AT&T Mobile App Hackathon - Bay Area (IoT)

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business?

This special IoT focused Mobile App Hackathon, an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program, is designed for attendees interested in hacking production or protyping hardware. So join us as we hack hardware, build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. We will have experts from AT&T, IBM, and the local community onsite to assist with your development.

You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!

We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. We will have technical senseis to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools. And no IoT event would be complete without Loaner Hardware:

• Harman Omni 10
• Harman Adapt
  
• GoPro Hero4 Silver
• Gimbal Series 10 Beacon
• Gimbal Series 21 Beacon
• Arduino Boards
  
• mBed Board
• Raspberry Pi 2 (No Monitor or Keyboard provided)
• Tessel
• Myo ArmBand

Event Schedule.  The following is a list of the weekend's agenda:

• Day 1
  
• 6PM - Kickoff event with dinner, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation.
• 7PM - Speakers present (please see below for list)
• 8PM - Pitch ideas and form teams

• Day 2
  
• 10AM - The fun continues with breakfast served in the morning! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec’d. Senseis will be available throughout the entire day to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 6PM.
• 1PM - Lunch is Served
• 6PM - Pencils down. Please sign up your teams to present at the link provided onsite. Pitches start promptly at 6PM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. No powerpoints unless you are only presenting an idea.

Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge:

• Best Hackathon IoT App Overall
• 1st Place - $1000 in Gift Cards for the team
• Best Use of AT&T M2X API
  
• 1st Place - $1000 in Gift Cards for the team
  
• Best Use of IBM Bluemix
• 1st Place - $1000 in Gift Cards for the team
• Coding House Challenge (Please see full terms)
• $1st Place - $2,500 Scholarship to Coding House JavaScript Immersive Boot Camp
• Best Use of Plantronics APIs
• 1st Place - Game COM Headset or equivalent devices for each team member
  
• 2nd Place - Game COM Heatset or equivalent devices
• Best Windows App
• 1st Place - $500 in Gift Cards for the team
  

Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly.  

• 33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does

• 33% Weight - Originality of idea

• 33% Weight - Use of IoT Hardware and Sponsored Software

Hackathon Legal. 

• Hackathon Terms: http://db.tt/kyPS9ojR

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Speakers 

Ben Nelson, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at AT&T, is based out of sunny Seattle! His passion is educating developers young and old about mobile application development best practices through events like hackathons that fuse the collective interests of multiple technologies and business leaders.	Joe Bossalini, is a product development engineer working for AT&T. His team is currently involved with designing and building AT&T M2X, a cloud-based fully managed data storage service for network connected machine-to-machine (M2M) devices. He has experience in a wide range of application enablement activities, including product design, software development, hardware configuration and maintenance, and customer experience.
Marek Sadowski is an IBM MobileFirst developer advocate, IoT & robotics expert and an entrepreneur. Being a graduate from the International Space University Marek pioneered in a research on an VR goggles for the photorealistic virtual reality system to control robots on Mars in NASA Ames in 1999. On a European national TV channel Marek hosted a first season of the educational program "Why this?". As a vice president of the Polish Astronautics Society he organized 7 national robotics competition for high school students.	Andrew Moll is a technical evangelist for Microsoft working on development and data storage within Azure. In a past life, he was a consultant helping customers figure out how to visualize and discover meaningful conclusions from their disparate data sets. Outside of technology, his favorite discussion topics include: picking the next million-dollar stock, the current snow conditions in Tahoe (yes, even in the summer), and finding the best coffee/food in the bay!

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