MobileMonday NYC API-First Hackathon - Watson | StrongLoop | Bluemix

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MobileMonday

DESCRIPTION
Beginner or Pro Hacker. Alone or with a Team. Developer, Designer or Idea Person All are welcome, join us for an awesome weekend of hacking with Watson, StrongLoop, and Bluemix.
 
PRIZES
Best App Overall
1st Place - $5,000 in cash for the team
2nd Place - $1500 in cash for the team
3rd Place - $500 in cash for the team
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SCHEULE OF EVENTS
Day 1 - Friday June 2nd
6:00PM - Event Kickoff, doors open, Dinner is served &amp; Networking
6:45PM - Welcome and Introduction of MobileMonday and IBM Evangelist Team
7:00PM - Kickoff IBM Presentation [Justin Halsall]
7:45PM - Rapidly build and deploy APIs with LoopBack and Bluemix [Joe Sepi Crane-Messina]
10:00PM - Venue closes for the night; you may continue working on your project offsite
 
Day 2 - Saturday June 3rd
9:30AM - The fun continues with a light breakfast and coffee! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec'd. Mentors will be available throughout the entire day to help you code your solution.
10:00AM - Rapidly build and deploy APIs with LoopBack and Bluemix [Joe Sepi Crane-Messina]
11:00AM - Offline Sync for Progressive Web Apps [Bradley Holt]
1:00PM - Lunch is served
1:30PM - Using a Watson chatbot in Ionic via WebSockets API and Node-RED server [Remko De Knikker]
3:00PM - React Strongloop [Aaron Franco]
7:00PM - Dinner is served
8:00PM - Team Formation Closing - Google Form with team info and signups
10:00PM - Venue closes for the night; you may continue working on your project offsite
 
Day 3 - Sunday June 4th
9:00AM - The fun continues with coffee and breakfast served in the morning! Work with the teams from Day 1 to complete the app spec'd. Mentors will be available throughout the entire day to help you code your solution. Project submissions will be accepted throughout the morning with a deadline of 11AM.
11:00AM - Project Desription Submissions Deadline - Let's us know who is submitting a project for judging.
1:00PM - CODE FREEZE. Lunch is served
1:30PM - Judging
3:00PM - Demos
3:30PM - Awards
 
RESOURCES
LoopBack general resources: https://loopback.io http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/ http://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Tutorials-and-examples.html https://developer.ibm.com/apiconnect/2017/03/09/loopback-in-5-minutes/ (has 5 min video intro ^) APIs, Deployment, CI/CD: (LoopBack resources above) https://github.com/strongloop-evangelists/workshop-band-app/ https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/ https://console.ng.bluemix.net/devops/getting-started Bots, Watson, Node-Red: https://www.freebootcamp.io/courses/developing-chatbots/ https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/conversation.html https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/ https://nodered.org/ https://api.slack.com/ https://developers.facebook.com/products/messenger/
Offline Sync for Progressive Web Apps: https://medium.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/offline-sync-for-progressive-web-apps-ccab6bf6db17 http://offlinefirst.org/ https://developers.google.com/web/ilt/pwa/ https://www.polymer-project.org/2.0/toolbox/ http://couchdb.apache.org/ http://hood.ie/ https://pouchdb.com/
 
WORKSHOPS
Friday
7:45PM - Rapidly build and deploy APIs with LoopBack and Bluemix [Joe Sepi Crane-Messina]
Saturday
10:00AM - Rapidly build and deploy APIs with LoopBack and Bluemix [Joe Sepi Crane-Messina]
11:00AM - Offline Sync for Progressive Web Apps [Bradley Holt]
1:30PM - Using a Watson chatbot in Ionic via WebSockets API and Node-RED server [Remko De Knikker]
3:00PM - React Strongloop [Aaron Franco]

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