Mod the Future Hackathon- San Francisco

This year Moto released its brand new Moto Z + Moto Mods™ allowing you to transform your phone in a snap.

Each Moto Mod is built on the new Moto Mods™ Development Kit which gets hackers and makers closer than you’ve ever been to the phone of your dreams.

IBring your great ideas to the hackathon, use the Moto Mods™ Dev kits and win amazing prizes and opportunities.

Got your attention now?  Then start thinking about what you’re going to build.  Each event will have three challenges to chose from:

• Health and Fitness: Getting your heart rate measured and steps counted is great.  But built-in health apps can be taken to a whole new level. If you had the ability to add whatever sensor you wanted, what could you build to make health diagnosis easier? Or workouts better, faster, stronger...you get the idea.

• Retail: From in-store services and promotions to inventory management, retail has changed dramatically over the past few years.  How could a Moto Mod change the way people experience their favorite stores and restaurants?

• Multimedia:  The digital revolution changed the way we interacted with multimedia forever.  Now imagine you could upgrade your phone’s hardware to better suit your media preferences?  What would those Mods look like?

• • Grand Prize:

  • • $5,000 cash prize per Team
    • Invitation to pitch your mod at Moto HQ for Lenovo Capital investment
    • Entry into the Moto Mods Partner program
    • Dedicated Business Development Mentor
    • 1 Moto Mods Development kit per Team
    • 1 Moto Z phone per Team Member

    Second Place:

  • • 1 Moto Mods Development kit per Team
    • 1 Moto Z phone per Team Member

Wednesday

6:30-8:30 pm Moto Mods Pre-Hackathon Virtual Workshop via WebEx

Webex link, meeting number, host key and audio connection: To be provided

Saturday

8:00am Event set-up and Partner set-up

9:00am Doors Open and Breakfast

10:00 am Opening Ceremony & Presentations

11:00am Hackathon Begins

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Breakout Session

6:00 pm Dinner

12:00 am Midnight Snack

12:00- 8:00am Hack through the night*

*Although staying overnight isn’t required, we highly recommend it.

Sunday

7:00 am Breakfast

12:00 am Lunch

1:00 pm Submission Deadline

2:00 pm Round 1 Judging

2:30 pm Round 2 Judging (ONLY IF EVENT HAS OVER 35 projects)

3:00 pm Judge Deliberation

3:30pm Awards

4:00 pm Closing/Happy Hour

• Create New Category Use Case – 5 points: How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Is the mod simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less?

• Leverages or Improves Upon Brand Equity – 5 points

• Solves Consumer Painpoint – 5 points: Did the team create a mod that can have a real and valuable impact?

• Feasibility – 5 points: Is the mod technically feasible and scalable?

• Viability – 5 points: Is the mod marketable? Does commercial viability exist? Does it answer a need or demand?