#Innovate California - Cohort 2019 Hackathon

REGISTER NOW VIA EVENTBRITE: Your Eventbrite Registration immediately reserves your seat in the Cal-IPGCA Hackathon.

• Two-Page Hackathon Overview
• SIGN-UP-NOW to complete the extended application. This information is required to finalize your "hacker registration."  (Supervisor approval is required for Government Hackers' applications.)

Who's Invited:

First...remember, "Hacking" is bringing new perspectives, skills, and capabilities as collaborating problem solvers! Together, you will work on some of the State of California's most pressing innovation priorities. Your efforts will become co-creative in furthering the moonshot projects of Cohort 2019 Innovation Teams. (Moonshot projects are designed to create exponential rather than incremental improvement.)

Benefits?  Whether government based, academic leadership, students, start-ups, entrepreneurs, private sector business, or non-governmental organizations you are joining an elite group of innovators and leaders, e.g., like minds that are coming together with a commitment to collaborate on some of the State of States most significant enterprise-wide challenges. This hackathon is endeavoring to pioneer approaches for operationalizing Governor Newsom's Innovation Sprint Executive Order: N-04-19. Lastly, Cal-IPGCA is an established innovation Bootcamp, so participant visibility is high; creating an ROI that is open-ended. 

Types of Hackers Sought:

Creative minds, entre/intrapreneurs, and problem solvers:  We're looking for diverse teams that represent:
• Government Employees with a calling to innovate
• University Faculty and Students that see government innovation as a new frontier
• Tech start-ups with value to contribute
• Private sector companies and entrepreneurs that want to fuel government innovation and forge new business opportunities

Expertise Sought: 

It’s open-ended:  Coders, App developers, data analysts and data storytellers, software developers, artists, graphic designers, trainers and curriculum designers, video production, communications specialists, community advocates, diversity specialists, social media influencers, policy gurus, program analysts, fiscal hawks, whole-systems thinkers, business plan and grant writing aficionados, venture capitalists. BOTTOM LINE:  If you have a super-power you want to invest in exchange for an opportunity to change the world, then we’re a door of opportunity for you!

Skills Sought:

• Visionary collaborators that covet pragmatic planning
• Adept at building and finding doors in brick walls
• Authentic honest integrity – life and work inspire you so you inspire others
• Good communicators, listeners, and storytellers. You empower and motivate teamwork
• You are an accountable problem solver, with a capacity to turn ideas into solutions
• You are a systems thinker that can see the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
• You have an agile efficiency that can think creatively
• You have tech-savvy practicality and know-how
• These are not boundaries to keep you out – they’re doors to whatever superpowers you want to bring!

Next Steps:

• We’re offering off-site and onsite participation:  SIGN-UP-NOW!    
•  Registration Dates:  September 5 - 30, 2019 
• OCTOBER 1, 2019: Hackathon project information distributed to registered hackers via email for registered participants and online at www.cal-ipgca.org. 
• OCTOBER 7 – 11, 2019: Cohort video calls with Teams
• OCTOBER 14, 2019: 8 AM - 5 PM: Hackathon Event: FRANCHISE TAX BOARD (FTB). 9646 Butterfield Way, Sacramento, CA 95827, GOLDEN STATE ROOMS A & B

Fun Stuff About Cal-IPGCA:

Our Frontline Leadership: Meet our Executive Sponsors

Our Board of Advisors:  aka, Trainers, Educational Partners, and Champions

Cal-IPGCA Our History:  2.3 minutes of our awesome background

Cohort 2019: A "short-short" glimpse of program features