List of hackathons in Palo Alto, United States in 2018

MindsHACK is a 2 day hackathon that will be held at SkyDeck in the heart of Downtown Berkeley. The event is open to anyone who has a passion for data science, innovation and building things with technology. The only task of the hackathon is to deliver a product that can make any types of prediction, using our AI algorithm. Come participate in this fast-paced environment to interact with people interested in innovation and technology, build a product with provided databases and algorithms and win some cool prizes! 

Join us in downtown San Francisco for this 2-day non-sleepover hackathon. Come build a project with like-minded individuals, work with some incredible technologies & APIs, make new friends, and show off your project to the world! The top 6 teams get to demo their app for our livestream, and the top 3 get to present on stage.

Do you love Planet Earth and want to see it thrive and sustained for future generations? Do you want to be part of the solutions to some of the pressing problems facing our planet? Come join us for the inaugural Stanford Big Earth data hackathon is aimed at understanding, identifying and solving planet problems of interest using satellite and other large earth-based data sets. Please NOTE: this is event is ONLY OPEN to STANFORD undergraduate and graduate students with a valid Stanford ID. (We hope to open future events to the a wider audience) see bigearthhacks.stanford.edu for more information.

Women in Blockchain Hackathon brought to you by Team Block Society Please have 1 year of coding experience or more.  Sponsored by: Nima Capital, Present.Co Uncommon Spaces  Friday, April 13th 6-8pm Welcome Reception Saturday, April 14th 9-11am Introduction and breakfast  11am-1pm Workshop: How to code on the Neo Blockchain  1-1:30: Lunch  1:30pm-9pm Working on projects  Sunday, April 15th 9am-6pm Working on Projects 6pm-8pm- Judges Panel (Joey Krug of Pantera and Audrey Chaing of MIT) https://wibhackathon.splashthat.com/

At the end of this workshop, you will be capable of writing your own production ready end-to-end dapps using cutting edge frameworks and best practices. This workshop will take a deep dive into the ERC-721 standard emphasizing tests, code coverage tools, and gas usage profilers to help us write optimal and secure code. We'll go over common Solidity pitfalls, known attacks, and the reasons behind community acknowledged best practices. In this course we'll be using popular frameworks such as OpenZeppelin, Truffle and Infura for faster development. This workshop is ideal for someone with a coding background who knows the basics about Ethereum and enjoys learning at a fast pace. You will learn about Ethereum standards (ERC-20 and ERC-721) that allow you to create your own custom tokens, write an ERC-721 (non-fungible) smart contract from scratch, along with tests, learn to use powerful frameworks like OpenZeppelin, Truffle, and Infura, create a front-end UI to interact with web3 and your deployed contract. The ERC-721 standard was first developed and implemented by CryptoKitties, the world’s most successful game on the blockchain. After this course, you will have a thorough understanding of how to create your own distinguishable assets on the blockchain, with potential use cases ranging from games, collectibles, art, or even identity, documents, records, and much more. This course is taught by Elena Nadolinski, a software engineer at Airbnb and co-creator of Ethmoji.io. She has won prizes at multiple Ethereum hackathons — EthWaterloo for building decentralized video streaming on IPFS and World Crypto Economics Forum (WCEF) hackathon for building a crypto-collectibles token generator. Most recently, she was invited to the EthDenver hackathon to give a workshop on how to create your own ERC-721 tokens, which was attended by over 500 people.

As we know, an accurate 3D map of the world has purpose beyond safe autonomous vehicle navigation and cross-platform persistent augmented reality content; it can facilitate innovation, democratize the development of location-based applications and services, and establish a transparent reading and writing of our Earth’s information. Mapping on the blockchain is a way for us to restore agency and ownership in the creation and usage of our maps, without third party control or censorship. Community cartography can be unreliable and impractical, but with MAP, community cartography is an easy and intuitive process. Anyone can be part of creating the open map of the future. Arnaud Dazin is the Creator and Chief Executive Officer of MAP LTD. Arnaud is an engineering architect whose work in video games, healthtech and adtech has garnered him international recognition. He has been at the forefront of free-to-play’s rise for both PC and mobile, most notably as an early employee at mobile games giant Storm8, a network with over a billion downloads and 50 million monthly active users. He has an active interest in software development, robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and augmented reality. This deep appreciation for technology fostered a longstanding dream of creating MAP—a decentralized, dynamic distributed layer of the world around us—and compelled him to make his vision a reality. As the CEO of ADVR, Inc., Arnaud leads an existing business towards building a future where digital data can be embedded in virtual and augmented worlds. Arnaud has given international talks in Asia, Europe, and in the USA on scaling products, virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain. Doors open at 8:00pm; talk starts at 9.00pm. About Node:Come to San Francisco’s newest private members club and gain insider knowledge on the exploding blockchain and crypto industry. Network with like-minded people and dance to live DJ-sets by our in-house-DJ William Newton. http://facebook.com/djwillaaDrinks will be provided and additional wine can be enjoyed at Maritime below Node.Become a member of Node: Node membership provides you with a place to hang out, work, create, and communicate. Unique and exciting events will be hosted every week, from yoga classes, to hackathons, to live music. A core theme in our event programming is focused around the crypto community. Node members get free access or discounts to all events.https://www.nodeworldwide.com/

Hello Coders, Kintone is low-code, but we heart your code!  We are pleased to invite you to a very special hands-on workshop at WeWork Montgomery Station Thursday, April 12th! Non-coding business owners and leaders from companies large and small like Box, NASA and Carnegie Corporation love Kintone because they can create powerful business applications themselves! How is that possible? With the help of kick-ass coders like you!The workshop starts with a hands-on introduction to the Kintone low-code platform as our customers experience it. Then we take it to the next level by showing how you can customize Kintone using our JavaScript and REST APIs. Finally, you get to put the cool in code as we hold a mini-hackathon to practice and present what you've learned. Members of the winning team will each receive an Amazon Dot and the praise of your peers!Snacks and refreshments will be provided all you have to bring is your laptop and your imagination.  The Toners#iheartcode DetailsWhen: April 12thTime: 6:00pm - 8:30pmWhere: WeWork Montgomery Station6:00pm - Food & refreshments6:15pm - Workshop begins6:30pm - Hands-on coding 8:30pm - Prizes Questions? Reach out to events@kintone.com.

Silicon Valley Institutional Investors will feature how insitutional investors are investing in the blockchain space and why, will feature future trends of blockchain/crypto. Speakers will talk about City of Berkeley ICO, ICO underwriting and investment bank's view on investing in blockchain, blockchain use cases in differnce industries, and CrunchFund's investment in blockchain startups.  Demo booth is available for companies to showcase their ICO, Blockchain or related fintech products.  Speakers:  Hon. Ben Bartlett, Vice Mayor of Berkeley Berkeley City Councilmember Ben Bartlett is a fth generation Berkeley native, environmental lawyer, and respected community leader. Ben’s mission is to leverage industry and government to deliver innovation, expand opportunity and protect the environment. Ben is an innovator for the people. He will provide a speech about the many first innovations Berkeley has led as a city. He will speak about the Berkeley Blockchain Initiative (Micro Bonds) and its plan to launch an ICO to fund affordable housing.  At the Bay Area Council, Ben developed a Social Impact Fund and drafted the Paci c Clean Air Partnership, a clean tech trade agreement signed by Governor Brown and the Chinese Minister of Commerce. Ben also worked on the implementation of cap and trade securities and environmental justice protocols at the California Air Resources Board and California Energy Commission. At the California Clean Energy Fund, Ben advanced clean energy and social equity goals on an international scale. Ben also serves on the corporate board of Y Strategies, a private equity fund delivering large scale technology transfer. Vitaly Golomb, Manging Partner of IEG-Investment Banking Group (ex. HP Tech Ventures) Vitaly M. Golomb is a serial entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley trenches since his teenage years. He is currently a Managing Director and Global Head of Principal Investments at IEG Investment Banking Group. Mr. Golomb is one of the most dynamic and in-demand speakers and trainers in the world of startups, venture capital, and corporate innovation. He is the author of Accelerated Startup (2017), universally praised by entrepreneurs and investors alike as the startup creation manual. He was previously a founding Partner at HP Tech Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Silicon Valley’s original startup–where he was recognized as a Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star–and a three times CEO. He is a contributing writer to TechCrunch and a top-ranked mentor by accelerators and business schools in the US, Europe, and Asia. Alastair Trueger, Founding Partner of Creative Ventures Alastair is  an entrepreneur and investor who's come to San Francisco via the UK, India and the Philippines. He's fascinated by the promise of technology and how it interacts with emerging markets here in the US and abroad. Recently, He and his partners founded Creative Ventures, a macro focused venture firm investing in industry, agriculture and health. He's also a relatively recent MBA where he was president of the Entrepreneur's Association. Before, he built a startup in the luxury space, did venture capital for a family office in the UK, operations in the Philippines, and built the digital brand for a seventeen billion dollar firm in India. He also consult for family offices in Asia, the US, and the UK. Greg Osuri, Co-founder and CEO of Overclock Labs Greg Osuri is the co-founder and CEO of Overclock Labs and co-founder of the Akash Network, an open, decentralized marketplace for cloud compute. Greg began his career as an IBM solutions consultant before starting his own consultancy focusing on distributed systems, designing Kaiser Permanente’s first cloud architecture and Demandbase's B2B advertising platform, among other large client projects. After these roles, he co-founded AngelHack, which is now one of the world’s largest hackathon organizations. He is currently the CEO of Overclock Labs, and Founder of the Akash Network, an open, decentralized marketplace for cloud compute. Greg is a very active open-source community member. He is the author of open source libraries used by Kubernetes and Ubuntu which have been downloaded more than 25 million times. Prashant Fonseka, Principal of CrunchFund Prashant Fonseka is a Principal at CrunchFund, where his primary responsibilities include portfolio company advisement and decision-making on fund investments, with secondary roles in due diligence and market analysis prior to fund investment. A key part of the CrunchFund team, Prashant’s wide-ranging interests in deep technologies such as AR and AI have served the team well in making informed decisions on investments in complex, rapidly-advancing markets. Edward J. Wenrick, Principal, Bernstein Private Wealth Management  Mr. Wenrick is a Financial Advisor in Bernstein Global Wealth Management’s San Francisco office.  He joined the firm in 2006 and was promoted to Principal in 2011.  Prior to joining Bernstein Mr. Wenrick was a managing director at Parson consulting working closely with CFO’s to improve their organizations. Before that Mr. Wenrick was a managing director at KPMG Consulting where he spent 12 years in roles ranging from consultant, business development, marketing, sales management and regional leader.  Mr. Wenrick was also an assistant controller at a high tech start-up and began his career in finance at IBM Corporation.  Mr. Wenrick earned a BA in business/economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Demo booth is available for companies to showcase their ICO, Blockchain or related fintech products.  Learn how to start your own crypto currency hedge fund, what insitutional investors are investing in now and why, come join us! 5:00pm to 5:30pm Check In and Networking 5:30pm to 8:30pm  5:30pm - City of Berkeley ICO: The Future of Micro Bonds - Hon. Ben Bartlett, Vice Mayor of Berkeley An Investment Bank's View on ICO Underwriting and How Insitutions Invest in Cryptocurrency? - Vitaly Golomb of IEG-Investment Banking Group  How Does CrunchFund Pick the Winners in the Blockchain/Crypto Space? - Prashant Fonseka of CrunchFund and Greg Osuri of Overlock Labs  Blockchain UseCases and Crypto Opportunties in Manufaturing/Construction/Shipping - Q &A with Alastair Trueger, Founder Partner of Creative Ventures The Opportunities in Global Wealth Allocation - Edward J. Wenrick from Bernstein   Closing and Networking

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Coder, hackers, designers in Alameda County and beyond! You're invited to participate in the San Ramon Hackathon to help the City of San Ramon improve its emergency preparedness. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative technology solution that addresses an issue such as communicating government disaster recovery plans to citizens, prepare citizens for an emergency, communicating the latest information to citizens during and after emergencies, enabling collaboration of all parties responding to an emergency, and more. Present your project to a panel of experts for a chance to win one of the cash prizes.