Hacking for Humanity with Girls in Tech SF

HACKING FOR HUMANITY

Girls in Tech Presents: A Social Innovation Hackathon 

Women Uniting to Solve SF Bay Area Challenges

It's that time of the year again!

Join the Girls in Tech, San Francisco chapter for our 2nd annual Hacking for Humanity hackathon. Last year, we worked together to innvoate for social change for girls and women, by women. This year, we’re focusing on tackling topics that deal with local San Francisco/Bay Area issues such as (but not limited to) the following:  

      - Homelessness
      - Affordable Housing
      - Economic Disparity
      - Transportation

Hackathons exist to enable the rapid prototyping of a complex problem and provide a range of solutions in a short period of time. By hacking with us, we are aiming to think bigger for global change with tech, whilst also allowing impassioned women to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship within our tech ecosystem.

We are calling all women and men across the globe, including developers, designers, product developers, and entrepreneurs, plus businesses that want to embrace the idea of Social Innovation or initiatives that combine a positive mission with business.

This hackathon is beginner friendly and for participants new to coding or hackathons. However, any and all levels are welcome. You can come with your own team (no more than 5 per team). No team? No problem -  we'll figure that out for you. Form a team, solve a problem, create something awesome, present it to the audience and win prizes!

Register now to participate as a Hacker! Your ticket includes meals/brainfood for both days.

Prizes

1st place: $2,500

2nd place: $1,000

3rd place: $500

Girls in Tech Favorite: Girls in Tech swag, tickets to our events, and more!

Schedule

Saturday, July 28th

10 AM - Welcome & Team Formations
11 AM - Keynote 
12:30 PM - Lunch
2 PM - Hack!
6 PM - Dinner
8 PM - Hack!
10 PM - Late night snack                                                                                                                                             11 PM - 9:30 AM Hack All Night! 

Sunday, July 29th

9:30 AM - Breakfast
10 AM - Hack!
12:30 PM - Lunch
1:30 PM - 1-hour warning 
2:30 PM - Hacking stops
3 PM - Pitch & Presentations
5 PM - Dinner & Deliberations
6 PM - Judges award prizes
7 PM - Closing remarks

Sponsors & Partners

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PagerDuty provides enterprise-grade incident management that helps you orchestrate the ideal response to create better customer, employee, and business value.

We’re proudly the leading engineering school for women in the Bay Area with 700+ graduates at tech companies that include Google, Dropbox, and Airbnb. We were founded with the mission to provide women with a personalized path to a software engineering career.

The GUILD takes the inconvenience and awkwardness out of networking. We merge modern-day technology with the medieval concept of the guild, to provide women with the tools they need for smart, effective networking at all career stages. 

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks around the world. Cisco creates leading products and key technologies to make the Internet more useful and dynamic. These technologies include advanced routing and switching, voice and video over IP, optical networking, wireless, storage networking, security, broadband, and content networking. Learn more about Cisco Systems, Inc. at cisco.com.

* Email addresses may be given to sponsors to help facilitate the hackathon

* Parking is difficult around the DocuSign area - please utilize public transportation to get to the buliding. The SF Marathon will also be taking place early Sunday morning on 7/29