Two Events, Two Locations, One Awesome Weekend:
Random Hacks of Kindness “Hackathon for Humanity”
MADE at MiKE: Mobile Application Development Event
Showcasing Milwaukee region’s incredible energy for innovation, these events will feature a Friday evening reception at the Innovation in Milwaukee (MiKE) open lab in Grand Avenue Mall, a Saturday morning workshop in the same space for designers, developers and the business community, followed by Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon at Bucketworks on S. 5th Street.
Are you a hacker, developer, database expert or designer?
Why not put your skills to use making the world better?
Random Hacks of Kindness is a nationwide Hack-A-Thon focused on solving real world problems. RHoK’s model is to start with identifying, defining and refining problems provided by experts and local stakeholders.
Hacking to save the world over two glorious days! This event will hone in on the diverse problems related to water, as well as disaster relief. Water Tech USA, 1000 Friends, The Water Council and many more will be presenting problems to hackers, designers and participants.
Presented to you by Bucketworks, Project H2OScore, MiKE, and Spreenkler.
Prizes currently include incubation spaces for successful teams, door prizes and rewarding knowledge!
To kick off the event, a reception will be held on Thursday, December 1st at Spreekler's OPEN MiKE (at Grand Avenue Mall) space to kick off the event. (Featuring free beer from Big Bay Brewing Company and Free tasting from Great Lakes Distillery!)
Take a weekend and spend it solving real problems for real people!
Agenda
Friday, December 2
5:30 – 6:00pm: Event Overview - Location: OPEN MiKE
6:00 – 8:00pm: Reception (drinks & appetizers provided) - Location: OPEN MiKE
Saturday, December 3
9:30 – 10:00am: Meet the Speakers, Networking - Location: OPEN MiKE
10:00 – 10:55am: Session 1 - Location: OPEN MiKE
Mobile Development: Developing and Launching in 90 Days - Romke de Haan
Do you find you’re often caught in feature expansion, scope creep and endless development cycles? Romke will illustrate how lean design and development along with rapid prototyping can produce a robust mobile application in 90 days.
Mobile Design: Front End Design and Development - Mike Massie
Designing for mobile is challenging. What considerations do you need to consider when deploying your design from one device to another? Mike, who is obsessed with giving inanimate objects the ability to tell a story, will discuss the art and science of making mobile applications look and function spectacularly.
Mobile Business: Strategy and ROI - Matt Friedel
Why do apps fail? How do you measure mobile ROI? With all the platforms and devices, where does a business get started? Matt will explain how businesses can navigate the mobile landscape and take advantage of opportunities in mobile applications.
11:05 – 12:00pm: Session 2 - Location: OPEN MiKE
Mobile Design: Mobile Design is for Mobile Users - Gretchen Thomas
How do you design a fantastic mobile experience that expresses the brand and meets business requirements? Start with the user. Gretchen will guide you through the mobile experience design process, from whiteboard to wireframe to visual design.
Mobile Development: Mobile Web and Native Apps - Brennan Stehling
In this introduction to mobile web development, Brennan will break down native app development for iOS, provide an overview of development tools and touch on how to interact with backend data services (REST/JSON).
Mobile Business: Mobile Considerations for Nonprofit, Arts & Culture - Christine Harris & Matt Friedel
Can mobile applications help non-profits, arts and culture organizations find new customers, build revenue, or reduce operating costs? This presentation and open discussion will examine mobile from the non-profit perspective.
12:30 – 1:00pm: Lunch (provided) - Location: Bucketworks
1:00 – 2:00pm: Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon Kick-off - Location: Bucketworks
The twin themes of the hackathon – water management and disaster response – engage two critical challenges that we face as a local community, but that we also share with communities worldwide. Controlling storm water, providing fresh, safe drinking water, or responding to a cataclysmic event are all issues that will require attention in coming years. As we develop solutions for our communities here, we also create opportunities to reach markets elsewhere. Learn More
2:00pm and on… RHoK Hackathon Continues - Location: Bucketworks
Sunday, December 4
2:00 – 4:00pm: Hackathon Presentations & Awards - Location: Bucketworks
Locations
Bucketworks
706 South 5th Street, Milwaukee
At a regular health club, you become a member to work out–improve your health, your muscle tone, your stamina. You use special equipment, in special environments, and sometimes you work with a coach. You work out regularly, so your body becomes healthy. And you become a member because you want to be amongst a community of other people who are doing the same thing–they reinforce your practice and your discipline.
Bucketworks is just like that. All we’ve done is swap out the weight machine for the computer, the exercise bike for the table saw, and the mirrored aerobics room for the collaborative meetup room. We’ve picked coaches who know how to help you build ideas instead of muscles, and we’ve formed a community of members who all want to work out their ideas, inspirations, and passions–and who will share their experiences with you.
OPEN MiKE
161 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee
Inside Grand Avenue Mall, across from The Chocolate Factory and above TJ Maxx
OPEN MiKE is a physical and virtual space that promotes open source entrepreneurship. Students, freelancers, professionals and entrepreneurs come together to create a design + technology ecosystem to accelerate the development of new ideas and rapid prototyping.
OPEN MiKE offers: (1) 6,800 square feet of open workspace, (2) wifi and network bandwidth for cloud storage and development environments, (3) meetups, workshops and networking events essential to design + tech industries and (4) access to peers, mentors and advisors.
Event Background
Random Hacks of Kindness
Random Hacks of Kindness is a global community of innovators building practical open technology to make the world a better place.
MADE at MiKE
MADE at MiKE was developed by Brennan Stehling of Small Sharp Tools, along with MiKE (www.InnovationInMilwaukee.com) based on iMADE, a successful mobile event held in 2009. MADE at MiKE seeks to train, inform and energize the community around mobile applications. Our goal is to connect designers and developers with organizations to create mobile solutions for the community and for businesses.
Project H2OScore
Project H2OScore is a water sustainability initiative working to empower communities to become smarter water consumers. Its centerpiece is a website that allows residential water customers to access their water usage information, compare to similar households, and find local businesses with similar commitments to water sustainability.
Speaker Bios
Christine Harris
Christine Harris is CEO of Christine Harris Connections, and Executive Advisor for Creative Alliance Milwaukee. She has spent over 25 years in arts administration in Milwaukee, including Audience Development Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Ballet, President of UPAF, and founder/executive director of Creative Alliance Milwaukee. Christine is building a national consultancy practice championing creativity and developing the creative economy.
Gretchen Thomas
Gretchen is a User Experience Strategist located in Milwaukee. Besides working to make good software experiences at Johnson Controls, she likes funny people, and to give occasional sermons about things that should work properly. As a whiteboard devotee and sketching evangelist, she’s been known to produce interactive strategies, user flows, wireframes, content strategies, prototypes and content models. But what she really loves is to plan out experiences that make life a little easier.
Matthew Friedel
Matthew Friedel is CEO/Principle of Jam-Mobile.com a leading developer of Custom Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, Web, iPad, and iPhone Mobile Software applications (apps). Matt has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, a Masters of Science (MS) in Engineering, and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Marquette University. Matt is also an Instructor at The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Marquette University in the College of Engineering. Matt authors a blog that focuses on successful app development for businesses and organizations. http://www.jam-mobile.com/app-blog.html
McGee Young
McGee is a professor of Political Science at Marquette University and the Director of Project H2OScore. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 2004. His research focuses on political organizations, environmental politics, and political economy. He is the author of Developing Interests: Organizational Change and the Politics of Advocacy (2010).
Mike Massie
Mike Massie is a Mobile Product Manager and UI/UX designer, with a passion for innovative social, geo and mobile projects. Mike has been creating and developing mobile and web projects for more than a decade – from user interface and experience design, solution architecture, business requirements, to testing and deployment.
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Registration Deadline:
Wednesday November 30, 2011
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