SXSW Hackathon
The SXSW Hackathon is back for 2020 with an expanded template and two categories: Climate + Social Action and Music + Entertainment.
Hackers, creators, makers, and coders will collaborate and compete using AI, XR, voice activation, blockchain, analytics, video, and other burgeoning technologies to create new and relevant solutions for these categories in a marathon 24 hours. There are two categories to be hacked The Climate + Social Action category and The Music + Entertainment category
Stats
399
Applications
206
RSVPs
91
Women Applicants
40.6%
Engineers
Our Guests
Judges
Kalee Kreider (Chief of Media and Public Affairs, National Geographic Society)
Molly Neuman (President, Songtrust)
Adaora Udoji (Director of Corporate Innovation & Venture Programs, rLab)
Gérôme Vanherf (Co-founder & Director, Wallifornia MusicTech)
Jessica Dandridge (The Water Collaborative, Executive Director)
Mirek Stiles (Abbey Road Head of Audio Products & Red Advisory Board Member)
Claudia Schwarz (Co- Founder, Music Tech Germany)
Speakers
Arabian Prince, Founder of Inov8
Namrata Goswami (Ph.D.), Senior Analyst and Author, The Futures Lab
Incubator Instructors
Aaron Labbé, CTO & Co-Founder LUCID
Brian Zisk, NOLA Music Tech
Arabian Prince, Founder of Inov8
Helen Sartory, Director, The Rattle LA
Namrata Goswami (Ph.D.), Senior Analyst and Author, The Futures Lab
Mentors
Vik Parthiban (Research Affiliate, S.M. Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab)
Helen Sartory (Director, Rattle LA)
Josh Hayes (Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Manifold)
Marc Fridson (Director of Data Science, Sony Music)
Verena Kallhoff (Texas Health CoLab at Dell Medical School)
Tom Bruckner (CEO Marble AR, SXSW 2017 Hackathon Winner)
Byrke Lou (Physicist, Interaction Designer, Hybrid Artist)
Kristie Chin (Director of Civic Innovation, Texas Innovation Alliance)
Mitch Chaiet (Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship Coordinator
Imagine Moody/ UT)
Joaquin Beltran (Co-Founder/CEO at Awemaze, Speak Up America)
Christian Monsegue (Senior Software Engineer, Walmart Tech, UMOW)
Zach Eisenhauer (Software Engineer, Asterisk)
Aaron Labbe (CTO, Lucid Project)
Tony Parisi (Global Head of AR/VR Ad Innovation at Unity Technologies)
Hosts & Organizers
Sarah Sharif, Emcee of Hackathon
Luann Williams, Director of Hackathon