List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2017

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.

Developers, designers, entrepreneurs! Are you interested in the application of technology to make smart buildings? You're invited to participate in the KONE Smart Buildings Hackathon. You'll be challenged to work with KONE's remote calling and monitoring APIs, and a virtual elevator simulator and IBM's Watson AI product in order to design and prototype an innovative smart building solution. Collaborate and compete for a prize pool of $10,000 by showing how to improve the day-to-day life in an office building, a hotel, a university, or a hospital.

Developers, designers, entrepreneurs in San Francisco and the Bay Area! Are you passionate about retail and fashion? The San Francisco Fashion and Merchants Alliance invites you to sign up to participate in SFFW2017 - Fashion Hackathon: Retail & Fashion App Solutions. At this 2-day event, you'll be challenged to come up with an innovative retail and in-store WiFi solution to your selected challenge of one of Customer Engagement, In-store Operations, or Business Intelligence.

Developers, designers, and business professionals in San Francisco and the Bay Area! If you are interested in health and wellness, NewPathVR invites you to participate in their VR Health and Wellness Hackathon. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you'll be challenged to conceive an innovative health and wellness startup project and pitch your project to a panel of expert judges.

All-Women Hackathon San Francisco A one day hackathon for women from experienced coders to total newbies. Watch this video of our March 2017 All-Women Hackathon, which was a huge success. Come with an idea or join a team on-site and spend the day building a great project with enthusiastic, fun people.  Registration | We have limited slots available, so please sign-up here. Your registration fee covers lunch and dinner and admission to the Career Fair Teams | Teams of 5 - 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 the Hackathon FB page and/or slack channel/ Food, fun and prizes.  This hackathon will be held during our Global Career Summit and will be focused on career challenges and solutions. All participants are welcome to attend the career fair. Hackathon Challenges Engage more Girls in STEM End the Gender Gap in Tech, Startup and/or Venture Capital Empower women to break the glass ceiling in workplace Enable companies to hire and retain diverse candidates Make the job search process applicant friendly for new immigrants and refugees Improve a potential candidate’s job search experience to find the right role Help women find and connect with mentors, recruiters and investors Solution to any other jobsearch, startup or career related challenge  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 Judges Marily Nika, Engineering Program Manager at Google and TEDx Speaker Rania Hoteit, CEO & Co-Founder at ID4A Technologies Ivy Nguyen, Investor at Zetta Venture Partners Alison MacKay, Infrastructure Data Center Recruiting at Facebook Liza Moiseeva, Co-founder at Globein If you have coding/hackathon experience and are interested in volunteering as a mentor, please register here For sponsorship or demo table inquiries, please e-mail us at info@theexpatwoman.com Agenda 9:00am: registration, team & idea forming, and kickoff 10:00am - 1pm work on project 1:00pm - lunch and continue working on project 6:30pm - 7:30pm dinner and final project submission deadline 7:30 - 10:30pm - introductions, hackathon presentations and awards  Hackathon Sponsors Datometry Sunrun Food and Drink Noosa Yoghurt Califa Farms Kind Bars Hint Water Clif Bars 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. By Participating at the event, you grant The Expat Woman permission to capture photo/video 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 and data scientists in the Silicon Valley! You're invited to participate in the Emirates CMU Innovation Lab Machine Learning and AI Travel Hackathon. You'll be challenged to use machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies -- together with data from Emirates Airline and other sources -- to provide insights, personalized customer experience, and data analytics to improve the Emirates passenger experience. Compete for recognition from this leading airline, as well as terrific cash prizes.

The OARC 27 Workshop will take place in San Jose, California, USA on 29 and 30 September. DNS-OARC Workshops are open to OARC members and to all other parties interested in DNS operations and research, with attendees from NANOG Hackathon, NANOG 71 and ARIN 40 particularly welcome this time around. Attendance is free for OARC Members and Sponsors. If your organisation is interested in sponsoring OARC Workshops, please see our Sponsor Benefits document or e-mail sponsor@dns-oarc.net for more information. FAQs Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?  Send an email to admin@dns-oarc.net   Is my registration/ticket transferrable?  Only in special circumstances where previously agreed.   Can I update my registration information?  Please contact us to do this  What is the refund policy?  There are no refunds.

Developers, designers, and facial recognition enthusiasts! Wherever you are in the world, TrueFace.ai invites you to participate in the TrueFace.ai Virtual Hackathon. You'll be challenged to use Trueface.ai's state of the art technology to design and build an innovative app that uses facial recognition - for anything you choose. Compete for recognition by TrueFace.ai and for prizes.