List of hackathons in United States in 2016

Anyways, Here's the Thing and Discourse are glad to present Playground Series II -  ”High” Tech “High tech” would seem, at first glance, to be simply a matter of more technology. However, Martin Heidegger, a great Continental philosopher once discovered that in the Greek root of technology, techne — is generally translated as “art,” “skill,” or “craft”.  The relationship between art and technology, so visible in the Greek techne, has always been basic to technology, to its “essence”. “Blinded” by the industrial revolution and capitalism movement, modern technology has been concerned solely with functionality, mechanical reproduction, controlling and being controlled. Today, we start to see that once again, technology is being exposed to matters of representation, aesthetics, and style. The essence of technology becomes a matter of ongoing change or movement that is about “unsecuring”, “revealing” ,“unleashing” and “dismantling”. It's indeterministic, permeable, open-ended in nature, just like the Greek Techne - Art We are excited to have Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Jesse Harding, Yifan Hu and Yuxi Cao to join us for the night. They will share with us their experiments on “bewitching” modern technology, and bestowing “Low” tech with the enchanted aura of the aesthetic realm where it once belonged - “High” tech. Speakers: Amelia Winger-Bearskin ITP Alum. Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an accomplished artist and creative technologist. She is currently the director of New Rochelle New York’s art and technology initiative SIM: Shifting Imaginative Media. Amelia is also part of Facebook’s Oculus Launchpad, and co-founder of Stupid Hackathon, which now holds events around the world. Jesse Harding Artist, craftsman, and part-time lecturer in the Design & Technology program at Parsons. Current projects: Unpainting, vertigo mirror, foam printer Yifan Hu Designer, artist, creative technologist, ITP alum. Hu's works range from interactive installation, performance to sculpture, photography and virtual reality. He currently focuses on exploring the relationship between technology and culture, politics and technology. Projects: Virus Labs, How to connect, RONI, INVISIBLE, Moon Phrase… Yuxi Cao Cao Yuxi (James), Founder of AxiStudio, Associate Artist based in 3LD Art&Technology, CAFA & SVA Alum. His works are usually generated into the spectrum of sound-visualization performance, programming & computing media, Interactive Art and most especially where those area meets. Door opens at 7:30PM. Talk starts at 8PM. This event is held and curated by Anyways, Here's the Thing and Discourse

Musician hackers in and around Tacoma, WA! You're invited to participate in the Grand Audio Rule Music Hackathon, where you'll be challenged to Hack Music — Build, Code, Record! This is a competitive 3-day event where you will compete with like-minded musicians and engineers to create new music-related projects from scratch. You'll develop, and then perform or present your project in a concert format. Prizes include a chance to perform with a renowned national recording artist.

Read about Health Innovators by clicking here FREE unlimited snacks and drinks Health Innovators unconference is designed to provide a creative environment to bring together diverse groups of people who otherwise might not meet at traditional health or medical events. Participants themselves provide the content, with break-out sessions they develop themselves and plug into a schedule grid on the day of the event. Anyone can present and host a session in nearly any format. The agenda for the evening grows organically as the conversations and ideas develop. Discussions cover topics such as participatory healthcare, the use of social media in healthcare, mHealth and other technological advances. Multiple sessions run in parallel. Participants will hear and network with some of the extraordinary and innovative people transforming health care.  This event is for people who work in the Healthcare field (Hospitals, Pharma, Biotechnology, Med Tech)  Who is this event for:  • Have a problem you are trying to solve in Healthcare but don’t know how to solve the problem?  • Want to change something in Healthcare and needs other healthcare professionals input? • Have an idea and want to get it validated by other? • Want to teach other about your expertise?  Check out pictures of our previous unconference event here Please tweet about this event using @HealthInnoBos Schedule for the event: (approximate times) 3:00-5:30 - Free beer networking at Venture Cafe (Optional) 6:00-6:30 pm - Overview of rules and selection of topics by attendees. 6:30-7:30 pm - We will convene in conference rooms to discuss the topics chosen by attendees. 7:30-8:00 pm - Review of the topics discussed and explanation of the solutions for that particular topic by group leader. We will be hosting our hackathon along with Northeastern University on January 22nd of 2017, you can build up your ideas and team for the hackathon.   The meeting will be held in the Singapore Conference Room on the 11th floor of the Cambridge Innovation Center, Kendall Square. Please bring a government issued ID for security clearance. If you arrive after 6:00 pm, please dial 617-871-9286 for access to the event.  An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a topic can claim a space. Unconferences typically feature open discussions rather than having a single speaker at the front of the room giving a talk. If you would like to learn more about unconference, go to www.healthinno.org Health Innovators offers the following services:  • Prototyping Technology Services: We have expert team members who can build Digital Health Products in multiple technologies • Equity Crowdfunding Platform: Startups can raise capital on our platform from anybody. It is a new law • Incubator Program: We teach entrepreneurs how be build a successful business • Co working: We offer co working space for 200/month. You can work along many healthcare companies doing great things • Events - We host tons of events. We host informal weekly ideation sessions at Cambridge Innovation Center and formal monthly and yearly conferences. Email us at hello@healthinno.org for anything

Come to the first-ever hands-on ISSA website hackathon. We are partnering with SecurityInnovation to provide an immersive hands-on hacking experience for our ISSA symposium. Compete against your fellow ISSA Portland members in a contest of hacking skills in a fun environment. This event will provide value for everyone from a non-coder with zero hacking experience to a seasoned penetration tester. There are challenges for all skill levels and interest built into the game and we will have expert help on hand to help anyone who wants it. We will provide some initial training, lunch and the vulnerable infrastructure for you to test your skills against. You will need to bring a laptop with the following:· Recent version of Firefox installed with the FireBug Extension· Recent Java Runtime installed Space is limited, so please register soon.

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/

New York area students in grades 6-12! Interested in computer programming? Come and participate in the Agile Youth Challenge hackathon. You'll get to interact with like-minded students, as well as with New York City's leading industry experts, developers, and designers. You'll collaborate in teams to develop a prototype solution to a problem of your choice. You'll work with partners, in sprints, throughout the day. Use any technology to solve the problem—desktop, web, or mobile—using your choice of agile development tools, such as Java, JavaScript, Objective C, Swift, PHP, Processing, Scratch, Snap!, or C#.

Hackers awake! Do you have what it takes to help make the planet Earth a better place? Well if you think you do, then Intel and Amazon Web Services want you to sign up today for Hack the Planet! Come along and strut your techie stuff! The focus will be on building technology solutions that better the planet. Once you and your team submit your Internet of Things project stub on hackster, you'll get access to a Seeedstudio Grove Starter Kit Plus for Intel Edison.

Interested in BOTs? Want to participate in the Build A Bot Hackathon @ PLUG? That's cool! First sign up for the Build A Bot Preparation event, where your pre-formed team will meet-up, or you'll make new friends and form your team to build your bot! At the hackathon itself, your goal will be to create an open source bot for the inSitu mobile field sales application. Your bot will be packed with awesome features that will provide information about the company, package/invoice status, and any other cool features you come up with. Showcase your skills with technologies such as natural language processing, voice recognition, and AI.

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.

High school students in and around Austin, Texas! Want to showcase your techie creativity and coding skills? Are you ready for the Design for Progress Challenge? Come and participate in the Coding4TX Hackathon @ Galvanize. You'll be challenged to design and build a cool product that aims to solve an important youth problem of your choice. Collaborate and compete for awesome prizes!