Bring on your App dev and design skills, build a video application, present it to 1,200 attendees and win $50,000 prize!

Join us June 13-15 in NYC or ONLINE and show your dev and design skills... Build video experiences using Kaltura, and win twice - Participating teams will get a chance to visit Kaltura Connect and present their applications to leading media companies, universities, educational organizations and Fortune 500 corporations around the world. The winners will take home a $50,000 prize!

How to Participate?

Sign up for your free Kaltura Developer Account. Join the ChallengePost challenge (click Join to the right on this page). Build a Kaltura based video experience - and submit to the first round of judging on Sunday at 5pm!

Participating On Site in NYC - 5 Union Square W, New York, NY 10003.

We will have lots of food, soft drinks, and coffee served throughout the weekend to keep everyone energized.

At the venue we will have Kaltura, VoiceBase and Rackspace experts who will be there as mentors to help you get started quickly and learn the APIs and SDKs.

We will be running wifi based on AT&T LTE network. It should be enough bandwidth to serve everyone, but if you have your own hotspot – feel free to bring it for your own dedicated internet connection.

Participating Online – NEW!

If you couldn’t make it to NYC this week – you can still participate at the Hackathon!

We will be Live Streaming the opening keynote, the API presentations and the first round of judging on Sunday evening. The URL to watch the Live Stream is http://connect.kaltura.com/livehackathon.

Developers who finish their apps by Sunday will be invited to present their application via video to the judges during Sunday evening’s first round of screening.

Mentors from Kaltura, VoiceBase and Rackspace will be hanging out over at the IRC #kaltura channel on freenode.net for online assistance with the APIs and SDKs.

The Schedule Highlights

We will meet on Friday, June 13, at 4pm for gathering and networking, the presentations and Live Stream will begin at 5:30pm.

Application hacking will officially begin at 9pm on Friday and last until Sunday at 4pm.

On Sunday at 5pm we will have the first round of judging, where the finalists will be chosen.

The finalists will be chosen based on meeting all "Judging Criteria”: is the application original, fully functional, based on Kaltura, and can be presented publicly.

On Sunday, we will also open for public voting by the community and Kaltura Connect attendees – so make sure your app is presentable and accessible online!

Finalists will be invited to Kaltura Connect at Jazz at Lincoln Center, to present their apps at the closing keynote on June 18th where the final judging will take place, and the winners will be announced!

The Weekend Agenda:

Friday (June 13)

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Registrations and social drinks!

5:30pm - 6:00pm: Welcome keynote.

6:30pm - 7:30pm: Presenting the APIs and SDKs

7:30pm - 9:00pm: Food and Group Formation

9:00pm: Let the hacking begin!

Saturday (June 14)

Hacking, Coffee, Food and Drinks through the day!

Sunday (June 15)

4:00pm: Get ready for presentations!

5:00pm - 7:00pm: Presentations and Guidance

Monday through Wednesday - Kaltura Connect (June 16-18)

Teams that have submitted apps, will recieve FREE tickets to attend Kaltura Connect - The Video Experience Conference.

And special discounted tickets for the pre-conference workshops!

During the conference there will be a period of public crowd voting.

At the closing keynote (June 18)

Final judging and announcing the winners!

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