Name: Amazon Alexa Hackathon
Start: 2016-09-17T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-09-17T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Station Houston

Amazon Alexa Hackathon

Julio Rodriguez

Alexa is the speech and personal assistant technology behind Amazon Echo. Today you can use Alexa to listen to music, play games, check traffic and weather, control your household devices such as Philips Hue and Belkin WeMo, and lots more. Alexa offers a full-featured set of APIs and SDKs that you can use to teach her new skills and add her into devices and applications of your own.  
On Saturday September 17th we bring you the first ever Houston Hackster.io + Amazon Alexa workshop!  
Paul Cutsinger (<A HREF="https://twitter.com/paulcutsinger" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">paulcutsinger</A>), Alexa Developer Evangelist at Amazon, will be teaching Alexa Skill Building 101 starting at 9am. In this talk, intended for software and hardware developers interested in voice control, home automation, and personal assistant technology, we will walk through the development of a new Alexa skill and incorporate it into a consumer-facing device.
The talk will be followed by lunch and an afternoon of hacking. Finish off the day with dinner and incredible prizes sponsored by Amazon.
You need to sign up for tickets at Eventbrite to attend.
Get your early bird tickets at:   <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amazon-alexa-hackathon-tickets-27187649993" TARGET="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amazon-alexa-hackathon-tickets-27187649993</A>  
Agenda: 
9AM breakfast
9:30 Paul kick off
10:00  build your first skill
Noon lunch break
1:00 skill building advanced topics
4:00 how to claim your device
5:00 done
 
Every participant who submits 3 Alexa Skills to Amazon within 30 days will receive an Amazon Tap worth $130.
Meetup page: <A HREF="https://www.meetup.com/Hackster-Hardware-Meetup-Houston/events/233438715/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.meetup.com/Hackster-Hardware-Meetup-Houston/events/233438715/</A>
 
Developer account: <A HREF="https://developer.amazon.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://developer.amazon.com/</A>

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