Sentences with phrase «of hackathons»

There are dozens of hackathons in Silicon Valley every month, but on Monday Facebook hosted one with a twist.
Facebook has hosted a couple of hackathons for veterans, including the first ever hackathon for female veterans.
By hosting a series of Hackathons, think tanks, and building sessions focused on solving legal issues through technology know - how and entrepreneurial, socially - focused action, Tech For Justice seeks to incentivize some of our best minds to help solve pressing issues related to the U.S. legal system, namely that all are able to access its resources.
I've gone to a bunch of hackathons over the years and I'm amazed at how talented law students are at solving problems that need to be solved.
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.
The business of honey will be the focus of a Hackathon to address challenges facing the honey industry and explore the market for valuable, but largely untapped honey bee products.
The duo fleshed out the idea and decided to bring it to Battlehack in San Jose, Calif., the world finals of a hackathon circuit PayPal has been running around the world this year.
«Realistically, the products of the Hackathon will not achieve the goals listed in the CSNE's mission due to their limited time for development, but the idea generation could be something that guides future research,» Wilson said.
Ultimately, a panel of judges would crown one team the winner of the Hackathon, and they would be awarded prize money to direct to a relevant non-profit.
Today... well, many legal professionals have still never heard of a hackathon — but a whole lot more have than had a year ago.
The winners of the Hackathon will present their ideas and prototypes to the audience of the conference.
Other key dates and deadlines in advance of the hackathon are:
The theme of this hackathon is Hackcess to Justice — and there is prize money to be had.
Previously, the winners of the hackathon #HackTheJustice had participated in an intense mentoring session during the afternoon, led by Enrique Abad, head of international development of i - deals, and María Jesús González - Espejo.
The idea of the Hackathon is to bring these communities together over a 24 - hour period and in a friendly and yet competitive spirit, to invite teams to come up with designs, solutions, systems, and technologies for various parts of the online court.
Like ours, other awesome prototypes came out of the hackathon, but unfortunately no team managed to conduct its project until a real company or product came out.
The idea of the Hackathon is to bring these communities together over a 24 - hour period (from noon to noon) and in a friendly and yet competitive spirit, to invite teams to come up with designs, solutions, systems, and technologies for online courts.
The winners of the hackathon will present their ideas and products and renowned speakers will have the opportunity to give their view on how the digital revolution will affect law and legal practice in the near and far future.
Regall was selected from almost 50 participants in the Singapore edition of the hackathon in February, which was co-organised by the Singapore Academy of Law's Future Law Innovation Programme (FLIP) and Thomson Reuters.
Pizza is the life blood of any Hackathon.
The goal is to come up with a prototype or proposal at the end of the hackathon to present in front of a panel of judges.
Teams of 3 to 6 will come up with a prototype or proposal at the end of the hackathon to present in front of a panel of judges.
See the slide deck presentation of the hackathon winners Veripharm for a vision of what health care interoperability might look like.
Jonathan Askin, the director of Brooklyn Law School's Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) and one of the organizers of the hackathon, said, «When I look around at my peers, I see 40 - year - old lawyers who are still communicating via snail mail and fax machines and telephones and appearing in physical space for negotiations.»
Then each team gets just 60 seconds to present their product to a panel of Hackathon judges — who award each team a ranking from 1 - 5.
Born of a hackathon and built over the last six months, Slingshot is a bold move for Facebook, as it could cannibalize sharing via News Feed, Messenger and Instagram.
On the first day of the hackathon, central bank vice president, Lucas Llach (known in the local bitcoin community for his antagonist view on cryptocurrencies), talked about how blockchain could be a source of innovation in the financial industry.
By the end of the hackathon, hackers, cryptocurrency enthusiasts and other curious users had bred over 1,500 CryptoKitties in just 36 hours.»
Judges of the hackathon will include Peter Diamandis, ConsenSys CMO and Ethereal Summit Co-Creator Amanda Gutterman, and ConsenSys Founder and Ethereum Co-Founder Joseph Lubin.
Winners of the hackathon, as well as handpicked Project 11 laureates, will be invited to apply to the prestigious NFX Accelerator Program.

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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).
Last year, Diversity Lab held a Women In Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideas.
We've done a bunch of things on campuses, participating in hackathons at University of Pennsylvania.
«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»
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
Held on the 9th and 10th of October at Media One Hotel, the 36 - hour hackathon, sponsored by First Gulf Bank, challenged 22 teams to build and develop banking and financial solutions to improve the banking experience of consumers.
Designer Mercer says the team is now developing a panel of advisers, including experts the participants met at the hackathon and Summit.
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.
«In our hackathon pitch, I remember saying, «Speech is one for the most underutilized sources of information in the business world today,» and this fact still remains, but technological advances are now at the cusp of being unlocking this true potential,» Salman added.
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.
To foster a companywide mindset of innovation Michelin sponsors cross-functional hackathons and internal incubators in which employees are encouraged to take risks and generate good ideas.
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.
Over the past year, LincolnLabs has held a series of meet - ups and hackathons to raise its visibility.
Frost has since cofounded AngelHack, a hackathon with angel investors as judges, and joined the board of directors of VictorySpark, a seed accelerator for military veterans.
Further reports insinuated Zenefits» company culture under Conrad was more frat house than hackathon, complete with allegations of sex in the stairwells and plenty of drinking.
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?
Our Fellows hacked together mobile products to support girls and women worldwide at the CHIMEHACK hackathon, discussed the state of the Internet with Mary Meeker,...
At the Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon, a massive swath of the 102 companies that took the stage on Sunday presented hacks with disaster relief in mind.
Unleash Toronto builds on the success of the Unleash Boston hackathon held for employees in July 2015.
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