Smart Cities San Diego Hackathon

Are you ready to get your fingers on the pulse of a city and unleash your innovation with ubiquitous real-time data? 

Earlier this year, the City of San Diego announced the world’s largest Internet of Things platform deployment to help the City improve community safety, reduce parking gridlock, recognize pedestrian patterns, and provide greater situational awareness, all while helping the City, businesses, and citizens enhance everyday life through insights and solutions built with real-time sensor data.

Using Current, powered by GE’s CityIQ™, 3,200 intelligent nodes are being placed on streetlights throughout the City. As a participant in the Smart Cities San Diego Hackathon, you will not only compete for $3,500 in total prize money, you will also be one of the first developers to leverage and build Industrial Internet of Things applications powered by the Predix platform. Participants also get free access to CityIQ’s real-world datasets, Intelligent Cities APIs, engineering support, and developer resources during the hackathon.

Join Cleantech San Diego, CyberTECH, City of San Diego, General Electric, AT&T, and Intel during San Diego Startup Week to explore how an application using real-time data from the thousands of CityIQ nodes throughout the City of San Diego will help solve problems with traffic, parking, public safety, urban planning, and environmental challenges.

YOU BRING:

Your laptop, skills, and ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance on social media via the #scsdhack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech, you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!

WE SUPPLY:

Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. We will have technical mentors to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools. We will also have loaner hardware on-site for you to use in your solutions.

EVENT SCHEDULE:

Pre-Hackathon Workshop - June 21

• 6:00 pm - Workshop Beings
• Presentation of Hackathon Challenge
• Q&A Discussion
• 9:00 pm - Workshop Concludes

Day 1 - June 22

• 6:00 pm - Kickoff Event 
• 7:00 pm - Project Brainstorming 
• 7:30 pm - Project Sharing 
• Project Execution 

Day 2 - June 23

• 11:00 am - Judging Project Review 
• 12:00 pm - Lunch Served 
• 1:00 pm - Hackathon Concludes

Lyft Promo Code:
Get 15% off 2 rides to or from the Smart Cities San Diego Hackathon with code SDHACKATHON.

PRIZES: 

$3,500 in total prize money. Great prizes from General Electric, Intel, and CyberTECH. Submissions must include one or more of CityIQ™ Intelligent Cities APIs to be eligible for the competition.

The hackathon prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge. There will be prizes awarded in the following categories. Specific prizes will be announced closer to the event.

• Best IoT App Overall
• Best Smart City Hack
• Best Use of the Intel IoT Starter Kit 

Hackathon winners will also be recognized at San Diego Startup Week's closing ceremony on June 24.

DATA SOURCES:

• CityIQ™ Intelligent Cities APIs
  
• City of San Diego Open Data
  

JUDGES:

• Kiva Allgood, GE Ventures
• Darin Anderson, CyberTECH
• Jason Anderson, Cleantech San Diego
• Austin Ashe, Current by GE
• Erik Caldwell, City of San Diego
• Eric Green, AT&T
• Maksim Pecherskiy, City of San Diego

JUDGING CRITERIA:

Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly:

• 25% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does
• 25% Weight - Originality of idea
• 25% Weight - Technically creative and/or challenging implementation
• 25% Weight - Applicability to the City of San Diego’s unique challenge

HACKATHON LEGAL:

• Hackathon Terms
• All participants are expcted to abide by the Hack Code of Conduct
  
• FAQ