List of hackathons in Bridgeport, United States in 2017

DESCRIPTION We’re rounding up our favorite Jollof restaurants under one roof! Kick back and experience an amazing Jollof-Fest, with food, drinks, music, and good times in beautiful company. Help us determine the best Jollof restaurant during a live vote for vendors participating in the Jollof Festival. Your vote will determine the winner of the Jollof Wars!! There will also be a blind tasting of Jollof prepared by teams of 2-3 people representing their country during the first ever Jollof Hackathon. Everyone is welcome to sign up to participate, represent your country! Shop, sip, flex your swag and purchase unique culturual wears and designs from a well curated vendor selection of our favorite stylists and vendors carefully picked by our friends at the "Ankara Bazaar." PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES: Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sierra Leone (More TBA, participants welcome) YOUR TICKET GETS YOU - VIP Skip the line                                                                                                                                                         Exclusive access to the market (1-2pm) Beer and Wine Open Bar,                                                                   Exclusive access to the market (1-2pm)                                                                                                                  Cash Bar                                                                                                                                                                     All you can eat Jollof bar with complimentary African dishes (Menu TBA)                                                       Exclusive VIP hangout area                                                                                                                                  Access to entire festival                                                                                                                    YOUR TICKET GETS YOU - EARLY/REGULAR                                                                                                Access to Jollof Festival                                                                                                                                          Jollof Vendors                                                                                                                                                      Ankara clothing and accessories market                                                                                                          Samples                                                                                                                                                                      DJ spinning                                                                                                                                                   Photobooth                                                                                                                                                                 Bar                                                                                                                                                             Performances SESSIONS *VIP tickets grants 1hour early access to the festival                                                                                             Session 1: 1:00 - 2:00 PM                                                                                                                                           (VIP Tickets)                                                                                                                                                           Session 2: 2:00 - 7:00 PM                                                                                                                                       (Food, shopping Festivities)                                                                                                                                 Session 3: 8:00 - 11:00 PM                                                                                                                                       (Live band & Afterparty) Interested partners, vendors, and chefs, kindly email iamafropolitan@gmail.com FAQs Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?Yes, ID's will be needed for purchasing drinksWhat are my transport/parking options getting to the event?There are parking garages in the area, but we highly recommend walking, biking or the subway because of the potential demand for parking lots.What can/can't I bring to the event?Please don't bring food, drinks, physical objects or pets.Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?info@afropolitaninsights.comIs my registration/ticket transferrable?SureCan I update my registration information?Not likelyDo I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?It will be helpful if you did but we don't mind helping you check in with your ID so we can save some trees.What is the refund policy?Tickets purchased are final. Unless the event is canceled, or postponed, tickets will not be reimbursed or refunded.* All tickets sold are final* Schedule and activities subject to change* Kindly plan accordingly for the weather as we do not determine weather conditions or changes

Want to try out Lita, Hubot or Cog, but just don't have time at your day job? Want to get advice on how to get up and running in ChatOps and use Slack as more than a communications tool? Come out for our July meetup to explore what you can do in your chat tools.

“It’s my belief that as a designer you are responsible for what you put into the world.” - Mike Monteiro, “Design Is a Job” Design creates most of what we use, see, and experience in the physical and digital world. Designers, as makers, are responsible for what they create and put into the world. With unprecendented social, economic, and environmental issues, designers have to decide if they want to follow a traditional route or dedicate their profession to shaping the world and building the future for good. “Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.” – Tim Brown CEO, IDEO From empowering disabled people by designing accessible clothing to bringing solar power to off-grid homes in developing countries, designers can use their skills to create world-changing solutions and drive social change. Agenda 6:30 - 7:00 - Check-in, meeting new people passionate about design and social change 7:00 - 7:45 - Panel discussion 7:45 - 8:00 - Q&A 8:00 - 9:00 - Finish the food and drinks, your chance to chat with the speakers Plenty of food and drinks will be provided! Speakers Alice Bosley, Design Lead at Design Studio @ Columbia Entrepreneurship, Founder @ Five One Labs Alice Bosley ’17 SIPA, is the Design Lead at the Design Studio@Columbia Entrepreneurship. Before moving to New York, she worked as an Innovation Specialist in UNHCR Innovation in Geneva, a unit in the UN Refugee Agency that uses human-centered design to solve humanitarian challenges worldwide. Alice coordinated UNHCR’s Innovation Fellowship, UNHCR Ideas (an idea management platform) and other projects that brought new types of products and processes to the humanitarian space. Before starting at UNHCR Innovation, Alice helped manage external partnerships for The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. She has also worked with the East Timor Mission to the United Nations in New York, and recently served a stint as an entrepreneur mentor at the African Entrepreneur Collective in Kigali, Rwanda. Alice graduated from Stanford in 2011, and is a current graduate student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Lee-Sean Huang, Co-founder at foossaLee-Sean Huang is the cofounder and creative director of Foossa, a community-centered design consultancy. As a designer, strategist, and storyteller, he collaborates with communities and organizations across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia to solve social innovation challenges.His work ranges from redesigning the experience of employee health and wellness at a Fortune 500 corporation to helping agencies of the United Nations better manage their institutional knowledge and refresh their public stories in changing times. He has taught senior organizers of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) ways to rethink labor organizing in a networked age, advised a major social network on the multiple and shifting meanings of friendship, and conducted research supported by the European Union to build tools to scale online citizen debate and deliberation. Lee-Sean's career in designing participation and building movements began when he was a student at Harvard, where he studied Government and engaged as a community organizer and human rights activist. He later honed his campaigning and organizing skills running online-centered campaigns for Avaaz and Human Rights Watch. Prior to co-founding Foossa, Lee-Sean was the founding member of the design team at Purpose, a public-benefit consultancy that builds movements and new power models to tackle the world's biggest problems. Lee-Sean regularly teaches and writes about community-centered design and social innovation. He is a faculty member at the MFA Design for Social Innovation Program at the School of Visual Arts. He regularly gives workshops and keynotes on community-centered design and social innovation at conferences around the world and at universities including Cornell, the New School, New York University, the College of Staten Island, UCLA, and the University of Hawai’i. He has written for publications including GOOD Magazine, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post.  David Colby Reed, Co-founder @ foossa David manages Foossa's business operations and strategy practice. In his project work, David combines insights from the behavioral sciences, economics, and user research. Much of his work concerns building inclusive financial services in the US and abroad, and, to do so, he has worked to bridge the public, private, and social sectors. David has advised regulators in Africa and Asia on using mobile phone-based financial services to promote financial inclusion, and analyzed the impact of proposed regulations. For private companies, he has researched the ways in which regulatory environments influence the features of financial instruments in emerging markets. David has designed and evaluated programs promoting social change, and is experienced in aligning an organization’s efforts with its desired outcomes. He has helped to develop a model of financial advising for low-income New Yorkers that was later adopted by New York City’s Office of Financial Empowerment. He has also developed and taught courses in research design and performance management. David studied cognitive science at Harvard University and public policy and management at New York University. Twitter LinkedIn Michael Lapin, Founder at BeginexMichael Lapin is the founder of Beginex, a UX training program based on real projects with real social impact clients. Beginex is a mentored user experience (UX) design training program that helps candidates start careers by working on real social impact organization challenges. It was designed to help candidates build real experience, network with employers, advance skills and become more hireable while making an impact.In addition to running the program, Michael is a product and UX consultant, who also organizes user experience events, workshops and hackathons. He spent eight years in technology consulting, primarily in product, business analysis and design roles and started his career in management consulting after graduating from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Beginex is a mentored user experience (UX) design training program that helps candidates start careers by working on real social impact organization challenges. It was designed to help candidates build real experience, network with employers, advance skills and become more hireable while making an impact. 

Professionals, students in the greater New York Area! Are you interested in projects that help improve the social good? Inspiring Capital invites you to participate in the Summer Social Impact Showcase. You'll get to network with Inspiring Capital's consulting professionals and participate in a mini-hackathon -- lending your expertise to help further the social impact of a consulting project that interests you.

Hackers in the greater New York area! Are you interested improving the immigrant experience? Sign up top participate in the I STAND WITH IMMIGRANTS Hackathon in New York City. In addition to keynotes and panels, you'll be challenged to collaborate with a diverse group of like-minded individuals to create new strategies, insights, and ideas on how to relate that New York is a City that #StandsWithImmigrants.

Learnathon is a two-day event with workshops on Day 1 and a Hackathon on Day 2. You can come for only Day 1 or come for only Day 2 it's ok. Day 1 is a day of learning with workshops. Each workshop is 45m-90m long with a 30minute break in between. - We are looking for people interested in running workshops at Learnathon. Message your workshop idea to yianna@learnathon.nyc Day 2 is full of workshops and mini-hackathon challenges with prizes.

Hip Hop Hacktivist is a free hackathon targeting youth. Our primary goal is to use the appeal and influence of the hip-hop culture to introduce the tech industry and its opportunities to youth. COME ENJOY A DAY AT TUMBLR AND WORK WITH TUMBLR DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hip Hop Hacktivist will host twenty-five high school students. Students will be placed in groups of five and each group will be supported by two trained software developers and one trained design professional.  Students will work together as a team to brainstorm and come up with an idea based on the theme of the hackathon. Students will utilize teamwork, effective communication, time-management, and all the necessary skills involved in building a successful web app. Designers will assist students in sketching ideas out and wire framing. After the ideation stage, developers will bring the students’ ideas to life and the students will assist in the creative decisions that are to be made. Students will also work together to create a four minute presentation that describes and demonstrates their idea. Prizes will be distributed to various groups based on certain criteria. The hackathon will also include a music showcase and a panel that involves a conversation between a music professional and a tech professional discussing the great opportunities that careers in tech provide. OFFICIAL WEBSITE  www.hiphophacktivist.com PLEASE OFFICIALLY REGISTER USING THIS LINK https://www.hiphophacktivist.com/register

Designers, data scientists, neuroscientists, idea generators, and coders in the greater New York City area! Are you passionate about artificial intelligence? Hackathon.com invites you to participate in the Global AI Hackathon - New York. As part of a global hackathon event, you'll work on your own, or collaborate with a team of like-minded individuals from your community. So sign up now and you'll get to work on an AI challenge to be announced...and compete for terrific prizes.

Developers, hackers, designers, techies of all types! Are you planning to attend DeveloperWeek | New York 2017? It's the largest developer event on the East Coast! If you're going to attend, then why not sign up to participate in the DeveloperWeek Hackathon. You can compete in your choice of a number of challenges -- DevOps using NetApp ONTAP Cloud, building an Insurance Cross-Sell app, creating a GoCoder Live Streaming App, designing an IoT-based notification services app, leveraging the DocuSign eSignature API, or creating a WebRTC app using the Wowza Streaming Engine.

Join 500+ Developers at the Nation's Largest Challenge-Driven Hackathon. The DeveloperWeek NY 2017 Hackathon is one of New York's largest hackathons. Join 500+ developers building new apps, bots -- all within hours. Participants can build any app of their choice and will compete for $25,000+ in cash, products and prizes. Get all the details and the amazing challenges & prizes here.  DeveloperWeek Hackathon will take place at 2 locations. June 19 | Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse(73 West St, Brooklyn, NY 11222) June 20 | The Brooklyn Expo Center (72 Noble St., Brooklyn, NY 11222) Check out the full schedule  Subscription: By registering for this event, you are opting into DevNetwork email updates and one-time email-based promotions from top-level DeveloperWeek NY sponsors including exclusive invitations to DeveloperWeek NY parties and partner events. These updates will notify you about DeveloperWeek NY news, as well as announcements about DevNetwork events. You can opt out of DevNetwork email newsletters at any time.  Due to limited availability, DevNetwork events cannot offer refunds once tickets are purchased. If you need to cancel your registration, we will give you a credit towards a future conference of equal value.