HACK THE PLANET

Have you had an idea brewing, started tinkering away on your next great startup, or looking to collaborate with other GA students/alums. Come one, come all, to GA’s first hackathon and BUILD the product you love!

Bring great ideas, meet new people and build cool, life-changing solutions. You will need to form multi-disciplinary teams to develop a minimum viable product. Expect a good bit of problem-solving, prototyping, market validation and business model creation. Best of all, you will have a ton of fun and learn all about lean product development along the way.

What can I expect during Hack the Planet?

During Hack the Planet you will build a startup with a MVP in 3 days and deliver a pitch to our distunguished judges to win prizes!

Who should attend?

You! Come along if you’re excited about problem-solving, you’re a motivated, sharp, entrepreneurial, creative technologist who wants to  bring digital products to life. No experience necessary. Come with or without a team.

Product Managers or Idea Pitchers - If you are the product manager for your idea, strap in and get ready. You will have 2 minutes to convince the attendees why your idea rocks and that they should help you make it a reality. The quality of your idea and delivery of your pitch could help you secure the top talent, so get ready! 

Digital Marketers - Duty calls! If a product is built in the forest and no one is around to market it, does that product get used or bought. Nope... Marketers we need you to develop awesome go-to-market strategies! 

User Experience & Visual Designers - We need you now more than ever. Your job is to wield your insight and empathy to make this world a better place, one pixel at a time. You will get to take a look at the projects and see if there’s anything you want to work on, link up with a product manager to let them know if their project tickles your fancy, or get ready to test your luck with the Fish Bowl of Random Ideas. 

Developers - Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted - one moment, would you capture it, or let it slip? This is what you’ve been training for! Without you, we have nothing. Before you are eager idea pitchers looking to see what you can do and designers itching to work with you. Show us what you got!

Schedule

Friday March 11, 2016

5:30pm - Registration

6:30pm - Idea Pitches + Form Teams

8pm - Start Building

9:30pm - Wrap up

Saturday March 12, 2016

9am - Check-in

10pm - Wrap up

Sunday March 13, 2016

9am - Check-in

10pm - Wrap up

Tuesday March 15, 2016

5:30pm - Check-in for Team Pitches

6:00pm - Pitch Event Begins

8:30pm - Awards

**Hard works pays off, this event is FREE for all GA Alumni! (Ask your Course Producer for the code)**

*Only seed-stage ideas (no concrete work done) are allowed to be pitched and worked on at Hack the Planet. No legal documentation or contracts of any kind are allowed during the weekend. The issue of IP/ownership should be addressed within the team, as with any startup.

Refund Policy

Plans change. We get it. But if you can't make it, please email us at least 7 days before the scheduled event date. No refunds will be given after this timeframe.