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API Showdown: Hack Your Trip
08 Dec - 09:00 AM
Seattle, United States
$10,000 USD
Hackers and techies in Seattle and the North West! If you're interested in the use of technology in the travel industry, then the Discover Global Network invites you to participate in the API Showdown: Hack Your Trip. Register with a team of up to 5 individuals -- you'll be challenged to use two or more of Discover's travel APIs to create an innovative digital solution that enhances the traveler experience! Collaborate and compete for your share of a $17,000 prize pool.
EOS Hackathon: San Francisco
10 Nov - 08:30 AM
San Francisco, United States
$100,000 (Cash + Travel)
The EOS Global Hackathon series is a first-of-its-kind event in the world of blockchain, with the continued goal of supporting a decentralized global community from the ground up.
Get involved and you will be joining hackers, product developers, marketers, and business leaders in creating a new wave of blockchain dApps that secure life, liberty, and property.
From June through the end of 2018, Block.one will be hosting a series of initiatives designed to find and give a platform to the most visionary architects of decentralization out there.
Four in-person events will be followed by a Grand Finale Pitch Competition that puts the best applications under the spotlight.
EOSIO: The Most Powerful Infrastructure for Decentralized Applications
(All prizes are in USD)
Those placing 1st - 3rd in the SF event will receive $2,000 USD per winning team member for travel and lodging to the Grand Finale in Cape Town.
1st Place: $100,000 (Cash + Travel)
2nd Place: $25,000 (Cash + Travel)
3rd Place: $10,000 (Cash + Travel)
Superlative: Three (3) $3,000 cash prizes delivered to superlative winners
The Hackathon Challenge will be released on the day of the event to ensure a level playing field for all participating! In the mean time, start getting familiar with documentation on the EOSIO Developer Portal and get involved with the community through our EOSIO social channels and Telegram groups.
EOSIO Version 1.0 Has Arrived.
Block.one released version 1.0 of their open source EOSIO blockchain software on June 2nd 2018. This software enables businesses to rapidly build and deploy high-performance and high-security blockchain-based applications.
EOSIO is designed to include:
Free Rate Limited Transactions
Low Latency Block confirmation (0.5 seconds)
Low-overhead Byzantine Fault Tolerant Finality
Optional high-overhead, low-latency BFT finality
Smart contract platform powered by Web Assembly
Designed for Sparse Header Light Client Validation
Scheduled Recurring Transactions
Time Delay Security
Hierarchical Role Based Permissions
Support for Biometric Hardware Secured Keys (e.g. Apple Secure Enclave)
Parallel Execution of Context Free Validation Logic
Inter Blockchain Communication
*Schedule is subject to change
Wednesday, November 7th
18:30 - 20:00 |EOSIO Global Hackathon Virtual Session via Zoom
Webinar Link: https://zoom.us/j/502434540
Meeting Number: 502 434 540
Saturday, November 10th
08:30 - 10:00 | Doors Open & Breakfast Served
10:00 - 11:00 | Opening Ceremony/Presentations from Partners
11:00 | Coding Begins
12:00 | Lunch Served
12:00 | Breakout Session 1 - Technical Breakout (C++)
13:00 | Breakout Session 2 - Technical Breakout (Web/UX)
14:00 | Breakout Session 3 - Entrepreneurial
18:00 | Dinner Served
20:00 - 20:30 | Breakout Session 4 - Pitch Workshop
24:00 | Midnight Snack / Hack through the Night*
*The venue will be open and staffed overnight if you’d like to hack through the night.
Sunday, November 11th
07:30 | Breakfast Served
09:00 | Breakout Session 5 - Pitch Practice
12:00 | Lunch Served
13:00 | Submission Deadline
14:00 | Round 1 Judging (3 min pitches)
16:00 | Doors Open for Individuals with Spectator Ticket
16:30 | Closing Ceremony & Top 10 teams announced
16:45 | Round 2 Judging
18:15 | Winners announced
18:30 | Networking Drinks & Dinner
Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria, with a minimum score of 0 and the maximum score of 20 points, and the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:
Utilization of Blockchain Technology (5 points): How well suited is the concept for blockchain? Is there a clear need for a token, smart contract, and distributed ledger technology? Was an EOSIO smart contract successfully implemented?
Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Is the idea defensible or unique?
Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact? Is the idea feasible / if pursued could it actually work in the real world?
Scalability (5 points): What is the growth potential of this application? What impact can it have on the world as a whole?
Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have completed the participation agreement to compete.
You may not begin your project until the competition officially begins. Please don’t come in and build on top of previous projects if you want to win.
Teams have full ownership of everything they build and are free to do with it as they wish whether they win or not.
Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before the competition ends.
Global Demo Day 2018 & Startup Bash
01 Nov - 06:00 PM
San Francisco, United States
Join global entrepreneurs, innovative startups, and the Bay Area's best during an evening of pitches and celebration. These Global Demo Day startups won their local AngelHack hackathon, impressing expert judges from all over the world. They then triumphed during a 12-week virtual pre-accelerator curriculum, building out their idea, prototypes, and business plans in anticipation of this night - an evening which could make or break their startup journey.
Meet the 19 chosen teams here.
Interested in attending as an investor? Email info (at) angelhack.com
The HACKcelerator is a pre-accelerator program designed to take winning hackathon ideas from around the world from prototype to fully fledged startup with early traction. Annually, the top companies fly out to San Francisco for extensive pitch training and mentorship to prep for AngelHack’s Global Demo Day. With a startup portfolio valuation of $75M, acquisitions from tech giants such as Google, and BOX, AngelHack is the highest valued pre-accelerator in the industry.
Thursday, November 1st, 2018 the top 1% of global entrepreneurs will present their new companies’ at Global Demo Day followed by the biggest after party in Silicon Valley: Startup Bash.
Dress code is black tie optional. The AngelHack team will be dressed to the nines! Feel free to join us!
6:00PM - DOORS OPEN, DRINKS AND NETWORKING7:00PM - DEMO’S BEGIN 9:00PM - WINNERS ANNOUNCED10:00PM - STARTUP BASH WITH OPEN BAR
EOS Hackathon: London
22 Sep - 09:00 AM
United Kingdom
$100,000 (Cash + Travel)
The EOS Global Hackathon series is a first-of-its-kind event in the world of blockchain, with the continued goal of supporting a decentralized global community from the ground up.
Get involved and you will be joining hackers, product developers, marketers, and business leaders in creating a new wave of blockchain dApps that secure life, liberty, and property.
From June through the end of 2018, Block.one will be hosting a series of initiatives designed to find and give a platform to the most visionary architects of decentralization out there.
Four in-person events will be followed by a Grand Finale Pitch Competition that puts the best applications under the spotlight.
EOSIO: The Most Powerful Infrastructure for Decentralized Applications
(All prizes are in USD)
Those placing 1st - 3rd in the Hong Kong event will receive $2,000 USD per winning team member for travel and lodging to the Grand Finale in TBA.
1st Place: $100,000 (Cash + Travel)
2nd Place: $25,000 (Cash + Travel)
3rd Place: $10,000 (Cash + Travel)
Superlative: Three (3) $3,000 cash prizes delivered to superlative winners
Announcement Coming Soon
EOSIO Version 1.0 Has Arrived.
Block.one released version 1.0 of their open source EOSIO blockchain software on June 2nd 2018. This software enables businesses to rapidly build and deploy high-performance and high-security blockchain-based applications.
EOSIO is designed to include:
Free Rate Limited Transactions
Low Latency Block confirmation (0.5 seconds)
Low-overhead Byzantine Fault Tolerant Finality
Optional high-overhead, low-latency BFT finality
Smart contract platform powered by Web Assembly
Designed for Sparse Header Light Client Validation
Scheduled Recurring Transactions
Time Delay Security
Hierarchical Role Based Permissions
Support for Biometric Hardware Secured Keys (e.g. Apple Secure Enclave)
Parallel Execution of Context Free Validation Logic
Inter Blockchain Communication
*Schedule is subject to change
Wednesday, September 12th
18:30 - 20:00 |EOSIO Global Hackathon Virtual Session via Zoom
Webinar Link: https://zoom.us/j/181643957
Meeting Number: 181 643 957
Saturday, September 22nd
08:30 - 10:00 | Doors Open & Breakfast Served
10:00 - 11:00 | Opening Ceremony/Presentations from Partners
11:00 | Coding Begins
12:00 | Lunch Served
12:00 | Breakout Session 1 - Technical Breakout (C++)
13:00 | Breakout Session 2 - Technical Breakout (Web/UX)
14:00 | Breakout Session 3 - Entrepreneurial
18:00 | Dinner Served
20:00 - 20:30 | Breakout Session 4 - Pitch Workshop
24:00 | Midnight Snack / Hack through the Night*
*The venue will be open and staffed overnight if you’d like to hack through the night.
Sunday, September 23rd
07:30 | Breakfast Served
09:00 | Breakout Session 5 - Pitch Practice
12:00 | Lunch Served
13:00 | Submission Deadline
14:00 | Round 1 Judging (3 min pitches)
16:00 | Doors Open for Individuals with Spectator Ticket
16:30 | Closing Ceremony & Top 10 teams announced
16:45 | Round 2 Judging
18:15 | Winners announced
18:30 | Networking Drinks & Dinner
Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria, with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, and the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:
Utilization of Blockchain Technology (5 points): How well suited is the concept for blockchain? Is there a clear need for a token, smart contract, and distributed ledger technology? Was an EOSIO smart contract successfully implemented?
Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Is the idea defensible or unique?
Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact? Is the idea feasible / if pursued could it actually work in the real world?
Scalability (5 points): What is the growth potential of this application? What impact can it have on the world as a whole?
Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have completed the participation agreement to compete.
You may not begin your project until the competition officially begins. Please don’t come in and build on top of previous projects if you want to win.
Teams have full ownership of everything they build and are free to do with it as they wish whether they win or not.
Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before the competition ends.
Capital One DevExchange Series - San Francisco
17 Aug - 06:00 PM
San Francisco, United States
Fintech developers, entrepreneurs, and designers in SiliconValley and the San Francisco Bay Area! You're invited to participate in the Capital One DevExchange Series - San Francisco. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative solution that imagines the future of finance. Come with a team of up to 5 members and collaborate to build an innovative new project that uses the Microsoft Cortana virtual assistant API, as well as one or more Capital One APIs for Virtual Card Number, Bank Account Starter, Money Movement, Credit Offers, and Rewards. Compete for recognition and awesome tech and gadget prizes.
Access advice for the DevExchange hackathon on our tips page!
Agents of Change Hackathon
11 Aug - 09:00 AM
New York, United States
Developers, designers, and entrepreneurs on the East Coast! Are you committed to building a better working world? Great, then EY invites you to participate in the Agents of Change Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and build an innovative Microsoft Azure-based solution that can materially impact the world of insurance -- by building a solution that can customize insurance plans, leverage data from IoT, and help insurance agencies advise those clients affected by natural disasters. You can build your project in one of the following three categories:
»Custom Coverage Challenge
»Disaster Relief Challenge
»IoT Challenge
AngelHack Lima Hackathon 2018
04 Aug - 09:00 AM
Lima District, Peru
Invitation to AngelHack HACKcelerator
Peruvian coders, designers, and entrepreneurs! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack Lima Hackathon 2018 edition of the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. Take AngelHack's Code For A Cause Impact challenge, or take AngelHack's Code For A Cause Impact challenge, or your choice of challenges from IBM or AWS! Alternatively, you can choose to just build whatever your imagination can conceive -- something innovative without limits, something that brings positive change to the world!
Create something cool. Meet great people. Win great prizes. Who knows, your founder journey may begin at the Catholic University of Peru in Lima!
Be prepared with advice from our hackathon tips page!
AngelHack Jakarta Hackathon 2018
04 Aug - 09:00 AM
Jakarta, Indonesia
Invitation to AngelHack HACKcelerator
Coders, designers, and entrepreneurs in Indonesia! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack Jakarta Hackathon 2018 edition of the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. This year’s theme is Seamless Technology. You're not limited! Build an app that solves a social or environmental problem and positively impacts your local community! Take the Code For A Cause Impact challenge, or challenges from IBM and AWS! Alternatively, you can choose to just build something innovative without limits, something that brings positive change to the world, or whatever your imagination can conceive.
Create something cool. Meet great people. Win great prizes. Maybe your founder journey may begin at Kawasan Mega Kuningan in Jakarta!
For hackathon advice visit the tips page!
AngelHack Bogota Hackathon 2018
04 Aug - 09:00 AM
Bogota, Colombia
Coders, designers, and entrepreneurs in and around Bogotá! AngelHack invites you to sign up to participate in the AngelHack São Paulo Hackathon 2018 edition of the AngelHack Global Hackathon Series. Compete on your own, or collaborate as a member of a team to come up with an idea and turn it into a functioning prototype. Take AngelHack's Code For A Cause Impact challenge, or your choice of challenges from IBM, AWS, Ubidots, or Hurify! Alternatively, you can choose to just build whatever your imagination can conceive -- something innovative without limits, something that brings positive change to the world!
Create something cool. Meet great people. Win great prizes. Perhaps your founder journey may begin at Torre Eara in Bogotá!
Get advice for the Code For A Cause Bogotá hackathon on the tips page!
EOS Hackathon: Sydney
04 Aug - 09:00 AM
Sydney, Australia
Blockchain enthusiasts and hackers in and around Sydney! You're invited to participate in the EOS Hackathon: Sydney. You'll get to join with other hackers, product developers, marketers, and business leaders and be challenged to create an awesome blockchain-based dApp that secures life, liberty, and property. You'll get to present your project for the chance to participate in the Grand Finale Pitch Competition. Those placing 1st - 3rd in this event will receive $2,000 USD per winning team member for travel and lodging to the Grand Finale in TBA.