







CALLING HACKERS AND HEADLINERS:

The challenge and the bass are about to drop

The time has arrived. It’s time to mix your passion for tech and music festivals and join AngelHack and sponsors Amazon Web Services, Intel, and EDC for the most colorful, inclusive, and badass hackathon on the planet. Do you and your friends want to go to EDC Vegas? Well, here’s your chance. Gather your most creative developer friends or co-workers and join us as a team to Hack Till Dawn. Or come on your own and meet other like-minded developers with whom you can join forces.

VIP passes to EDC Las Vegas and EDC Orlando (and much more) are on the line; all you have to do is come up with the most revolutionary new tech that will help musical festivals up their game. So are you in?





STAGE ONE

LA HACKATHON, MAY 5 & 6, 2018

Top 3 Teams Will Win

Value of $13,750 USD



VIP passes to EDC Las Vegas, airfare, hotel, and featured promotion of their idea by the festival.

Free AWS DeepLens device for each person (15 total devices)

Inclusion in AWS promotional videos created from the Hackathon

*Winning teams will be provided with support from AWS and Intel solutions architects for a final solution tune up leading up to EDC Vegas and EDC Orlando.

* Finalists will receive their prizes post-hackathon



STAGE TWO

EDC Las Vegas, MAY 18 - 20



The Top 3 Teams’ demo videos will be featured at EDC Las Vegas where festival fans will vote for the grand prize winner

Grand Prize winner is announced on 6/1/18



STAGE THREE

THE GRAND PRIZE

The Top Team Will Win

Additional Value of $21,500 USD



VIP passes to EDC Orlando, airfare, hotel, one per person (November 9 & 10, 2018)

Implementation and promotion of their winning idea at EDC Orlando

Tickets to 2018 re:Invent and the re:Play party, one per person

Presentation of their idea at an AWS DeepLens break-out session at re:Invent





What’s the most kick ass technology you’ve always wished for at music festivals? What would you create if the sky was your limit? Here’s your chance! Use AWS technology to create an experience that is desperately needed or would greatly enhance the fan experience at an EDC festival. It can be anything from getting more information on the events and activities at the festival to using a virtual assistant to direct you to the nearest bathroom with the shortest line. Anything you can dream of for a festival, make it.





Featured APIs

AWS DeepLens

AWS DeepLens helps put deep learning in the hands of developers, literally, with a fully programmable video camera, tutorials, code, and pre-trained models designed to expand deep learning skills.



Find out more here

Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Amazon SageMaker removes all the barriers that typically slow down developers who want to use machine learning.

Find out more here

AWS Credits

Each attendee will receive $100 AWS credits to build out their solutions.

Make sure to create an AWS Account before you arrive.

Surprise API

Shh, we can't tell you that yet! At some point during the hackathon, we’ll announce a surprise AWS API that you can build into your idea to earn additional points from the judges. Be ready for anything!

HINT: "We’re saving the surprise for Saturday—good thinks come to those who wait"







Intel is driving AI innovation to ensure every data scientist, developer, and practitioner has access to the best platform to build the future, from cloud to edge. Learn more



Whether you are a data scientist, ML researcher, or developer, AWS offers machine learning services and tools tailored to meet your needs and level of expertise.





*Schedule subject to change

all times are in PT

Wednesday, May 2nd:

18:30 20:00 AWS + EDC Festival Hackathon Virtual Session via Zoom

Webinar Link: https://zoom.us/j/439588597

Meeting Number: 439 588 597

Saturday, May 5th:

09:00 10:00 Doors Open & Breakfast Served, Networking, and Team Formation

10:00 10:30 Opening Ceremony/Presentations from Partners

10:30 - Coding Begins

12:00 13:00 Lunch Served

13:00 14:00 AWS Breakout Session

18:00 19:00 Dinner Served

20:00 20:30 Pitch Workshop

21:00 21:30 Pitch Practice Session

24:00 - Midnight Snack

Hack through the Night*

*The venue will be open and staffed overnight if you’d like to hack through the night.

Sunday, May 6th:

07:00 08:00 Breakfast Served

12:00 13:00 Lunch Served

13:00 - Submission Deadline

14:00 15:00 Judging

15:00 15:30 Judge Deliberation

15:30 16:00 Closing Ceremony & Awards

16:00 - Event Close





(Hackathon in LA)

Each submission will be scored in each round based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and a maximum score of 30 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores:

Simplicity (5 points): Is the application simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less?

Is the application simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less? Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge?

How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact?

Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact? Design (5 points): Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing?

Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing? Usage of Featured and Surprise Technology (5 points): Was the featured technology used, and how well were the surprise APIs utilized?

Was the featured technology used, and how well were the surprise APIs utilized? Presentation (5 points): Was the demo well organized, coherent, and did it communicate how the idea meets the other criteria?

(Top Three Teams in Las Vegas)

Fan Voting

Leading up to, and during EDC Las Vegas, fans will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite idea. AWS and EDC will promote the submissions, encouraging fans to check out the pitch videos and cast their vote for the idea they’d like to see brought to life at EDC Orlando.





Teams of up to 5 participants are allowed. All team members must have completed the participation agreement to compete.

Participants must be 21 years of age and citizens of the continental United States upon registration.

You may not begin your project until the competition officially begins. Please don't come in and build on top of previous projects if you want to win.

Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before winning.





Learn more here: http://hacktilldawn.us/