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Sports Hack Day

February 1–3, 2013 -
Seattle, Washington

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Winners

What's going on here?

How would you like to spend Superbowl weekend building applications that change the way people follow sports and interact with their favorite teams and fellow fans?

We're gathering developers, data crunchers and sports fans from across the Pacific northwest to converge on Seattle to hack on sports themed projects. We will wrap things up early on Sunday and then set-up for an (optional) group viewing of the Superbowl!

Agenda

Friday

  • 17:30 - Doors open
  • 18:00 - Dinner and networking
  • 19:00 - Welcome and Keynote
  • 19:30 - Sponsor demos
  • 20:30 - Pitches and team formation

Saturday

  • 09:00 - Breakfast (Tougo Coffee & Panera Bread)
  • 11:00 - Splunk Workshop
  • 12:00 - Lunch (Pot Belly)
  • 12:30 - Google Cloud Workshop
  • 15:30 - Twilio Workshop
  • 16:30 - HALFTIME FUN!
  • 18:00 - Dinner (Gyros)

Sunday

  • 09:00 - Breakfast (Tougo Coffee & Panera Bread)
  • 11:59 - Deadline to submit!
  • 12:00 - Lunch (Chipotle)
  • 12:30 - Demos (3 minutes)
  • 13:30 - Awards and prizes
  • 15:30 - SUPERBOWL PARTY

Categories and Prizes

There will be 2 main categories:

  1. Apps: build an awesome application (web, mobile, tablet, etc)
  2. Data: create a visualization, infographic or other insight

We will have a ton of cool prizes, including:

  • A ticket to MIT Sloan's Sports and Analytics Conference
  • Google Nexus 7 tablets
  • $100 American Express gift cards
  • A GoPro Hero camera
  • Jawbone UPs
  • Supersonics "Welcome Back" prize pack
  • $100 REI gift cards
  • Jawbone Jambox portable speakers
  • 1 year memberships to ESPN Insider
  • ESPN Timbuk2 backpacks
  • Copies of Madden NFL 2013 for Xbox
  • A plasma speaker kit
  • ... and more!

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Keynote Speaker

Cameron Tangney

CTO, Vantage Sports

Previously, Cameron was a Senior Software Engineer at Google where he worked for 6 years. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science, and a B.A. in Business Admin, Cum Laude from the University of Washington.

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