VibrantData PDX Hackathon
Event on 2012-06-02 08:30:00
Pre-Event Party Added!
Join us for beer and networking on Friday 6/1, 5-9PM at Thetus!
What is Vibrant Data?
Imagine a world in which data becomes a personal asset that works on behalf of our personal interests and communities. Everyday, apps like yours could control how to send their data out into the world to circulate and bring back value to users. Certainly this would require a change in the way the world views data today, and in the infrastructure that enables it to flow freely while protected. This event is a first step in building that infrastructure for the benefit of all.
Consider the prospect of Facebook, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn and other data silos bidding against each other for what data you might provide. What kinds of data might be the most interesting? How could that value be enhanced? How could you collect it with minimal effort? How would your privacy be protected? What could you get in return?
At this event you'll pick a particular type of personal data and build an app to show how its value as a personal asset can be enhanced. The app can be mobile, desktop, web or something else.
Portland is city of amazing creative energy. This event will bring together developers, managers, designers and entrepreneurs of talent and vision to spend a day exploring the opportunities. It will be a day of learning, networking, teaming up and creating. At the end, teams will pitch their ideas and demos to a panel of judges. There will be food, drink and cash prizes.
#vdatpdxPrizes
There will be a total k in prize money in various categories. Details about the categories and judging criteria will be available soon.About Us
The Vibrant Data Project is aimed at making data more present and alive, useful and valuable in the daily lives of people. To increase the vibrancy of data we need to increase its circulation, its ability to interact with other data, and its ability to lead to discovery of new value.
Agenda
- Breakfast, networking
- Introductions
- Speaker: Brandon Barnett, Director of Business Innovation at Intel Labs, A Personal Data Value Enhancement Platform
- Speaker: Thomas Thurston, CEO Growth Science, Personal Data as Disruptive Market Opportunity
- Brainstorming, ideation, team-forming
- App creation (lunch as we work)
- Presentations to judges
- Judging
- Awards and social hour
Speakers
Brandon Barnett, Director of Business Innovation in Intel Labs
Brandon's career has been about achieving new growth businesses: inventing new technologies, incubating new businesses, and most recently, researching fundamentals of new market landscapes. He is fascinated by the simple emergent order that arises from complexity.
He is convinced there is a more precise method to pursue new business innovation: a scientific way to narrow the scope of an opportunity search and define experiments in the marketplace to explore the remaining uncertainty around bases of competition and business models.
Currently, as Director of Business Innovation in Intel Labs, He is focused on executing research programs in the area of business analytics (predictive reduction) and external incubation, combining complex systems theories with ethnographic research, business theory, and predictive markets to develop new business frameworks that point to new bases of competition in emerging market landscapes. Brandon received a PhD degree in Applied Physics from Michigan and an MBA from Oregon.
Thomas Thurston, CEO, Growth Science
Thomas is recognized for breakthrough predictive research in the fields of strategy and innovation. He was recently the subject of The Innovator's Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth by bestselling author Michael Raynor and has counseled thousands of executives, investors, scholars and innovators across the globe. Thomas is a Partner at Rottura Capital, a private investment firm, and is a founding Board Member of the Revenue Capital Association. Thomas was invited by Professor Clayton Christensen to collaborate as a Fellow at the Harvard Business School and was formerly at Intel, where he helped guide new business growth and investment. He also helped found a high performance computing business that was later acquired.
In addition to his fellowship at Harvard, Thomas holds a BA, MBA and Juris Doctor. Currently a non-practicing attorney, Thomas is licensed to practice law in Oregon and previously practiced corporate and intellectual property law. The author of multiple academic articles, Thomas has been a guest lecturer at schools including Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Mentors
Mentors will be circulating during the day to field questions, test ideas and provide advice. You will have the chance to meet some of key influencers in our community.
Mark Leavitt, Physician, Inventor and Entrepreneur
With an MD and PhD, Mark enjoys bringing together the disciplines of information technology and medicine. He completed his EE doctorate at Stanford University in 1976. After 6 years in engineering, he 'jumped the tracks' to pursue training in medicine, receiving his MD and practicing medicine in Portland for 10 years. In 1985 he founded MedicaLogic, a pioneering ambulatory electronic health record company, and served as Chairman and CEO while leading the company through its IPO and later acquisition by GE Healthcare. In 2005, he was the founding Chair of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), the first Federally-recognized authority for certification of electronic health records. Since 2010, Mark has served on a number of advisory boards and as a mentor to Portland-area entrepreneurs and startups. His current interest is exploring personal health technologies and applications.
Amber Case, CEO, Geoloqi
Amber is becoming one our best known local technologists.She has presented at TED and SxSW and has been featured in Forbes, WIRED, Time and other publications both in the United States and around the world. Amber is very interested in mobile, specifically the design of mobile apps, as well as location-based technologies and data visualization. She co-founded Geoloqi.com, a private location sharing application, out of a frustration with existing social protocols around text messaging and wayfinding. Judges
John Sherry, Director of Business Innovation Research, Intel Labs
John studied at the University of Portland before receiving his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Intel has been at the corporate forefront of using anthropologists and other social scientists to research the cultural effects of products and scout for new opportunity. Much of John's work has focused on defining and creating prototypes for new health care products.
Other judges to be announcedSpecial Guest
Ward Cunningham, Internet Pioneer
Ward was the developer of the first wiki and a pioneer in the fields of design patterns and Extreme Programming. He received his Bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary engineering (electrical engineering and computer science) and his master's degree in computer science from Purdue University. He is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principal Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. He is founder of the Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programming conference which it sponsors. Cunningham was part of the Smalltalk community. From December 2003 until October 2005, he worked for Microsoft Corporation in the "patterns & practices" group. From October 2005 to May 2007, he held the position of Director of Committer Community Development at the Eclipse Foundation. In May 2009, Cunningham joined AboutUs as its chief technology officer. Most recently he joined CitizenGlobal, a startup working on crowd-sourced video content, as Chief Technology Officer. Event Format
Teams should design and create a functional prototype application. Formulating a business case is of additional value but not central. Judging will be weighted based on how the app makes data more vibrant and valuable, the app's viability and potential for becoming a complete, valuable product or service.
In its presentation, each team should describe:
- The need or problem addressed
- Solution description, including how data is made more vibrant
- Members, skills of the team
- Demo
- Plan to go forward
The rules are loose. The point is innovation.
- It's not necessary to start fresh. It's OK to bring partially complete work as a starting point
- Any computing platform combination is allowed
- Each team should focus on a type of data to collect and how it will be made valuable. APIs offered by the various companies we interact with (Facebook, Google+ etc.) are a good place to start. Quantified Self has hundreds of resources. Also consider also using SDKs from local companies, like Geoloqi and Green Goose
- There will be time periods for ideation, prototyping and presenting
- All apps created remain the property of their creators.
Get StartedYou can discuss ideas and form teams ahead of the event here. Sponsors
Intel Interaction and Experience Lab – Prizes
Intel's Interaction and Experience Research Lab is devoted to creating the future of computing. Comprised of social scientists, designers, human factors engineers and technology researchers, we take an interdisciplinary approach to identifying the experiences people most value, designing experiences that are more engaging, and engineering solutions that people will love.
Thetus Corporation – Venue
Thetus makes enterprise software that helps people analyze, characterize, abstract, visualize, and model complex systems. Thetus delivers a new standard for addressing modeling and analysis challenges, the Savanna solution. Savanna is a multi-source, model-enabled analysis solution that builds on existing investments and programs bringing together various analysis techniques to enable faster, more informed decision-making. Our solutions are at work in enterprises, local government agencies and the national intelligence community.Sustainability
Our sponsors take pride in protecting the planet. Please use public transit. The venue is right on the Max line next to Saturday Market.
Feel free to bring your your water bottlle and coffee mug. A continuous supply of Floyd's Coffee will be on hand.
at Thetus Corporation
34 NW 1st Street
Portland, United States
2012 Graduate School Fair at Harvard University
Event on 2012-06-16 13:00:00
Graduate & Professional School Information Fair
@ Harvard Law School
What to Expect:
- Experience over 40 of the Nation's finest graduate programs and graduate/professional organizations in a variety of fields
- Representation: Law, Business, Arts & Sciences, Education, STEM, Medicine, Public Policy and more!
- Save time and money by speaking face-to-face with program representatives
- Listen to what specific programs have to offer
- Ask questions about admission and funding opportunities
- Collect application information packets and brochures
- Get tips on applying to programs that interest you
- Discover new grad school options
- Build networks for your future
Please note: Tickets will be sold at the door on a space available basis ONLY. Only Cash or Credit Cards will be accepted
GRAD PROGRAMS & ORGANIZATIONS
Harvard Graduate & Professional Schools:
· Harvard Business School
· Harvard Divinity School
· Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
· Harvard Graduate School of Design
· Harvard Graduate School of Education
· Harvard Kennedy School
· Harvard Law School
· Harvard Medical School
· Harvard School of Dental Medicine
· Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
· Harvard School of Public Health
National Graduate/Professional Schools & Partner Organizations:
· Admission Advisory Group
· American Indian Graduate Center
· Boston University, School of Management
· Bentley University Business School
· Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
· Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management
· Cornell University, Graduate School
· Dartmouth Tuck School of Business
· Duke University, Fuqua Business School
· Duke University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
· Graduate Management Admission Council
· Institute for Broadening Participation (STEM)
· Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, Phillips Academy
· John Marshall Law School
· John Hopkins Univ. School of Arts & Sciences, Engineering
· John Hopkins, School of Public Health
· Lewis and Clark Law School
· North Carolina State University Graduate School
· Phoenix College of Law
· Princeton Review Foundation
· Seattle University Law School
· Teach For America
· University of Arizona Law School
· University of California Berkeley Law School
· University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Business School
· University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Graduate School
· University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
· University of Utah, Graduate School
· University of Utah, College of Law
· University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
· Washington Univ. in St. Louis, G.W.B. School of Social Work
· Yale University, Graduate School
FAQs
How should I prepare for the Fair?
Look at the list of schools and make an effort to prioritize your 'top' schools to make effective use of your time at the Fair. Take some time to visit the websites of your priority schools to see what they have to offer.What should I bring?
Prepare questions for school representatives (e.g., what are your course offerings?) and be prepared to answer questions (e.g., when do you want to attend graduate school?). There's no need to bring a resume.What should I wear?
First impressions count so give some thought to what you wear. Business casual works, however, keep in mind "business casual" doesn't mean "everyday casual." Bottom line-you want the schools to remember you… not what you're wearing.I will only have 30 minutes at the fair… should I still come?
Yes! Thirty minutes can be plenty of time to connect with a few schools that interest you. Maximize your time by selecting a list of schools before the fair and plan to approach your top 3-5 programs. At the Fair, check in at the door and head straight to your top choice school. If there's a long line move on to the next one on your list and circle back.
Anything else I should know?
Parking may be limited during the day of the event. Plan to arrive at least 15 minutes early to secure parking space for the event and check in. Cambridge can be confusing to navigate by car – be sure to use a GPS or prepare directions ahead of time. Traveling on the T is usually the easiest way to ensure a prompt arrive.
GH & Harvard Partnership
This event is being held in collaboration with Graduate Horizons – all proceeds from ticket sales will go directly toward funding Grad Horizons non-profit programming. Graduate Horizons is a pre-graduate summer workshop for Native American and Alaska Native students and graduates which aims to increase the number of Native students pursuing graduate and professional programs. Harvard University is a long-standing partner institution of our programs.Questions?
Email us at info@collegehorizons.org
at Harvard Law School
Wasserstein Hall
Cambridge, United States
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