Sentences with phrase «from hackathons»

Some technical professionals are even making a living from hackathons.

The event spaces are equipped to serve diverse purposes from hackathons, seminars, and breakout sessions, to movie screenings, to product testings.

We are taking that energy from the hackathon over to this weekend's North American Bitcoin Conference.

The winning ideas from the Hackathon will be presented by the MTA for feedback and the presentations and other proposals can be viewed online.

According to GLH co-founders Aileen Schultz and David Fisher, both executives at Integra Ledger, their inspiration to launch GLH come from a hackathon in New York in which the most innovative solutions emerged for law practices.

Here, the LawTech.Asia team asked him how he saw teams from the hackathon following through to make their ideas real.

Building something sustainable from a hackathon is often a challenge, which is encapsulated by one of the winning teams.

Not exact matches

Unless you've just emerged from a heads - down 72 - hour hackathon, you know that the East Coast had some historically horrible weather yesterday.

One of my earliest stories for Fortune consisted of a sleepless dispatch from a two - day Bitcoin hackathon at New York University that was sponsored, in part, by Ludwin's company (before it pivoted to enterprise software).

Because so many firms participated in the hackathon, the Mansfield Rule had a built - in, receptive audience from the get - go.

The company has encouraged contributions from non-traditional sources, by means of campus hackathons and monthly town halls that are accessible to all 120,000 global employees

This weekend, the Conservatives are backing a 48 - hour open data hackathon in which hundreds of young developers from across

Wrappup, which was founded at the Angelhack Hackathon in Dubai in 2015, had been incubated at in5 in Dubai Internet City, and had also raised a seed round of US$ 800,000 from investors like BECO Capital, 500 Startups, Arzan VC, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Womena, Dubai Angel Investors, Odin Financial Advisors, and Hala Fadel.

Commenting on his entrepreneurial journey with Wrappup, Salman said, «It's been a wild ride for sure, from a simple idea at a hackathon, to a working prototype in 24 hours, to the current state of the platform driven by predictive A.I. and voice commands - it's been an incredible experience.

The search giant retires its annual hackathon, replaces it with an around - the - clock program that allows hackers to submit (and get paid for) finding bugs anytime, from anywhere.

In 2012, the number of startups that participated in startup - management company YouNoodle's pitch competitions and hackathons more than doubled, jumping to 11,000 from 5,000 the year prior.

Lost My Name Now here's a company that belongs on an innovation list: $ 9 million in Series A funding from firms like Google Ventures and Greycroft; company - sponsored hackathons to solve tricky software challenges — and all in the name of... kids» books?

On December 1 and 2, LOFT will host a two - day public hackathon at MaRS Discovery District called Unleash Toronto: From Paper to Prototype.

South by Southwest, the popular music festival and media conference, will host several blockchain - focused events including workshops from IBM and a 24 - hour hackathon.

2016.10.18 RBC Next Great Innovator hackathon generates winning ideas to help small businesses thrive From apps to augmented reality, Canada...

The huge hackathon will be jointly hosted in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver from February 20 - 22.

From major conferences to hackathons to launch events.

The Bigas2 Hackathon brings together IT developers from around the Philippines to inspire innovations that help improve the livelihood of rice farmers.

Finnish dairy company Valio invited teams from around the world to enter a hackathon competition to find ways of making use of the methane cows produce, and to reduce methane emissions.

Kayson will be talking more about the issue at the AIPIA (Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association) Active & Intelligent Packaging World Congress and Hackathon 2017 in Amsterdam from November 2 - 3.

«The Hackathon gave us an incredible opportunity to see and hear about ideas that come from residents and transit enthusiasts thinking outside the box,» said Sarah Wyss, senior director for bus service planning at the MTA.

The MTA partnered with the TransitCenter and New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation for the Hackathon that asked developers and riders to find ways to improve Staten Island's buses — from shorter commute times to wait times.

From explosive growth in open data, to apps and public design competitions, to hackathons, to new institutions of technology, and expanding internet access in parks, public housing, and fiber to the home, NYC has been on the way to becoming a digital city.

Hackathon participants came from the UW, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, San Diego State University and other CSNE - affiliated partner institutions and programs across the country.

This year, the Hackathon also received support and involvement from an industry affiliate of the CSNE, OpenBCI.

The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) Hackathon is an annual, extended weekend - long event for students from the University of Washington and from CSNE - affiliated programs and partner institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, San Diego State University, Morehouse College and Spelman College.

One of our little Stemettes, Kamille, travelled to Oxford from Kent on both days of our autumn hackathon last year.

One such teacher is Fiona Kempton from Norwich High School, who wants to put on a series of Hackathons for other schools in the Norwich area.

Following the math challenge, the iZone set up a one - day Music Education Hackathon that produced 40 music education tools, and then a School Choice Design Challenge, in which six teams produced technology that could eventually help 80,000 8th graders and their families find and choose a high school from among more than 700 program options.

BMAHack was rebranded as the «My Brother's Keeper Hackathon» following Mr. Obama's call - to - action for corporations, foundations, and community leaders to work together to provide opportunities for innovation that directly impact young men of color and launched in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and received opening remarks from Philadelphia Mayor Nutter.

No CS experience is necessary for the student hackathon as we will have mentors from the Nashville tech community floating to support students as they compete for prizes of drones, robots, and hands - on Littlebits sets!

The study provides a first national look at emerging trends, from STEM maker spaces (17 percent, or about 3,000 libraries), to wireless printing (33 percent) to 3D printers and hosting hackathons or other coding / application development events (about 2 percent each, or roughly 260 libraries).

«The study also begins to map new programs and technology resources that range from STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) maker programming to 3D printing to hackathons.»

On Wednesday, July 31, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy will showcase its proposal for the Presidio Exchange (PX)-- an open - platform cultural center in this world - class location that will maintain the prime views of the Golden Gate Bridge, forge a new pedestrian link between the Presidio Main Post and the waterfront, and engage the public in a dynamic and ever - evolving series of public programs — from art installations to «hackathons», film festivals to green - tech expositions, dance performances to history lectures.

Expect to hear from industry leaders such as Jessica Blotter, CEO of Kind Traveler, be tossed into hackathons with summit participants, and dive into innovative ideas with travel professionals onsite.

Higher education in the Ukraine also benefits from game jams and hackathons.

She was an assistant professor of Time Based Media Art, Film, and Performance Art at Vanderbilt University from 2008 — 2014, she is also the co-founder of the Stupid Hackathon.

It offers a home to the Glasgow tech community, and hosts a range of events such as meetups, streams and hackathons, not forgetting regular social gatherings and of course first class space to work from.

For more on Solar Mosaic, read Mike Orcutt's recent Technology Review report from the «Cleanweb Hackathon» conference at New York University in January, in which a co-founder of Solar Mosaic, Daniel Rosen, says, «Solar companies used to be about hardware....

Last week in the cloud forest of Tarapoto, Peru, EIA's partner Digital Democracy hosted a «hackathon» bringing together hackers from around the world, as well as environmental monitors, and indigenous organizations from Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru...

Ultimately, I came away from the Women in Law Hackathon energized from the creativity, competitiveness, and polish that each team demonstrated in their pitches.

This is the space explored by the BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal's Solution Explorer and by the winning entry to the hackathon produced by a joint team from the Law Society and Wavelength.law, a firm that bears out Professor Susskind's prediction of a flourishing for new kinds of legal expertise.

The hackathon was organised jointly by the Society of Computers of Law, Legal Geek, the Judiciary of England and Wales and HM Courts and Tribunals Service and starred the participation of the Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas himself, Richard Susskind and Legal Geek's tireless Jimmy Vestbirk, fresh from his bus trip round European technology hubs.

The title of this article was the first part of some feedback that we received from a partner who attended the hackathon — he wrote «' Innovate or die» ought to be the mantra of every major law firm.»

In this report from On The Road at the final round of the Global Legal Hackathon, host Alex Muncey talks to the team behind 2Sign, an app that will allow the average person to use contracts without requiring a lawyer.