by SherlockTalent
How cool is this?
We had over 900 registrants for TechWeekend @theDolphins – And the Dolphins won again!
One of the winning {FinTank} hackathon apps will be used at the Thursday evening Nov. 13th Dolphins vs. Bills game
Our reserved section of lower bowl tickets is almost sold out, if you want to join TechTailgating@theDolphins with a discounted game ticket, use the promo code “FINTANK” to buy online though this special link FYI- the Promo code expires this week.
To see pictures of the {FinTank} hackathon winners, go to www.TheFinTank.com
by SherlockTalent
Tech Weekend @ The Dolphins was held on Oct 25/26th at Sun Life Stadium. The event was filled with activities, including a Hackathon, Teach-a-thon, Coding Track, IT Track and a variety of user group meetings. The size and layout of the event had to be seen in person, as it kept going on and on. Just when you thought you’d come to the end, there would be more rooms and more events further down the hall. There were over 900 registrants. Even with the distraction of beautiful S. Fla weather, over 450 came to the free event the first day, and 100 the second.
Folks from all age groups were in attendance, from 5th graders to retired programmers that wanted to get back into the community. The Ranger Kids were all dressed in matching orange T-Shirts, drawing attention as they paraded through the large stadium layout. The attendees learned, and then networked afterwards, sharing what they’d discovered. The hackers worked feverishly to get their latest ideas into presentable form.
The results were remarkable. The presentations included ideas like ways to help cut lines at the women’s restrooms, how to use the stadium for other events like Tech Weekend, how to use the time between plays to add extra excitement with the game by earning game tokens for trivia and micro-bets, and it even spilled out into the parking lot where an app showed how to have the perfect tailgating event. There were so many exciting ideas that it must have been near impossible to select a winner. Some of the strongest statements happened when an investor from the crowd told an attendee he would back her idea even before she finished her presentation. The IT judge from the Dolphins said he’d use one of the apps as a statistician and scorekeeper for the Dolphins. Even the event organizers jumped on board as we plan to use the app to help us organize our Tech Tailgating @ The Dolphins for the November 13th game against the Buffalo Bills.
While all of this is remarkable, I found the best comment of all when I came to my desk Monday morning. I’d received an invitation to connect on LinkedIn from James Stephenson, an attendee who I’d chatted with throughout the event. He brought his daughter to the event as part of the Teach-a-thon. She is a remarkable middle school student that was interested in the entire event. His note to me said: “My daughter was so enthusiastic, we spent the rest of the evening together working on her projects”. As an event organizer, what more can dream for but to inspire our attendees, especially our youth, to study technology, try hard and reach for excellence?
We thank Microsoft and Citrix for their phenomenal support by staffing many of the tracks with experts and allowing us to award tickets to attendees of those tracks. We thank the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, without whom this event would not have been possible. And, we especially thank our hosts. The Miami Dolphins, who’s support and execution made this the largest-ever Tech Event for an NFL team, held at an NFL stadium!
by SherlockTalent
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by SherlockTalent
ITPalooza invites you to vote for the sessions you would like to attend at ITPalooza. To vote, simply visit the ‘Vote for Sessions’ page and vote using the social networking share icons – YT”S THAT SIMPLE!
VOTE WITH A CLICK!
We’ve chosen the industry standard Facebook ‘like’ button we’ve added a Facebook ‘share’ button, linkedIn and Twitter, so you can share your favorite sessions on your timeline and help spread the word about how cool ITPalooza is.
In the near future we may also add share options for LinkedIn and Twitter. Please be sure to re-visit the ballot from time to time as we are adding new sessions all the time.
We will tally up all the votes and publish the results to the schedule page on November the 4th to correspond with the 2014 mid-term elections.
We still have a live schedule page because some sessions are exempt from voting.
If you are interested in presenting a session at ITPalooza 2014, please visit the signup page where you can create a speaker profile and upload your session details and presentation stack.
This year, ITPalooza will run sessions in four time slots, starting on the hour, beginning at 1 PM. We are waiting for the final classroom count as this will determine the total number of session we can schedule.
