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HackUTD Event to Draw 1K+ Student App and Hardware Makers This Weekend

by | Nov 14, 2024
Starting Saturday at UT Dallas, more than 1,000 university students from across the country will red-eye their way through a 24-hour hackathon—creating new apps and hardware from scratch to meet challenges from corporate sponsors. More than 200 projects will be on tap—with over $80,000 in prizes for the winners.
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AWS To Host a Gen AI ‘Digital Inclusion’ Hackathon in North Texas in September
by | Aug 14, 2024
"Breaking Barriers: A Generative AI Hackathon for Digital Inclusion" will take place September 20-23 at the AT&T Foundry in Plano. WIth over $15,000 in prizes, the event is sponsored by Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip market, and Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind the Claude AI chatbot.
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CodeLaunch DFW is Bringing its Seed Accelerator Competition Finals to Dallas for the First Time
by | Nov 2, 2022
After years of holding its annual event in Frisco, CodeLaunch DFW is coming to Southside Music Hall at Gilley’s in Dallas on November 16. Six companies will face off for the top prize in an event that comprises a tech tradeshow, a startup conference, and a “raucous networking event.” And this year it's modeling itself after local favorite Digital Fight Club. “CodeLaunch is a startup and rock-n-roll show like nothing you've ever seen before,” promises President and Founder Jason Taylor.
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HackDFW Returns for 2022 to Connect Tech Talent to Companies
by | Aug 17, 2022
The Dallas Regional Chamber's talent-attraction arm — Say Yes to Dallas — powers the event. 

A roster of company sponsors expands career opportunities for HackDFW participants, says DRC's Duane Dankesreiter. “Last year we gave over 600 resumes to participating companies."
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#HackTheCulture: Impact Ventures Debuts Hackathon Series Focused on Social Justice

by | Sep 17, 2020
The virtual hackathon will kick off on Sept. 22. Developers, activists, and anyone in between is invited to participate.
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Photo Gallery: Health Wildcatters Hackathon Promotes Women in Science and Healthcare
by | Feb 25, 2020
Health Wildcatters' third hackathon—the first focused on women—hosted more than 100 female innovators and entrepreneurs to create actionable solutions for problems in healthcare and life sciences.
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Hack Culture: Asterisk Redefines Tech Recruitment Through Hands-On Coding Experiences
by | Nov 25, 2019
Hackathons are about coding collaboration in the extreme. But Asterisk's hackathons deliver on all levels for both companies and their talent—from problem-solving to scouting tech talent.
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Rawhide Blockchain Tech Wins Hackathon, Launches Livestock Management Startup
by | Oct 1, 2018
Rawhide's technology enables livestock producers to maintain genetic profiles of cattle on the blockchain, allowing for improved herd management and fractional cattle ownership.
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Dallas-based Hedera Hashgraph rasies $100 million to further develop public distributed dedger Network and Dapp Ecosystem.

Next-Gen Public Ledger Org Hedera Hashgraph Raises $100M, Plans to Further Dapp Ecosystem

by | Aug 1, 2018
The Dallas-area DLT platform plans to launch the network in September — and it could make the blockchain obsolete.
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On Tap: Frisco Fiscal Hackathon, Branding Through Storytelling & Blockchain Expert Talk
Browse our curated selection of events to plan your next week — and beyond.
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Q+A: NTT Data Services CTO Talks Automation, Future of Workforce & His New Role

by | Nov 16, 2017
Kris Fitzgerald is reshaping the CTO role at the IT services provider.
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Earth Day Texas
Earth Day Texas Returns with
Eco-Friendly Message
by | Apr 19, 2017
Fair Park will be the site this week for the five-day celebration of the planet that is the largest Earth Day event in the world.
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Smart Cities Talk, Hackathon in the Lineup for Earth Day Texas
by | Feb 9, 2017
The world's largest Earth Day exposition returns to Fair Park in April with an array of eco-friendly events.
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