Hacks and the City -- It's Here

Register before 4pm today. You can even register onsite at T-REX between 4pm and 6pm and still get in on the fun.

Hacks and the City, the smarter safer city hackathon, kicks off at T-REX St. Louis next Friday afternoon, November 2 and powers through the weekend to Sunday afternoon

Check-in is 4-6pm, Dinner and team-building 6-7pm, kickoff 7pm.

News and Updates

Prize News

• Best overall hack $200. each
• Best use of data $100. each
• Best collaboration $100. each
• Best beginner hack $100. each

Sponsor News

ESRI is now a Silver Sponsor of Hacks and the City !

SensorUp is now providing not only wireless sensors for participant use, but also server instances to provision your own SensorThings API or other service that can power your team's app.

Sticker News

Want to learn more about open-source geo and coding IoT applications? Experts from ESRI, SensorUp, Boundless and others will be on hand through the weekend to help teams pick up these skills.

Want to learn more about resources and tech you can use? Check out an Introduction to Hacks and the City, and hear from Tara Reel about Virginia Beach StormSense. Learn about Sensor Things from Dr. Steve Liang and explore satellite imagery access in Planet Explorer (contact us for a free hackathon account). Pick up tips on visualizing 3D city data in a browser or cellphone with Cesium and CesiumJS.

Stay tuned for more announcements to come. We will have more outstanding technology mentors, and also members of the public safety community from both St. Louis and Virginia Beach to work with teams on what it takes to make a city smarter and safer.

Join teams of hackers, coders, engineers, community activists, and data wranglers as they spend the weekend in the wonderful T-REX collaboration space exchanging ideas and code, learning new tricks from expert mentors, developing cool applications, enjoying free food and drink, and competing to win prizes awarded for best ideas, teams, and demonstrated applications that up the ante on one of our themes.

• Intelligent buildings and first responder awareness
• Urban canyons and street sensors
• Critical infrastructure resilience and flood response
• Neighborhood safety and open / common space engagement

Register to attend the event here by 4pm on Friday, November 2 when Hacks and the City kicks off. Questions? Contact Josh Lieberman, Hacks and the City coordinator, at jlieberman@opengeospatial.org.

Schedule, logistics details, datasets, and more information are available on the Hacks and the City page.

Further information can be found on the OGC SCIRA website, in this Meeting of the Minds blog post, this GIS Professional article. You can also subscribe to the SCIRA Newsletter.