Hacker Presentations from the MoDev Tablet Hackathon

Hacker Presentations from the MoDev Tablet Hackathon at Microsoft Chevy Chase, September 15, 2012

This Hackathon was part of Modev Tablet Conference. About the conference: A mobile Development, UX/Design and Marketing conference about keeping pace in the Tablet Era. Attend this event if you are a mobile developer on any platform, UX or UI designer, mobile marketer or manager. The Friday conference will be the main attraction, while the Workshops on Thursday and Hackathon Saturday will provide the bookends to an awesome event. www.modevtablet.com

MoDev is much more than just another Meetup. We have grown from a grass roots organization of mobile developers to one of the leading mobile technology and business organizations in the country.

Are you ready to compete for over $12,000 in prizes? It's simple. Come spend a Saturday building the next awesome app by yourself or with a fun group of people and take a shot at many prizes awesome up for grabs. This is day three of the MoDevTablet conference which many of our hackers will be attending. This hackathon is open to individuals and teams. If you're not on a team already, we'll put you on one. Not a developer? No problem, teams need designers, marketers and program managers to help craft the next great thing. Come one, come all!

Rules: Hacks going for prizes must be built on site (you may come work on an existing project and demo, but the spirit of the awards are for apps created in one day) Solo or teams are fine Sponsors may determine their own award recipients Demos will be 3 minutes each

Sponsors, prizes and qualifications list:

Microsoft: 3 Samsung Series 7 Tablets + $500 cash to the three top Windows 8 apps - $1700 value each - developers are required to develop using Windows 8 platform.

Adobe: Two copies of Master Suite 6 - $2500 value each - Best design award and best overall

App47: $500 cash - Most likely to succeed as determined a survey conducted by App47

O'Reilly: 20 hard copy books - $600 value + a free eBook to every hacker!

App Developers Alliance: $500 cash - awards to the top two apps as determined by all hackers

MoDev: MoDevEast workshop passes: $1200 value - One pass each to the top team

Blackberry: Two Playbooks - Given to the first two developer who signup for the Blackberry developers program

Appcelerator: $500 1st place, $250 2nd, $150, 3rd - Given to the top three apps that utilize the Appcelerator platform for development.