Code for the Kingdom Hackathon - San Francisco

2016 Bay Area Code for the Kingdom HACKATHON

Presented by Venture Christian Church and Leadership Network

All meals and drinks will be included in the $20 event fee.

Transforming The Bay and Beyond Hackathon

Ideate. Build. Impact. Create technology that matters.

A hackathon movement to ignite the passion and purpose of technologists and entrepreneurs to innovate culture shaping technologies that would reclaim our times for the Gospel. Engage, envision, challenge, and release the culture makers for sustained impact.

WHAT IS IT?

On the weekend of September 23-25, 2016, we are bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creative’s, businesspeople, ministry leaders, visionaries, and anyone passionate about faith and technology, to create technologies what would address significant issues confronting society, community, families, and spiritual lives.

For more event information, visit, http://codeforthekingdom.org or click here to the Bay Area Hackathon Promo Video.

Together our vision is to provide more opportunities for people like you to use your talent and be the change by addressing a number of challenges aimed at helping release the oppressed, teaching God’s Word, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and supporting the church and the body of Christ.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

• We want to catalyze friendship, passion, purpose, and collaboration in technical and entrepreneurial communities.
• To challenge and release you to create and use 21st century technologies to serve God’s Kingdom.
• To create a scalable community across the world to accelerate and encourage Christian innovators.

A Bay Area judging panel will choose the awards for best projects

SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FROM PREVIOUS CODE FOR THE KINGDOM HACKATHONS INCLUDE:

HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY...

• be leveraged to create, cultivate, and strengthen society's foundational relationships of marriage, family, friendships?

• bring the word of God to the first generation of children who are growing up with mobile devices?

• help cut and/or combat the effects of fatherlessness in a child’s life, in turn strengthening families, reducing poverty and crime?

• foster a culture of generosity towards each other?

• identify, promote, test, collaborate, augment, and fill the gaps of ministry programs around the city?

• disrupt human trafficking?

Join us on Sept 23-25, 2016 - make new friends, get inspired and build something that matters.

Everyone is welcome regardless of faith or worldviews - come as you are and join-up with a team on the Friday night, or bring a team with you.

The Friday will start with food and then individuals / teams will pitch their idea, and invite people to join with them to hack for the weekend.

What can you do?

• Get some friends together - bring a team - or just come as you are.
• Think of a product you would like to build.

We can't wait to meet you.

Your Bay Area Organizing Team

For more information visit our full website.

Parking:

FIVESTARS - SFO

There are 15 spaces in the front parking lot in the alleyway on the far side of the office about 30 spaces, far side as you head to 1st st from 2nd. Please do not park in the fenced-in lot, as that belongs to Cal-Train. There's also pay street parking all around and a number of daily lots in the area.

Event Schedule

Friday, September 23rd

7:00 PM Doors Open

7:00 - 8:00 PM Dinner & Networking

8:00 - 8:25 PM Welcome & Review Format

8:25 - 8:35 PM API Presentations

8:35 - 8:50 PM Review - Official Challenges

8:50 - 9:20 PM Open Floor - pitch your own project

9:20 - 11:59 PM Team Formation/Create Away

Saturday, September 24rd

12:00 AM - 11:59 PM Creating

8:30 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM Schedule and logistics announcements, team rebalancing

12:00 PM Lunch

4:30 p.m. Optional progress briefing, more developing

6:00 PM Dinner

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Meet with Mentors and Subject Matter Experts

Sunday, September 25

12:00 - 2:15 PM Creating

8:30 AM Breakfast

10:30 - 11:30 AM Option to join with Sunday Service

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Presentation Walk-thru & Judges Make Rounds

2:30 PM Submission deadline; Team Presentations Begin

4:30 PM Judges adjourn

4:50 PM Call-back

5:00 PM Awards Ceremony

5:30 PM Closing