List of hackathons in Columbia, United States in 2018

The Hackathon will focus on two main challenges: 1. Disaster Response & Assistance Automation The goal is to provide a faster, quicker, easier and more accurate customer service 2. SBIR/STTR Grants Analysis and Insights Produce a tool to help entrepreneurs, VCs, and the government agencies to gain insights in Federal R&D using AWS Analytics and Machine Learning platform

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StartupHoyas MED presents our first annual Hackathon. This all-day workshop will be led by Mathew Farkash, Founding Partner at Blueprint Health, a digital health accelerator based out of NYC. Participants will learn the process of defining a problem, creating a solution, and evaluating a market opportunity. The day will end with a pitch competition judged by attendees and advisors. This is an event for Georgetown Students, Faculty, and Alumni. Ticket fees are only a deposit and will be refunded when you check in on the morning of the event. Meals throughout the day will be provided. Space is limited, so if you can no longer attend the event, please cancel your ticket through Eventbrite, and you will be refunded. If you have any questions, feel free to reach us at StartupHoyasMED@gmail.com or on our website. ADVISORS Sandeep Pulim, MD - Chief Innovation Officer, Medici Bijan Salehizadeh, MD - Managing Director, NaviMed Capital Anish Sebastian - Co-Founder & CEO, Babyscripts Michael O'Neil - Founder & CEO, GetWellNetwork AGENDA 8:30-9:00 - Breakfast & Networking / Registration 9:00-9:15 - Introduction 9:15-9:45 - Team Formation Exercise 10:00-10:20 - Session I - Problem 10:20-12:00 - Problem Workshop 12:00-12:30 - Quick Lunch 12:30-12:50 - Session II - Solution 12:50-2:30 - Solution Workshop 2:30-2:50 - Session III - Market Opportunity 2:50-4:00 - Market Opportunity Workshop 4:00-4:20 - Session IV - Pitch Preparation (including Next Steps) 4:20-5:30 - Pitch Preparation Workshop 5:30-6:30 - Session V - Pitch Competition  

In celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation in partnership with Fashion Designer in Residence Stacy Stube kick off Baltimore City's first ever Fashion Entrepreneur Trade Show called Fashion-A-Preneur. This event will have a mix of panelist discussions for small fashion companies. Topics include: how to grow by selling directly to customer in the digital space, finding market opportunities with crowdfunding. The trade show encourages a move away from the traditional debt based wholesale fashion business model. Where instead positioning for just-in-time manufacturing, small batch production, niche market products and services.  Fashion Entrepreneurs will have Trade booth Tables to showcase current collections, along with various supportive businesses and organizations specifically focused on small fashion business start-ups.  By empowering the local fashion business community, the power shift moves back into the hands of the maker to transition onshore apparel manufacturing to the next generation.  Event Panelist Speakers Sally DiMarco - Fashion Education for Entrepreneurship A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) (Bachelor of Fine Art, Fashion Design) and Johns Hopkins University (Masters Degree in Higher Education). She has earned her highly regarded reputation in the fashion industry beginning as the chief assistant to the fashion designer at Glenbrook Coat Company, which was based in Baltimore. At Glenbrook, the fur-lined coat collections for names such as, Chanel, Yves St Laurent, and Dior were created. Currently, she is the Fashion Director for SEW Bromo a program supported by the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower in Baltimore.  Sally will discuss where fashion education and entrepreneurship collide to create opportunity through business, in particular, what trade skills are needed to become the maker.  Marc Sklar - Luxury Fashion Retailing Founder and owner of Gian Marco Menswear, a multi-million dollar international importer of luxury and designer merchandise since 1990. One of our goals is to find undiscovered European designers in the USA and bring them into the States. The second part of that equation is to refine the product to be compatible with our client's needs and likes without diluting the designer's original concept. Jim Peterson - Fashion Business Set-up  A serial entrepreneur known as “the floor guy” because he has owned a couple of flooring companies and a flooring manufacturing company for the past 20 years. Jim now serves as the Small Business Outreach Coordinator for the Small Business Resource Center (a division of the Mayor’s Office of Women and Minority Owned Businesses Development)  Peterson will discuss, how the SBRC can help you grow your fashion-related business through networking, affordable capital lending, and manufacturing assistance.  Jill Silverman - Sustainability in Fashion  Jill completed her Master's in Fashion and Apparel Studies at the University of Delaware, where she focused on sustainability and received the Certificate of Social Responsible & Sustainable Apparel Business. Her experience includes teaching a course on sustainability in the industry, fabricating a bio-textile that could reduce waste and toxic chemicals in the footwear industry, providing upcycling tutorials. She currently works at Fashions Unlimited as the Product Sustainability Manager and hopes to help craft a less wasteful industry. Through this conversation, Silverman will discuss methods to design and produce more sustainably.  Jason Tompkins - Styling to Sell Online A graduate of The Fashion Institute of Technology and the Conde Nast school of design in London. He is a Fashion stylist and women's wear designer whose current clients include Ralph Lauren, UnderArmour, Belk, Peter Millar the Omni Hotel group and the American Craft Council. Jason will provide tips on marketing your product online, how image affect sales, how to convey your brand's unique visual story in a saturated digital era.  Ilya Schroeder - Mindful Modeling    Has been in modeling/acting for over three years. His main passion is to show that modeling is more than superficial posing and just “pictures” but much deeper. Ilya will discuss his journey in building a career, but also the beauty that embraces confidence and self-love. C Harvey - Manufacturing for Entrepreneurs Founder of North Star Needle Co., an online platform that connects emerging fashion designers that have small batch needs to independent apparel producers that produce from a home office or studio. C. Harvey previously founded Generation of Dreamers and Baltimore's Gifted.  Event Agenda 5:30pm - 6pm: Sign-In & Enter Attrium to Network with Panelist & Fashion Entrepreneurs 6pm - Welcome by Stacy Stube - Fashion Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Baltimore  6:15pm - Panelist 5-minutes Presenation & 5-Minute Q & A  (1) Sally DiMarco  (2) Marc Sklar  (3) Jim Peterson (4) Jill Silverman (5) Jason Tompkins (6) Ilya Schroeder (7) C Harvey 7:45pm - Discuss Key Challenges & Opportunities for the Fashion Community 8pm - Return to Attrium to Meet the Entrepreneurs & Talk with Panelist  8:30pm Event Wrap-up  Bring Business Cards to Network For more information.  Contact: Stacy Stube Email: info@elsafitzgerald.com  Location: The event is being held in the University of Baltimore Business School, when you enter the building walk up one flight of stairs to the sign-in area.  Parking: Street Parking by Meter, Closest Garages: The Fitzgerald and Maryland. 

HackBI II is the second annual Hackathon hosted at Bishop Ireton High School! It will take place from 10:00am to 10:00pm on Nov, 3 for all middle school participants and from 10:00am Nov, 3 to 12:00pm Nov 4 for all high schoolers.

Interested in what comes after blockchain? Holochain is a distributed hosting system that may very well re-invent how we interact with the internet.  Come join us for an introductory lecture at 6pm on Friday, or stay for the weekend.  Holochain developers will be on hand to help guide people through this process.  Javascript experience will help but is not required! Additionally, there will be experts from the fields of science and governance in attendance to guide projects. Let's rebuild society with provable fairness and transparency, from within the heart of the Centralized Power! Food provided but lodging will not be; contact one of the organizers if you need affordable options.  Rafik B. Hariri Building - Directions - **IMPORTANT**

Note: Unfortunately, we cannot accept late registrations due to building security. ALL REGISTERED ATTENDEES MUST BRING IDs *** Access our collaborative doc here: https://tinyurl.com/tech-re18 *** Tech, Rebalanced #6 -- formerly Tech Lady Hackathon -- is a gathering of hundreds of DC area folks from underrepresented genders/sexes (women, trans and non-binary folks, etc.) for a day of friendly learning and hacking. Coders, tech strategists, newbies, nerds, and the curious are all welcome!  Doors open at 9am and we'll kick off at 9:45am. Dress comfy! Computers are encouraged, but not required. We'll be serving a light breakfast, coffee, tea, and lunch.  There will be nearly 30 workshops and discussion groups. Hacking projects will take place all day long and be open to all levels. More than just a day of tech, Tech, Rebalanced is a day of community building and there will be many opportunities for networking, mentoring, and connecting with the rest of the awesome people in attendance. Everyone who does not identify as a cisgender man is invited.  This event is proudly sponsored by Washington Post Engineering/WashPostLife, Chief, TargetSmart, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) DC Chapter.

The NASA Space Apps Challenge is coming to Washington, DC for the first time. Last year, over 25,000 innovators in over 180 locations globally took part in the largest hackathon in the world. The Challenge is a mass collaboration focused on Earth and space exploration that takes place over 48 hours this October 19-21. Help us address Earth science and space exploration challenges using NASA's data to power your project. Join or create a team and compete for prizes and to be nominated for global judging and recognition. Those teams will create a short video demo for their project, and judges from NASA will select a handful of global finalists from hundreds of submissions. Innovators of a variety of backgrounds are encouraged to participate. Are you an engineer, technologist, scientist, creative, programmer, student, artist, or maker? Do you have experience in data science, analytics, statistics, mathematics, software development, robotics, AR/VR, information technology, videography, graphics, or related fields? Sign up now with your team or sign up and join a team at the event. Volunteer Signup Join the Space Apps team by volunteering your time. Speaker Series Signup Have a topic or project you'd like to share? Sign up to speak about it at the hackathon. Frequently Asked Questions Have a question about the event? See if we've answered it here.

Catholic Creatives is partnering with the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneur at Catholic University to ask the question: What would it look like if parishes actually had awesome vocation posters? A Catholic Creative Meet-Up is a regional evening event that brings creatives together from across industries to build community and innovate solutions to problems facing the church. It is one part party, two part revolution.  Challenge: We've all walked by cork boards in parishes and noticed vocation posters with dramatic phrases like, "are you called?" and silhouettes of young men in collars and matrix cassocks. We've heard the word "vocation” used almost exclusively to describe the priesthood or religious life. We believe design impacts our culture, and there is something missing in how Catholic culture views and misunderstands the word “vocation”. What would it look like if we had vocations posters that elevated the sanctity and importance of everyone’s unique, unrepeatable, personal vocation? Details:  What is a hackathon?  A hackathon is a community gathering in which strangers (typically from different industries) gather for to collaborate on a design challenge. There will be drinking, a short training on creative brainstorming processes, and postitnoteing activities that will result in lots of laughing. In the end, we will come out of it with some really great new friendships, and potentially some insight to offer the church for it's vocation poster problem. What if I am not a creative professional? You don't have to be a creative professional to be creative. Creativity is at the core of what it means to be human. If you come, you may be surprised by how much you are able to contribue and how much you will get out of it.  Powered By: Ringlet Studio - http://ringletstudio.com/ Unrepeatable Life - https://unrepeatablelife.com/ Ciocca Center for Principled Entreprenaurship  Read about the Dallas Meetup: Ugly Bullitains 

Dynamics 365 Saturday is a free Technical & Strategy Event Organised by the Microsoft Dynamics Community MVP’s for CRM and ERP professionals, technical consultants & developers. Learn & share new skills while promoting best practices, helping organizations overcome the challenges of implementing a successful digital transformation strategy with Microsoft Dynamics 365. The event will be held on Saturday, September 22nd with a pre-conference hackathon on Friday, September 21st. You can register to attend either the event or the hackathon or both. Hackathon attendees will be able to showcase their solution at the conference on Saturday with a winner to be decided by the attendees.