List of hackathons in San Ramon, United States in 2017

Corporate and HR leaders in and around the San Francisco Bay Area! Compassion Leaders and Kulture of Kindness invite you to sign up to participate in the Leadership Hackathon. You'll learn how you can be the best leader you can be and how to make your team more successful. You'll get to network, learn and hack for prizes.

Hackers in Singapore, Jakarta, and the Bay Area! Singapore Airlines (SIA) invites you to sign up to participate in the SIA App Challenge. You'll be challenged to be part of SIA’s Digital Transformation and create an innovative app that solves one of the real world Customer or Operations challenges posed by SIA. You'll leverage APIs provided by SIA, Amadeus, Expedia, SITA, Mastercard, and Panasonic. Teams that win through the preliminary event will be flown free of charge to the final in Singapore.

Startups need creative business models to attract investors and industry partners and for ultimate profitability. And business models must often evolve as companies develop. In conceiving business models, entrepreneurs can think as designers: use visual tools, consider scenarios, generate options, and test prototypes. Carley Jacobson and Maaike Doyer of Business Models Inc. are experts in applying design thinking to help companies succeed. Join us Tuesday, October 10 to learn how they operate. About the Speakers Carley Jacobson is a Strategy Designer at Business Models Inc. Through Business Models Inc she supports organizations with strategy, business model generation and validation, and value proposition design. For 6 years prior, Carley helped grow Autodesk's maker community Instructables.com. With over 115 do-it-yourself tutorials, Carley has gained over 13 million page-views and recognition from major publications such as The Huffington Post, GQ Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and more. She uses her experience in online community building, hackathons, content creation, and customer development to build new innovative strategies. Carley holds a degree in Computer Science and Visual Art from Union College and an MBA in Design Strategy from California College of the Arts. Maaike Doyer supports (inter)national organizations with the development and improvement of business models and the embedment of business models throughout the organization. Maaike’s specialization is strategy and business modeling, supporting organizations in realizing their vision and achieving sustainable business. She has a proven record in strategy and implementation of mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive experience in the Automotive and Financial Services Industry. Maaike is an expert in business design, design thinking and strategic visioning. She runs global projects, with a focus on the Americas. Maaike is very pragmatic and has a startup mindset. Maaike is the Global CFO of Business Models Inc and a professor at the California College of the Arts where she teaches design thinking in practice.

Women and nonbinary techies in the San Jose area! If you're planning to participate in Hack the Patriarchy, then you're invited to come to meet potential hackathon/startup teammates and brainstorm some ideas for the hackathon. Hack the Patriarchy is about finding solutions to the social system in which males hold the primary power.

Italian developers and tech experts -- students and professionals -- in and around the San Francisco, California! Are you interested in the use of technology to improve public administration? Then you're invited to participate in Hack.Developers SAN FRANCISCO-CALIFORNIA. Join in with your peers all over Italy in this 48-hour event organized by the Digital Transformation Team - Codemotion. You'll get the opportunity to work as part of a team and come up with an innovative solution for a public administration project using open source technology!

Fintech hackers, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area! AngelHack invites you to participate in Hack Your Tomorrow. You'll be faced with the U.S. Bank & AARP Challenge to design and prototype easy, accessible solutions that help people budget for caregiving, work independently, and protect their loved ones from financial exploitation.

The rapid advancement of Blockchain and IoT technologies present a challenge to businesses of all scales. Join us for a weekend of exploration into the industry’s most cutting edge innovations and how participants address specific challenges aligned to their business needs. Plug and Play is hosting a Blockchain + IoT hackathon at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California on October 6th-8th. The hackathon will bring together a mix of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and tech visionaries to develop innovative and demonstrative IoT prototypes with a payments or finance component. The event is sponsored in part by EY, and we will announce more exciting tech partners offering their APIs and hardware soon! Prizes will also be announced shortly :)  SCHEDULE Friday, Oct. 6th 6pm-7pm: Arrival/Check-in | 7pm-7:30pm: Kickoff + Introductions to Challenges | 7:30pm-8pm: Idea Pitches | 8pm-8:30pm: Team Formation | 9pm: End Saturday, Oct. 7th 9am-9:30am: Welcome + Breakfast | 9:30am: Hacking Begins | 12pm: Lunch | 5pm: Project Registration | 6:00pm: Dinner | Hacking Overnight Available Sunday, Oct. 8th 9am-9:30am: Welcome + Breakfast | 9:30am: Hacking Continues | 12pm: Lunch | 1pm: Code Freeze | 1:30pm: Hackathon Presentations | 4pm: Judges Deliberate | 5pm: Winners Announced + Closing Ceremonies | 6pm: Close Hackathon Participation Agreement

Join us for a mid-day lunch break as we discuss Artificial Intelligence and the basics of Machine Learning with Val Ward. Converse with like-minded individuals while enjoying the ambience of the only incubator in the city exclusive to the VR/AR industry. Lunch and good conversation provided.  Val Ward is a longtime A.I. aficionado currently working in Machine Learning / Computer Vision for Advertising technology.  He has won many awards, patents, and hackathons.  For fun, ask him about mathematics or cats!

Non-tech founders! Are you thinking of participating in the Hack the Patriarchy hackathon? If so, you should consider attending Beyond the Build: a Workshop for Non-Tech Founders. You'll get to learn a lot of things that will help you in the hackathon, including coming up with and communicating new ideas, collaboration techniques, time management and presentation skills.

Women professionals in San Francisco and the Bay Area! Are you planning to attend the Global Career Summit -- a career fair and TED-style conference? If so, don't miss the opportunity to participate in the All-Women's Hackathon that will run in conjunction with the Summit. You'll get to collaborate with like-minded women to create solutions to common career challenges, such as how to engage more girls in STEM, how to end the gender gap in tech, startup and/or venture capital, how to empower women to break the workplace glass ceiling, and more.