Goodie Hack Atlanta 2014 Q2

About the Event

Goodie Hack focuses on assisting purpose-driven organizations (non-profit, civic, and for-profit with a social cause) overcome challenges to their mission of helping under-served communities through innovative technology ideas. It provides talented people from the tech and non-tech worlds the opportunity to collaborate on a project of choice that will benefit the community. #AccelerateWithGoogle #BeTheMatch #LifeSaver + Produced by sf35 + Sponsored by Google x Be The Match x Opportunity Hub x MillerCoors + We're friends with Inflex Digital, Nuracode, Black Founders, covello, Red Bull, TheFIIIX.com, Tsays.com, The Awesome Foundation, General Assembly, OMGBooth.com, Under30 Mag, Charitable.org, and Social Media Day Atlanta 2014 #SMDayATL14 + Pitch Competition Judges: Jacqui Chew, Dionne Mahaffey (The Awesome Foundation, Atlanta Chapter), Marcellus Haynes (Technologists of Color, Atlanta Chapter), Luigi Montanez (Code For Atlanta), Jasmine Crowe (BlackCelebrityGiving.com), Adrienne White (Coca-Cola), and Orie Ward (Philogic). + Mentors: Engineers from Google, Laura Ciocia (WCG), Vince Baskerville (Pardot), Jewel Anderson (Under30FTV Magazine), Maria Joyner (Synapp.io), and Jarret Coger (Pavo) [Featured Non-Profit: Be The Match] For the thousands of people diagnosed every year with life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, a cure exists. Over the past 25 years Be The Match®, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP), has managed the largest and most diverse marrow registry in the world. We work every day to save lives through transplant. Learn more at www.bethematch.org [Presenting Mission-Driven Organizations] Atlanta Food & Farm, LLC Atlanta HBCU Alliance (5K Run/Walk) Community Guilds (STEAM Truck) Latino Connection Georgia Love Beyond Walls MAFDET, Inc. Street Credit Inc. Urban Perform WeCycle Atlanta [Why Participate?] If you'd like to use your powers for the greater good, then here’s how you can affect positive change in Atlanta's under-served communities. Register now to hack your way to a better community for us all! Ten (10) awesome purpose-driven organizations will present their mission along with the hiccups associated with achieving it. Seventy (70) developers, designers, business execs, teachers, community leaders, creatives, professionals, and everyday people will then split into teams and spend 5 hours brainstorming and developing ideas for web or Android apps to help solve their organization's challenge(s). At the end of the five hours, each team will have 5 minutes to present and demo their app to a panel of rockstar judges from the tech, social good, business, and entertainment industries. [Agenda] > 9am - 9:30am: Check-in + Breakfast > 9:30am - 10am: Opening Remarks, Host: M. Cole Jones (covello) > 10am - 10:15am: Intellectual Property Session, Nnena Ukuku + Laura Slezinger (Venture Gained Legal) via Google Hangout > 10:15am - 10:30am: Be The Match Presentation > 10:30am - 10:45am: Generating An App Session > 10:45 - 11am: How To Integrate Google's Products/Services > 11am - 12pm: Purpose-Driven Organization Challenge Presentations > 12pm: Lunch > 12pm - 5pm: Team Selections & Breakout Sessions > 3pm: Rev Up The Energy Break > 5pm - 6pm: Pitch Competition > 6pm - 6:15pm: Judging + Closing Remarks > 6:15pm: Pitch Competition Winner Announced > 6:15pm - Until: Drinks from MillerCoors + Food + Music!