Silicon Beach Hackathon - Hacking at a Beach Party? Only in LA!

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 15, 2012

Southern California has finally emerged as power house in the tech scene, and in honor of this accomplishment, Silicon Beach Fest is throwing a major Hackathon during the festival from June 21st to 23rd. The Hackathon will consist of three days of 15 invite-only teams going head-to-head to win over $50,000 worth of prize money.

Each team will have just over 48 hours to present their creations to the esteemed panel of CEO Judges, including the CEO’s of DataPop, ParkMe, GumGum and an EIR from IdeaLab. On the development side, prestigious teams from Originate, Hautelook, Disney Interactive and many more will be competing in the codefest.

What’s separating this Hackathon from others is a dozen CTO coaches on-hand to lead hackers to the promised land. With some of the CTO coaches coming from companies like Hautelook, Gamzee, DataPop, Mogreet and PageWoo, this unique combination of new and established talent will lead to some interesting projects in software development.

For more information on the Silicon Beach Fest Hackathon please visit: http://siliconbeachfest.com/hackathon.html. Coders should please fill out the application on the site.

The Hackathon will be held beginning June 21st at 5pm to June 23rd at 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, California.

Introducing the CEO Judges:
Jason A. Manasse, AccuScore    
Sam Friedman, ParkMe
Jason Lehmbeck, DataPop
Ophir Tanz, GumGum
Lee Essner, IdeaLab
Greg Cohn, Ad Hoc Labs
Brent Freeman, Roozt
Ted Dhanik, Engage BDR
Nick Bicanic, EchoEcho

Introducing the CTO Coaches:
Drew Wells, SlyLab    
Ori Neidich, The Hollywood Hill    
John Shipple, Freelance CTO    
Josh Levitan, Gamzee    
Tony Karrerr, Aggregage    
Anthony Rossano, MoGreet    
Howard Postley, 3Ality Technica    
John Zimmerman, DataPop    

Media Contact: Kelley Coughlan, Melrose PR, kelley(at)melrosepr(dot)com, (310) 450-7960

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