Southern California has finally emerged as power house in the tech scene, and in honor of this accomplishment, Silicon Beach Fest is throwing a major Hackathon during the festival from June 21st to 23rd. The Hackathon will consist of three days of 15 invite-only teams going head-to-head to win over $50,000 worth of prize money.

Each team will have just over 48 hours to present their creations to the esteemed panel of CEO Judges, including the CEO's of DataPop, ParkMe, GumGum and an EIR from IdeaLab. On the development side, prestigious teams from Originate, Hautelook, Disney Interactive and many more will be competing in the codefest.

What's separating this Hackathon from others is a dozen CTO coaches on-hand to lead hackers to the promised land. With some of the CTO coaches coming from companies like Hautelook, Gamzee, DataPop, Mogreet and PageWoo, this unique combination of new and established talent will lead to some interesting projects in software development.

For more information on the Silicon Beach Fest Hackathon please visit: http://siliconbeachfest.com/hackathon.html. Coders should please fill out the application on the site.

The Hackathon will be held beginning June 21st at 5pm to June 23rd at 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, California.

Introducing the CEO Judges:
Jason A. Manasse, AccuScore
Sam Friedman, ParkMe
Jason Lehmbeck, DataPop
Ophir Tanz, GumGum
Lee Essner, IdeaLab
Greg Cohn, Ad Hoc Labs
Brent Freeman, Roozt
Ted Dhanik, Engage BDR
Nick Bicanic, EchoEcho

Introducing the CTO Coaches:
Drew Wells, SlyLab
Ori Neidich, The Hollywood Hill
John Shipple, Freelance CTO
Josh Levitan, Gamzee
Tony Karrerr, Aggregage
Anthony Rossano, MoGreet
Howard Postley, 3Ality Technica
John Zimmerman, DataPop

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