List of hackathons in Seaside, United States in 2016

Funding a Deep Learning startup? Learn what entrepreneurs should consider when starting an AI/DL startup and what investors look for. Join us for a fireside chat with Nitin Pachisia, Martin Hack and please welcome back Prateek Joshi. Nitin Pachisia is founding partner at Unshackled Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund that is actively investing in AI and Deep Learning startups. Nitin will share an investor’s perspective on what makes a Deep Learning startup appealing to investors.   Martin Hack is a serial entrepreneur, active investor and advisor to early and growth stage technology companies and venture funds. Prateek Joshi is the founder of Pluto AI, where he is using Deep Learning to save water. Prateek will share his experiences starting and fund raising as founder of a Deep Learning startup and an immigrant entrepreneur. The fireside chat will be followed by networking with investors and entrepreneurs. Nitin Pachisia Nitin Pachisia is a founding partner of Unshackled Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund for immigrant founders in the U.S. Unshackled Ventures is supported by nearly 80 investors, including Brad Feld, First Round Capital, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang and the Emerson Collective, founded by Laurene Powell Jobs. Before starting Unshackled Ventures, Nitin founded an experiential ecommerce company. Prior to that, he ran finance and strategy for ed-tech startup Kno (acquired by Intel) that raised over $90M of funding from top VC’s including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital and Floodgate. Before Kno, Nitin worked at Deloitte, focusing on tech startups and helping them with growth, exits, and strategic initiatives.Nitin has appeared on NBC, NPR, CCTV, has been featured in various publications including Forbes, WSJ, Financial Times, Techcrunch, CNN, and has been an op-ed contributor in the Huffington Post and ReCode. Nitin is actively engaged as mentor or as part of evaluation committee at Stanford University, Babson, Alchemist Accelerator, GTWY, Founder Institute, among others.Being an immigrant himself and having founded startups while on a visa in U.S., Nitin understands the venture resources immigrant founders need, besides capital. He recognizes the opportunity immigrant founders represent and is focused on building an ecosystem that strengthens the pursuit of their American dream. Martin Hack  Martin was the Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Skytree, a venture-backed Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Company. Under his vision and leadership he grew the company from its inception to triple, triple, double bookings while assembling a world-class machine learning technology and business team. During his tenure Skytree attracted a variety of industry leading customers and strategic investors such as Samsung, American Express, UPS and In-Q-Tel. Prior to Skytree, Martin was an executive at SonicWall (acquired by Dell), GreenBorder (acquired by Google) and Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle).  Prateek Joshi Prateek Joshi is an Artificial Intelligence researcher, a published author of 4 books (you can find all four of his books on Amazon) and a TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Pluto AI, a Silicon Valley startup building an analytics platform for water management based on Deep Learning. His work in this field has led to patents, tech demos, and research papers at IEEE conferences. He actively blogs at  www.prateekjoshi.com on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Python programming, and abstract mathematics. The blog has received more than 1 million page views from 200+ countries.Prateek has been an invited speaker at technology and entrepreneurship conferences. He has also been featured as a guest author in prominent tech magazines. He is an avid coder and has won many hackathons. He graduated from University of Southern California with a Masters degree specializing in Artificial Intelligence. He was elected to become a member of the Honors Society for academic excellence and an ambassador for the school of engineering. He has worked at companies such as Nvidia and Microsoft Research. You can learn more about him on his personal website at www.prateekj.com.   Event schedule:   7:00 PM-7:30PM: Food and Sign in   7:30 PM - 8:30 PM: Fireside Chat followed by Q&A   8:30 PM - 9:00 PM: Social Hour and Networking     Our Partners & Sponsors: Many thanks to our event sponsor, Roger Royse, founder of Royse Law Firm, PC, www.rroyselaw.com Royse Law Firm provides sophisticated, yet affordable, legal services to growing companies, high net worth individuals and investment funds in the technology sector as well as more traditional businesses such as hospitality, agri-business, real estate and manufacturing. Our clients include multi-national companies with globally dispersed ownership, management and operations as well as closely held and family businesses due to their need for integrated legal solutions that emphasize tax efficiencies. Our tax expertise is a common thread that runs throughout our practice and distinguishes the Royse Law Firm from other general business firms. We frequently advise other law firms on tax aspects of their corporate, real estate, and commercial transactions and provide tax advice to litigation attorneys in various contexts, including the taxation of recoveries and professional liability. Finally, we regularly advise on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate equity and debt financings, and partnership and joint venture transactions. SPACES: Creative working space in silicon valley’s menlo park: situated in tech hub Silicon Valley, Spaces Menlo Park is an exclusive creative workspace perfectly positioned on the waterfront. Inspiring contemporary interior design fuels innovative thinking, while wide open space offers free rein to bounce ideas in a collaborative working atmosphere. Our unique design ethos and tailored service concept make Spaces Menlo Park well suited to your business needs.   The Silicon Valley Deep Learning Group is a non-for-profit initiative. We are about scientists and developers interested in deep learning, entrepreneurs starting companies in deep learning, and investors interested in investment opportunities in deep learning start ups.  http://www.meetup.com/The-Deep-Learning-Group/   http://www.svdlg.com/

Rejectionathon is a one-day event that helps founders build a thicker skin and gain confidence in selling.  At Rejectionathon, you’ll be given a list of challenges that will put you just slightly out of your comfort zone.  You'll complete these with the morale support of team members who will cheer you on.   Similar to a hackathon, you'll spend the day solving fun, adrenaline-packed "hustle challenges" with a small team. More details here at rejectionathon.com

Creative students and professionals! Passionate about technology? Come participate in Mercedes-Benz Hack.SiliconValley Hackathon and collaborate to build prototype solutions that might transform the way we transport goods, equipment and people. You'll team with others to create vehicle ecosystem solutions based on cloud data and Internet of Things.

5th-8th grade students in San Jose. Ask your parents to sign you up for the Scratch Hackathon for 5th-8th Graders, a premiere hackathon for elementary and middle school kids. You'll meet with kids like you and work in teams to compete for prizes. You don't have to be an expert Scratch coder! There are prizes for beginners and for advanced students at both the elementary and middle school levels.

Big data hackers! Come and showcase your skills at the "What the Hackathon? 3 Build an Apache Apex (native Hadoop) Big Data App". You'll collaborate with other big data techies to build a native Hadoop big data Apache Apex streaming app. You can work on your own or in teams of up to three people. Compete for prizes and build an awesome streaming app!

Digital game enthusiasts! Think you can design an awesome game that has social relevance? Come along and showcase your techie and design skills at the 2016 Startup Hackathon Monterey Bay. This three-day technology development competition features a "Game-a-thon", where you will collaborate to create Digital Games that solve community problems. You'll work in a team to design and create a game that addresses one of the community problems that will be presented to you.

Enter the Small Business Tech Hackathon. The hack is open to everyone who wants to design, code, and build new and innovative apps that target small businesses or non-profits. Your innovative solutions will help entrepreneurs and visionaries easily manage the administrative tasks of keeping their businesses successful and their non-profits healthy. Build a brand new solution that addresses one of these challenges: Category 1: Create an app that saves a small business time or money by solving a unique SMB problem. Category 2: Create an app that saves a non-profit time or money by solving a unique non-profit problem.

All are welcome! Women and men—in which case you should bring along a woman coder/designer/student! Women Who Code - Silicon Valley invite you to "Hack for a Safe Campus". Come and collaborate on a project that involves writing code! Projects are not limited to web, mobile, or desktop applications. Any stack or framework is allowed. Your project may include a hardware component, but code must be an integral part of every project.

Developers, Designers, Idea Generators, Industry Experts! Interested in security, banking, finance or transportation? Come participate in the GlobalPlatform TEE Hackathon and develop secure applications on connected devices. Build your own app at the event or bring in your current app where security and privacy are needed. Bring your apps, your team and your ideas to learn, code and compete for cash prizes!

The PINKconcussions Symposium on Female Concussion/TBI and Hormones is co-hosted by the Veterans Adminstration and Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) with the purpose to present current research and partner industry, academia and adovcates to set an agenda for future research milestones through a hackathon. There will be a civilian and a military keynote.