List of hackathons in Stockton, 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/

The SacSOS Datathon is a half-day event to crowdsource data that will help Sacramentans experiencing homelessness find the services they need. We need help from volunteers of all technical skill levels to find, convert, and upload more data to our system that is already up and running and helping people in our community! What is SacSOS? SacSOS is a website developed by a team at Code for Sacramento's Hack4Sac hackathon in early 2016. It allows people experiencing homelessness, or the people helping them, to search for and find the services they need, including how far away they are from the searcher and what their hours of operation are. SacSOS has a bunch of great features, and a lot of useful information, but it needs more! What will you do? Depending on your skills, you will help us add information to SacSOS by: Finding available service data online Typing or copying/pasting data into a spreadsheet Converting existing data to the right format to upload to the database Scraping data from PDFs Other ETL functions as necessary What can you bring? Your desire to help people in your community Your brain Your cheerful disposition Your computer (Don't have one to bring? Come anyway, and we'll find something for you to do!) What will you get out of it? Coffee Lunch Camaraderie with other socially-conscious Sacramentans The warm glow of having given to your community We look forward to seeing you on December 10! The SacSOS Datathon is generously sponsored by CFY Development.

Engineers, designers, product managers, businesspeople, marketers, investors, etc. in the Bay ASrea! Frustrated with the state of the political climate? Want to make a difference? Sign up today to participate in the non-partisan Reboot Democracy Hackathon. Participate and use technology to help build tools that can help transform the political system to be truly representative of — and responsive to — all citizens.

Developers, designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, etc.! Are you dissatisfied with the 2016 election cycle? Step up with an idea that could improve the next one. Debug Politics invites you to participate in Debug Politics: SF Hackathon II. a nonpartisan hackathon. Come along and collaborate to find innovative ways to make a real difference. You'll be part of a team that will be challenged to identify one specific thing about the election cycle you were dissatisfied with and build something to fix it. You can come as a team or form one on the night!

Virtual reality fanatics in and around San Francisco and the Bay area! Think you have what it takes to blow some VR minds? Come and participate in the Virtual Reality Hackathon. You get to meet and collaborate with the best of the best VR techies in Northern California. You can bring your own VR project or pick om e of the challenges posed at the event. It's your choice!

Interested in good policing? Come and participate in a day-long hackathon and explore data science models and D3 visualizations to help the efforts of the Citizens Police Data Project. You'll be helping to support a national model of transparency and accountability for police actions. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals on a project in one of three broad areas: »Data Visualization: Using d3, Gephi, and any other visualization tools, create a compelling and informative story. »Data Science: Create a propagation model to understand the impact of reassigning police officers. »Data Engineering: Add functionality to ResponseBot, CPDP's chatbot.

Bot Developer Camp is one of the most pure and original hackathons with the freedom to choose any project that relates to chat bots. Chat bots are simple, early forms of artificial intelligence that have grown massively on mobile and desktop messaging platforms in the past year. Create an intelligent bot that relies on a certain pattern to create trust and foster cooperation, hack with a team, and validate your ideas!

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

Students in California's 15th Congressional District! Sign up for the 3rd annual Congressional App Challenge! You'll participate in a two-day hackathon to build an awesome software app for your choice of mobile, tablet, or computer device. Don't know how to code? No worries! There will be workshops to teach you Java programming and other skills for developing apps in the Android environment. The CA-15 winning app will be displayed in the US Capitol Building and on the U.S House of Representatives website.

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.