List of hackathons in Philadelphia, United States in 2015

We Connect the Dots' First Annual International Back-to-School Hackathon is taking place this January in schools around the globe! The info session is a chance for students, parents, community members and sponsors to find out how they can get involved and meet members of the We Connect the Dots team. Presentations will include how to fundraise to attend, what exciting content will be presented during the event, and what students will take away. The Hackathon will include lessons on coding in HTML5, using Microsoft's Azure Solutions Platform, and the role that technology skills will have in the future of the global job market. No coding experience is necessary! Industry professionals will be delivering important talks and instruction, and there are lots of great prizes available for teams with the best project. The info session is free to all. A question and answer session will follow a short presentation delivered by WCTD staff. Join us to learn all about how the Hackathon and how we are delivering access to technology for students around the world, starting right here on Long Island.    FAQs   Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? The info session is open to students, parents, community members and sponsors. There are no age limits for the info session. The Hackathon is open to students 13-18 years old.    What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? Penn Wood High School is reachable by public and private transportation. The school parking lot offers plenty of parking space to accomodate all attendees.    What can/can't I bring to the event? Bring your questions and (if you are the note-taking type) a pad and pen. Nothing else will be needed. Flyers and informational materials will be provided.   Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? events@we-connect-the-dots.org   Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? No.   Is there a fee to attend the info session? No. The info session is free to all

Have you ever had a great idea for a mobile app, but thought you just didn’t have enough time to build it? With Meteor, you can build that mobile app in less time! We are honored to co-host this Wine + Code with Meteor Philadelphia! Speaker Michael Ghobrial will show you how to start creating a mobile app using Meteor and Materialize CSS. Naturally, there will be a lot of questions, so he’ll spend some time answering those. Then, after a short break, we’ll all work on building a mobile app together. Meetup Agenda * 6: Arrivals, networking * 6:30: Keynote – let’s learn how to build a mobile app * 7:30: Hackathon – let’s build a mobile app Michael Ghobrial is co-founder of salesbox.io, a developer, and an attorney.  He has been melding his love of technology and problem solving since he could reach a keyboard.  Wine and pizzas are sponsored by the New York Code + Design Academy. And there will be some Meteor swag for attendees!

Are you a registered University student that knows his/her way around coding Android apps, has an idea for an awesome app, or you would like to learn how to develop an app with a team over a weekend?  Then come join us at the 2015 Villanova University College of Engineering Android Hackathon for 24 hours of hacking fun, food, giveaways and prizes. Please bring your student ID, your own laptop with your favorite Android IDE installed and if possible an Android device (smartphone, tablet, wearable, glass, kitchen appliance, etc) to help test and demo your awesome app.   If you have a killer idea for an app you can pitch it at the beginning of the event to gain interest from the other participants to form the ultimate app team.    After the event hang around and network with the sponsors and judges.  The event is free for students and space is limited, so sign up fast! For more information, please check out: http://bit.ly/2015VUAndroidHackathon And check out the short video from our previous event: http://bit.ly/1iZPwPt Hope to see you there!

This hackathon is being organized by Start It Up Delaware and it is for the benefit of the devs and designers who, for the past 4 years, sacrificed their time and effort to support non-technical individuals build and launch their startups. So, this time, we decided to throw a hackathon JUST for those devs and designers, and let them decide what they want to build. Who can come? Devs (back-end and front-end) & Designers (graphic designers)  What are we going to do? Come, bring your laptop and a power cord (and extra power strip if you have one), and work on WHATEVER you want We can work on anything? Really? YES. Really.  What about food? We'll have food for you. Dinner on Friday night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday, and then breakfast and a late lunch on Sunday. We'll also have plenty of snacks, sodas, juice, and beer.  What's the agenda? Friday Nov. 6th Doors open at 5pm 5p - 6p: Hacky Hour (yeah, we know, it's super cheesy, but we'll have beers and food for you so that you can check in, eat, get situated, and meet other folks in the room) 6p: Kick -off (we'll say a few words to help everyone understand the goals of the weekend) 6:30p: Roundtable discussion of projects 7p-10p: Teams that want to form can form and begin working out priorities; everyone else can start hacking 10:30p: Clean up 11p: Doors close Sat. Nov. 7th Doors open at 9am 9:30am: Breakfast (Cereral Bar) 1p: Lunch 7p: Dinner: Happy Hacksgiving (yeah, yeah, we know, super cheesy again, but we're doing a Turkey dinner!!) 11p: Doors close Sun. Nov. 8th Doors open at 9am 9:30am: Breakfast (Cereal Bar) 2p: Lunch 3:30p: Beers & Roundtable discussion of what was achieved and next steps for each group 6p: clean up 7p: go home!

Sanjay Macwan, NBCUniversal Sanjay Macwan serves as Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Media Labs, NBCUniversal.  In this role, Macwan leads Media Labs, an industry leading technology incubator and accelerator driving innovation across NBCUniversal’s global businesses, including TV, Films, Digital, and Theme Parks.  His team is also accelerating the culture of innovation within NBCUniversal—introducing a crowd-sourcing ideation platform in which all employees can participate; pioneering media technology hackathons that invite outside developers, designers and entrepreneurs to innovate for our businesses; and engaging with the global technology ecosystem, including startups, the venture capital community, and academic research groups, to keep NBCUniversal ahead of a rapidly changing media technology environment. As CTO, he also leads a company wide patent creation effort with the goal of creating a critical mass of strategic patents for the company.  Macwan is based at the NBCUniversal Technology Center in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Macwan served as Vice President, AT&T Chief Technology Officer and headed the CTO Technology Council, which incubated highly successful programs such as AT&T Foundry, a series of innovation centers that collaborate with global technology start-ups and the VC community; The Innovation Pipeline (TIP), an industry leading innovation platform; and the team that was responsible for strategic analysis of key ecosystems of web, ad/search, communications, social networks, and content. Macwan serves on a Technology Advisory Council of top Silicon Valley VC firm, KPCB, and on the Customer Advisory Board of a NYC startup, Kindling, Inc.  He has also served on the Industry Advisory Board with Ericsson, the advisory boards of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO), and successful startups such as Arcturus and Mu Dynamics (acquired by Spirent). Macwan holds 29 patents, and has an additional 16 patent applications in process in key areas of multimedia, mobility, location based services, cloud, CDN, information security, and IPTV. Agenda   6:30 Networking and Food 7:30 Fireside Chat 8:30 Networking Hosted By Bert Navarrete, Princeton Co-Director Bert Navarrete is an experienced investor and co-founder of Tigerlabs. Prior to Tigerlabs, Bert was a co-founder of a startup that built interactive sports applications for Connected TVs and second screen devices. Previously, Bert was responsible for M&A and venture investments at Internet Capital Group (ICG). Prior to ICG, Bert was an Investment Partner at Mitsui & Co., where he led Mitsui’s New York Technology Investment Group. Bert has served on the board and was an advisor on several notable investments, including CapitalIQ (NYSE: MHP), The Wedding Channel (NASDAQ: KNOT), MyFamily.com (ancestry.com), and Synacor (NASDAQ: SYNC). Bert was also a founding member of Merrill Lynch’s first seed-stage venture fund. Email: Trish@startupgrind.com Hosted By David Stengle, Princeton Co-Director David Stengle enjoys startups and spent almost his entire career on the operating side. His primary focus is building solutions for ad technology, media, financial services, and telecommunications and integrating them into very large organizations. He is a mentor at the Princeton University eLab and runs the Princeton Data Science Meetup. David is a chess master, barbecue judge, and coffee enthusiast. 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Join a great team of developers to rapidly expand the amount of content available via the IIIF Image and Presentation APIs! Over three days (29 Sept - 1 Oct) in Philadelphia, we intend to: Collect, review and improve existing shims that make systems compatible Implement as many new shims as we can, based on existing work Natively implement IIIF into systems we can feed back to or control Explore what should come next for IIIF, based on real implementation needs Breakfast will be supplied by IIIF, but otherwise all expenses are the responsibility of the attendee.  Some, limited funding may be available to ensure a wide cross-section of the IIIF technical community can attend. Further logistics and information will be available at:  http://iiif.io/event/2015/philadelphia.html An incomplete list of target systems to work with, as time and familiarity allows: Internet Archive Omeka ContentDM Veridian Chronicling America U.Penn's own content Flickr HathiTrust DZI NYPL Luna FSI Djatoka Wikimedia Commons ... bring your own! Please send suggestions, questions and comments to iiif-discuss@googlegroups.com Please note that the Pope is visiting Philadelphia the weekend before, and that there may be significant travel disruption on Sunday 27th and Monday 28th.  It is expected that starting on Tuesday will alleviate this issue.  If people are intending to arrive on Sunday or Monday morning, there is an opportunity to have a smaller group meet for planning or other IIIF related activities.  Details of the visit:  http://www.worldmeeting2015.org/papal-visit/ and news coverage: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/major-philadelphia-jersey-bridge-close-pope-visit-32905499