Have an app idea or need an app built for your business?

HackDenver is an event produced by FullContact and 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 #, .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.

Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekends agenda:

Friday, August 17th. Dinner will be served.

• 6PM - Friday Evening - Intro/kickoff speech and lightning talks.

• 9PM - Friday Evening - Team pitches focused on UI. End of the night. Go home, get some rest and come back the next day refreshed!

Prizes.

• 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 App using AT&T APIs
• A Sierra Wireless 4G LTE Elevate device and 1 Month of 1GB DataConnect Service (Max 3)

• Best Use of FullContact APIs
• $500 in Gift Cards for the team.

• Best App using technology from Layer7
• A tiny entertainment powerhouse from your favorite fruity tech company (Max of 3)

Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on 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

Alex Donn is a Senior Marketing Manager with the AT&T Developer Program, is based out of sunny Seattle! His passion is educating developers young and old about mobile application development best practices through events like hackathons that fuse the collective interests of multiple technology and business leaders. Dan Lynn is the CTO and Co-Founder of FullContact, a TechStars Boulder 2011 graduate which is solving the world's contact information problem. Dan's background includes product development, continuous delivery, big data, data science, and music. Alex Gaber, is an API Evangelist for Layer 7 Technologies a company that manages over 200 APIs spanning business and government. Starting as a web developer 15 years ago, Alex grew up in Silicon Valley and is an active member in the hackathon and developer community. He has a passion for building web and mobile applications that integrate numerous APIs and ideas to create innovative and unique solutions.

Wendy Norris is founder of Tekhne.co. Tekhne (tek-nee) publishes original reporting and expert curation on startups, technology and trends in Colorado.

Max Katz, Head of Community and Developer Relations for Tiggzi (http://tiggzi.com), a cloud-based HTML5, jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap mobile app builder. He loves trying out new and cool REST API's in mobile apps. You can find out what Max is up to on his blog: mkblog.exadel.com and Twitter: @maxkatz.

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Kevin Weller is CEO and chief app engineer at ASAP iSoft, a mobile and web software and integrated systems development firm specializing in iOS and Ruby on Rails technologies. He has over 25 years of experience and has built over a dozen complex systems in multiple industries. He is also a co-organizer of the Denver iOS Developer meetup.

Matt Bernier is a long time PHP developer, currently working for Technical Integriy LLC. He's worked with multiple startups building back and front end systems using core PHP, Frameworks (Zend, CodeIgniter, Kohana), as well as WordPress. He's also a soon to be dad and a straight shooter.

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