AT&T Mobile App Hackathon

Have an app idea or need an app built for your business?
Mobile App Hackathon is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program that is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. Our hackathon will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools to help deploy your own app with a website backend, fully hosted in… Show more the cloud.
We Supply: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bo otstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. Along with technical senseis to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools.
You Bring: Your laptop, skills & ideas. Come with a collaborative, team focused mindset and/or team up in advance on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ via the #atthack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person and code in Ruby/PHP/.NET or are a designer and only work with Illustrator, you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!
Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekends agenda:
10AM - Saturday Morning - Kickoff event with breakfast, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation. The fun continues with an all day hackathon. Senseis will be available throughout the entire event to help you code up your solution.
11AM - Friday Evening - Speakers present (please see below for list)
12PM - Friday Evening - Pitch ideas and form teams
10AM - Sunday Morning - Work with the teams that you formed on Saturday to produce the app spec d out the day before. Senseis will be available throughout the entire event to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 6PM.
06PM - Sunday Evening - Promptly at 6PM, teams will begin pitching their ventures. Pitches are limited to three (3) minutes per team.
U-verse Enabled IPTV Edutainment Challenge.
Do you love TV? I mean do you really love TV? You might be a U-verse Enabled developer. With the U-verse Enabled SDK and APIs you can allow a personal device to associate itself with a U-verse set-top box. Using the UvE SDK and APIs for iOS you can develop a mobile application that can:
Make pictures, video, and music play on the TV instead of on the small mobile device
Keep your app small, easy to download, and nimble. The U-verse receiver directly retrieves and displays your web hosted content, so there is no need store large video files on the device.
Remain in control of your content. You can update or remove content at any time without needing to communicate with the device.
Have your app receive information about the programming being watched and respond intelligently.
Make your app turn a mobile device into a TV remote control.
Use the TV as a secondary or alternate screen and send UI elements to be rendered on the TV including compatible multimedia content like photos, music, and video.
Your Challenge: We are looking for creative mobile developers who want to take a test drive on the new U-verse Enabled platform. We will start you off with a sample application and all the testing equipment you will need. We will also provide tutorials on the SDK throughout the day. You will need to come up with a stellar edutainment app that shows off all the sick features of the U-verse Enabled platform. Embrace your inner geek child and create an app that is educational, but fun for a kid that is 2-10 years-old. The app should be iOS based and served from either a mobile phone or tablet device. You must use at least two distinct UvE API calls to be eligible for judging (e.g. host mode and remote control).
If you are interested in this challenge, we highly recommend becoming familiar with the SDK ahead of time. Find more information on the AT&T developer portal at http://developer.att.com/developer/forward.jsp?passedItemId=10100307 .
Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge:
Best Hackathon Overall App
1st Place - $500 in Gift Cards for the team and one (1) year of the "Small" service from Github for each team member
2nd Place - $300 in Gift Cards for the team and one (1) year of the "Micro" service from Github for each team member
3rd Place - $200 in Gift Cards for the team and six (6) months of "Micro" service from Github for each team member
Best App using AT&T APIs
$500 in giftcards for the team to split and one (1) 4G LTE Momentum device with 1 month of 1GB dataconnect service for each team member (Max 3)
Best U-verse Challenge App
$500 in giftcards for the team to split
Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly.
33% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does
33% Weight - Originality of idea
33% Weight - Use of Node.JS, Sencha, cloud9ide.com, Heroku, and other technologies
Social Media.
Follow us @hackathonlive for live updates and photos from the event
"Like" us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/AttMobileAppHackathon
Speakers
Alex Donn is a Developer Evangelist with the AT&T Developer Program and is based out of sunny Seattle! His passion is educating developers young and old about mobile application development best practices through events like hackathons that fuse the collective interests of multiple technology and business leaders.
John O'Dowd is part of the U-verse Enabled Developer Support Team based out of Seattle. He attended NUI Galway, Ireland and graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering. He is an iOS Developer who specializes in the U-verse Enabled SDK, but has interests would range from programing microcontrollers to researching the advancements being made in the web especially in related to usability and accessibility.
Kyle Simpson is a JavaScript Systems Architect. If something can't be done in JavaScript or web stack technology, he's probably bored by it. Kyle runs several open-source projects, writes books, and speaks at meetups and tech conferences. He also helps drive the local startup/entrepreneurial community through events, coworking activities, etc.
Anthony Cuellar is the Developer Relations Manager for Pearson on the East Coast. Based out of New York City, Anthony is active in the city's thriving tech, startup, and developer communities. Anthony is passionate about technology, content creation, community management, and music festivals.
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