Opportunity Hack 2015 Arizona

Our third annual PayPal Opportunity Hack will open at 8:00 a.m. on October 10th.  At Opportunity Hack you can network, share ideas and build solutions that enable impact and social innovation! Come with an idea or join a team that will hack solutions for any of the problem statements listed by our partnering non-profits!

Check in will be from 8:00 until 9:00 and breakfast will be served.  At 9:00 we'll have our opening keynote speaker.  

Then the fun begins!  Our non-profits will all have an opportunity to pitch their ideas to all the participants.  We'll be moving this along quickly so that we can move into team building.  You can bring a whole team, but if you don't we're pretty good at facilitating team formation.  This is the part of the program that people tend to be the most nervous about, but it all works out.  We've done it successfully a bunch of times and we'll make sure you get hooked up.

Please note that the pitch session scheduled to take place at 9:30 am is for only non-profits pitching ideas.

11:00 a.m.  It's time to get your Hack On!  You have from now until 3:00 p.m. on Sunday!  We're providing meals and snacks and support around the clock.

3:00 p.m. on Sunday it's time to let the keyboard rest.  You'll want to have your prototype and presentation ready for a three minute presentation to the judges with some Q&A.  There will be a brief intermission for scoring and then the top teams will be chosen and accolades will flow!  This will mark the end of the event and the beginning of the celebration, where we will also provide appropriate supplies.

Detailed Agenda

Saturday (10/10)

• 08:00AM: Doors open for check-in
• 09:00AM: Opening ceremony
• 09:30AM: Project pitches
• 10:30AM: Team formation
• 11:00AM: The Hackathon begins!
• Noon: Lunch is served
• 02:00PM: Subject Matter Experts available (4 hours)
• 06:00PM: Dinner is served

HACK THROUGH THE NIGHT

Sunday (10/11)

• Midnight: Pizza served
• 08:00AM:Breakfast is served & Subject matter experts available (3 hours)
• Noon: Lunch is served / I can’t think straight but this tastes awesome!
• 02:00PM: Code checked into GitHub
• 02:45PM: Presentations submitted on DevPost
• 03:00PM: Hackathon ends
• 03:15PM: Judging
• 04:30PM: Closing Keynote
• 05:00PM: Winners are announced / Prizathon!
• 05:30PM: Drinkathon / You’ve survived… let’s celebrate!

Find out more about Opportunity Hack 2014 here and some of the success stories here    

Partners

We are proud to be partnered with American Express and SEED SPOT.

SEED SPOT Impact Award

Short-term solves are hardly solutions, they are band-aids that are unable to effectively drive change and positively impact our community. As a result Seed Spot facilitates solutions that attack the root cause of a problem, rather than just the visible symptoms. In order to have the maximum impact these solutions should encourage the community of organizations to work together collaboratively on problems that affect different facets of the same community issues. Finally, for a solution to be truly sustainable it needs to have a well defined revenue model that allows it to thrive in the open market.

Keynote 

Laurie Buczek - Head of Customer Engagement for Intel Corporation

Laurie manages the organization responsible for global B2B digital experiences, lead generation strategy & enablement, social sales and omni-channel personalization.  It is a multi-year journey of leading transformation in marketing, sales, digital, social media and customer centric engagement. Over the course of her Intel career, Laurie has managed digital, product & geography marketing strategies; led a major inaugural implementation of social media externally and internal social collaboration for employees; and worked on business client, wireless, communications and embedded technology.  Prior to Intel, Laurie worked for Forrester Research and Gateway, Inc.  She is a graduate of The Ohio State University.

Currently, Laurie is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Experience Matters, focused on building capacity for non-profit organizations via connecting the skills and talents of experienced adults with the diverse needs of non-profits. Laurie is a past member of the Board of Directors for The Junior League of Boston and Phoenix and spent 16 years as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (C.A.S.A.)