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About this event

What should I build? We want to see new projects that can wow the crowd and have the potential to improve peoples lives. Hacks that people would use, laugh at, and potentially scale.Have fun, try to finish in time, and show us an awesome demo!

Who should attend? Junior developers looking to improve their skills, senior developers looking to jive with budding members of the community, designers of all skill-sets, and serious entrepreneurs that can add value to teams. Never built with a specific language before? Fear not, we'll do our part to have teachers on hand throughout the hackathon to help you get going with these new and needed skills.

How is it judged? We're doing things a little different this time. Say goodbye to power-points. That's right, no power-points whatsoever. To present at AngelHack you must DEMO. Period dot the end. And everyone who wants to win AngelHack will have to demo their product for at least 30 seconds. Projects will be judged on a combination of originality, technological difficulty, viability and usefulness. We want to see new ideas, ideas that are useful, ideas that solve big problems, ideas that could potentially make money and ideas that get people excited.

Prizes

  • Home-1st
  • First Runner-Up Prize
  • AngelHack Dubai runner-up gets a 3-month internship opportunity to work with pixelbug, Dubai's most innovat...

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  • Home-3rd
  • Second Runner-Up Prize
  • In partnership with TheCribb.co , a very innovative startup space for entrepreneurs, the 2nd runner up gets...

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Schedule

  • Friday
  • 8:00AM: Doors Open to Sponsors / Sponsor Setup

    9:00AM: Doors Open to Attendees / Breakfast of Champions

    10:30AM: Sponsor Talks and Team Pitches

    12:00PM: Lunch / Hackathon begins

    12-1:00PM: UX - Turning Research into Insight and Action by Jonathan Steingiesser NYUAD

    2-3:00PM: Android Development by Dr. Khalid Khawaja, RIT Dubai

    4-5:00PM: Mobile Web Frameworks - BootCamp, Omar Rizk & Oubai Abbasi GDG Abu Dhabi

    5-5:30PM: Porting Android Apps to BlackBerry 10 in 3 Minutes by Kareem Elsayed, BlackBerry EMEA

    5:30-6PM: Modern App Development Methodologies by Rami Sarieddine Technical Evangelist Microsoft Gulf

    8:00PM: Dinner is served

  • Saturday
  • 8:00AM: Breakfast

    12:00PM: Lunch

    1:00PM: Hackathon ends / Submission due on Hackathon.io

    2:00PM: Demos begin / Demos Only / No Slide Decks (If your demo doesn't work, take us through the code of what you did and where you got stuck. It's about showing what you've learned and not about pitching an idea)

    5:00PM: Winners are announced / Prizathon!

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Rules

All code must be FRESH – that’s how we keep these things fair. Prior to the hackathon you can create wireframes, designs, and user flows. You can come with hardware. But to make things completely f...

All code must be FRESH – that’s how we keep these things fair. Prior to the hackathon you can create wireframes, designs, and user flows. You can come with hardware. But to make things completely fair all code must be laid down at the hackathon. Other than that, most anything goes. You can work with friends in other cities and use any coding languages or open-source libraries you’d like.