List of hackathons in Manhattan, United States in 2017

Musicians and sound engineers! Come along to the monthly Music Hackathon NYC. This month's topic is Music Education. It's a free, non-competitive monthly all-day event for participants to create new music-related projects from scratch, develop them over a period of ~8 hours, then perform or present them in a concert format.

Fintech and blockchain enthusiasts in the Greater New York area! The Professional Hackathon League invites you to participate in the Global Blockchain Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype Blockchain solutions for security, transaction management, and other areas. Collaborate with like-minded individuals, present your project solution to an expert panel of judges and compete for awesome prizes.

Join SeamlessGov (in partnership with HackerNest and Rise New York) for the inaugural event of an on-going speaker series entitled “Diversity is Beautiful”. We will explore the challenges many of us face in the tech industry as we strive to foster inclusive working environments that encourage and promote diversity. Female Empowerment: This panel discussion will focus specifically on challenges faced by women in the tech industry. Topics may include: how to navigate obstacles, diffuse discriminative workplace behavior, and better empower our female coworkers along the way.  Our Panelists Ilana Sufrin – Software Developer at Refinery29, Inc.  Meg Hewitt – Director of Sales at Handshake Corp. Flavia Bento de Faria – Director of Growth and Programs at Findyr Ashley Gushue - Product Operations Manager at Google Moderator: Rachel Shatkin – Product Manager at SeamlessGov About SeamlessGov Here at SeamlessGov, we believe government is beautiful. Inherent in that belief is the idea that diversity is also beautiful. Diversity in the tech industry is essential in establishing the level of creativity and collaboration necessary to generate ideas and solutions that are as diverse as the population we serve. As a company, SeamlessGov aims to champion diversity internally, as well as externally in the tech community. Agenda: • 6:30pm - Meet & Greet / Light Refreshments • 7pm - Introductions • 7:10pm - Moderated Panel (audience Q&A at the end) • 8:15pm - 9pm - Networking / Event Wrap-up ABOUT OUR PARTNERS: 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. HackerNest HackerNest is a nonprofit that runs unpretentious Tech Socials, Tech Expo/Job Fairs, and Hackathons. Their mission: get more people into tech so they can afford to be healthier and happier. ABOUT OUR PANELISTS: Ilana Sufrin Ilana is a Software Engineer at Refinery29 and has worked on several major products ranging from native mobile features to desktop applications. Refinery29 is a leading digital-media company with a focus on millennial (and millennial-minded) women with a global audience footprint of over 500 million across all platforms.  Ilana graduated from NYU with a Bachelor’s Degree in Metropolitan Studies, and Masters in Computer Science. Meg Hewitt Meg is an Enterprise Sales Leader, Coach, and Trainer, as well as a Director at Handshake, a B2B eCommerce and mobile commerce solution transforming wholesale distribution. She is also a Founder and Co-Organizer of the NYC Sales Development Meetup Group. Meg has a Bachelor's Degree from Elon University in Strategic Communications and International Studies. Flavia Bento de Faria Flavia is the Director of Growth and Programs at Findyr. Businesses use Findyr for market research, due diligence and economic data. She is also the New York Regional Board Co-Chair for Indego Africa, a non-profit with the mission to empower and uplift artisan women in Africa through employment opportunities and education. Flavia has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Barnard College, as well as a Masters in International Relations and Affairs from Columbia University. Ashley Gushue Ashley is a Product Operations Manager at Google. She has been with them since April 2010 where she has also worked as a Senior Media Manager and AdTech Specialist. Ashley has a BA in Advertising, Psychology, and International Studies from Penn State University.

Coders & Writers! Are you planning to attend BLERD City Con? Then you're invited to participate in the Coders & Writers Hackathon at the event. You'll collaborate with like-minded creative people to conceive and develop stories that will help develop responsible representations and images of people of color.

Fill your day with inspiration and intention. Join us for an unforgettable farm-to-table 'midnight' brunch and mimosas with x.ai founder/CEO Dennis Mortensen & ProtoHack CEO Annee Ngo! Your evening will feature: * Inspirational fireside chat with Dennis in an intimate setting * Dynamic ProtoHack Challenge with Annee * Curated connections  * Seasonal, organic, farm-to-table meal   Become a member to enjoy events at big discounts & with exclusive perks. About the speakers   Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and Founder of x.ai, an artificial intelligence company that's raised over $30 million. They make an artificial intelligence personal assistant who schedules meetings for you. Dennis is a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and successfully delivered a number of company exits.   ***   Annee Ngo runs ProtoHack, a code-free hackathon series. Their mission is to show entrepreneurs that they can be a part of tech innovation without knowing how to code. Annee turned the non-profit into a successful business by introducing white-label events on behalf of organizations such as Adobe and Stanford. She will be facilitating a ProtoHack at brunchwork!   About our partners  Alley is an entrepreneurial hub where people can grow their businesses by working collaboratively in a supportive environment. Alley is redefining how people work by offering state of the art private office space, coworking desks, virtual memberships, meeting and conference room space, events, and additional services to be the launchpad that entrepreneurs are looking for.

Is it possible to set up a microservices application with a separate functioning front-end in 30 minutes? With JHipster 4 it is!  Not only is a fully functional service running in 30 minutes, but you also get a service registry that provides scalability and load balancing.  Using provided Docker Compose configurations, the entire stack can be run locally without installing anything but Docker. Also, JHipster includes full monitoring using the ELK stack.  Very cool stuff for a hot summer evening! Prerequisites Java 8+ IDE (IntelliJ IDEA preferred) Please only register if you intend on attending the workshop. Our follow-along workshop presenter, Dennis Sharpe, is a software architect with over 20 years experience leading, designing, and coding software applications. He has experience in a variety of different industries including healthcare, federal government, loyalty, marketing, utilities, telecommunications, and financial. He has experience speaking at several conferences and events including DevFest and Java User Groups. He also has experience training and providing technical leadership for hackathons and coding dojos.

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

“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.