Hackathon

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Developers: caffeinate and get ready to dominate! Bring your laptops, phones, gadgets and dev tools to SocialDevCamp Chicago for the second annual 36-hour challenge. Develop your own social app, present it and compete for your share of $6,000 in cash and prizes. Winners will walk away with mad props and cool loot.

Register for the Hackathon

To register for the Hackathon, visit Hackathonia.com and click the Signup button. You’ll need to create an account on Hackathonia and this will serve as your SocialDevCamp Hackathon entry profile.

The Hackathon kicks off with a party and announcements Friday, August 13 at 7:00pm at the Illinois Technology Association TechNexus (200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th Floor). Hackers will be free to spend the night coding at TechNexus both Friday and Saturday evenings (refreshments provided!).

Judges

Brian Pautsch, @bpautsch Brian is Co-Founder and President of KeyLimeTie and has more than 15 years of software architecture and development experience spanning a number of vertical markets including insurance, education, healthcare and retail.

Matt Manzella Matt Manzella is Director of Strategy & Innovation Services (SIS) at Allstate Insurance Company. As the leader of SIS, Matt is responsible for developing a culture of innovation at Allstate while also researching and testing potentially disruptive technologies, processes, services and products.

Sudha Jamthe, @sujamthe Sudha Jamthe is the social media strategist for the PayPalX Platform. She is currently focused on bottom-up innovation, bringing grassroots energy to the enterprise and building developer programs. Side projects include leading the Bay Area Facebook Meetup and serving as an MIT venture mentor.

Geoff Domoracki, @gdomoracki Geoff Domoracki is founder and CEO of midVentures and co-founder of the midVenturesLAUNCH conference. Since graduating from the University of Chicago, Geoff has provided venture strategy consulting for investors like Lightbank and startups such as CommonGrants and RemixGalaxy. Geoff’s interests are Business Intelligence 2.0 and the structured web.

Harper Reed, @harper Harper Reed is an engineer excited about real time, social software and the open source software movement. He is currently spending some time building interesting things and hacking for Rackspace. In a previous life, he was the CTO of the awesome Threadless.

Mike Trotzke, @trotzke Mike Trotzke is Co-founder and Managing Partner of SproutBox – an early-stage investment and product development firm located in Bloomington, IN. Prior to Sproutbox, Mike helped start Resite Information Technology and served as CTO for Worldview Multimedia. He enjoys cheese, orange tic-tacs and caffeine.

SocialDevCamp Chicago Hackathon Rules

1. Entries may only win in one category.
2. Applications should not be under development prior to the contest kickoff. Pre-existing code libraries and artifacts are allowed, but the spirit of the event encourages participants to build what they can in 36 hours.
3. All Hackathon applications must be registered for the Hackathon itself, with at least one primary contact listed.
4. The development tools, frameworks or applications focus is entirely up to the participants.
5. Participants are expected to bring all tools and software necessary to build their entry. Organizers will provide caffeine and power strips, but you might want to bring your own.
6. If a category has no entries, that category becomes 1st (or 2nd or 3rd) runner-up to the best overall.
7. Rules are subject to change at the discretion of the Hackathon coordinators.