List of hackathons in Watsonville, United States in 2018

Ever wondered what it would look like if you could use augmented reality to witness the evolution of a fake news story? Or perhaps how viewing another person’s filter bubble in virtual reality could lead you to feel more empathy for them? Mozilla challenged artists of the world to create ideas for public demonstrations that make the power of misinformation and its potential impacts visible and real. Using top artists in their fields, we are proud to present Reality Redrawn! You’ll want to get ahead of the crowds at our opening night for the limited engagement run of this exhibit. We will be featuring talks from prominent members in the space as well as have a reception with the artists and judges of the Reality Redrawn Challenge. 6:00pm - Opening and Speakers 7:30 - 9:30pm - Meet the Artists! Reception and Viewing Speakers: Tim Ritchie Tim Ritchie is the President and CEO of The Tech Museum of Innovation. The Tech is a vital community resource for equipping young people, especially girls and low-income students, to engage positively with science, technology, engineering and math. As a result of this work and more, The Tech in 2015 won the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the highest honor an American museum can earn. Ritchie also served as the president and CEO of the McWane Science Center, practiced law, led education programs in a large public housing community, and led an organization that creates employment opportunities for adults with disabilities. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Davidson College, his law degree from Duke Law School and his master’s in public administration from Harvard University. Molly Wood Molly Wood is the host of Marketplace Tech, a weekday national radio program that helps listeners understand the business behind the technology that’s rewiring our lives. In addition, she co-hosts the podcast Make Me Smart with Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal, in which they connect the dots on the economy, tech and culture. Molly has covered technology since the first dot-com boom in print, web and broadcast media. Before joining Marketplace in 2015, she was a tech columnist at The New York Times and an executive editor at CNET. Fred Vogelstein Fred Vogelstein is contributing editor at Wired  in San Francisco where he writes about the business and technology of Silicon Valley. There and at previous jobs at Fortune magazine and US News & World Report he's authored some of the seminal stories about the region's transformation from computer industry hub into ground zero for the most powerful companies on the planet. They include some of the earliest investigations into Bill Gates' fear of Google, the mess at Yahoo, the smartphone wars, and both the rise and now, the growing pains of Facebook. Molly will speak to Fred about his investigation into Facebook, the issues and impact of misinformation that he uncovered and the challenges the company is facing as it grapples with its status as not just a platform but a content publisher. Renée DiResta Renée DiResta is the Director of Research at New Knowledge, and Head of Policy at nonprofit Data for Democracy. Renee investigates the spread of disinformation and manipulated narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business leaders about understanding and responding to computational propaganda and information operations. In 2017, Renee was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and had the opportunity to continue her work with the support of the Presidents Bush, President Clinton, and the LBJ Foundation. In 2018, she received a Mozilla Foundation fellowship and affiliation with the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to work on their Media, Misinformation, and Trust project. Molly and Renee will discuss Renee's deep experience researching the effects of misinformation and most recently her role advising Republicans and Democrats on the best ways to hold Mark Zuckerberg to account for the issues of misinformation that have plagued the platform. Dave Lee Dave Lee is the BBC's North America technology correspondent, working out of the broadcaster’s new San Francisco bureau. His reporting appears across the BBC’s TV, radio and online output. He was previously part of the BBC’s technology reporting team in London. His work focuses on the big technology issues of the day – especially in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. Dave will discuss the genesis and success of iReporter,  an interactive experience created by the BBC with Aadrman to give 11-18 year olds the chance to find out how to verify and report the news and put their first feet on the ladder towards becoming trusted journalists.   Host: Katharina Borchert As Mozilla’s Chief Open Innovation Officer, Katharina serves as the senior executive broadly responsible for open innovation, in terms of our community management, participation systems, and non-commercial partnerships with organizations to advance product, technology and policy work. Katharina has a background that includes more than a decade of new business growth and technological innovation in media and journalism, most recently as CEO at Spiegel Online, the online division of one of Europe’s most influential magazines. Prior to that, Katharina was Editor-in-Chief and CEO at WAZ Media Group, where she completely reimagined the way local and regional journalism could be done, launching a new portal “Der Westen” based heavily upon user participation, integrated social media, and one of the earliest with a focus on location-based data in journalism. Featured Artists: Yosun Chang @Yosun is an augmented reality hacker, artist, and entrepreneur. She has won dozens of hackathons, from grand prize at TechCrunch Disrupt to AT&T IoT and has also built AR apps for companies from Intel to Google and more. She builds her own software, which she uses to create art. She is founder and hacker in residence at faced.io (which powers all of the face tracking exhibits you will see at this event) and Permute.xyz (formerly AReality3D), an AR/VR Startup Studio. She has created AR/VR apps in many verticals, from food to pets to shopping and more. Tell her your interests and she'd prescribe you an app she made. She invites you to take hope an AR app for iOS/Android that lets you place, view and share "secrets" or "filter bubble breaking knowledge" in the world around you -- you can grab the app at WallSecret.org vurv “Where You Stand” is a collaborative project between Mario Ezekiel Hernandez, Kevin Reilly, Justin Harvey and Dominique Davis.  They are members of the Austin-based interactive media arts collective, vurv. www.vurv.co SUTU Sutu uses art and technology in new ways to tell stories. He is known for his interactive comics including Nawlz, Neomad, Modern Polaxis and These Memories Won’t Last. More recently he has been commissioned by Marvel and Google to create Tilt Brush Virtual Reality paintings. He has also created two VR documentaries, Inside Manus for SBS and Mind at War for Ryot Films.  He holds a Honorary Doctorate of Digital Media, is a 2017 Sundance Fellow and is the co-founder of EyeJack an Augmented Reality company. @sutueatsflies http://www.sutueatsflies.com/ Rahul Bhargava Rahul Bhargava is a researcher and technologist specializing in civic technology and data literacy. He creates interactive websites used by hundreds of thousands, playful educational experiences across the globe, and award-winning visualizations for museum settings. As a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Civic Media, Rahul leads technical development on projects ranging from interfaces for quantitative news analysis, to platforms for crowd-sourced sensing. He has a special interest in how new technologies are introduced to people in settings focused on learning. Rahul is a drummer and father based in Somerville, MA. He holds a MS from the MIT Media Lab and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University. Emily Saltz Emily is a New York-based UX Designer and Researcher, currently at Bloomberg LP. She recently earned her Master's degree from Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, where she published research on measuring empathy in virtual reality. Before that, she was surfacing and remixed archival audio as Content Strategist Pop Up Archive, an automatic speech recognition service and media API acquired by Apple. She thinks a lot about the relationship between accessibility and innovation.

Are you attending the IoT World Developer Conference? Make sure to sign up to participate in the hackathon at the event. You'll be challenged to design and build an industrial strength IoT solution for the manufacturing industry using Google Cloud IoT and AI. Come and collaborate and compete to build an innovative smart IoT solution that can help make the work environment safer, and make the workforce more informed, and more productive.

Are you attending the IoT World Developer Conference? Make sure to sign up to participate in the hackathon at the event. You'll be challenged to design and build an industrial strength IoT solution for the manufacturing industry using Google Cloud IoT and AI. Come and collaborate and compete to build an innovative smart IoT solution that can help make the work environment safer, and make the workforce more informed, and more productive.

The team at Lily AI, the first-ever perception-powered shopping experience, is excited to invite you to create something cool with Bounding Boxes, GANs, Style Transfer or Language Models. Come solo or in a team of up to three, and spend the day hacking and learning new skills, enjoying free food, and more. Challenge: Challenge yourself and make something innovative, even something that solves a small problem. It’s that simple. Prize: The top two teams from the hackathon will each receive a cash prize of $500. Schedule: 09:00 AM : Doors Open & Breakfast 10:00 AM : Coding Kick Off 12:30 PM : Lunch 07:00 PM : Dinner 08:00 PM : Pitch 09:00 PM : Doors Close Rules: We will refund your registration fee.  The event is free, if you show up. You can download dataset, write some part of the code before the event, but we expect all attendees to write at the minimum 50% of the code during the event. Ownership and IP - You own your IP and whatever you create. Simple as that. Team Size - No more than three people. Submissions - Share your github project with us. Demos - You’ll have 2 minutes to demo the functionality of your project and talk through your idea. Suggested Datasets: Deep Fashion (http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/DeepFashion.html) Fashion-200K (https://github.com/xthan/fashion-200k) Clothing Co-Parsing (https://github.com/bearpaw/clothing-co-parsing) Clothing Attributes (https://purl.stanford.edu/tb980qz1002) How is the hackathon judged? Projects will be judged based on the following criteria: Originality: How original, creative or unique is the idea? Execution: How well was the project executed and explained? Did it work?

Are you a Christian in tech, quant, or design, and long to integrate your talents with your faith? Are you a data scientist or an AI Ph.D. wanting to create startups that disrupt the faith realm? Are you a coder or designer looking to apply your skills to faith beyond the limited opportunities of AV or website tasks at church? Consider joining Faith-Ventures, a community of Christian with STEM or design backgrounds, exploring faith-related innovations and applications, through startup brainstorming, design sprints and hackathons. Previous introductory sessions described our vision and strategies for Faith-Ventures, and dived into brainstorming sessions. This event continues our brainstorming, but offers quick intro to newcomers as well. Note that this particular session of Faith-Ventures Meetup will be conducted in Chinese, (but feel free to contact the organizer for more information and get notified for the upcoming summer sessions that will be conducted in English ).

               AngelHack will be offering discounted Uber rides from the Fremont BART station to the venue. Every year, AngelHack adventures across the globe for our yearly Global Hackathon Series. Over the course of Summer 2018, we’ll hit six continents, bridging the gap between Silicon Valley innovation and entrepreneurs all over the world. This year’s theme? Seamless Technology. Hackathons are built for rapid innovation, and rapid isn’t always pretty. But no matter the roadblock, broken code or bumps, we continue on and push forward, together. There’s no boundary or limit to what we can create. So join us! Create something cool. Meet great people. Win great prizes. Who knows, your founder journey may begin at 42 in Silicon Valley! We offer our own Grand Prize AND team up with awesome sponsors who have their own challenges and prizes you can go after. Aiming for the HACKcelerator invite? Only in it for some cool hardware? Good news, you can go for as many challenges as you want! AngelHack Challenge: Challenge yourself and your entrepreneurial spirit. Make something innovative without limits, something that brings positive change to the world, even something that solves a small problem. It’s that simple. AngelHack Prize: The winning team from each hackathon will receive an invite into AngelHack’s HACKcelerator program. Bonus AR Challenge: Create a hack that enhances a real-world experience using AR (augmented reality). Bonus Prize: An Amazon Echo Dot for each member of the winning team.  Code For A Cause Impact Award Challenge: Build technology that solves a social or environmental problem and positively impacts your local community. Code For A Cause Impact Award Prize: One Impact Award will be given out at each event. At the end of the Global Hackathon Series, the top Impact Award projects will be chosen by an expert judging panel including; Chan Zuckerberg, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; and more. These top five teams will receive an official invite into the HACKcelerator. Challenge #1: Best use of Veridium API'sPrize:Prize: $2500 in Cash (USD) and $2500 worth of VERDE cryptocurrency Challenge #2: Best UI Design   Prize: $2500 in Cash (USD) and $2500 worth of VERDE cryptocurrency Prize: All attendees will receive 1 year of GitKraken Pro for free. Prize: Interview Cake will give out free full access to their interview prep course to all attendees of this hackathon. The redemption link will be provided in person at the event. Prize for all attendees: 2,000 Ubidots credits, the promo code will be shared at the Hackathon! https://app.ubidots.com/accounts/signup/ Grand Prize: A complimentary IoT Lab License for 3 months (must be redeemed in the same year the Hackathon took place). Prize: Access to HubSpot's Seed Stage Startup Offer (90% Off HubSpot Marketing and Sales tools for 1 year- Up to $25,000 value)  Challenge: Best Use of AWS Fargate Link Here: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/ Prize: 1 x Amazon Echo 2nd Generation for each winning team member Challenge: create a solution to improve the lives of the homeless with technologyPrize: The winning team will receive $2000 3 months supply of High Brew Coffee for the winning team members 1 month supply of High Brew Coffee for the runner up team https://www.highbrewcoffee.com/ Prize: $1,000 cash prize and $1,000 stipend to attend NEHA's conference in Anaheim, CA June 25-28 Stay Tuned for More Prizes to Come! All ages, genders, and skill levels are welcome. Come solo or in a team of up to five, and spend the weekend learning new skills, meeting your local tech community and tech sponsors, enjoying free food, and more. Our attendees typically consist of developers looking to improve their skills or expand their horizons, students, designers of all skill-sets, and serious entrepreneurs that can add value to teams. Bring your ideas and let’s go! Want to get involved in another way? We’re always open to chat with potential sponsors, mentors, and judges! Just email info (at) angelhack.com to get connected. Day 1 9:00 AM : Doors Open & Breakfast10:00 AM : Opening Ceremony, Sponsor Welcomes, & Team Building11:00 AM : Coding Kick Off1:00 PM : Lunch2:00 PM : Sponsor Breakout Sessions 7:00 PM : Dinner10:00 PM : Pitch Workshop*Venue open overnight Day 2 8:00 AM : Breakfast10:00 AM : Morning Yoga - please bring your own mat12:00 PM : Lunch1:00 PM : Code Freeze & Submission Deadline on hackathon.io 1:30 PM : A/V Check2:00 PM : Demos 4:00 PM : Winners are Announced / Prizes! We know some rules are meant to be broken, but you should probably (read: definitely) stick by these: 1. Fresh Code - We all start coding at the same time. It’s cool to work on designs beforehand, digital mockups, open source frameworks, and anything else available to everyone, but keep things within fair limits. 2. Code Review - Winning teams may be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before winning. This is to ensure that all code used is in fact fresh. 3. Ownership and IP - You own your IP and whatever you create. Simple as that. 4. Team Size - No more than five people. 5. Submissions - Each hackathon has its individual hackathon.io page where projects need to be submitted by the designated time. You’ll receive an email with instructions on how to do just that. 6. Demos - You’ll have 2 minutes to demo the functionality of your project and talk through your idea, and 1 minute for Q&A from judges. 7. Be cool to your fellow hackers! Check out our Code of Conduct. How is the hackathon judged?Projects will be judged based on the following criteria, with a total of 5 points per criteria: Fundability: How fundable is this idea? Is there potential for a sustainable business model? Execution: How well was the project executed and explained? Did it work? UI/UX: Beyond design, was the end-to-end user experience for the solution considered? Originality: How original, creative or unique is the idea? Scalability: How scalable is the solution? Will it make an impact? Judges Mentors Know someone who would make a great judge of awesomeness and innovation? Nominate them (or yourself!) at info@angelhack (dot) com Curious what it looks like to sponsor awesomeness and innovation? Reach out to us at info@angelhack (dot) com

HerScript is back this year with HACK YOUR CURIOSITYCalling all beginner coders in Middle School to High School who are interested in exploring the world of Computer Science! Have you ever wanted to create something but just didn't know how to go about executing it?  Now's your chance to jump start that dream and HACK YOUR CURIOSITY with herScript!  We will explore simple robotics development using the MakeBlock mBot robot kit. MakeBlock mBot robot is a friendly entry-level robot for everyone! Unleash your imagination and make mBot come alive with simple drag and drop programming blocks. NO CODING REQUIRED. Design a robot, code with blocks to make it work, then watch it come alive! For more information, visit http://store.makeblock.com/product/mbot-robot-kit The hunger for learning something new NOT GOOD ENOUGH? Throw in some free food, and a prize for the first, second, and third place winners of the Hackathon! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY (AND PREFERED), LEAVE WITH EXPERIENCE. PHOTO RELEASE WAIVER IF YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING------> https://goo.gl/QqQQSJ  PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP IF YOU HAVE ONE :). ONE WILL BE PROVIDED IF YOU DO NOT. Mentors will be assigned to help you through your project. http://herscript.org

BroncoHack is a FREE 24-hour hackathon of straight code, food, and fun. We'll provide all your meals, snacks, caffeine, swag and sleeping spaces. Your project is only bound by your imagination, our only requirement is that you address a social issue.To sweeten the deal, the winner gets thousands of dollars of cash prizes! This is your opportunity to bring your ideas to life! Best of all: this event is open to all majors. Come participate in one of the only business/engineering co-hosted hackathons... and did we mention it's FREE!?

HerScript is back this year with HACK YOUR CURIOSITYCalling all beginner coders in Middle School to High School who are interested in exploring the world of Computer Science! Have you ever wanted to create something but just didn't know how to go about executing it?  Now's your chance to jump start that dream and HACK YOUR CURIOSITY with herScript!  At this workshop, we will explore simple Android app development using MIT App Inventor. MIT App Inventor is a programming environment where you can make simple apps. NO CODING REQUIRED. Design an app, code with blocks to make it work, then share your app in seconds. Now you can make your own fully functioning app!   Then NEXT WEEK, you can compete in the mini HACKATHON APRIL 28, 2018 @ Hartnell College Planetarium ------>https://herscripthycpt2.eventbrite.com The hunger for learning something new NOT GOOD ENOUGH? Throw in some free food, and a prize for the first, second, and third place winners of the Hackathon next week! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY (AND PREFERED), LEAVE WITH EXPERIENCE. PHOTO RELEASE WAIVER IF YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING------> https://goo.gl/QqQQSJ  PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP IF YOU HAVE ONE :). ONE WILL BE PROVIDED IF YOU DO NOT. Mentors will be assigned to help you through your project. http://herscript.org

SHIFT is proud to present Expo, an on-campus conference that works to recruit talent to the healthcare space by showcasing technically challenging problems, inventive solutions and inspiring professionals that are fueling today’s breakthroughs in healthcare technology.  Reserve a table today and look forward to demoing your company's revolutionary technology to hundreds of Stanford students and community members. Stanford Health Innovations in Future Technologies (SHIFT) is a team consisting of undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students whom have specialties ranging from medicine to design.  We are advised by a nine-person board that includes Dr. Lloyd Minor, MD, the Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine.  SHIFT spearheads initiatives such as the Blueprint Datathon and the health++ hackathon to promote and cultivate health innovation at Stanford