List of hackathons in San Francisco Bay, United States in 2018

Join global entrepreneurs, innovative startups, and the Bay Area's best during an evening of pitches and celebration. These Global Demo Day startups won their local AngelHack hackathon, impressing expert judges from all over the world. They then triumphed during a 12-week virtual pre-accelerator curriculum, building out their idea, prototypes, and business plans in anticipation of this night - an evening which could make or break their startup journey. Meet the 19 chosen teams here. Interested in attending as an investor? Email info (at) angelhack.com The HACKcelerator is a pre-accelerator program designed to take winning hackathon ideas from around the world from prototype to fully fledged startup with early traction. Annually, the top companies fly out to San Francisco for extensive pitch training and mentorship to prep for AngelHack’s Global Demo Day. With a startup portfolio valuation of $75M, acquisitions from tech giants such as Google, and BOX, AngelHack is the highest valued pre-accelerator in the industry. Thursday, November 1st, 2018 the top 1% of global entrepreneurs will present their new companies’ at Global Demo Day followed by the biggest after party in Silicon Valley: Startup Bash. Dress code is black tie optional. The AngelHack team will be dressed to the nines! Feel free to join us! 6:00PM - DOORS OPEN, DRINKS AND NETWORKING7:00PM - DEMO’S BEGIN 9:00PM - WINNERS ANNOUNCED10:00PM - STARTUP BASH WITH OPEN BAR       

Blockchain and data analytics developers in Silicon Valley! You're invited to participate in the IDEAS Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Stanford University. Come as a coder/developer team and participate in your choice of either the blockchain or the data analytics section of the hackathon. You will have 2 days to hack a team project, compete for prizes and pitch your idea to top venture capital investors.

Blockchain and data analytics developers in Silicon Valley! You're invited to participate in the IDEAS Global Blockchain & Data Analytics Hackathon at Stanford University. Come as a coder/developer team and participate in your choice of either the blockchain or the data analytics section of the hackathon. You will have 2 days to hack a team project, compete for prizes and pitch your idea to top venture capital investors.

Advocates, public servants, students, and experts in tech and law in the Silicon Valley Area! You’re invited to participate in the Second Chances and Empathy Hackathon. You'll collaborate to come up with digital strategies to support the “second chance” legislation enacted by states across the country. You'll be challenged to develop tools to automate records clearance -- the removal of record history from a person's public record -- using publicly available court records.

A one-day hackathon for women from experienced coders to total newbies. Note: No coding experience is required to participate in this hackathon, you just need passion   Only 20% of hackathon participants are women, similar in scope to the underrepresentation of women in computer science and other tech fields.   The Expat Woman has been addressing this gender gap by hosting these all-women hackathons for the last two years. Our talented participants with backgrounds in coding, design, entrepreneurship, business, product etc ranging in age from 15 to 65 have developed innovative websites, games, cloud-based services, and mobile apps to address various challenges.  "What an incredible day. Thanks to The Expat Woman team for all you did to pull it off - it was by far the BEST hackathon I've ever attended. So well-organized, and tons of talented, impressive women to connect with." - Ginny, Software Engineer and Sept. 2017 hackathon participant   Join us for our 5th WomenHack - The All-Women Hackathon on October 20, 2018. Come with an idea, and form a team or join a team on-site and spend the day building a great project with enthusiastic, talented, fun people. You do not need to have coding experience to participate We will have mentors at the hackathon who can assist you with your projects. Registration | We have limited slots available, so please sign-up here. Your registration fee covers all meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) Teams | Teams of  6 women will be formed Saturday morning.  Judges | Our judging panel is made up of industry influencers, educators, hackathon pros and civic leaders. Bring |Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance on Twitter/Facebook with #tewhack.  Food, fun, swag and prizes  HACKATHON CHALLENGES Hackathon Challenge 1: Hack a solution that will help end the gender gap in tech, startup or venture capital Hackathon Challenge 2: Hack a solution that ensures that women can be safe at the workplace, school or home, while traveling or out in the community Hackathon Challenge 3: Hack a solution that empowers women to start and run a business, succeed in the workplace or become leaders in the community Hackathon Challenge 4: Hack a solution that helps new immigrant or refugee women access resources and support and succeed in the US Hackathon Challenge 5 : Design a crypto or blockchain business or solution   Join our Hackathon Event FB page  for updates and to connect with other participants. If you have coding/hackathon experience and are interested in volunteering as a mentor, please register here   For sponsorship, prizes or demo table inquiries, please e-mail us at info@theexpatwoman.com We have four Winning Categories 1. Originality: How unique is your idea 2. Technical: Best use of code to create your product 3. Design: Best looking product 4. Business Model: Is there a viable business model attached to the idea Agenda 9:00am- 10:30am Registration, breakfast, team & idea forming, and kickoff 10:30am - 12:30pm work on project 12:30 pm - lunch and continue working on project 6:00pm - 7:00 pm dinner and final project submission deadline 7:15 - 9:30pm - introductions, hackathon presentations and awards If you are interested in participating as a panelist, speaker or mentor at our events, please apply here Terms of Participation Agreement You agree that you are responsible for any accidents or damages that you cause. You also agree to not hold The Expat Woman, or any of the event supporters liable for any loss, damage, injury, or any other unforeseeable incident. You agree The Expat Woman, is not responsible for circumstances that may necessitate for substitutions or cancellations of speakers. By Participating at the event, you grant The Expat Woman permission to capture photos/videos of the event. By registering for this event, you also consent to receive email communication from The Expat Woman and its programs about events and updates that may interest you. Tickets to this event are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, you have the option of giving it to a friend or team member to attend in your place.

Developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers, and space enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area! WeSolve World invites you to participate in the 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge—a 48-hour global weekend hackathon focused on space exploration. Join the contest to design and build a prototype solution to a designated space challenge. Two winning teams from each location will be nominated for global judging. Your team will create a short video project demo and present it to a jury of NASA experts for the chance to win a trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a rocket launch! Advice from our hackathon tips pagecan improve your 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge experience!

BrightSource is partnering with Donor Network West, one of the largest organ procurement organizations nationwide, for our third growth hackathon! Held at the Donor Network West office, competitors will have a chance to witness the nonprofit's impactful work firsthand, then work as teams to devise a yearlong teen-targeted organ donation awareness campaign. As always, competitors with the best solutions, as judged by the clients, will be hired as interns to implement their proposals in real life. Monetary prizes are as follows: First Place – $1000 Second Place – $500 Third Place – $200 Join us on Saturday, October 20th, from 9 AM to 7 PM for a chance to not only win monetary prizes and internships but also to network with Tri-Valley leaders of all ages and backgrounds! Catered meals and snacks are also provided :) To register, please follow these steps: 1) Complete this Eventbrite form2) Electronically sign the facilities waiver as well as the BrightSource competitor contract (link emailed after registration)3) Keep a lookout for event update emails, as we will be sending out the details of the competition topic a few nights before the conference! For more information, please visit www.brightsource.solutions.

The 'Designathon on Tour' brings together talented people from the creative economy of both cities – Zurich and San Francisco – during the weekend of October 20/21. The Swiss Designathon Team and swissnex San Francisco invite you to participate in the co-creation process on topics around urbanization and technology. The Designathon is a hackathon for design-thinking among curious and motivated people. Together, in interdisciplinary teams, participants think critically about the future and search for productive solutions throughout the weekend. The goal is to create synergies between design and the economy, science and the arts, as well as individual people — while generating innovative, fresh, visionary, but also critical, ideas. Download the .pdf for more information. Best pitches will be awarded and build the framework for the Urban Tech Summit taking place on October 23 at the same venue. Presented as part of the Festival "Zürich meets San Francisco" and in partnership with the Canton of Zurich. Program Saturday 8:30am — doors open, registration9:00am — kick-off talks10:00am — coffee break10:30am — kick off and design tasks11:15am — speed brainstorming11:30am — team building session12:00pm — lunch buffet1:00pm — individual team work with snacks & drinks bar1:30pm — "ideation" and group mentoring4:00pm — "conception" and group mentoring6:00pm — "concretization" and group mentoring10:00pm — doors close Sunday7:00am — doors open for team work11:00am — workshop: "How to Pitch" and individual group-mentoring3:00pm — workshop concludes4:30 pm — Designathon on Tour: Showcase + SF Design Week Pop-Up commences5:20pm — 90-second pitches, open to the public6:45pm — keynote and networking7:00pm — performance by None of Them8:00pm — awards, closing speech8:30pm — networking9:30pm — doors close Speakers Danny StillionExecutive Design Director at IDEO Danny Stillion is a Partner and Executive Design Director at IDEO. With a background in fine art, visual communications and product design, Danny was drawn to the field of interaction design through his interests in visual design and shaping services that enhance our lives. Danny's deep grounding in interaction design richly intersects with IDEO's transportation and mobility work. Working with many of the world's leading automotive manufacturers and mobility startups, Danny has helped shape a variety of Human-Machine Interfaces and services. Work includes designing for the coming age of automobility, vehicle-to-vehicle interactions, active heads up displays, and a wide range of ownership, training and telematics services. His award-winning work and perspective have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, WIRED, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, the IDEA Awards, and has resulted in various patent awards. He speaks internationally about designing for mobility, interaction design and design thinking. Dawn ZidonisSan Francisco chapter of AIGA & San Francisco Design Week As Executive Director of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and San Francisco Design Week, Dawn is eager to help designers stake out their place in the entrepreneurial culture that defines the Bay Area. Her vision for the San Francisco chapter is to build on the passion people bring to the design community, create connections between members and business, foster the cross-pollination of ideas among design disciplines, and ultimately add valuable, meaningful content to the design conversation. Dawn is the co-founder and current Vice President of World Design Weeks, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting international design weeks, sharing resources and content and fostering conversations between design cities. Pietro MasiSketchin Pietro Masi runs the San Francisco Design Studio for Sketchin, one of the leading Experience Design firms in Europe. He applies a unique approach which blends Service and Product Design to innovate complex ecosystems such as urban planning. His international work bridges and combines Silicon Valley and Europe design philosophies. Pietro also mentors European startups aiming to break through the US market. Wilfried AnreiterHead of the Transportation Planning Division, Canton of Zurich Wilfried Anreiter is member of the management board of the Office for Transport within the Canton of Zurich and Head of the Transportation Planning Division. In his position he is in charge of devising and implementing the Canton’s strategic Transport Master Plan, thereby overseeing and assessing the various road and infrastructure projects. He is also, amongst others, responsible for developing integrated transport and land use schemes, for transport modeling, implementing the cycling action plan, for mobility management as well as research into innovative forms of mobility. Wilfried Anreiter graduated both in Civil Engineering and in Urban Planning, at Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at Oxford Brookes University (UK) respectively. He obtained a PhD from the Vienna University of Natural Resources (Austria) for his thesis on quality management and competitive tendering in public transport. Before taking up his current position in 2008, he had worked as a transport planning consultant and as head of business development of Swiss Federal Railways, rapid and regional transit division. Jury Anmol ChaddhaResearch Director of the Equitable Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future Anmol Chaddha is a Research Director of the Equitable Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future, which considers how economic and technological changes might create opportunities to address the problems of social inequality. The Equitable Futures Lab aims to innovate and shape interventions particularly on wealth inequality, job quality, and ongoing economic transformations. Anmol has extensive policy and research background in the political economy of inequality, low-wage work and job quality, racial inequality, debt and wealth. Prior to joining IFTF, he developed policy and research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he established an initiative to improve the quality of jobs in low-wage industries, led research on racial wealth inequality, and examined the rising debt burdens of low-income families. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, where he was a Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Başak AltanAdjunct Professor in Industrial Design at the California College of the Arts Başak is an Adjunct Professor in Industrial Design at the California College of the Arts (CCA). She is an Entrepreneur, Senior Design Strategist and Design Educator trained in Industrial Design and Business Strategy services and has been shaping, driving and accelerating innovation for organizations for over 20 years. In her recent role as the Chair of Industrial Designers Society of America, San Francisco Chapter, she leads the efforts of bringing communities together by organizing events that spark meaningful conversations. Dawn ZidonisExecutive Director of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and San Francisco Design Week As Executive Director of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and San Francisco Design Week, Dawn is eager to help designers stake out their place in the entrepreneurial culture that defines the Bay Area. Her vision for the San Francisco chapter is to build on the passion people bring to the design community, create connections between members and business, foster the cross-pollination of ideas among design disciplines, and ultimately add valuable, meaningful content to the design conversation. Dawn is the co-founder and current Vice President of World Design Weeks, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting international design weeks, sharing resources and content and fostering conversations between design cities. Jennifer StojkovicExecutive Director at sf.citi Jennifer Stojkovic serves as Executive Director at sf.citi and is responsible for operations, strategy, and growth. sf.citi strives to strengthen San Francisco’s reputation as a leader in both technological innovation and social responsibility. Connecting San Francisco’s tech leaders, nonprofit organizations, and city policymakers, sf.citi advocates innovation and collaboration to create meaningful change around pressing issues affecting the San Francisco community. Sophie LamparterFounder, DART  Sophie is the founder of DART (dartlabs.io), a testing lab bringing design, art, research, and technology together to build clever human machine interfaces. Her passion is finding new ideas and talent with a creative approach to technology. Before starting DART, she was Associate Director at swissnex San Francisco, Switzerland’s Innovation outpost in San Francisco. There she has initiated a number of interdisciplinary exhibitions, programs, hackathons around the future of cities, including Data Canvas, a program to empower citizens around the world to engage with DIY and open government data. She has spoken at many conferences, including SXSW, Austin, Gray Area Festival, San Francisco, Lift Conference, Geneva, Ars Electronica, Linz and at the European Commission for STARTS (Science + Technology + Arts). Performance None Of Them None Of Them are an avantgarde duo consisting of Signup (vox, synths) and Michal Ho (electronics, vox). N.O.T. are constantly deconstructing stylistic boundaries and assimilating musical traditions so as to subvert them. They draw upon rock, rap, electro, punk, funk and goth, and infuse these 20th century husks with their own vision. On stage, Signup is the master of ceremony, Michal Ho is the selector. Vocals glide over beats generated in LED-lit steel bricks bristling with knobs. The duo was founded in 2012, in Zürich. They have released three vinyl albums on the label Nice Try Records and produced five video clips with distinct styles. They have been performing shows in an extended formation since 2015, with bass (Flo Götte) guitar (Franziska Staubli) and drums (Vincent Glanzmann), among other instruments, as well as dancers and pyrotechnics. They are currently working intensely on their fourth studio album. Designathon Team Johanna Scheurer Johanna Scheurer is a swiss designer working as an assistance and professor at the art and design school F+F Schule in the department photography. Meanwhile she is engaged and since 2018 also working for Designathon Verein. Both working fields – education as a place for experimental work and the knowledge transfer happenings by co­creation events like Designathon 15/17– are important tools for Johanna to express her deep belief in a more openminded and critical discussion about our future, which should be build by the people (bottom up) and needs to include more awareness – also for the nature. For several years she has been co­creating and organizing different events, where she is expressing her passion for designing atmospheres and participative get­togethers and happenings. Education: Product Design, BA Product Design, in the field of Trends and Identity, ZHDK Nadja Müller Nadja Müller is a passionate designer located in Zurich working in the fields of experience and interaction design. With a background in graphic design for print she came to web design and further into experience design. Today she aims at bringing together the analogue and digital world to one human experience. She believes in the creative mind of everybody in their own field and uses co­creation as a key for a successful collaboration. She strives to enable peoples knowledge and transforming this power through design methods in common solutions. Nora Gailer Nora Gailer is a Swiss designer working in the field of digital branding and interaction design. She is curious how people can get involved using different media and ways of communication. In her opinion co­creation and participation in design are important and will be even more in the future. To find solutions to complex problems need the idea and knowledge of many. She focuses in her work and on the different levels of inclusion and methods of addressing people when asking for co­creation and joining processes. Education: Graphic Design Apprenticeship, BA Interaction Design Sidney Sutter Sidney Sutter is a Swiss filmmaker currently working in the field of online and explainer videos. He is curious about how to break down difficult topics in a nutshell and tries to find new ways to tell stories which are created by a swarm. Co-­creating stories is a key to storytelling of the future.You need to get as many opinions as possible to break down a difficult topic into a believable video. In his work, he tries to combine the fun part of the internet with serious topics and through that make boring sounding videos accessible to everyone. Education: Draftsman Apprenticeship, BA Audiovisual Media Simon Oschwald Simon Oschwald is a Swiss designer working in the fields of product and spatial design. In his opinion, the quality of design gets better when it is discussed from different perspectives. Therefore he sees co-­creation as a crucial part when it comes to find new solutions for the complex problems of our time. In addition to this aspect, he always tries to find a playful approach to problem solving in his work. Education: BA Industrial Design swissnex Salon The swissnex Salon is a new model for dialogue on how the future of our society is shaped: a platform that includes multiple perspectives and provides a critical lens on possible emergent futures. Taking inspiration from the values articulated within the Preamble of the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation, we examine the role of technology in shaping, distorting, and expanding societal foundations.

This is where faith meets action. Hackathons are a perfect setting where technology, missions, and faith are directly linked in a fun community atmosphere.  In the last two years, the Indigitous #HACK events have seen more than 2,100 creatives, coders, strategists, and leaders from 70 cities collaborating on 125 projects of missional importance. Join us in Palo Alto on October 19th-20th when we tackle local and global challenges, finding technology solutions that move the mission of Jesus forward. Space is limited, so be sure to register early! Tracks: This year we are holding two efforts in parallel at the same location. Sign up for whichever suits you best: Hackathon: Join alongside 37 cities around the world as you bring new product innovations to reality with great organizations like Cherish Uganda, who brings hope to children living with HIV. Or, bring your own ideas and work alongside peers with other great organizations to steward your time and talents. Design Sprint: Using Life Church's adaptation of Google's Design Sprint, we will focus on rapidly testing and iterating a number of prototypes in a single day in order to help Foster the Bay provide a loving home for every child in the Bay Area. (space is limited) Location: We are honored to host this years gathering at Sacred Space, a coworking space for entrepreneurs, freelancers and spiritual directors. If you require childcare during the event, please email info@sacredspace.io and with enough interest this may be accommodated.  Registration: The participation fee will cover your meals during #HACK, but if this is a barrier please email us at siliconvalley@faithtech.com as we have supporters willing to sponsor your ticket.  Agenda: Friday, October 19th (7:00 PM): Welcome & project pitches Saturday, October 20th (8:30 AM): #HACK + design sprint kickoff Saturday, October 20th (7:00 PM): Presentations

Blockchain enthusiasts in North America! You're invited to participate in the San Francisco location of The Hedera18 Hackathon—the first global, decentralized hashgraph hackathon. You'll be challenged to use Hedera Hashgraph APIs to build an innovative DApp in your choice of a category such as gaming, supply chain, social causes, micropayments, or IoT. Compete for a $20k local prize pool and the chance to compete for the Global Grand Prize of $50k in Hedera coin and US dollars.