List of hackathons in Michigan City, United States in 2015

Get involved with democracy! Use your laptop for good! The Chicago Innovation Exchange and BallotReady are hosting Civic Hackathon. BallotReady is a free mobile and online voter guide to local elections providing nonpartisan background information on all the candidates and referendums on a voter's ballot. What is a Civic Hackathon? BallotReady builds its voter guides through civic hackathons- day-long community events where students or civically-engaged citizens come together to research candidate backgrounds, issues, and endorsements down the ballot. It's a festive atmosphere filled with free donuts, coffee, pizza, and political chit-chat and a great chance to learn more about elected officials and local elections. No special coding or other experience necessary. Just bring yourself and a laptop!

Pakathon Chicago and The Pakistan Club @ The University of Chicago present our inaugural hackathon!   ** Update we have shortened the hackathon to a one-day event on Sunday Oct 4th!   SCHEDULE SUNDAY OCTOBER 4TH, 2015   9:30AM - REGISTRATION 10AM - WELCOME, BACKGROUND ON PAKATHON, INTRODUCE TO HOSTS, THANK YOU TO SPONSORS 10:30AM - SHOAIB ABBASI 10:45AM - NAILA USMANI 11AM - DR. BUKHARI 11:15AM - CARTER KENNEDY 11:30AM - OVERVIEW OF STREAMS 12:00 PM - BREAKOUT INTO STREAM BASED DISCUSSIONS & START WORKING ON PITCHES 1:30 PM ALL PITCHES MUST BE SUBMITTED 2PM: JUDGING COMMENCES 4PM: CLOSING REMARKS 4:30 PM: REFRESHMENTS         Why should you attend? Hate your job? Have a passion for an idea but don’t know where to start? Want to make an impact in Pakistan or in your neighborhood? We can help! Meet other like-minded people and make progress on your idea through our program.   Who should attend? Anyone who is passionate about using technology and business to address problems in developing countries, whether it be developers, designers, business professionals or development workers. If you have a great idea, or a skill that can help bring an idea to life, Pakathon is the perfect way for you to spend your weekend.     What is Pakathon? Pakathon is a global movement with over 15 city and university chapters. Our programming includes events, webinars, hackathons, and online forums. The programs are designed to help you launch your business, and collaborate with a global network. Our unique international programming facilitates teamwork around the world. We are creating a 'global Pakistani nervous system' that helps Pakistanis deepen their relationship to Pakistan, and exposes them to different cultures and perspectives. Pakathon's flagship event is a weekend hackathon held simultaneously across multiple cities around the globe. We are a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.     Past successes: Pakathon empowers people around the world to be change agents for countries like Pakistan, across geographical boundaries and despite resource constraints. We are creating a ‘global nervous system’ that helps Pakistanis deepen their relationship to Pakistan, and exposes them to different cultures and perspectives by providing a platform to share their skills for good.   Our unique international program consists of a number of events and educational resources to help the Pakathon community launch your idea into a sustainable startup, collaborate with a global network, and connect with funding and mentoring opportunities.   Pakathon's flagship event held simultaneously across multiple cities around the globe. We're hoping you'll join us as one of the many bright minds around the world in this movement using their skills and resources to address challenges in Pakistan and beyond.   We look forward to seeing you!     For more information, please email CHICAGO@pakathon.org     Volunteers and Mentors are welcome! Please contact us for more information.       How to Register for the Hackathon ? Sign up through Eventbrite in your appropriate category. Due to capacity restrictions, please register in the category that applies to you.   Ticket & Pricing Information Ticket proceeds contribute to all event related costs throughout the hackathon weekend.   Terms and Conditions: By purchasing a ticket to this Pakathon Chicago hackathon event, you agree to the following terms and conditions: I hereby grant Pakathon Chicago and Pakathon Global permission to use my likeness in a video, photograph, or other digital reproduction in any and all of its publications, including website, without payment or any other conditions.     FAQs   What is a Hackathon ? A Hackathon is an event where people come together for an intense and fun day or weekend of collaborative problem solving and rapid prototyping of ideas   Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event? Participants will be required to provide a photo ID to verify registration.   What type of support is provided during Pakathon? A key part of Pakathon’s support is the valuable advice and assistance provided by the event’s Mentors to the teams. Mentors consist of experts in various fields ranging from software development, entrepreneurship, industry expertise, and local knowledge of Pakistan who dedicate their time to providing feedback and guidance and working with teams.   What are the streams I can participate in at Pakathon?   - Education   - Healthcare   - Women Development   - Energy   - Gaming   - Law and Order       Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? CHICAGO@pakathon.org

Have an app idea or need an app built? AT&T Mobile App Hackathon - Notre Dame is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program and Four Horsemen Society 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. Please note that travel compensation will not be provided for this event. We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. Along with technical senseis to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools. You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech; you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!   Event Schedule.  The following is a list of the weekend's agenda: Day 1 6PM - Kickoff event with dinner, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation. 7PM - Speakers present (please see below for list) 8PM - Pitch ideas and form teams 12AM - End of the night; Venue will close completely, but you may code offsite. Day 2 07AM - Doors Open; breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served. 12AM - End of the night; Venue will close completely, but you may code offsite. Day 3 9AM - The fun continues with breakfast served in the morning! Pencils down. Please be sure to sign-up to present at the link provided at 12PM on Day 2. Mentors will be available throughout the morning to help you prep your presentation. Pitches start promptly at 9AM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. No powerpoints unless you are only presenting an idea.Pencils down.   Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge: Grand prize – Trip for team to visit the AT&T Foundry in Plano, TX (Max 5 team members) 2nd place - $2,000 3rd place - $1,000 Best use of AT&T Digital Life APIs: $1,000 Most interesting concept: $500 Best design / Most polished: $500 Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly.   33% Weight - Originality of idea 33% Weight - Polish / Completeness  33% Weight - Technical Difficulty / Ambitiousness Hackathon Legal.  Hackathon Terms: http://db.tt/kyPS9ojR Social Media.  Follow us @attdeveloper for live updates and photos from the event "Like" us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ATTDeveloper     Speakers   John Donovan, Senior Executive Vice President—AT&T Technology and Operations (ATO) and Notre Dame Alumnus, is responsible for AT&T’s global network and its best-in-class mobile broadband network along with creating a modern, software-defined, and cloud-based technology ecosystem to support them. In addition to leading the Technology and Operations organization, John oversees Corporate Strategy. Under Donovan's leadership, AT&T has turbo-charged its innovation programs and now is recognized as an industry leader in working with application developers and others to make AT&T's network open to collaboration and innovation. [via telepresence] Ben Nelson, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at AT&T, 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.   Tony Noori, Director of Marketing at AT&T Digital Life, is a highly experienced professional with diverse background in product & business development specific in the fields of Information Technology, Application User Interface, Open API, system engineering and Aerospace. Combined with an extensive history of leading innovative products & businesses resulting in financial intelligence, consistent, proactive decision making and accomplishing objectives.           Senseis   Jon Lathem, Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Digital Life, is a highly experienced professional with diverse background in engineering. Jon created a rest service based platform that powered applications on multiple platforms including Web, iOS, Windows Phone, and Android. In addition, he has unified many discrete modules from around the company into a single interface/application consuming EJBs, SOAP services, and Rest services.   Sponsors    

The Chi Hack Night (formerly known as the Open Gov Hack Night) is a free, weekly event in Chicago to build, share and learn about civic tech, or tools to create, support, or serve public good. Join us every Tuesday from 6-10pm on the 8th floor of the Merchandise Mart to hear from interesting speakers, learn from each other and work on civic projects. Non-techies are very welcome!   What happens at a hack night? Every week, we have a 10-15 minute presentation by a government agency, non-profit, company or group who've made use of open data or built a civic technology application. The goal of these presentations is to showcase the different uses and opportunities, as well as challenges and successes in the civic technology movement. After the presentation, the format of the event is similar to that of a hackathon where breakout groups self-organize to work on civic apps, discuss policies and their implications, learn technical skills and network with a welcoming and diverse community at the intersection of technology and government.   But I'm not a techie! That's ok! We encourage non-technical folks to pair up and learn from our community's designers and developers. We've seen time and time again, he best civic projects come from teams with a diverse background. Remember, there's much more to making a great app than just coding.