WomenHack - The All-Women Hackathon San Francisco

All-Women Hackathon San Francisco

A one day hackathon for women from experienced coders to total newbies. Watch this video of our March 2017 All-Women Hackathon, which was a huge success.

Come with an idea or join a team on-site and spend the day building a great project with enthusiastic, fun people. 

• Registration | We have limited slots available, so please sign-up here. Your registration fee covers lunch and dinner and admission to the Career Fair

• Teams | Teams of 5 - 6 women will be formed Saturday morning. 

• Judges | Our judging panel is made up of industry influencers, educators, hackathon pros and civic leaders.

• Bring |Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance on the Hackathon FB page and/or slack channel/

Food, fun and prizes. 

This hackathon will be held during our Global Career Summit and will be focused on career challenges and solutions. All participants are welcome to attend the career fair.

Hackathon Challenges

• Engage more Girls in STEM

• End the Gender Gap in Tech, Startup and/or Venture Capital

• Empower women to break the glass ceiling in workplace

• Enable companies to hire and retain diverse candidates

• Make the job search process applicant friendly for new immigrants and refugees

• Improve a potential candidate’s job search experience to find the right role

• Help women find and connect with mentors, recruiters and investors

• Solution to any other jobsearch, startup or career related challenge 

We have four Winning Categories 

1.Originality: How unique is your idea

2. Technical: Best use of code to create your product

3. Design: Best looking product

4. Business Model: Is there a viable business model attached to the idea

Judges

Marily Nika, Engineering Program Manager at Google and TEDx Speaker

Rania Hoteit, CEO & Co-Founder at ID4A Technologies

Ivy Nguyen, Investor at Zetta Venture Partners

Alison MacKay, Infrastructure Data Center Recruiting at Facebook

Liza Moiseeva, Co-founder at Globein

If you have coding/hackathon experience and are interested in volunteering as a mentor, please register here

For sponsorship or demo table inquiries, please e-mail us at info@theexpatwoman.com

Agenda

9:00am: registration, team & idea forming, and kickoff

10:00am - 1pm work on project

1:00pm - lunch and continue working on project

6:30pm - 7:30pm dinner and final project submission deadline

7:30 - 10:30pm - introductions, hackathon presentations and awards 

Hackathon Sponsors

Datometry

Sunrun

Food and Drink

Noosa Yoghurt

Califa Farms

Kind Bars

Hint Water

Clif Bars

Terms of Participation Agreement

You agree that you are responsible for any accidents or damages that you cause. You also agree to not hold The Expat Woman, or any of the event supporters liable for any loss, damage, injury, or any other unforeseeable incident.

By Participating at the event, you grant The Expat Woman permission to capture photo/video of the event.

By registering for this event, you also consent to receive email communication from The Expat Woman and its programs about events and updates that may interest you.

Tickets to this event are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, you have the option of giving it to a friend or team member to attend in your place.