Event Summary We’re excited to announce AI Hackathon March 2024 taking place at SURF Incubator in Seattle, Washington. This event is not just for developers, entrepreneurs, and people working in… Read More
The City of Seattle has a trove of internal data collected by more than two dozen departments. But if that information is inaccessible, of poor quality, or people don’t know… Read More
Once a staple of the startup world, the in-person hackathon was one of the collective habits that fell out of favor during the pandemic — so much so that a… Read More
As COVID-19 social distancing restrictions have eased, people are going into stores, restaurants and restrooms while still trying to stay at least six feet apart. But what if you can’t… Read More
In the late 1990s, Barry Luke responded to a house call in Gainesville, Fla. The firefighter and his partner went to the back of the house, where a leaking liquefied… Read More
The idea of a hackathon at any company is to harness the energy and creativity of employees to find new solutions to problems and potentially new products for consumers. As… Read More
Jeremiah Dangler came to technology later than many who make a career out of it. But at Slalom, the business and consulting firm headquartered in Seattle, Dangler said he has… Read More
Last week, Facebook held a civic hackathon, inviting in-house engineers as well as representatives from other tech companies to combine Seattle’s robust offering of open data with machine learning to… Read More
As we saw at the second annual GeekWire Sports Tech Summit last week, there is plenty of opportunity for entrepreneurs and engineers to come up with new tech-powered products and… Read More
Hackathons are part of Facebook’s ethos as a company. Every year, Facebook holds a number of global events and individual offices are encouraged to host their own hackathons. Engineers have produced… Read More
Seattle experienced its first snowfall of the season on Thursday night and into Friday and now the city’s leaders are calling upon technologically adept folks to do more than just share pictures of… Read More
Volunteering can be a fun way to give back to the community, but for many people it can be hard to find a convenient way to donate their time and… Read More
Millennials get a bad rap sometimes, but an increasing number of movers and shakers in tech and other industries are part of this generation. This weekend, Seattle will host a set… Read More
If there are three things Seattleites love, it is sports, technology, and coffee. On Sept. 9 and 10, you can get your fill of all three at Seattle’s first Sports Tech Hackathon, which… Read More
Nine months ago, Candace Faber became Seattle’s first “civic technology advocate,” a job that includes spreading the power of tech to underserved sectors of city government and community groups, and promoting… Read More
Nearly 130 virtual reality developers from around the Seattle region gathered at the Center for Education and Research in Construction last weekend for the Seattle VR Hackathon, a biannual event that encourages… Read More
You’re at a park in Seattle and the the restrooms are gross — like seriously, maybe-I’ll-just-use-the-woods gross. Now imagine this: you can report their unsanitary state by pressing a button on… Read More
The United States prides itself on guaranteeing justice for all. But inequality in the justice system is still a persistent issue — one highlighted by the blockbuster Netflix documentary Making… Read More
Competing against dozens of teams from across the Seattle region, software developer Will Chantry single-handedly won travel giant Expedia’s first-ever Seattle hackathon Sunday night with an app called “Be A Fan”… Read More
Beginning on Feb. 9, Flying into the Future: the 15th Annual Aerospace Manufacturing Conference, presented by Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance (PNAA), brings together commercial aerospace leaders and innovators from the Pacific… Read More
All over the world technologists are increasingly using the hackathon model to solve societal problems. Whether it’s to fight government corruption or to help feed the homeless or to enhance education, hackathons… Read More
Hacking, innovation, and lots of caffeine best describe what’s going on inside two massive tents at Microsoft’s campus this week. For the second straight year, Microsoft workers are stepping away from their… Read More
Phrases like “housing vouchers” and “senior accessibility” aren’t commonly heard at a weekend hackfest. But those words were the focus of one of Seattle’s largest open data hackathons ever — a unique event… Read More
Zillow Chairman Rich Barton and former U.S. Deputy CTO Nick Sinai kicked off a weekend hackathon Friday night where 400+ developers are being tasked to come up with solutions for… Read More
Valentines Day is approaching, and what better way to beat the clichés than with a Zombie Prom? That’s right, Spooked in Seattle, a company that does ghost tours around town,… Read More
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) held its first-ever hackathon on Friday. The event was focused on a single problem: How to redact the video streams recorded by police officers from… Read More
The Seattle Police Department is preparing to release large amounts of video from patrol car cameras and it needs your help in doing so. The SPD is holding its first-ever hackathon… Read More
Hackathons typically produce some pretty cool ideas and innovations, yet only in rare cases do you find a 48-hour project that turns into a full-fledged product used by real people. But that’s exactly what… Read More
Hackers, coders, designers and entrepreneurs with a passion to create technologies that can fix civic issues are invited to “Hack for Change,” events happening in more than 100 cities this weekend… Read More
We’re pretty geeky up here in the Pacific Northwest. With messenger bags full of the latest Windows gear and too many new startups to count, we’re in no short supply… Read More