AT&T Mobile App Hackathon - Device Hacking (San Francisco)
Event Information
Description
Have an app idea or need an app built for your business?
Mobile App Hackathon is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program that is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. Our hackathon will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools to help deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in the cloud.
As far as platforms are concerned, feel free to code in the language you feel most comfortable, whether it's Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, or XNA. Even if you are rusty with your programming, we will have live developer support from local senior developers as well as from AT&T to help you code that much faster.
We will have some awesome devices on hand including M2M Smart Services Developer Kits thanks to our friends at Intel and Kontron!
The kick off presentation can be found via this link: http://bit.ly/hackprezi
Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekends agenda:
- 6PM - Friday Evening - Kickoff event with drinks, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation.
- 7PM - Friday Evening - Lightning talks.
- 8PM - Friday Evening - Idea pitches and team formation. Pitch your ideas and form teams or just start coding with your preformed teams.
- 12AM - Friday Evening - End of the night. Go home, get some rest and come back the next day refreshed!
- 10AM - Saturday Morning - The fun continues with an all day hackathon. Work with the teams that you formed the night before to produce the app. Senseis will be available throughout the entire event to help you code up your solution.
- 1PM - Saturday Afternoon - Lunch
- 7PM - Saturday Afternoon - Dinner
- 10PM - Saturday Evening - End of the night. Go home, get some rest and come back the next day refreshed!
- 10AM - Sunday Morning - The fun continues with the final six (6) hours of the hackathon. Work with the teams that you formed on Friday to produce the app. Senseis will be available throughout the final hours to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 4PM.
- 1PM - Sunday Afternoon - Lunch
- 4PM - Sunday Evening - Promptly at 4PM, teams will begin pitching their ventures. Pitches are limited to three (3) minutes per team.
Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge:
- Best Hackathon Overall App
- 1st Place - $500 in Gift Cards for the team and one (1) year of the "Small" service from Github for each team member
- 2nd Place - $300 in Gift Cards for the team and one (1) year of the "Micro" service from Github for each team member
- 3rd Place - $200 in Gift Cards for the team and six (6) months of "Micro" service from Github for each team member
- Best Use of AT&T APIs - A Sierra Wireless 4G LTE device and 1 month of 1GB data for each team member (Max 3)
- Best Use of Roar Engine - Roar Engine is offering $5,000 worth of game design, back end development and hosting services for the best game or application built using Roar’s game mechanics engine. [read more]
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Most Creative App Built Using StackMob - To the winning team, we are offering six months off our Pro Packages as currently described at: http://stackmob.com/pricing/. This prize has a value of up to approximately $18,000. All such credit must be used in a continuous six month period, beginning no later than August, 31st 2012.
Further, to help you keep the momentum after the hackathon, we are offering two months worth of free desk space at the StackMob HQ, subject to StackMob’s standard terms for subtenants. You will get free WiFi, coffee, fruit and a quiet place to build your business and your app. This brings the total value of the StackMob prize to $20,000!
To be eligible for the StackMob prize, the app must:- Use the StackMob API
- Comply with StackMob’s terms of service available at: http://stackmob.com/terms-of-use/
Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the the criteria below and weighted accordingly.
- 33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does
- 33% Weight - Originality of idea
- 33% Weight - Technically challenging implementation
Speakers
Casey Rosenthal a Consultant Engineer at Basho, where he installs and tests Riak clusters. He also provides training to clients so that they can do the same. As Chief Software Engineer for Port Forty Nine, Casey worked for NASA, Caltech, and JPL to engineer systems for storing and disseminating the image archives of space telescopes such as Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, etc.

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