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VetsinTech Hackathon @Facebook!!
  19 Oct - 09:00 AM
  Menlo Park, United States
Join the VetsinTech Hackathon @Facebook - one of our most popular annual events!! In this full-day event the VetsinTech and Facebook community will come together to support our returning veterans. Teams of approximately 5-10 people will be formed with a variety of skills -the vets can have the idea, help with business plan, marketing or just sit in to audit/participate for educational purposes – coding skills are NOT required. Chosen mentors from the tech community will come together (and to code) and recognize to the unique perspective our returning veterans have to offer.   What is it: The VetsinTech hackathon @ Facebook is a full day business and app development competition. The event’s goal is to invite returning veterans to be part of a team focused on building successful startups around the next generation social, mobile, gaming, ecommerce, health or other applications and to foster a community of (veteran) entrepreneurship. Our veterans can add a unique perspective to many of these types of applications. Registered idea generators are given 1 minute to pitch an app concept to a tech audience on day one. Attending veterans, engineers, designers, marketing and business people as well as our team of glorious mentors pre-select the best ideas that will be developed into applications during the day. Teams are formed around the most promising projects and the competition begins.   What to expect: Expect to find the complimentary skills that help you to connect in the tech community. Be open, share your ideas and don’t hold back – “Ideas without actions are usually called dreams” Expect to meet super talented and inspiring people, to work under time pressure, and to dedicate the whole day! Expect to gain valuable feedback and insight not only from your teammates but also from other participants and the all-star panel of Judges. AGENDA: — 9:00-9:15: Welcome – Facebook + Vets inTech — 9:30-10:00  Breakfast – VIP Speaker - Mike Vernal, VP Facebook  — 10:00-10:30 : Entrepreneurs pitch their business plans and ideas to the group — 10:30-10:45 Break — 11:00-11:30: Team formation — 11:30 – 12:00: Teams begin product and business plan work — 12:00-12:15: Grab lunch! — 12:15 – 1:00pm Keynote Speaker - Ramona Pierson - CEO, DeClara — 1:00 – 2pm - Facebook for Small Business presentation — 2:00-3:00pm: Product and business plan team work — 3:00-6:00pm: FB advisors/mentors and team work — 5:00-6:00pm: Dinner + Speaker - John Gossart, Co-Founder and COO GoodWorld, Inc and founding member of RideScout — 6:00-7:00pm Business presentations to panel of judges - Zack Hargreaves, Founders Fund - Craig Hanson, Next World Capital — 7:15-7:30pm Break (judging) — 7:30-8:30pm Awards!! and Networking      
    Meeting of the Minds 2015 Hackathon
      17 Oct - 11:00 AM
      Richmond, United States
    NOTE: The location has changed to The Craneway Pavilion, 1414 Harbor Way South, Richmond, CA 94804 (look for signage on the sidewalk for the correct entrance) This event is sold out. The Meeting of the Minds annual summit will convene 400+ VIPs from 25+ countries in Richmond, CA to discuss the future of sustainable and smart cities. In conjunction with this year's summit, we are hosting the 2nd annual Meeting of the Minds Hackathon, sponsored by Qualcomm with support from Microsoft. The first Hackathon ever organized in Richmond, the purpose is to provide real solutions that both the Mayor's Office and citizens can use on a day-to-day basis to improve the city. The Civic Hackathon will convene teams of citizen hackers in Richmond, CA on October 17-18. Purpose: build an application that improves the livability, sustainability and connectedness of Richmond, CA. Civic Hackathon: Located at The Craneway Pavilion from October 17-18, teams of 1-5 are encouraged to register and compete for a grand prize of $5,000 cash provided by Qualcomm. The top 3 teams will present their solution on stage on October 21 (9:00 am) in the plenary session at Meeting of the Minds 2015 (at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond) in front of the entire summit and a live webcast audience. The top five teams will also create a short slide deck to be shown in the lobby of the summit on Microsoft technology. Schedule: Saturday, October 17: 11:00am - Check -in 11:30am - Welcome and briefing 10:00pm - Adjourn for the day Sunday, October 18: 9:00am - Check-in and breakfast 2:00pm - Judging session 4:00pm - Top three teams announced (winner will be announced on stage on Oct 21) 4:30pm - End Civic Hackathon Judges include:  Anthony Di Leva, Senior Business Development Analyst, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Scott Mauvais, Director, Technology & Civic Innovation, Microsoft Commissioner Catherine Sandoval, California Public Utilities Commission Clara Brenner, CEO, Tumml Adam Lenz, Environmental Manager, City of Richmond    Hackathon Judging Guidelines: Click Here Hack Kit from Qualcomm: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. will be making available a limited number of DragonBoard™ 410c development boards to teams participating in the Civic Hack to develop upon. Based on a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 400 series processor, the DragonBoard 410c features advanced processing power, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity, and GPS, all packed into a board the size of a credit card. Hack Kit from Gimbal: Gimbal is the leading location and proximity-based mobile engagement platform, helping you to deliver the most relevant and personalized engagements to a user's mobile device. Our comprehensive platform combines macro-location geofences and proximity beacons with software, hardware, analytics tools, a proximity marketplace and a management portal to get the most out of your mobile location strategy. This allows advertisers, brands, retailers, venues and Out-of-Home networks to understand a user’s journey from beginning to end and deliver them relevant engagements at the proper time in the buying cycle or journey. We will be providing our SDK and a limited number of Gimbal Series 10 Proximity Beacons available for teams participating in the Civic Hack. Using our industry leading technology, the Gimbal Series 10 Proximity Beacon is our smallest battery-powered form factor to date, easily fitting in the palm of your hand while still providing powerful proximity capabilities.  Hack Kit from World Programming: World Programming will be providing WPS software (www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps) and support for any SAS programmers taking part in the event who would like to create and run programs in the language of SAS. The WPS software will be available on a server provided by Cisco and also for installation onto your own workstations running Linux, OS X or Windows.  Teams who use WPS software at this event will be given a license at no cost, and can use the product and all of its features for 6 months after the event. There will be data sets that can be used to create civic oriented applications and the data is categorized into Economic Development, Public Spaces, Health and Environment, Sustainability, Digital Divide and Education. So there is plenty of data available for a myriad of subject matter experts to use. Hack Kit from OSIsoft: OSIsoft will provide their real-time data infrastructure software, specifically, by providing a preinstalled PI System (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMcG1Hs2JbcvidLkfMecSXH9axNe8bzch) that is collecting and archiving data from a simulated city, including data from assets like building electricity meters, air conditioning equipment, a local weather station, and solar photovoltaic arrays.  That live and archived data will be made available to hackathon participants via OSIsoft’s PI Web API (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Documentation/PI-Web-API/help.html), a REST-architecture web service that will allow teams to easily make data queries to the PI System (running in the Microsoft Azure cloud), so that they can then analyze and visualize the city data in their custom applications.  Additionally, OSIsoft will also be providing logins to access an installation of PI Coresight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS_eQe7AfAY&list=PL8E513C8ABCC29AF7), a streamlined, web-based tool for ad-hoc data analysis, in order to help hackathon teams investigate and explore the live city data, so that they can better plan their custom applications.  To answer any questions about any of these technologies, and how they can be used by the teams, an OSIsoft representative will be present and available throughout the duration of the Civic Hackathon.  Hack Kit from SeeClickFix: SeeClickFix is a platform that leverages a geo-polygon based tracking system to route publicly documented neighborhood requests to local governments and neighbors who can assist and support. SeeClickFix supports free and open data on its data set of 2 million issues and 10 million comments posted by neighbors and officials. Developers have used the API to infer engagement and health of communities using r, Socrata and other apps, predict future service request areas, build alternative interfaces and connect IOT sensors to report issues. API is available at: http://dev.seeclickfix.com/ Hashtag Use hashtag #motmhack to connect with others about the upcoming event. Facebook Join the Facebook group to organize teams and share ideas: https://www.facebook.com/MOTMHACK  
      Wikipedia Editing Hackathon
        10 Oct - 10:30 AM
        Limerick, Ireland
      IxDA Limerick is organising a one day event on learning how to become a Wikipedia contributor. Two experienced wikipedians- Rebecca O'Neill and Shannon Eichelberger from the Wikimedia Community Ireland- will guide our steps. As the event is part of the series of IxDA events supported by ID2015- A Year of Irish Design, we are planning to focus on adding new articles (or expanding existing ones) on the topic of Irish Design.
        Hack the Moon - San Jose, CA
          09 Oct - 07:00 PM
          San Jose, United States
        Are you a DIY, Hacker, Maker, or Space Enthusiast? Are you interested in coming up with creative solutions to space-related problems, including how to fund your own space–related project or business idea?  Then don’t miss Hack the Moon!   During this two and a half day hackathon, you’ll have the opportunity to work on specific space-related challenges (or one of your choosing), meet some of the best and brightest hackers, makers, students and entrepreneurs, and hone your problem solving and collaborative skills. Site locations include San Jose and Sacramento (Folsom), CA. (or you can participate remotely)   Friday, October 9           7-9 PM Pacific (Opening Session) Saturday, October 10     9-5 and 7-10 Pacific (Hackathon) Sunday, October 11        9-12 and 1-5 (Hackathon, Presentations, Awards) So if you’re a hacker or maker and interested in space, starting a NewSpace company and in need of funding, or simply a space enthusiast and in love with space, get your hack on at Hack the Moon, October 9-11, 2015. It's Your Moon... What Are You Waiting For! 3 Themes - 5 Competitions #1 - A Killer Asteroid An asteroid will destroy all life on Earth in 5 years. How can we redirect the asteroid? Can we build a Lunar lifeboat colony for 10,000 people? #2 - The Yukon Trail To Mars Global space agencies will fly a mission every two years. A million people have $100,000 deposits on Mars homesteads. Layout a 30 year plan for settlement on Mars. Where do we start, what do we do now? #3 - Life In The Ethane Lakes Of Titan We have discovered a new form of life in the cryogenic ethane lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. Exploring lakes at 90 degrees above absolute zero. How do we build Lunar cryogenic analog labs? 5 Competitions: Writing, Visual Arts, Hardware, Software, Games and Filk Fest (Music)   Real Planetary Data Learn how to find and use the many large, free data sets of real scientific planetary data available to you through the NASA Planetary Data System and other sources. • Planetary Data System • Lunar Moon and Modeling Portal • Google Moon Real Solutions Learn how to use the latest cutting edge tools and techniques in the cloud and on your laptop to access planetary data for fun and profit. We will have training for platforms like: • Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, IBM Bluemix • HP Haven OnDemand, Clusterpoint, Autodesk 3D Real Opportunities Learn how to use the latest in crowd funding and crowd sourcing platforms to fund your project and grow your team. • Crowd Funding - Kickstarter, Krowdster and more • Crowd Sourcing - heroX, topcoder, AngelHack Also, robots, hardware, art and more. Bring your own project!   Looking to fund your own space-related project?  We will also have mentors and coaches on hand to assist you in developing your crowd-funding, Kickstarter program and/or writing your business plan to raise equity funding.  *   *   *   *   * This event is part of the 5th International Workshop on LunarCubes held in San Jose, CA from October 6-9, 2015. To learn more about our LunarCubes workshop, where "The Experts in Lunar Science and Exploration Meet" please visit www.lunar-cubes.com   Free public events during LunarCubes include: New Launch Meets New Space panel discussion (San Jose) Cislunar Navigation Prize announcement (San Jose) The Lunar Renaissance – Challenges, Hackathons & Artwork! (San Jose) Hack the Moon (San Jose and Folsom/Sacramento) Register for each public event separately at Eventbrite: New Launch Meets New Space Cislunar Navigation Prize The Lunar Renaissance - Challenges, Hackathons and Artwork! Hack the Moon - San Jose Hack the Moon - Folsom/Sacramento
          The Hackathon of Outlandish Things - SF
            09 Oct - 06:00 PM
            San Francisco, United States
          Designers, Developers, Mobile, Web, Robotics, Internet of Things... Everyone is welcome to join us to hack for FUN! There will be prizes for standard/serious hacks as well as prizes #outlandishhacks that are a bit more crazy. For the outlandish hacks, these apps can be as crazy as you want so long as you use #kandy_io. A previous team made a "useless helper app" that inverted the video stream. Schedule Friday 6pm - Event Begins, Networking, Pitching, Teams Form, Dinner Saturday 10am - Breakfast Saturday 01pm - Lunch Saturday 06pm - Presentations start Saturday 07pm - Winners Announced Prizes $250 Best Outlandish Idea $250 Best Kandy.io app $250 Best Kandy.io tutorial  $25 Starbucks Gift Cards for new bugs submitted Speakers Alex Donn - Director, Developer Relations, Kandy.io / Genband Sponsors Kandy.io
            H2O Hackathon
              09 Oct - 07:00 AM
              Stockton, United States
            H20 Hackathon – A Water Challenge was conceived during the summer of 2014 by San Joaquin County entrepreneurs, business leaders, government officials, and environmental leaders who saw a need for the development of new water technology in order to contend with the impacts of severe drought. San Joaquin County is ground zero for many of the water challenges facing urban and agricultural communities throughout the state.  Farmers face the challenges of extended droughts and extreme wet periods that will intensify with the impacts of climate change.  A growing urban population, urban water districts, state parks, and wildlife areas face the same challenges.  Water is the most essential resource for the continued health of California’s agriculture, recreation, and business economies.  Yet, it is a finite resource that must be protected to guarantee the future environmental health of the state, in addition to the public health of California residents.
              Prototyping: How to create a website or mobile app without coding
                30 Sep - 06:30 PM
                San Francisco, United States
              Looking for a tool to create beautiful fully interactive, animated prototypes? - Take your static designs, wireframes or mockups to the next level with ProtoHack During this workshop, Cole Fox will show you a range of examples from ProtoHack prototype gallery and how to build a quick prototype from scratch that can be tested on the actual device in a native app. What you will learn:  • You will leave with your very own prototype Who is this workshop for: • Software engineers who want to transition to Product Management  • MBAs with a finance/consulting background who want to work in high-tech companies as a Product Manager  • Project Managers, Marketers who are seeking for new opportunities in Product Management     Timeline: 6:30 - 6:45pm: Meet & Greet with Wine & Refreshments 6:45 - 7:45 pm: Presentation & Q&A 7:45 - 8:30 pm: Networking & with Wine & Refreshments Prerequisites:  Bring you own laptop   Meet the speaker: Cole Fox Cole Fox is a Director of Partnerships at Koding & CEO at Protohack. Cole has started and worked for companies that sold used cars, vitamin vodka, office supplies, tech, and now hackathons. His M.O. with any endeavor is to learn, create, master, then share. Cole is a creator at heart, and loves contributing and watching people manifest their vision. The most fulfilling thing in life is to create something that solves a huge problem. Creating and evangelizing tools and experiences that can enable people to create their dreams are his favorite use of his professional efforts.  When not enjoying the heck out of his inspiring career in technology, he's pushing the envelope on snowboards, backpacking and eating ridiculously healthy food. 
                EdTech Design-A-Thon 2015
                  26 Sep - 10:00 AM
                  Redwood City, United States
                $3000 in cash prizes + unlimited food and drinks + expert mentors = Your next amazing project for your portfolio! **Due to the high volume of applicants, we will continually be monitoring and removing disqualified applicants. If there are currently no spots open, please check again later.*** The EdTech Design-A-Thon is a hack-a-thon for designers with clear creative visions and an understanding of online course platforms. Are you able to easily connect to the user experience? Send your portfolio now and be among the top 15 selected to join!   Participants can work alone or form teams. Prizes in the amounts of $1500, $1000, and $500 will be awarded to the top 3 designs.   Unlimited meals and drinks will be provided, and mentors will be at the event to help bring your ideas to life. Selected participants will present their final designs to a panel of judges from GSV, UX Design World, and BeNative.   Applicants must fill out the application AND share a portfolio (website or PDF files) to melissa@smatoos.com bu Thursday, September 24. Selected participants will be notified after review. Failure to send your portfolio will result in being removed from the list, sorry. :( Presentation Participants must give a 3-5 minute presentation on stage to showcase their design. Having excellent speaking skills and a professionally-made slideshow will be extremely important in awarding the winning designs. Please note that all presentations will be filmed and recorded for use on BeNative's educational platform.   Saturday Schedule 10:00 AM | Check-in & Registration 10:30 AM | Welcome & Present Design Prompt and Q&A 11:00 AM | Brainstorming + Ideation + Start working!   6:00 PM| SUBMIT WORK!   6:10 PM| Pitch + Q&A   8:00 PM| Winner Announced + Prize Presented! Social & Networking event to follow   FAQs Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? You must be 21 or over and have a valid photo ID for verification purposes. What else should I bring? You must bring your own laptop and any other equipment necessary.   Do I need to have experience or any other skills? You should have either a background or experience in design. It's a plus if you have experience or passion in education and languages. As mentioned previously, all participants must send examples of their portfolio to melissa@smatoos.com. Anyone who registers without sending the necessary information will not be invited to attend.   Are there any other requirements? You need to be a fluent English speaker. We will give higher priority to native English speakers, as one of the purposes of this event is to record presentations from native English speakers. A phone call interview may be necessary to determine acceptance to the event. Can I bring guests with me? Unfortunately, no. As we have limited space, only participants will be allowed entrance.  Is there parking available? Yes, we have free parking available at the event. Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? Please direct all questions to melissa@smatoos.com. About BeNative BeNative™ helps American and European businesses connect to the powerful and growing markets of Asia. We provide product localization, market research, promotional materials (video and social media), legal representation, as well as fundraising opportunities through our vast network of Asian-based VCs. Video materials are featured on BeNative Pro, an e-learning service that teaches business English and Chinese from the interviews and interactions of real businesspeople, making it a 100% natural and authentic language-learning experience. Business executives are filmed regularly, growing a massive database of phrases and vocabulary. This set of big data is then analyzed and curated using unique text mining techniques to find the most commonly used phrases spoken in business.  Interviews of note include Dr. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School and Bob Lutz of GM as well as other execs from IBM, PayPal, Box, 3M, Kimberley-Clark, and more. Customers include employees from over 2000 companies and more than 2 million followers on social media platforms. BeNative operates offices in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the USA.
                  Integrate 2015 Hackathon
                    26 Sep - 09:00 AM
                    Sunnyvale, United States
                  The Integrate 2015 Hackathon invites developers to build as many integration-centric and API-centric apps within one weekend as possible. Participants are free to build any type of web or mobile app as long as they start design / development Saturday at 9:00 AM! There will be $50,000+ in prizes and we expect hundreds of designers, developers, and entrepreneurs to attend. The Integrate 2015 Hackathon is the kick-off to the Integrate 2015 Conference!   We also ask all participants to be in compliance with the Hack Code of Conduct Terms.   By registering for Integrate 2015 and its conference tracks, you agree that Integrate 2015 top-level partners can send you non-subscription one-time announcements relevant to your event participation including invitations to relevant partner events or featured speakers. Please complete this form if you want to remove yourself from all partner announcements / promotions. All Integrate Partners contractually agree with Integrate that they will not subscribe you to any email list.   Subscription: By registering for this event, you are opting into DevNetwork email updates. These updates will notify you about Integrate 2015 news as well as announcements about DevNetwork events. You can opt out of this email newsletter at any time.
                    Internet of Everything (IOE) Startup Hackathon - SF Bay Area
                      25 Sep - 06:00 PM
                      Stanford, United States
                    Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, business hacker, student, or mentor/investor interested in tech; you are invited to this must attend event. Must be 21 or over ! This event is open to those who work, start, mentor and fund tech companies. Guests seeking to launch a startup in IoT and Mobile space across industry will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential founder, partner or investors along top industry leaders. Read more about IoT and the $19 Trillion Opportunity Participant Application (Mandatory): All Hackathon participants (alone or as a team) must sign up and submit idea, demo or pitch deck here (you would have a chance to update it during Hackathon, you also own all Intellectual Property): OneTraction/Hackathon Events Details:  Friday (Opening): 6:00-7:00pm Kickoff: Mix, mingle and meet other likeminded startups founders, mentors, and investors. Explore demo of select startups 7:00-7:15pm Panel/Judge: intro and overview of IoT disruptive innovation and how to capture it during your startup product launch?  7:15-7:45pm Team Leader/Founder/Developer as solo or as a Team "2mn Verbal Pitch"  (developer must have experience in Mobile, Web, or Wearables): Describe the Problem, your Innovative Solution, Target Market and "three steps use case: how it works". 7:45-8:00pm Selected Team formation (Judge select participant and match incomplete team with any of the missing role (Developer, UI/UX, Growth Hacker based on available volunteer). Selected team would continue hacking together remotely (no need for overnight stay, but can use during day time on saturday and sunday our partner office space located next to Stanford "see your confirmation email for detailed instruction). Example of Work to be completed during hackathon: a) - Team have a very complex solution to a very large market and cannot create an MVP in two days (in this case work together to complete a compelling pitch deck by sunday 6pm) and submit/add it to you application b) - Team have a very simple solution to common problem and can create an MVP in two days (in this case work together to complete your minimum viable product by sunday 6pm).and submit/add it to you application Virtual Hackathon Start 9pm Friday and end Sunday 6pm: all completed pitch or link to MVP (stored in your cloud account) must be submitted using same application link above (simply update your application by sunday 6pm). Support would be provided via email during the entire hackathon, simply use a same email in your ticket confirmation to contact us. Winner of The Hackathon: Would be informed by email within 5 business days with their respective prices (Acceptance to OneTraction with sponsored Funding by top VC, Tech Corporate Venture or our Mentor Investors for $25k to $250k contingent on graduation, along inclusion in Press Release and  featured on our select sites Demo Table: Partners and Team who already purchased their ticket with demo table would have a shared space where they can display their innovation via their laptop or desktop screen/laptop within the event area. Prizes: The following prizes are geared towards accelerating you towards a successful startup launch and expanding your hackers network with industry expertise: Best IoT Disruptive Solution with Compelling Pitch (Acceptance Guarantee to OneTraction and + $100k investment upon graduation). Best IoT Mobile App prototype (Acceptance Guarantee to OneTraction and +$50k investment upon graduation). Best IoT Web app prototype (Acceptance Guarantee to OneTraction and + $25k investment upon graduation) Note: all other team who complete the hackathon would be entered to a draw where the winners would have access to our standard program. Judging Criteria: Disruption that can impact large and dysfunctional market with coachable team, able to launch an MVP within 60 to 90 days! Food/Beverage: Cold appetizers would be served at no cost, along access to extended happy hours that you can purchase from one of the best restaurant at Stanford. Direction: Full address would be provided to all confirmed attendee 48 hours prior to the event!  Location is within Stanford University and accessible by car or public transportation. Event Speakers/Judge:        Dr. Daniela Busse, Director of Innovation - Citi Ventures   Dr Larry Chao, Innovatin Expert. NASA, Intel, Stanford University   Jean Rouge, Thunderbird SGM, Apple Bill Reichert: Venture Capitalist   Michael Foster: Innovation Leader at eBay   Andrew Preston: Stanford GSB graduate and SV Entrepreneur   Dr Sandy Ahn, Stanford University, Director at Samsung Research Dr Stephane Boutet, Stanford University, BioTech, Healthtech Scientist  Robert H. Lee, Singularity, Stanford Research Follow IP & Technology Ting Louie, USC, Morgan Stanley, PWC Investments Event Sponsors: