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

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

SCHEULE OF EVENTS

Day 1 - Friday June 2nd

6:00PM - Event Kickoff, doors open, Dinner is served & 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]