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Scenes from the 2019 Health Wildcatters Texas Healthcare Challenge. [Photos: Health Wildcatters]
Health Wildcatters Hosting ‘Texas Healthcare Challenge’ Hackathon at Pegasus Park
by Lance Murray | Apr 3, 2025
Focused on community health, this weekend's April 4-5 hackathon attracted more than 200 applicants, with 120 participants selected to form cross-functional teams of students, researchers, clinicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
by David Seeley |
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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by David Seeley |
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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by Kevin Cummings |
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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All finalists of CodeLaunch’s seed accelerator competition gathered on stage in Frisco after 3GStrong’s 2019 win. [Photo: Rachel Walters]
Who’ll Be the Big Winner? CodeLaunch DFW Startup Event Will Feature Three Dallas-Area Finalists
by David Seeley | Nov 12, 2021
CodeLaunch—known for splashy events that are part tech trade show, part startup conference—will host the finals of its 10th seed accelerator competition on November 17 at Frisco's Comerica Center.
Three of the five finalists are from DFW. Meet them here.
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by Lauren Hawkins |
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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by David Kirkpatrick |
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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by Payton Potter |
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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Summit: Experts Talk Balancing Realities With ‘Gee-Whiz Tech’ for Smarter Cities
by Dave Moore | Sep 22, 2018
At the North Texas Smart Cities Summit, IT specialists, engineers, public officials, and civil servants pondered the possibilities and perils of smart city technology that's ever closer to becoming commonplace. Dave Moore has the takeaway.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
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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by Taylor Lowder |
Apr 11, 2018
CFT for Business is calling people from all industries to help solve the pervasive problem of food insecurity in Collin County. The event will be held Saturday, Apr. 14.
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by Taylor Lowder |
Feb 23, 2018
"Hack the Bully," calls upon hackers to create an online tool diminishing the power of cyberbullies by helping victims and raising awareness of the issue to bystanders in the community.
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[Illustration/Dallas Innovation. Images:worldinflight.com; Rost93/iStockphoto.]
Taking Flight: Hackathon Tackles Business of Airplane Parts
by Lance Murray | Dec 13, 2017
Hackers will vie for $6,000 in total prize money at The Study Innovation Center in Irving.
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by Heather Noel |
Nov 16, 2017
Kris Fitzgerald is reshaping the CTO role at the IT services provider.
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by Dave Montgomery |
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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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
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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