List of hackathons in Notre Dame, United States in 2015

Have an app idea or need an app built? AT&T Mobile App Hackathon - Notre Dame is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program and Four Horsemen Society that is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. Our hackathon will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools to help deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud. Please note that travel compensation will not be provided for this event. We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. Along with technical senseis to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools. You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!   Event Schedule.  The following is a list of the weekend's agenda: Day 1 6PM - Kickoff event with dinner, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation. 7PM - Speakers present (please see below for list) 8PM - Pitch ideas and form teams 12AM - End of the night; Venue will close completely, but you may code offsite. Day 2 07AM - Doors Open; breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served. 12AM - End of the night; Venue will close completely, but you may code offsite. Day 3 9AM - The fun continues with breakfast served in the morning! Pencils down. Please be sure to sign-up to present at the link provided at 12PM on Day 2. Mentors will be available throughout the morning to help you prep your presentation. Pitches start promptly at 9AM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. No powerpoints unless you are only presenting an idea.Pencils down.   Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge: Grand prize – Trip for team to visit the AT&T Foundry in Plano, TX (Max 5 team members) 2nd place - $2,000 3rd place - $1,000 Best use of AT&T Digital Life APIs: $1,000 Most interesting concept: $500 Best design / Most polished: $500 Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly.   33% Weight - Originality of idea 33% Weight - Polish / Completeness  33% Weight - Technical Difficulty / Ambitiousness Hackathon Legal.  Hackathon Terms: http://db.tt/kyPS9ojR Social Media.  Follow us @attdeveloper for live updates and photos from the event "Like" us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ATTDeveloper     Speakers   John Donovan, Senior Executive Vice President—AT&T Technology and Operations (ATO) and Notre Dame Alumnus, is responsible for AT&T’s global network and its best-in-class mobile broadband network along with creating a modern, software-defined, and cloud-based technology ecosystem to support them. In addition to leading the Technology and Operations organization, John oversees Corporate Strategy. Under Donovan's leadership, AT&T has turbo-charged its innovation programs and now is recognized as an industry leader in working with application developers and others to make AT&T's network open to collaboration and innovation. [via telepresence] Ben Nelson, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at AT&T, is based out of sunny Seattle! His passion is educating developers young and old about mobile application development best practices through events like hackathons that fuse the collective interests of multiple technology and business leaders.   Tony Noori, Director of Marketing at AT&T Digital Life, is a highly experienced professional with diverse background in product & business development specific in the fields of Information Technology, Application User Interface, Open API, system engineering and Aerospace. Combined with an extensive history of leading innovative products & businesses resulting in financial intelligence, consistent, proactive decision making and accomplishing objectives.           Senseis   Jon Lathem, Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Digital Life, is a highly experienced professional with diverse background in engineering. Jon created a rest service based platform that powered applications on multiple platforms including Web, iOS, Windows Phone, and Android. In addition, he has unified many discrete modules from around the company into a single interface/application consuming EJBs, SOAP services, and Rest services.   Sponsors