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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