List of hackathons in Las Vegas, United States in 2015

  24 HRS, $125K   The Money20/20 Hackathon will bring together more than 500 of the world’s most skilled developers from over 15 countries, and 10 of Fintech’s most influential brands, making it the largest Fintech Hackathon globally. With more than $125K in prizes on the line, hackers will have 24 hours to showcase their skills and vision using the APIs, SDKs and other tools from today’s leading innovators in Payments and Financial Services.       10 winning teams will be rewarded in a big way. Money20/20 will be giving away (5) $20,000 prizes, (5) $5,000 prizes, and sponsors will have the option to award additional incentives. The overall winning team will also have the opportunity to present their solution as part of Money20/20's exclusive Launchpad360°, a program that provides companies with a forum to showcase their leading-edge innovation in front of an audience of thousands of investors, media and other ecosystem participants. In the past two year's Launchpad360 participants have collectively raised >$150 million in venture capital funding. Just $10 holds your place at the Money20/20 Hackathon.  And, to make it even easier for you to attend, qualified developers, designers and entrepreneurs can get up to a $250 travel stipend (details below). We expect the event to fill up quickly, so register fast. **Note that registration for Money20/20, which follows the Money20/20 Hackathon, is separate from registration for the Money20/20 Hackathon. Click here to read about last year's Money20/20 Hackathon Winners. Click here to check out more photos from last year's Money20/20 Hackathon   Sponsor Challenges and Prizes In addition to $125,000 in Cash Prizes offered by Money20/20, Sponsors will be awarding prizes for developers who work on their challenge. Click here to see the detailed Sponsor Challenges and Prizes Blockchain Challenge:  Blockchain is the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet with over 4M users, and is home to the most widely used Bitcoin APIs. Recognized as the strongest, most trusted brand in Bitcoin, we challenge you to find new and creative uses for the Blockchain API focused on helping new users learn about Bitcoin, transact with Bitcoin, and explore completely new micro-transaction business models. Prize: The winners of the Blockchain challenge will receive: First Prize: $5000 USD in Bitcoin divided evenly amongst team members Runner Up: Share a new macbook + xbox among the team.     Feedzai Challenge: Feedzai built a simple API that connects to a powerful machine learning anti-fraud platform. Leverage Feedzai’s API and other data services of your liking to build the best fraud detection experience. Help merchants evaluate the risk of any business transaction in a specific and/or niche use case. Ensure seamless user interaction by integrating with a payment provider, an eCommerce shopping cart’s back-office interface or any other service where this functionality might be useful. Prizes: The team winning the Feedzai Anti-fraud API challenge will receive: Your picture and product featured in hi-def on our stunning giant 20 foot video wall in the Feedzai Booth, you’ll be famous in Vegas 1 x Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboard: one lucky person on your team gets to ride off into the sunset on a self-balancing board 5 x Longboard USA “Good vs Evil” skateboards for beating your competition and battling evil 5 x Jumping Sumo minidrones with API for you to command and control   First Data    Challenge: First we created the world’s most powerful global payments platforms. Then we brought you a simple API to harness this power. Now show us what you can do. We challenge you to find the most creative use of First Data’s API. We encourage you to be creative, but here are a few ideas: Build an app that would enable small merchants to conduct commerce with their customers through the customer’s mobile device, for example: In a restaurant setting, including order and / or pay from table functionality or open-air display In a retail setting, including Buy and Pay either in-store or out-of-store In an industry setting of your choice Additional considerations: Try incorporating consumer loyalty and offers or a new payment method like ApplePay or Beacon technology. Needs: Ability to support multiple small merchants without separate app downloads Build a “Find Near Me” app or website that enables consumers to easily find the nearest business that provides the item they are seeking Additional considerations: Try incorporating a price/distance trade-off or buy/deliver function from the app Needs: Ability to find a specific item, not just a business Barcode Pay: Build the ability for a small merchant to create barcodes so they can affix codes to items and allow customers to pay by scanning the barcode with their own mobile device Needs: Self-service retail, ability to price/buy without retailer interaction Prize Each member of the winning team will receive: New Toys: A new 3D Printer and an Apple Watch. Shopping Spree: $1,000 in Gyft cards. Gyft is a digital gift card platform that lets you manage your gift cards, as well as enabling business to offer easy reward and loyalty programs. Quality Time: Virtual / Skype meeting with either the Clover App Market team or the Payeezy Developer team. You will also have the opportunity to pitch a concept to the First Data Ventures team.   IBM Challenge: Blockchain is a foundational technology for building a new generation of transactional applications that establish trust and transparency while streamlining business processes. It has the potential to vastly reduce the cost and complexity of getting things done. Essentially, it could help bring to business processes the openness and hyper efficiency we have come to expect in the Internet Era.At the same time, technologies such as sensors and devices are making everyday objects smarter and connected in ways we never imagined Both will have a major impact on financial institutions. Combined, they could provide financial market traders with real-world knowledge to deepen trading strategies or build new ones.For example, financial institutions could be the advice provider for tailored personalized advice, a value aggregator to be part of the customer ecosystem and/or social community, or the access facilitator to connect with other service providers (e.g. insurers, health practitioners, airlines and hotels). What to build: Use IBM Bluemix, an open-standards, cloud platform for building, running, and managing applications, to build a an innovative Fintech application Leverage a Blockchain protocol (e.g. Ethereum, Ripple, Eris, Multichain, etc.). Note: we’ll setup an Ethereum test environment ahead of time to help you jumpstart development Apply one or more IBM Bluemix services (e.g. Watson Cognitive Computing services, IBM's Cloudant NoSQL Database service, IBM DashDB Analytics Warehouse, IBM's Internet of Things services., the StrongLoop API Platform, etc.). Prize: The winning team of the IBM Bluemix challenge will receive: Apple Watch (for up to 5 team members)     MasterCard Challenge: Create a priceless VIP shopping experience by leveraging the power of connected devices and data visualization (hint: it can be for the consumer, merchant or both). Check on Developer Zone to find all our APIs. Prize: We challenged you to create a priceless VIP app, so it’s only fair we reward you accordingly. The Winners of the MasterCard API Challenge will receive: Priceless VIP Experience (for up to 5 members in the winning team)* October 25, 2015 (Sunday)   5 x Developer Zone collector hoodies 5 x Car transfer to Mandalay Bay Resort 5 x Luxury one night accommodations at Mandalay Bay 5 x 50 minute Swedish massages at the Mandalay Bay plus all day access to the spa 5 x Welcome Reception at Michelin Star Chef Restaurant Rivea 5 x VIP tickets to Michael Jackson ONE by Cirque du Soleil   October 26, 2015 (Monday)   5 x Breakfast and Sharing of the Minds with MasterCard Chief Emerging Payment Officer Ed McLaughlin 745-930AM at Tableau at the Wynn – transfer provided 5 x VIP Helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon (Depart Wynn @ 1030AM - some restrictions apply) 5 x Transportation to airport 5 x $75 vouchers to cover airlines ticket rebooking charges, if needed   A Start-up Priceless Experience to relaunch! Up to 3 months mentoring by the MasterCard Open API very own developer evangelist team Operational mentorship from the Start Path team and a guaranteed spot at a future Start Path pitch or customer event. Free payment processing for up to $250,000 in transactions for the first 12 months using Simplify Commerce**.     Modo Challenge: Use Modo’s artisanal SDK, handcrafted API, and crazy cool beacons to demonstrate CONNECTING COMMERCE... show us how you can connect customers, channels and currencies in a way that generates real economic value. Surprise us with a new concept or new digital experience, and we’ll surprise you with some connecting of our own! Prize: The winner of the Modo Connecting Commerce challenge will win: Sunday night, each member of your winning team will score an invite to the most exclusive dinner party at Money2020, the 4th Annual Payments Illuminati Dinner. You will be feted as the elite that you most assuredly are amoungst a few dozen of the biggest movers and shakers in the payments industry (bankers, entrepreneurs, VCs, analysts, and industry execs). Oh, and a 7 course Michelin starred meal (with wine and cocktail pairings) from Chef Jose Andres' kitchen at Jaleo will help fuel your hobbing and nobbing. A 1-hour telephone conversation with each of the following Connections: CEO of a leading consumer digital platform Senior executive from one of the largest FinTech companies in the world Senior executive from one of the leading Retailer focused payments providers Top payments executive from one of the top 3 banks in the U.S. Founder of a recently exited payments startup Leading payments industry analyst/member of the press Venture capitalist focused on the payments industry And then you can choose one of the above to be your dinner guest. We will fly you and the other members of your team to the city of your chosen Connection, put you up in a great hotel and treat you all to phenomenal dinner. See, we told you it’s all about connecting! To thank them for their participation, we will be donating $500 to the charity of your Connections’ choice for each phone call, and $1000 to the charity of your Connection’s choice for attending dinner. Oh, and if you happen to be planning to build a business based on your idea, we’ll be your best buddies for life. Not just 6 months J. Mentoring, discounts on the platform, and more will all be yours, if only you choose to take the red pill.   PayPal Challenge: Find the most creative use of PayPal or Braintree APIs Prize: Each member of the winning team will receive: Razer blade pro laptop with 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD: http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-blade-pro 17" neoprene sleeve cover & messenger bag carry case.   Vantiv Challenge: We have one goal—to help our customers help their customers enable great experiences at the point of sale—whatever that point of sale—big box retail, small- and medium-sized business, eCommerce or iPOS.  We get collaboration with 3,000 POS ISVs, VARs and us, working to simplify payments innovation to bring exciting products, services and solutions to market.  Hop on the road to creating brilliant new code.  Your creativity and passion.  Our challenge, your task: develop a product that simplifies how people buy, sell or pay via the Vantiv APIs focused on three areas: Virtual Reality Internet of Things Wearables We provide hardware associated with each of these areas (yours to keep). Fun stuff like iWatches, Raspberry Pi’s, Fitbits and virtual reality kits. Use them or not as you hack, but they’re yours to keep—no flack Prize: The Winning Team will be offered: Part 1: The Money20/20 Experience A location in the Vantiv Booth for the duration of Money20/20 to demo what they developed – value is priceless. Hotel and food costs for the winning team for Sunday night – departing Wednesday Money20/20 Wardrobe. We want you to look good for Money20/20, so we’ll take you shopping. $200 Gift Cards for each team member. Part 2: Vacation or Gear After all this hard work, you’ll need a vacation, so we’ve got a $1,000 travel voucher for each team member. Go surfing in Hawaii or Skiing in Aspen; the choices are endless. Or If sitting on a beach or flying down a mountain isn’t your thing, we’ll give each member of your team a $1,000 gift card to www.newegg.com, TigerDirect or Amazon.     Visa Challenge:  Using Visa Checkout APIs, we can quickly and easily connect merchants and consumers.  Using Visa Direct APIs, we can push funds onto cards in near-real time (Faster Payments) in a way that transforms the way we view the network.   How can you use Visa Checkout to create unique shopping experiences across all form factors?  Or help users pay for things that would traditionally require cash or checks?  How can you use Visa Direct to help meet the needs of a small business to pay suppliers or their employees?  Or give people who have to manage their money tightly a quicker, easier, and less expensive way to manage their cash flow?  Help a marketplace that needs to pay a diverse global workforce or a business that needs to pay rebates or refunds?   Prize: In addition to the Money20/20 prizes, Visa will award a work and play combo prize weekend trip to San Francisco to the team we feel best meets our criteria for the Visa challenge. WORK: Spend Friday, November 6, at Visa’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco, take a tour of One Market Center (Visa’s innovation hub), and visit with the team that is working on our latest generation prototypes. Meet with Visa’s product and technology executives to demo the solution you built for our challenge and make your pitch for resources and collaboration to further develop your concept. PLAY: Spend a November weekend in San Francisco and have a good time on us. We’ll cover your coach airfare to San Francisco, hotel, meals and transportation for the weekend. Get a behind-the-scenes tour of Levi’s® Stadium, the site of Super Bowl 50, and watch the 49ers play on November 8. Take home a Visa U.S. sports property package, including merchandise from the San Francisco Giants, the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and Pebble Beach Resorts™.     Worldpay Challenge: Enhance a consumer's in-store experience using wearables, location services, context, or motion using the Worldpay's SecureNet REST API. The experience can play off of the automation from a wearable or a sophisticated analytics platform that enables the merchant to do more for their customer. You may utilize anything within the API including Vault, Recurring Billing, as well as 50 user defined fields that could be leveraged for data analytics or business insights. Prize: For all your hard work, we’ll provide the below for each member of the winning team, for up to five people.   Gear (5) Apple iWatches (5) Branded hoodies Sunday The Quieter Side of Vegas (10/25/15) (5) Suites at the Palazzo (8) Quiet Post Hackathon Dinner (8:30p) at Sushi Samba at the Palazzo (8) The happiest half hour in Vegas – 30 minute ride in a fully air conditioned Linq high roller observation wheel. Enjoy the happy half hour cabin with open bar and our VIP WP will meet them there. (We will also provide transportation). Monday (5) Transportation to the Airport (5) $75 gift cards for the cost to change flights And a choice of (1) of the following: (5) iPad Pro, 32GB OR (5) Admissions to SXSW Interactive Festival and an $800 travel stipend.     Judges Peter Smith CEO & Co-Founder, Blockchain Sandeep Grover SVP Global eCommerce, Feedzai Bruce Dragt SVP Global eCommerce at First Data, First Data Sebastien Taveau Chief Developer Evangelist, MasterCard Bruce Parker Founder & CEO, Modo Mike Blandina VP, Engineering, PayPal Matt Ozvat VP, Developer Integrations, Vantiv Mark Jamison SVP, Global New Product Design, Visa Chester Richie SVP Head of Strategy, Worldpay John Wolpert Global Offering Executive, Blockchain, IBM     Schedule Wednesday October 14th 06:00 PM PST: Pre-Hackathon WebEx Friday October 23rd 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM PST: Pre-Hackthon Open Bar Meetup, The Palazzo @ Lavo Casino Club Saturday October 24th: Marcello ballroom, The Venetian, Level 4 08:00 AM - 12:00 PM Registration Open for Hackathon Attendees 08:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sponsor Setup 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM Breakfast 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Opening Announcements and Coding Begins 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Sponsor Pitches 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM 60 Second Attendee Pitches, Swag Giveaway 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch and Networking 01:00 PM - 06:00 PM Sponsor Breakout Sessions 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM Dinner 11:00 PM - 01:00 AM Midnight Snack - sponsored by Pivotal Labs Sunday October 25:  06:30 AM - 08:30 AM Breakfast 11:00 AM - Submission Deadline, Coding Ends and move to Palazzo Ballroom 11:15 AM - 01:15 PM Lunch  12:00 PM - 02:30 PM Demos Round 1  02:30 PM - 02:45 PM Judges Deliberation 02:45 PM - 04:45 PM Final Demos 04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Judges Deliberate & Fireside Chat w/ Vinod Khosla 05:40 PM - 06:20 PM Winners & Awards - presented by Vinod Khosla   Travel Stipend for Qualified Participants Qualified attendees can get up to a $250 stipend with a cap of actual expenses incurred for travel and lodging. To qualify you must: Check-in onsite to the Money20/20 Hackathon, Submit a project, and Demo to the judges on Sunday, October 25. All receipts such as hotel, airfare, gas, and lodging must have the attendee's name on them. Receipts must reflect the dates of October 23rd - October 25th. Only travel to/from the Money20/20 Hackathon and hotel stay during the event will be reimbursed up to a total of $250. All authorized travel expenses must be submitted to Money20/20 on or before Friday November 6th, 2015 at 5:00 PM PST, via email at stipend@angelhack.com. Approved Expenses will be paid within one month of the end of the hackathon.   Judging Winners of the Money20/20 Hackathon will be selected by a panel of judges that includes industry leaders as well as one representative from each sponsoring company.  There will be two rounds of judging, each with a live presentation format without slides or pitch decks. Round 1 of judging will occur one-on-one with the judge from the respective sponsoring company presenting the challenge, and each sponsoring company will select his or her top two choices to advance to the next round. Round 2 of judging will be on the Money20/20 General Session stage, where the top 20 teams will present their solutions with A/V support in front of the full panel of judges, as the audience begins to filter in for the Sunday evening Money20/20 keynotes. So yes, there will be an audience! Submissions will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores: Simplicity (5 points): Is the application simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less? Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact? Design (5 points): Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing? There are ten sponsoring companies and therefore ten prize winners. Each of the sponsoring companies that is presenting a challenge will have a prize winner—selected as the highest scoring team for each respective sponsor that presents a challenge.   Rules What is the Fresh Code Rule? All code developed as part of the Money20/20 Hackathon must be FRESH–that’s how we keep these things fair. Before the start of the Money20/20 Hackathon, developers can create wireframes, designs and user flows. They can also come with hardware. But to keep things fair, all code must be written onsite at the Money20/20 Hackathon. Other than that, almost anything goes and you can use any coding languages or open-source libraries you’d like. Who Owns the IP? Participants will own the rights to their work. Sponsoring companies may have their own terms and conditions for proprietary technology or content. What is the maximum number of team members? 5 per team. Is there a Participation Agreement? Yes, developers, designers and entrepreneurs are required to sign a Participation Agreement upon arrival at the Money20/20 Hackathon. Pre-Hackthon Open Bar Meetup On Friday, October 23, Money20/20 will host a Pre-Hackthon Open Bar Meetup from 8:00-9:00pm at Lavo Casino Club in the Palazzo. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet fellow developers, as well as sponsors. There will be an open bar for one hour, and everyone is welcome to stay for the remainder of the evening.