List of hackathons in Buffalo, United States in 2018

It’s a catch-22: You need a solid marketing plan. But you also need results, fast. The common “solution” to this problem? Budgeting a lot of time upfront for planning. The problem with this approach? Time spent doesn’t automatically translate to quality. Just because you spent weeks planning your approach, there’s no guarantee it will actually work. Plus, by the time you’re ready to press “go,” your window of opportunity has often closed. --- What if there was a way to spend less time planning and more time doing while getting better results for your business? There is. It’s the Marketing Growth Hackathon Model. Developed by PR20/20 CEO Paul Roetzer, this marketing planning model gives you better results, faster. How? Six simple steps. Establish a SMART goal Define and segment audiences Profile personas Catalog accelerators Establish milestones Construct a campaign sandbox --- Learn how to implement the Marketing Growth Hackathon Model at your business. Register for Roetzer’s workshop, How to Hold a Marketing Growth Hackathon, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm on May 17, 2018 at Surly Brewing. This highly interactive half-day workshop brings together marketers, executives, and entrepreneurs to solve business growth challenges. The live workshop format helps organizations plan faster, experiment more efficiently and adapt constantly to accelerate success. Workshop Schedule: Introduction: the basics of SMART goals (30 minutes) Breakout: brainstorm business goals in small groups (30 minutes) Collaboration: share and debate ideas with the full event team (60 minutes) Vetting: Discuss A-list ideas in-depth, complete preliminary scoping with time and budget (2-3 hours) Activation: Move the highest-rated ideas into planning stages You'll spark innovation, and walk away with tangible goals to transform your marketing performance in 30, 60, and 90 days. Plus, learn how to make recent marketing technology advances work for you. Interested in a full day of marketing insights? Stick around Surly for the Twin Cities' Conference on the Future of Inbound, DenamiCON. Paul Roetzer will be taking the stage as keynote speaker delivering, Marketing in the Machine Age: A Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. Interested? Selection the Hackathon + DenamiCON ticket for special pricing.

Microsoft Cloud Workshops are the closest thing to building your own Azure solution. Experts will guide attendees through real case studies, architecture design whiteboarding, and full end-to-end solution hackathons. IoT on the Edge Case Study & Hackathon: The goal of this hackathon is to develop a POC-quality IoT Edge solution that shows how the following solution could be developed AdventureWorks Manufacturing (AWM), a discrete manufacturer of both aluminum and wooden baseball bats, wants to centrally and remotely monitor their production line A critical, and often failing, component of their production lines are the motors that drive their industrial lathes AWM wishes to provide the monitoring data to the cloud for use by their operations managers However, the overheating of a lathe motor is time-critical and requires local warning and immediate action by the line operator AWM wishes to implement a hybrid IoT solution whereby both telemetry and alert data is sent to the cloud for central monitoring, yet time-critical alerting of motor temperatures runs on the Edge Technologies Covered: Azure IoT Remote Monitoring Pre-Configured Solution Azure IoT Hub Azure IoT Edge Azure Stream Analytics (running on Edge) Azure Functions (running on Edge) Who should attend these workshops? IoT solution architects IoT solution developers VENUE Microsoft Technology Center - Edina 3601 West 76th Street, Suite 600 Edina, Minnesota 55435 Register for the Workshop: http://bit.ly/IoT-Edge-Edina

Schedule: •    5:00-6:00 pm Networking, Happy Hour & Food •    5:30-6:00 pm Tours •    7:00-7:30 pm Networking Title: Exploring IoT: The Internet of Things Session Description:  How are companies currently exploring the IoT space? How are companies determining how to solve business problems for their customers with IoT? Take a journey to Microsoft’s Technology Center in Edina and learn how companies are developing new products in the IoT space. Tour Microsoft’s Technology Center, including the Maker Space, Hackathon Space, and state of the art Production Studio. To learn more about the Microsoft Technology Center visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mtc Hear from an IoT Global Black Belt, Microsoft’s Jon Coons, about how companies are successfully developing IoT products that customers want. Key Take Aways: What is IoT Current IoT products Where is IoT going Impact of IoT on business How IoT products create value for people Session Leader: Jon Coons Jon Coons is a Microsoft Global Black Belt, and has a colorful background, working across many different industries. Jon has inspired, interfaced with and integrated every aspect of the value chain – from chip to cloud. With deep expertise in selling, collaboration, architecting and developing M2M and from early stage concepts to enterprise scale deployments, Jon has been fundamental in driving growth across the Industry. His recent move to Microsoft has enabled him to work with companies across the globe to find the right solutions to empower those companies to accelerate their digital transformation of their business through IoT in a mobile first, cloud first world.  

Tech community women in and around Minneapolis are showcasing their tech skills at Hack the Gap -- Minnesota’s all-women hackathon! Come and show your support at the day during which they will demo a product that they have conceived, designed and built from scratch. Watch as they compete for recognition of their technical prowess and awesome prizes!

WHO This space is for women and non-binary individuals. We need idea people, designers, data people, testers, and programmers. If you don't code, that's cool. WHAT Hack the Gap is a two-day hackathon aimed at creating a high-energy weekend where women from all backgrounds and experience levels can enjoy an accessible, approachable, positive experience. WHY To have fun, connect with others and challenge yourself to build a weekend project with a team. Hack the Gap is a place for women. A safe place to hack and explore and build without the headwinds of inherent bias and sexisim in tech. SCHOLARSHIPS We want to make this event accessible to all financial situations and we understand that sometimes the ticket cost--even if it's nominal--can be a burden. If you need assistance with the cost of your ticket, we have scholarships available. Please contact us: hello@hackthegap.com. REFUNDS We expect this event to sell out and will have a waitlist. We will allow refunds until January 6, 2017. After that, we cannot offer a refund. ALL THE DETAILS https://www.hackthegap.com/hackathons/january-2018 FAQ http://www.hackthegap.com/faq