Mobile Payments Hackathon powered by CardFlight and Stripe
Saturday, October 19th at 8:30AM – 8:00PM
Event location: TBD
8:30AM – Registration, coffee and networking
9:00AM – Welcome, CardFlight and Stripe API Overview
9:30AM – Pitch your ideas, hear other ideas, form teams
10:00AM – Coding begins
6:00pm – Demoing begins, winners announced
7:00pm – Beer, pizza and networking
Ticket Type (all ticket types are free)
Developer
This ticket only applies to engineers/coders/developers.
Designer
This ticket only applies to those who have front-end development experience (graphics, UX/UI)
Demo
This ticket gives you access to see the demos at 6pm.
The goal of the Mobile Payments Hackathon is to encourage the development of mobile payments technology and provide developers with the tools and inspiration they need to build awesome products that improve the payments industry.
The hackathon brings together designers and developers to build new products and leverage new mobile payment technology. Example applications include offline ticketing apps, uber-like models for home services and donations apps.
The CardFlight SDK, and Stripe API will be provided during the Hackathon to help you build product. Engineers from both CardFlight and Stripe will be on the ground to provide any support. Attendees will spend a full day coding, completing their ideas and networking, and then will present their demo apps to a panel of mobile payment experts, including VC’s, executives and entrepreneurs. There will be food and drink provided.
1st prize: $1000 + 30 minute pitch and feedback session with ffvc’s, John Frankel + $200 Rackspace credit (subject to change)
2nd prize: $500 + $200 Rackspace credit (subject to change)
3rd prize: $200 Rackspace credit (subject to change)
For any questions or sponsorship, please email manuela@getcardflight.com. We look forward to seeing you there!
Mobile Payments Hackathon 