Schedule of Events
11:30 - 12:00pm: Be there. People can start arriving any time after 11:00am
Noon - 12:45: We'll be starting at Noon. We'll begin with brief introductions and a review of the Viximo and Kinvey SDKs and the value they provide to your apps and your development capabilities
1:00-ish: Sort into teams. If you haven't already chosen a project to work on for the day... now is the time. Food will show up and people should eat when they're hungry.
1:00 - 3:00pm: Hacking. Lots here to do for designers and developers to get materials organized, write copy or code, etc..
3:00: Check in. 5-15 minutes for teams to share progress, challenges, ask for suggestions.
3:00 - 7:00: More hacking goodness
7:00 - 8:00: Project update from the teams, questions, judging process & sumbission requirements discussed.
8:00 - Stay at WorkBar or step out with your newfound friends.
Judging & Prizes
Three prizes will be awarded based on the best use of the two sponsor companies' mobile technologies. Kinvey offers a quick and easy cloud storage service for apps and games, and Viximo provides an SDK that gives developers easy access to an all-inclusive social graph, recommendations, multi-channel notifications, and a real-time presence solution. The categories and prizes are:
- Grand Prize - best overall app - $500 USD
- Runner Up - best use of Viximo - $250 USD
- Runner Up - best use of Kinvey - $250 USD
The deadline for participants to submit their video demos of their apps / games to the judges will be noon Sunday the 19th, the day after the Hackathon. Judges will then review the demos and make their picks for each category on Monday the 20th and notify all participants of the results.
Judges include Sean Lindsay (Co-founder and CTO at Viximo), our own CEO Sravish Sridhar, Greg Raiz (Founder and CEO at Raizlabs) and Dave Bisceglia (Co-Founder & CEO at The Tap Lab).
