HackDFW

The Last Word: Google’s James Harding on the Promise Shown at the HackDFW Marathon

The eighth annual HackDFW, powered by Say Yes to Dallas and presented by Google, connected hundreds of aspiring technologists to several Fortune 100 companies. It was a unique 48-hour marathon that challenged more than 550 people from 80 universities. Tech teams created ways to innovatively tackle waste management, climate change, better understand decisions from the Supreme Court, and much more.
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HackDFW Brings Over 500 Brilliant Young Minds Together to Showcase Their Talents
by | Oct 12, 2022
The eighth annual HackDFW, powered by Say Yes to Dallas and presented by Google, connected hundreds of aspiring technologists to several Fortune 100 companies. It was a unique 48-hour marathon that challenged more than 550 people from 80 universities. Tech teams created ways to innovatively tackle waste management, climate change, better understand decisions from the Supreme Court, and much more. Our future workforce is in this room,” said James Harding, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Customer Engineer at Google.
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HackDFW Drew More Than 600 Hackers—and Big Name Employers Hunting Hires
by | Oct 7, 2021
Students and experienced engineers alike hacked solutions to real-world challenges with algorithms, coding scripts, and data in three days of problem-solving. Some of the world’s biggest names in business—Amazon, McKesson, and USAA (to name a few)—were taking note.

Hackathons have became the new career fair for tech talent.
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HackDFW Hackathon Coming to Dallas October 1-3, Giving Tech Talent a Way to Show Skills to Top Companies
by | Aug 11, 2021
Backed by the Dallas Regional Chamber and powered by its Say Yes to Dallas campaign, HackDFW expects to draw 500 people to solve challenges from Amazon, Goldman Sachs, McKesson, and other major employers.
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‘Don’t Miss’ Events in 2018

From annual and monthly events to those that occur weekly in the region, here are 2018 events you’ll want to put on your calendar.
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Power of Dallas Hackathons
by | Mar 2, 2016
Fortunately for Dallas, hackathons are now a staple in our startup scene with several large events on the near horizon.
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