Preceding the Disrupt Conference is Hackathon weekend on May 7-8, where developers and engineers descend from all over the world to take part in a 24-hour hacking endurance test. Teams join forces to build a new product, present it on the Disrupt stage to a panel of expert judges and an audience of tens of thousands and compete for a variety of prizes, including the chance to win free tickets to the Disrupt Conference. Products created at the Disrupt Hackathon have seen great success beyond the event, like GroupMe which was created overnight and ultimately acquired by Skype for $80M.

Saturday, May 7:

12:30pm - Registration opens. Network and form your hack teams
1:30pm - Hacking Kickoff
2:00pm - API Workshops begin
7:00pm - Dinner
Midnight - Pizza and Beer - Sponsored by Domain.com

Sunday, May 8:

7:00am - Breakfast served
9:30am - Hacking concludes and hacks submitted to wiki
10:00am - General public welcome to enter to attend hackathon presentations
11:00am - Hackathon presentations begin
2:00pm* - Hackathon will conclude with final awards and recognition will be provided by the judges. *The final awards may be held earlier or later depending on the duration of hack presentations.

Eligibility

Make you have a ticket for the hackathon. More details available here:

http://techcrunch.com/event-info/disrupt-ny-2016/disrupt-ny-hackathon-2016/

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$82,000 in prizes

Disrupt NYC 2016 Overall Winner!

$5000

Amazon Alexa (4)

Best use of Amazon Alexa in a voice user experience. The winning team will receive an echo for each team member (up to four).

Cisco (3)

Cisco will be giving away DJI Phantom 3 Standard drones and BB8 Spheros (5 of each) for the best use of our Cloud Collaboration APIs in a hack

Esri

Best use of Esri ArcGIS mapping technology wins $5,000! ($2,500 cash, plus $2,500 valued ArcGIS Online subscription).

HARMAN International (2)

Best Overall use of Everest Headphones SDK:
Winning team receives a max of 5 Everest Headphones 5 Pulse 2 Speakers
& 5 Omni 10 Speakers

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Come build with us! 1st prize will receive $5,000.00 (All developers who use our API in the hackathon will also get a T-shirt.)

IBM Watson

Apple Watch (each member of the winning team up to five members)

Microsoft - Office Apps and Add-ins Contest (3)

Prizes:
• 1st place – $3,000
• 2nd place – $1500
• 3rd place – $500

Microsoft - Office 365 Connectors Contest

Prizes:
• 1st place – $3,000
• 2nd place – $1500
• 3rd place – $500

pmdtechnologies (3)

1st Place $5000

Twilio

The best use of Twilio’s API will score you an Amazon Tap for each member of the team.

URBAN-X (3)

• 1st place – $3000
• 2nd place – $1500
• 3rd place – $500

Radix (2)

Radix is offering prizes worth $5000 for the best project using a Radix domain name (.TECH, .SPACE, .ONLINE, .SITE, .PRESS, .WEBSITE and .HOST).

1st prize - $3000
2nd Prize - $2000

.CLUB Domain

Use a .CLUB domain for your hackathon project & WIN $5,000!

PLUS get a FREE .CLUB domain with hosting from Domain.com/disrupt

- Use a .CLUB domain as the primary domain for your project to enter.
- Mention your .CLUB domain during judging
- $5000 prize for the best use of a .CLUB domain/project.

Judges

Nicholas Chirls
Partner, Notation Capital

Kathryn Finney
Managing Director, digitalundivided (DID)

Jean Lauer
Founder, Sweeten

Charlie O’Donnell
Sole Partner and Founder, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

Saron Yitbarek
Founder, CodeNewbie

Judging Criteria

Scale of Awesome
Judges will be focusing on creativity, cleverness, and that deep-down sense of “Whoaaaaaaa“

BROOKLYN CRUISE TERMINAL	Public
$82,000 in prizes	451 participants

TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016

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