HackDay Miami: 40 Hackers, 24 Hours, $10K in Prizes

South Florida hackers, coders, developers, and designers unite to compete for cash and prizes during 24 hour hackathon this weekend

MIAMI, Nov 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HackDay Miami is just days away, and Miami's tech community is gearing up for the 24-hour hackathon event taking place at MiamiShared located at 990 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami, FL Nov.12th-13th. Forty hackers will compete for $10,000 in cash and prizes, and the chance to present their application in front of venture capitalists and investors at FIU's 2011 Americas Venture Capital Conference. In addition all finalists will receive a new $200 Kindle Fire.
HackDay Miami will have eight different prizes from various event sponsors. The Grand Prize winner will win $2,000 from Quotidian Ventures, a "FlexPlan" membership to MiamiShared for two, and a spot to present at SuperConf 2012. Hackers will also have the chance to win the Miami Downtown Development Authority (MDDA) Local Challenge Prize of $1,500 to the hacker that develops an app that assists users in avoiding traffic jams by finding alternative routes when the downtown bridges are up. Alternatively, ING Direct's $1,500 UX Challenge prize will challenge designers, mobile and front-end developers, as they are invited to re-imagine ING Direct's next generation mobile banking experience.
Some of Miami's most elite executives and investors will be judging the event, including Juan Pablo Capello, Senior Partner of Greenburg Traurig P.A., Marco Giberti, a successful entrepreneur and angel investor with more than 20 years of intensive experience in marketing and communications, Jose Tolosa, SVP of Strategy and Business Development for Viacom International Media Networks, and Thomas "Tigre" Wenrich, COO of OpenEnglish. The full bios of the judges can be seen on the HackDay Foundation website, www.hackdayfoundation.org .
"This event is a great opportunity to bring together the greatest technology minds of South Florida and challenge them to conceptualize and build new services within an intense and sleepless 24-hour period," said Demian Bellumio serial entrepreneur, COO of Senzari and founder of the HackDay Foundation. "Hopefully this event will serve to kick-start a local tech ecosystem that can produce many exciting start-ups, in order to bring us closer to achieving the success that cities such as San Francisco and New York are having in producing highly valuable technology companies."
HackDay Miami is subject to eligibility and additional contest rules apply. To find out more and register, please visit http://hackdayfoundation.org .
About HackDay Foundation
The HackDay Foundation is a non-for-profit organization focused on creating a series of 24-hour competitions that bring together developers, entrepreneurs and leading tech companies from around the world to hack together new products and services with local impact.
SOURCE: HackDay Foundation

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