VetsinTech Hackathon @Facebook!!

Join the VetsinTech Hackathon @Facebook - one of our most popular annual events!!

In this full-day event the VetsinTech and Facebook community will come together to support our returning veterans. Teams of approximately 5-10 people will be formed with a variety of skills -the vets can have the idea, help with business plan, marketing or just sit in to audit/participate for educational purposes – coding skills are NOT required. Chosen mentors from the tech community will come together (and to code) and recognize to the unique perspective our returning veterans have to offer.

What is it: The VetsinTech hackathon @ Facebook is a full day business and app development competition. The event’s goal is to invite returning veterans to be part of a team focused on building successful startups around the next generation social, mobile, gaming, ecommerce, health or other applications and to foster a community of (veteran) entrepreneurship. Our veterans can add a unique perspective to many of these types of applications. Registered idea generators are given 1 minute to pitch an app concept to a tech audience on day one. Attending veterans, engineers, designers, marketing and business people as well as our team of glorious mentors pre-select the best ideas that will be developed into applications during the day. Teams are formed around the most promising projects and the competition begins.

What to expect: Expect to find the complimentary skills that help you to connect in the tech community. Be open, share your ideas and don’t hold back – “Ideas without actions are usually called dreams” Expect to meet super talented and inspiring people, to work under time pressure, and to dedicate the whole day! Expect to gain valuable feedback and insight not only from your teammates but also from other participants and the all-star panel of Judges.

AGENDA:

— 12:15 – 1:00pm Keynote Speaker - Ramona Pierson - CEO, DeClara
— 1:00 – 2pm - Facebook for Small Business presentation
— 2:00-3:00pm: Product and business plan team work
— 3:00-6:00pm: FB advisors/mentors and team work
— 5:00-6:00pm: Dinner + Speaker - John Gossart, Co-Founder and COO GoodWorld, Inc and founding member of RideScout

— 6:00-7:00pm Business presentations to panel of judges - Zack Hargreaves, Founders Fund - Craig Hanson, Next World Capital

— 7:15-7:30pm Break (judging)

— 7:30-8:30pm Awards!! and Networking