Okta-Amazon Alexa-UCLA Hackathon: Identity is Creativity!

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    Okta-Amazon Alexa-UCLA Hackathon: Identity is Creativity! 

    Note: The event has been rescheduled from its original January dates to April 28th and 29th  

    Come hack with us!
     
    Okta, Amazon Alexa and UCLA feel that innovation is best demonstrated by bringing ideas to life, even if the first version may not be perfect. At this hackathon, you can build any type of project you'd like. And then use Okta to secure it with authentication, authorization, and user management in a matter of minutes. You can also create a more personalized user experience with Alexa. 
     
    To join us register below, and on the weekend of Hackathon come create something cool! A new website, an awesome mobile app, a clever bot, a cool data visualization, an Alexa app, anything cool and useful.

    Requirements: Development experience 

    Team Size: Maximum 4 members. If you don’t have a full 4-person team, just show up and we'll find a team for you

    (Okta employees/partners will not qualify for prizes, although all are welcome to join the hackathon!)

    Registration: Register, and if possible, donate to the Association for Computing Machinery-Women (ACM-W) - Supporting Women Engineers. Once registered, submit your team info to HackLA@okta.com

    *UCLA Students – Please use your @ucla address

    Registration Deadline: April 26th, 2018

    Judging Criteria: 

    1. Quality of the idea 
    2. Implementation of the Idea 
    3. Potential impact – Individual, school, community, or business
    4. Usage of Okta Platform
    5. Usage of Amazon Alexa

    Prizes:

    First place: $2000 

    Second place: $1000

    Third place: $500 

    Amazon Alexa devices

    Dates and Times:

    Hackathon Hours: April 28th, 10:00 AM to April 29th 2:00 pm (We'll have coffee and energy drinks to keep you going!)

    Parking: UCLA Parking Structure 8 – Overnight parking available

    Prepay for parking using the Parkmobile App - Parking Zone# 2508 (Pick UCLA) - you need to add your vehicle to the app. 

    Okta and Amazon Alexa team members to help you at the Hackathon: 

    Okta Developer Relations/Evangelist:

    Randall Degges

    Okta Solutions Architects:

    Joel Hanson, Payal Ajwani, Brent Garlow, Joe Correa, Shawn Recinto, Andrew van Beek, Ryan Shaller, Jim Faut

    Amazon Alexa Solutions Architect:

    Justin Jeffress

    UCLA Industry Relations/Career Center:

    David Mora

    Agenda:

    • 10:00 – 11:00 am: Kickoff + Team Intros
    • 11:00 am – 01:00 pm: How to sessions + Lunch: (Okta and Amazon Speakers)
    • 01:00 – 09:00 am: Hack away: (*How to* help is always available) Communication/Announcements during this time will be through Slack Channel or in person
    • 7:00 pm: Dinner (Snacks and drinks always available)
    • 12:00 am: Midnight Pizza
    • 07:30 am: Breakfast
    • 09:00 – 9:45 am: Wrap up coding and prepare for presentations
    • 09:45 – 10:00 am: Upload your Presentation (Link) – (this is what you will be presenting. No changes will be accepted after).
    • 10:00 am – 12:30 pm: Presentation (No Laptops up for audience)
    • 12:30 –1:30 pm: Lunch + Networking
    • 01:30 – 2:00 pm: Winners announced 

    Rules:

    1. Have fun and work in harmony. Be respectful! Any misbehavior will lead to disqualification.
    2. Build something meaningful, new, and awesome!
    3. You must use Okta as the Identity provider in your project. Feel free to use any other tools or technologies you wish.
    4. You cannot bring previously written code. We will audit each team's code.
    5. Your code belongs to you and no one else.
    6. Track your code on Git.
    7. Your presentation + project must be submitted between 9:45 – 10:00 am on Sunday. No changes will be permitted after submission.
    8. Organizers are here to help! We'll keep your project confidential.

    Submissions:

    Submit your code in your Git repo and your presentation here at 9:45 am. No late changes will be accepted.

    TODOs before the event: 

    Sign up for a free Okta developer Account: https://developer.okta.com/signup/ (Required - One per team for the hackathon, you can sign up as individuals for learning purposes)

    Sign up for Amazon Developer Account: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit

    Useful Links:

     Okta APIs and Examples:

     Here are the Okta SDKs for Authentication/Authorization/User management/Multifactor Auth/Social

    https://developer.okta.com/documentation/

    Okta APIs: https://developer.okta.com/docs/api/getting_started/api_test_client.html

    Okta OAuth: API Access management - https://developer.okta.com/use_cases/api_access_management/

    Authentication options based on the project needs/login experience – for this Hackathon, we encourage the Sign-In widget since that is the easiest to get started with - https://developer.okta.com/use_cases/authentication/

    Alexa integration: https://github.com/pmcdowell-okta/oktaRental-alexa (with server side appl - https://github.com/pmcdowell-okta/okta-carrental-amazon-apigateway)

    Okta's Developer Blog:

    https://developer.okta.com/blog/

    Use OpenID Connect to Build a Simple Node.js Website

    Build an Ionic App with User Authentication

    Okta Examples on GitHub: 

    https://github.com/okta 

    https://github.com/oktadeveloper

    Alexa Docs:
     
    Amazon Alexa announced a new version of the Nodejs sdk. You are welcome to use either version. 

    https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/decb3931-2c81-497d-85e4-8fbb5ffb1114/now-available-version-2-of-the-ask-software-development-kit-for-node-js


    A few things to get you started developing with Alexa.
     
    Tutorials & Getting Started:
     
    Design & Development:
     
    Testing:
     
    We will also have test devices to loan out
     
    Miscellaneous:

    If you have any questions, if you need help, a sounding board for your ideas, or if you want to swing by and chat -- feel free find us on our table during the hackathon. 

    Location

    UCLA Career Center
    Los Angeles, United States

    Dates

    From 28th April 2018 - 10:00 AM
    to 29th April 2018 - 02:00 PM