Hack Upstate IX

Advancing Upstate New York's Technology Community

April 8th and 9th, 2017 // Syracuse, NY

What To Expect

Share Ideas

Bring an idea that you have and the skills you are looking for. You'll be able to pitch your idea to everyone at the event kickoff around 12:30 on Saturday

Form Teams

Teams tend to form organically around the pitched ideas. You can also go solo if you'd like. There is no limit to members on a team!

Build Projects

Hack away! Work on whatever you want for the duration of the hackathon. All types of projects are encouraged

Win Prizes

After 24 hours of hard work, you'll present your projects to everyone. Judges will then select some winners to take home some awesome prizes

Prizes

Top Prize Winners

Grand Prize (1)

Wikipedia AR

2 apple airport extreme base stations View

Grand Prize (2)

goVio

3 NEW ECHO DOTS (2ND GENERATION) View

First Runner Up

Nest

Swag Bags View

Themed Prize Winners

Google Developer Group Capital Region

People Coordinator

4 GOOGLE HOME ASSISTANTS View

Best Effort Prize

Plan E

Swag Bags View

Judges

Jeff Passetti

Product Owner / Lead Developer S.I. Newhouse School @ Syracuse University LinkedIn

Chedy Hampson

CEO / Founder TCGplayer LinkedIn

John Talarico

Senior Web Engineer, Partner, Co-founder Open Automation Software Syracuse CoWorks CommonSpace LinkedIn

Nitya Narasimhan

Mobile/Web Software Architect, Google Developer Group Organizer, Tech Speaker GDG Twitter