IP-HACKATHON

Saturday, March 25th

At UPR-Mayagüez AE-244, Business Building

Free Virtual Reality Cardboards for Participants.

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General Information

This is an event from Idea Platform


Open Hackathon

Bring your idea and build it in our 12-hour hackathon. This is a hackathon open for everyone interested.

Workshops And Talks

Our hackathon includes 2 speakers which will talk about new technologies like Virtual Reality and Mobile and Web Development Tools.

Technologies

We encourage participants to engage in projects based in mobile, web and virtual reality development.



Technologies we Encourage



HTML, CSS and Javascript

HTML and CSS are essential for designing websites and web applications. JavaScript makes web pages more dynamic by allowing users to interact with web pages, click on elements, and change the pages. .

ReactJS and ReactNative

ReactJS is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces and web applications. React Native is a mobile framework that compiles to native app components, allowing you to build native mobile applications (iOS, Android, and Windows). Both are open sourced by Facebook.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality projects can be developed for the web or for applications. For the web you can use A-Frame for gaming apps you can use Unity or Unreal.

Speakers



  • Pedro Cruz

    Virtual Reality Entrepreneur

    Pedro Cruz is an entrepreneur. He has participated in entrepreneurial competitions, from which he launched his startup, Rokai Labs. Pedro Cruz and Rokai Labs have been working with virtual reality, augmented reality, WebVR and 360 videos.

  • Ricardo Vila

    From Microsoft

    Ricardo will be talking about Xamarin and the position it has in the market, the development of solutions in the cloud (Azure), Machine Learning and how to use this technologies to innovate in Puerto Rico.

Schedule


Time What is Happening
8:30am Registro
9:00am Hackathon Starts
10:30am Virtual Reality Talk
12:30pm Lunch
2:30pm Development Tools Talk
5:30pm Dinner
8:00pm Hacking Ends
8:30pm Presentations & Awards
9:00pm Hackathon Ends