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Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 6:30 PM –

Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT

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The Innovation Center

640 Ellicott Street

Buffalo, NY 14203

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Can you hack it?

Join Techstars, 43North, ACV Auctions, and BNMC for a free hackathon, where WNY’s top tech talent will compete to build an application using leading technology. Get your code on as you race to finish our challenge, working with the help of mentors and industry experts.

The winning team will walk away with $10K in cash, and there will also be a 2nd place prize of $3,000 and 3rd place prize of $1,500!

{Code:Buffalo} is FREE to attend, and you can bring your own team or join one at the kickoff event (you must have basic coding skills to participate). Please bring your own laptop and charger for the duration of the hackathon, as well as your admission ticket. If you have any questions, email Mariah Ramos at mariah@43north.org or consult our FAQs page.

Agenda:

Friday, June 14th - The Innovation Center (640 Ellicott Street, Buffalo)

We will open Code:Buffalo at 6:30pm with a Happy Hour where we will provide pizza, wings, beer, and wine from Flying Bison Brewery. 43North President Alex Gress will open the event. Our favorite Emmcee and Latitude Live Host Nate Benson will kick-off the event and announce the project scope. This announcement will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Geoff Schmidt, Co-Founder and CEO of Apollo GraphQL and Meteor.

Afterwards we will host an Apollo GraphQL workshop, led by HiOperator technical lead Alex Kogan, who is a serial entrepreneur and previous professor at the University of Cambridge. Participants will be able to ask questions about the implementation of Apollo Graph QL, in addition to other leading technologies that we will discuss. This will be an open, collaborative, and educational opportunity for individuals who are both experts and novice in Apollo GraphQL.

In addition to the roundtable and workshops, you will brainstorm with your teammates your plan of attack for Saturday, in addition to potentially picking up free agents to join your development team! Mentors will be walking around to assist with brainstorming sessions. The event will end around 9:30pm.

Saturday, June 15th - Jacobs School of Medicine Atrium (955 Main Street, Buffalo)

Starting at 10am, teams will meet at the main entrance of the Jacobs School of Medicine (look for the blue lights on the right hand side of Main Street). Street parking is free on the weekends. The CEO and CTO of Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Matt Entice and Sam Marrazzo, will be opening the event. Co-Founder of Immersed Games, Sam Sewall, and VP of Technology and Operations at Campus Labs, Bob Willer, will start the clock and review the judging rubric.

At lunchtime, there will be a speed design challenge where designers will have the opportunity to show off their skills in a challenge related to the end project! The winning team will receive their choice of $250 or 2 bonus points to add on to their final score at the end of Code:Buffalo.

The Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine And Biomedical Sciences Atrium will be open until 10pm for teams to work independently to build applications, providing tables and WiFi. Mentors will be walking around and helping teams throughout the day on Saturday. Please remember to bring the badges and wear the t-shirts you will be given on Friday! Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided.

Sunday, June 16th - The Innovation Center (640 Ellicott Street, Buffalo)

Doors open at 9:30am and brunch will be provided. The judges will gather and announce the Top 5 finalists. Teams will present their projects and the top three winners will be announced during an awards ceremony. The event should close by 1:30pm.