List of hackathons in Saratoga, United States in 2017

Techies and hackers in and around the Silicon Valley area. The Foothill Inventors' Club and Computer Science Club invite you to come and sign up to participate in OwlHacks. This event is the first hackathon hosted by Foothill College students! Come and compete for great prizes -- cash and movie tickets! All participants will also get free stuff, so bring your Swag bag!

Hacker and AR/VR enthusiasts in the Bay Area. ProtoHack invites you to sign up to participate in ProtoHack: AR/VR - Process of an AR product + Use Cases. This event is a lead in to ProtoHack's upcoming hackathon. At this event you'll learn how to prototype augmented reality and virtual reality products.

Evening Workshop: Creating Full Body Experiences in VR Calling all Software Developers! Especially those of you in town for Developer Week. Join our evening workshop to explore an alternative to controller inputs in VR: Full Body Motion Capture Clothing. Full Body Motion Capture provides an intuitive method of interaction that complements the immersive nature of VR for games, tools, and entertainment products. This workshop overviews basic input concepts in VR and focuses on a breakout session for developers to experiment with Enflux full body clothing products. Who Should Sign Up: Intermediate level Unity developers interested in developing applications with full body motion. The class will focus on experience design and programming with Enflux clothing rather than instructing Unity fundamentals. Participants are expected already be comfortable/experienced with Unity. What You Will Learn: A solid framework of different types of input in VR and advantages/disadvantages How to get started using a full body motion capture device (Enflux clothing) How to implement basic experiences in VR using a full body motion capture device (Enflux clothing) Session Led by Expert Instructor Russell Jahn is an interaction engineer whose work intersects programming with animation, art, and user-centric design. Currently VP of Software Experience at Enflux Smart Clothing, Russell has a diverse background of rapidly creating film and game software and tools. He programmed interactive software and props used hands-on by actors in Denis Villeneuve's critically acclaimed film Arrival (2016), Brian Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and the ABC television hit Quantico (2015). Russell has recently created customized VR experiences for set pre-production used in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming film Mother and for gags on Jimmy Kimmel Live! This workshop will be hosted at Upload by Enflux About Enflux Enflux (www.getenflux.com) makes Motion Capture Clothing for animation, sports, healthcare, and virtual reality. The Enflux developer kit costs only $349 (includes shirt, pants, and free SDK access), compared to professional motion capture systems, which cost up to $100,000. Enflux clothing is fashionable, simple, affordable, and mobile. This workshop is ideal for developers interested in creating VR sports applications for “The Future of Sports Technology” Hackathon at the Microsoft Reactor for Developer Week. More info available at https://www.getenflux.com/pages/events

Join thousands of developers at the worlds largest developer expo series! With over 50 week long events under their belt DevNetwork is sure to put on an event to remember. Meet new people and program on one of the over 200 platforms supported at the conference.

Designers, engineers, techies in and around San Francisco! You're invited to participate in the Reactathon — a series of events leading up to Facebook's React Conf 2017. You'll collaborate with like-minded technical professionals in the lead-up to the 2-day Reactathon hackathon.

Developers, designers, biz dev people, creatives, and you know who you are! If you're registered to attend DeveloperWeek 2017, then sign up and participate in the Accelerate 2017 hackathon. You will collaborate in teams to use sponsor's technology to create a project — a web app, mobile app, wearable solution, data visualization, algorithm, even a video presentation or visual mock-up. Compete to showcase your creativity and technical skills and win awesome prizes.

APIs, drinks and food: three things that go great together. Join DocuSign, Microsoft, and Smartsheet to enjoy all three, you choose the order. In addition, one lucky person will go home with a brand new Surface Pro 4 -- our mixer door prize!   Start your DeveloperWeek 2017 activities with us and learn how to build productivity apps across three of the leading platforms in the space. Whether you’re tracking the most popular content in an organization, collecting electronic signatures, or tracking tasks, we can give you a hand. Meet with product team members from DocuSign, Microsoft and Smartsheet and have a drink on us. Join us Friday evening, Feb 10, for great food, fun swag, and a change to mix and mingle (and potentially find a hackathon team!). Our pre-hackathon mixer is being held on the 15th floor of the DocuSign building overlooking the Bay Bridge. We look forward to seeing you there!

Agenda:   6:00 - Doors open. Networking. Members meet each other.  6:20 - Welcome. Members to share topics of interests for future meetings.  6:30 - Talk #1. Security of IoT Data: Implementing Data-Centric Security and User Access Strategy by Prasad Mujumdar, Software Engineer at BlueTalon 7:10 - Q&A break.   7:20 - Talk #2. Role of Mobile in Industrial IoT by Sundar Krish, CEO at waygum.io 8:00 - Q&A break & wrap-up. Want to give a talk? fill in this form #PredixSV Talk #1. Security of IoT Data: Implementing Data-Centric Security and User Access Strategy by Prasad Mujumdar, Software Engineer at BlueTalon  This session will articulate how a data-centric security approach unifies all security policies around the data, for full visibility and better control. Prasad Mujumdar from BlueTalon will provide a checklist to help you implement the best possible data security and user access control strategy. He will also describe how the BlueTalon security solution can be used in the context of the Predix platform to control and keep visibility over data access.  Talk #2. Role of Mobile in Industrial IoT by Sundar Krish, CEO at waygum.io Industrial IoT is generally believed to be accelerated by the technologies & products, getting better and cheaper in the sensor, egde computing, cloud, network connectivity and the big data space. However, one mega trend that actually contributes a lot more to Industrial IoT, yet somewhat under appreciated, is Mobile. Every industrial worker these days has a smartphone, and what this does is bring in a whole lot of users, compared to just a handful of them before, and this explosion of user base will be crucial factor for innovations in Industrial IoT. Sundar Krish, CEO & Founder of Waygum will talk about how mobile technologies, and the ubiquity of smartphones is revolutionizing Industrial IoT. About sponsors:   Altoros's unique specialty is turning services from Predix Catalog into apps carrying competitive advantage for its customers. For example, Altoros has built a real time baggage tracking solution - BagTrack - a service for airlines and airports that need to bring customer experience up to speed when it comes to letting the customer know, in real-time, status and location of your bag. Altoros provides private/public hackathons, training, application prototyping, development and integration services using solutions offered by GE, Predix Catalog and GE Digital ecosystem.  CBTS provides end-to-end IT and communications solutions that allow mid-sized and enterprise businesses to improve operational efficiency, enable innovation, mitigate risk and reduce expenditures. From building enablement infrastructure, to deploying cloud services, to employing managed services, to offering top-notch technology consultants, CBTS is your technology partner to gain a competitive edge and deliver quality services.  NOTE: This Meetup group is not affiliated with GE. This Meetup group does not own the GE Predix trademark; this Meetup has no affiliation, connection or association with such third party; Such third party has not approved nor sponsored this Meetup group's use of the trademark in any way.  

Interested in creating new tools and approaches to participatory governance and elections in today's age? You're invited to sign up and participate in the Upgrade Democracy Unconference. Come and collaborate with like-minded individuals to share ideas for improving the structures used for collective decision-making. Possible topics include: »Liquid Democracy »Instant Runoff Voting »Fixing the U.S. electoral college system »The epic battle against gerrymandering »The movement to overturn Citizen’s United

A Weekend Hands-on Workshop 360/VR is blowing up! This 3-day event with hands-on training provides essential skills for producing 360/VR video. *We have very limited spots* PRE-PRODUCTION Introduction to Storytelling For our first workshop, we will explore various aspects of 360/VR storytelling including scripting, perspective, interactivity, working with actors, spatialized sound, and storyboarding. Producing 360/VR Brief information on budgeting, location scouting, permits, and scheduling. We will teach the importance how to properly prepare to create a professional looking project. PRODUCTION A hands-on overview of various 360/VR equipment. This includes a basic introduction to building 360 worlds with cameras, sound recording and tripods/rigs. Shooting/Prototyping  your 360/VR Film You’ve planned you 360 cinematic short. Now, you’ll divide roles within your film team, check equipment and create a narrative experience working with our Showdown actors. POST-PRODUCTION Putting it all together. Please bring your laptops *See requirements below* 360/VR filmmaking post-production where we will teach such as editing, plug-ins, sound design to create a new cinematic VR piece. We will include a very brief overview of stitching, (*please note we will not be doing actual stitching due to time constraints). Publishing and distributing your new 360 piece. It's time for a 360 cinematic VR Premiere! Enjoy viewing the piece with our group, while we offer constructive feedback/helpful tips for your future 360/VR projects. Class Times: Friday, February 3rd: 6:00 P.M - 9:00 P.M Saturday, February 4th: 10:00 A.M - 6:00 P.M Sunday, February 5th: 10:30 A.M - 4:30 P.M Requirements VR production equipment is provided during the workshop. All participants must bring their own WIFI-ready laptop for use during this workshop. You must upgrade your operating system to the latest version before attending the course so there are no issues. You will need to sign up for a free 7-day trial of Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere) for use during the course. Bring an external hard drive to store your video files if you have that. Not a problem if you do not. INSTRUCTORS: Don Alvarez  Don creates software for artists and filmmakers, most recently as co-founder of the leading VR/360 film planning and pitching app http://FilmmakerLive.com. Before launching Filmmaker Live to help filmmakers share their vision, Don was Technical Art Director for Microsoft's Halo 4 game studio and wrote software for many films including Walt Disney's animated film Dinosaur. Don holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University, undergraduate degrees from MIT, and convinced two people to stand naked, outside, at the South Pole (-40F) for photos.  Nathalie Mathe Nathalie is an experienced VR creative who worked on more than thirty cinematic Virtual Reality projects. She contributed to Zero Point, the first VR documentary presented at Sundance New Frontier 2015. As Jaunt’s Director of Creative Technology, Nathalie supervised the  post-production of many 360 stereo videos, including “Paul McCartney in concert”, “North Face Climbers”, and “North Face Nepal”. She was one of the few women creating visuals effects on Fast & Furious 6, Skyfall and Dark Knight Rises. Nathalie now runs NativeVR in which she co-created and produced Uturn, a VR series celebrating gender diversity in the tech industry. She is an active member of Women in VR and a Film 360/VR instructor in the Academy of Arts University. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and an M.A in New Media. Sherrie “Shero” Robertson  Sherrie is the founder of Blaze VR. Past clients in traditional film include Red Bull, Body Mints, Fuel Television (Fox), First Hawaiian Bank, Ma Cher, and Triple Crown of Surfing. She was recently invited to show “My Name is Te” virtual reality doc at "VR on the Mountain" during Sundance. Shero has also won several awards for her Virtual Reality storytelling/producing work including “Best in Show” at the SF VR hackathon and “Best Design” Google’s Project Tango hackathon. Dramatic feature script, Juke Box Hero, is a two-time Sundance Feature Film Lab finalist currently in post-production. She also produced/directed action sports surf movies that were picked up for U.S and international distribution. Limited seats. Get your tickets today!