attendees from colleges and universities in the tri-state area. Represented institutions included: CUNY, SUNY, NY Institute of Technology, NY University, Rutgers, Barnard, Pace, Wesleyan, and others. The NYC Celebration will feature:  Keynote speech from a noted industry professional  Breakout sessions focused on technical interviews, framework testing, open sourcesoftware, and more  Career advisement Tickets are $10 for students and teaching staff.  EVENT AGENDA ***This event requires a registration code and is only for undergraduate women studying computer science and teaching staff. If you are interested in attending, please email acm@nytech.org with your school email address and we’ll provide the access code.  Feel free to share information about this event with your academic advisor, dean or fellow students.*** ------------- OPENING KEYNOTE  Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech in New York City. She is founder of the Health Tech Hub in the Jacobs Institute and directs the Small Data Lab at Cornell Tech. She holds The Robert V. Tishman Founder's Chair and has recently taken on a leadership role as Associate Dean. Her current research focus is on mobile health and small data, leveraging the pervasiveness of mobile devices and digital interactions for health and life management (TEDMED). Estrin co-founded the non-profit startup, Open mHealth and sits on several scientific advisory boards for early stage mobile health startups. Previously, Estrin was on the UCLA faculty where she was the Founding Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), pioneering the development of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real time data about the physical world. Her honors include: ACM Athena Lecture (2006), Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision Award for Innovation (2007), The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), The National Academy of Engineering (2009), The IEEE Internet Award (2017). -----    HANDS-ON/INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS: Framework Testing in Software Development Testing is a critical part of every major software system, but is often overlooked in undergraduate classes. An understanding of good testing practices is the hallmark of a good engineer and an important part of many job interviews. We will talk about why testing is actually one of the most exciting parts of software development, and work through some examples using popular testing frameworks and real websites.   Dan Singer, Software Engineer, Knewton (Instructor) Dan Singer has been writing software for large and small companies around New York City for 6+years. He is currently an engineering manager at Knewton, an educational software company. He has channeled his love of organizing his apartment into organizing software systems that work reliably.   Sharanya Venkat, Front-End Developer, Knewton (Instructor) Sharanya Venkat is a front-end developer currently working at Knewton. She loves the web, as well as building software that makes our lives easier. When she is not coding, she is spending time with friends and family, or visiting different places around the world. -----   Google Mock Technical Interview This workshop helps demystify the technical interview and teaches good interviewing habits by watching a Software Engineer go through and explain a Google onsite interview. The Googler will model examples of asking clarifying questions, catching a mistake, listening for hints, and coding on a white board. Other highlights include important concepts, resources, and things to look out for during the interview. Kathleen Oshima, Software Engineer, Google (Instructor) Kathleen has been a Software Engineer at Google since August 2014 and works on the Local Search UI team. She graduated from Duke University with a double bachelors in Computer Science and Environmental Science and Policy and a minor in film. She interned at Google twice during her undergrad in Mountain View, CA and Cambridge, MA. She lives in NYC and enjoys playing soccer and eating her way around the city. Julia Edholm, Software Engineer, Google (Instructor) Julia is a software engineer on the Local Search team at Google and is currently building shared infrastructure for Google Maps and Google.com. She graduated from Amherst College in 2015 with a triple major in Computer Science, Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Music. Julia lives in New York where she sings with the Amor Artis Chorus. Molly Nacey, Software Engineer, Google (Instructor) Molly is a software engineer on the Google Docs team. She graduated from Princeton in 2013 with a degree in Computer Science and has worked for companies both big and small including WhatsApp and Microsoft. Having worked at Google for over two years, Molly has had the opportunity to work on a few different teams and is primarily focused on developing android apps. -----   Optimizing Code Quality Through Static Analysis Ashley and Gordon (engineers at Code Climate) will give an introduction to static analysis and its calculation, then look at how engineering teams can apply it as a real world measure of code quality. You'll learn how to break code down to an abstract syntax tree (AST) and how those trees can be leveraged to measure quality of that code. Gordon Diggs, Director of Engineering, Code Climate (Instructor) Gordon is the Director of Engineering at Code Climate. He spends his days managing and growing the engineering team. When he is not at work, he can usually be found at the nearest record store or at home cooking lasagna. Ashley Baldwin-Hunter, Software Engineer, Code Climate (Instructor) Ashley is an engineer at Code Climate where she focuses on writing in Ruby and JavaScript, and running things in containers. Outside of the office she enjoys dabbling in Rust, playing soccer, and trying to merge her passions for knitting and programming. -----   IBM Case Studies and Chatbot Hands on Lab Create your own Watson chatbot and learn how easy it is to start using AI with IBM Watson's Bluemix platform. Also, hear about how Watson is transforming industries from health care to media from a group of women who work with the technology everyday. Anna Quincy, Watson Prototype Development, IBM (Instructor) Anna is a developer who builds cognitive prototypes to show clients how they can quickly start using Watson within their own industries. She focuses on natural language processing and using analytics to pull out cool insights from the unstructured data Watson converts to structured data. A career peak has been teaching Watson how to understand what a "frenemy" is within reality TV shows. When she is not nerding out over data science blogs, she loves playing spike ball and taking full advantage of all the amazing food New York has to offer. Laura Vang, International Business Development - IBM Watson Health, IBM (Instructor) Laura is an IBMer catalyzing transformation at IBM Watson Health. Laura leads the International Business Development team, which is responsible for devising and implementing a world class international strategy for the Watson Health Go-To-Market team. When she is not impacting global strategy and change at work, Laura can be found pursing her other passions for dancing, cooking, and tinkering with cool new technologies like Watson. She holds her Bachelor of Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. -----     GENERAL PANEL DISCUSSION - "I Am A Software Engineer" Software engineering is a broad industry, and the jobs are just as varied. In this panel discussion, four software engineers in different roles and in different stages of their careers will talk about landing their first job, cultivating their career path, and taking risks. Janet Lee, Head of Engineering, Conde Nast Entertainment (Speaker) Janet Lee is the Head of Engineering at Condé Nast Entertainment, providing video delivery and management for brands like GQ, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. She contributed to building the company’s custom video players as well as bringing The Scene brand to web, iOS, and Roku. Previously, she worked at VEVO as the Tech Lead for Windows & TV, launching the Xbox, Roku, and Windows Phone apps. She has also worked for the government with a focus on computer forensics. Janet earned her B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Elena G. Washington, Site Reliability Engineer, Greenhouse Software (Speaker) Elena G. Washington is a Site Reliability Engineer for Greenhouse Software. At Greenhouse, she is a diversity and inclusion champion and has helped start a D&I initiative within the company. Elena is also an organizer for the New York City chapter of the TechYes! Diversity in Tech Meetup. Prior to making a career shift, Elena put her mechanical engineering degree to use as a Controls Commissioning Engineer and traveled the world performing service work on gas and steam turbine control systems. When she isn't working on a pet project, Elena spends her time with her lovely fiancée, Sydney, and her adorable dachshund, Watson. Neha Singh, Founder & CEO, Obsess (Speaker) Neha Singh is the Founder & CEO of Obsess, a Virtual Reality Platform for Experiential Shopping. She was previously the Head of Product at Vogue, where she was responsible for the product strategy and technology execution of Vogue’s digital business including content products, ad products and distribution platforms. While there, she launched the Vogue website, Vogue Runway and 2 mobile apps. Prior to that, Neha was VP of Product and Engineering at AHAlife, an ecommerce startup for luxury lifestyle products. Neha began her career at Google, where she was a Software Engineer and Tech Lead for 5 years and worked on Google AdWords and Google News. She holds an undergraduate Computer Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a graduate Computer Science degree from MIT. Dan Singer, Software Engineer, Knewton (Speaker) Dan Singer has been writing software for large and small companies around New York City for 6+years. He is currently an engineering manager at Knewton, an educational software company. He has channeled his love of organizing his apartment into organizing software systems that work reliably. Richard Murby, Head of Business Development, DevPost (Moderator) Richard leads the hackathon business at Devpost, the world's largest platform and community for hackathons. This means his weekdays are spent helping companies interact with, and increasingly hire, developers. His weekends are spent not sleeping with thousands of developers at events all around the world. He's also the co-host of Devpost's weekly YouTube show 'The Commit'. Prior to joining Devpost, Richard worked at the World Bank's Innovation Labs where he focused on civic hackathons and open data.  -----   Additional workshops and biographies will be added shortly.

JavaScript.NYC meetup group is proud to annouce a fintech themed hackathon at Rise New York!  Come armed with your favorite JS stack to solve new problems! There will be speakers and mentors.  Food will be served. Come with or without a team! Rise New York is a global community of startups and corporates creating the future of commerce and fintech by helping startups and entrepreneurs connect, co-create, and scale innovation. In partnership with Barclays, we listen, nurture and oxygenate through our international network of Rise hubs. Rise New York also houses a world-class event space and is home to the U.S. cohort of the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars.

Video techies! Come and participate in Video Hack Day, a one-day hackathon that is all about video innovation. Meet and collaborate with the best-of-the-best video developers. Hack on the hottest video APIs and SDKs — create innovative approaches that can catch fire as the major social networks prioritize video in their offerings.

Hackers, designers, and strategists! Doctors Without Borders invites you to participate in the Doctors Without Borders Hackathon. Access to medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines is critical to the well-being of people worldwide. You'll be challenged to create solutions that will help make Americans with 401K financial savings accounts leverage their power as shareholders to influence pharmaceutical and device companies to change their practices to the betterment of the world.

Hackers in Newark and New Jersey! Do you have ideas on how technology can help improve personal safety for women? The City of Newark's Office of Information and Technology invites you to sign up to participate in the Women’s Safety Hackathon. You'll have three months to create a demonstration technology that that will improve safety for women in Newark. The winner will receive prize monies to build out a prototype for deployment and for one year's maintenance.

New York City School of Data is a community conference showcasing NYC’s civic design, civic/government technology, and open data ecosystem. Through TEN thought provoking sessions and THIRTEEN small group workshops, this year’s conference asks for your help in improving community resources, and challenges you to build a collective future. Join us and others around the world on Saturday, 4 March, for International Open Data Day to demystify technology, policy, data, and celebrate New York City’s inaugural Open Data Week! Registration: $30, this includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, and covers facilities charges. Ticket sales cover the event’s production costs. We have currently received inquiries for all the volunteer and hardship tickets that we can accommodate. Next week, we may open up additional volunteer opertunies / hardship tickets. Please follow us on @betanyc or @NYCsoData on twitter to see if additional tickets become available.  Thanks to generous support from Socrata, we are able to provide free, on-site childcare from Sitters Studio. ===================================================== Featured panels include: Algorithmic Discrim-innovation Future of Community Wireless New York City's Public Library Branches: Networked Infrastructure for Civic Engagement Demystifying Civic Service Design It Was The Best of Transit Data, It Was The Worst of Transit Data Affordable Housing Advocacy & Data Data Refuge, a conversation on saving climate science data with Mozilla Science and Public Labs ===================================================== Featured workshops include: Open Data API 101 with Socrata Open Leadership Workshop with Mozilla Beyond Visualizations with Carto Open data in context workshop with Enigma Interactive workshop on exploring bias in algorithms with NYC Department of Education New NYC Open Data Website - How we did it & How you can help by NYC DoITT NYC Facilities explorer with NYC Dept of City Planning  Is a hackathon right for your organization with NYC Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation and DevPost Public Benefits Data Workshop with Mayor's Office of Operations “ULURP and you" with Manhattan Borough President’s Office ===================================================== Event Sponsors: Mozilla Foundation  Socrata Carto Datapolitan ===================================================== Community Partners: Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation NYC Open Data NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications Silicon Harlem International Open Data Day =====================================================Venue Partner This year’s NYC School of Data is possible thanks to our partnership with Rise New York. Rise New York is a global community of startups and corporates creating the future of commerce and fintech by helping startups and entrepreneurs connect, co-create, and scale innovation. In partnership with Barclays, we listen, nurture and oxygenate through our international network of Rise hubs. Rise New York also houses a world-class event space and is home to the U.S. cohort of the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars. ===================================================== All tickets are final. 

Coders and designers in and around Brooklyn, NY! Are you interested in the possibilities of leveraging technologies such as Amazon's Alexa? The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, NYC invites you to sign up to participate in the Amazon Alexa Hackathon. You'll be challenged to leverage the Alexa Skills Kit APIs to conceive and create innovative new uses and experiences for Alexa.

Students at Yale! Interested in how technology can help address health disparities in the United States? InnovateHealth Yale, BulldogHacks, and Spark invite you to sign up to participate in Hack the Gap, a Health Disparities Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like minded individuals to create innovative technology solutions that help overcome health disparities created by systematic or social challenges that disproportionately affect minority groups.

     and Present   AI, Chat, Machine Learning Venture Conference  March 02, 2017 10.30 am-05.30 pm Rise NY 43 West 23rd Street,   New York, NY 10010     Come meet and network with VCs and Angel Investors in the AI, Machine Learning, Chatbot and Messaging spaces! Learn the latest trends in funding for this industry. Learn what investors are looking for in 2017, the valuations they are investing at, the terms, the old, the new and what is exciting to the venture community! The event will kick off with a networking lunch followed by panel discussions from leading venture funds and angel groups. We will also have demos from the hackathon the evening before and vote on the winner - giving out a cash prize! We will have plenty of time for networking during the breaks and evening cocktail party, filled with amazing food and drinks. FundingPost has hosted 380+ sold-out venture events in 23 cities over the past 16 years. Who should attend?* Entrepreneurs raising capital.* Investors (VCs, Angels & Corporate) to meet companies and speak on our panels.* Sponsors to moderate panels, exhibit and meet Food companies and investors. * Hackers and Developers interested in joining the hackathon the evening before at WeWork and competing for the prize! Topics include:  trends in Early-Stage Investing, things that are most important to Investors when they are considering an Investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, grow their business, use crowdfunding, additional advice for entrepreneurs, and, of course, the best ways to reach these and other Investors. Cost:- Entrepreneur Ticket: $95- Investor / Service Provider: $115   Speakers:Moderator: David Sorin, McCarter & EnglishChuck Stormon, StartFast Venture Accelerator Chris Hughes, RevolutionJoshua B. Siegel, Rubicon Venture CapitalNisa Amoils, Scout VenturesBryan Ciambella, B Capital GroupJason Black, RRE VenturesJulien Lepleux, Bleu Capital       SPONSORS:     Refund Policy: A full refund for the ticket price can be granted for refund requests made 30 days or more before the event. A 50% refund for the ticket price can be granted for requests made 29 to 15 days before the event. A 25% refund for the ticket price can be granted for requests made 14 days before the event. No refunds will be made available after this date. A substitute attendee may be sent.

Sunday, February 12th, 2017 at 12 PMSunday, February 19th, 2017 at 3 PMSunday, February 26th, 2017 at 3 PM Organized with Bill Kouligas, featuring Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Terre Thaemlitz, Honey Dijon, Juliana Huxtable, Elysia Crampton, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Code Liberation and Dreamcrusher, Between 0 and 1: Remixing Gender, Technology, and Music is a series of performances, talks, screenings, and workshops that highlight and investigate the relationship between gender nonconforming identities, technology, and electronic music. For three consecutive weekends, the series focuses on gender positions that reject and challenge a binary world view and looks at the historical role that electronic music plays in creating alternative spaces allowing for multitudes of identities, desires, and affects. FEBRUARY 12 Part One Between 0 and 1 begins with a day focused on communities, both digital communities that have formed in recent years and those within New York City’s nightlife scene. Code Liberation opens the afternoon with a participatory hackathon and workshop focused on collaborative electronic music programming. Based in New York City, Code Liberation is a collective focused on the creation of of digital games and creative technologies by women, non-binary, and female-identifying people. We recommend bringing a laptop to actively participate in the coding component of the workshop. Following the hackathon, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present a screening of their film To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation (2013). Indebted to Pauline Oliveros’s eponymous 1970 score, the film questions the political and social possibilities and limits of musical and filmic forms, asking if sounds, rhythms, and light can create community or even become revolutionary. The screening is followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and the scholar Tavia Nyong'o. The opening day culminates with artist and DJ Honey Dijon, who leads a discussion  focused on those who have, like her, found safety and creative expression within the New York club scene. As a trans-female African American woman, Dijon sought out clubs in the 1990s as both a sanctuary and an arena for music and performance, independent of mainstream culture. Following her presentation, the artist is joined in conversation by New York City-based producer and manager Bill Coleman and DJ Venus X. Schedule 12pm - Code Liberation Music Hackathon 2:30pm - Screening of Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation (2013), followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and Tavia Nyong'o 3:30pm - Honey Dijon 4.30pm - Honey Dijon in conversation with Bill Coleman and Venus X FEBRUARY 19 Part Two The second Sunday of Between 0 and 1 is built around a live performance of Cantos I-IV, an extract from Terre Thaemlitz’s larger multi-media sound work Soulnessless, which, at over 32 hours in its entirety, is the longest mass produced album in history. Introduced by Thaemlitz, who also performs as DJ Sprinkles and K-S.H.E, the performance highlights Thaemlitz’s self-critical and fluid identity politic, exploring gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity, race, and mobility. Soulnessless considers the conservative, perhaps problematic, function of the soul, meditation, spirituality, and religiosity in the music industry. Following the performance, Thaemlitz is joined in conversation by Honey Dijon. Moderated by artist Juliana Huxtable, Thaemlitz and Dijon discuss their work, non-essentialist approaches to life and art-making, and how electronic music has helped shaped their ideas of self and community. Schedule 3.30pm - Soulnessless: Cantos I-IV, introduced by Terre Thaemlitz 5pm - Terre Thaemlitz and Honey Dijon in conversation, moderated by Juliana Huxtable FEBRUARY 26 Part Three Between 0 and 1 culminates with an exploration of how the ongoing relationship between electronic music and the dissolution of established gender constructs has bridged generations and continues to be a focus for emerging artists today. Artist, musician, and writer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge closes the series with a lecture charting how their destruction of gender binaries evolved in tandem with their rise in experimental music. From COUM Transmissions with Cosey Fanni Tutti in the early 70s, to the formation of pioneering industrial music band Throbbing Gristle and later Psychic TV, Breyer P-Orridge has continued to push the boundaries of electronic music and performance while simultaneously deconstructing preconceived notions of gender identity. This pursuit culminated with the ongoing Pandrogeny Project, initiated in the mid 90s in collaboration with their late wife, Lady Jaye. Before the lecture, there will be live performances by Elysia Crampton, whose work explores the historic roots of queer identity in conjunction with South American spirituality, and New York City-based noise artist Dreamcrusher, who considers Breyer P-Orridge a formative inspiration. Schedule 3pm - Dreamcrusher, Live 4pm - Elysia Crampton, Live 5pm - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lecture-Performance Special thanks to B&O PLAY. TICKETS: $15MoMA / MoMA PS1+ MEMBER TICKETS: $13* *MoMA and MoMA PS1+ Members can purchase tickets at this discounted rate in advance by calling (718)784-2084 and choosing extension 0 during museum hours or in person at the Box Office.