Spend SXSW with the Best of Young Tech
Spend SXSW with the Best of Young Tech
What is Interact?
Interact ATX is a community of the brightest young entrepreneurs in the startup scene. The 2013 Interact class will meet at SXSW Interactive this March, backed by phenomenal sponsors and highly discounted badges. We have partnered with the Thiel Fellowship and universities across the country to help start great conversations and build a powerful network. Interact is bringing prominent VCs and key members of the tech community to meet our fellows, and will be hosting several events to bring it all together.
Interact ATX Hackathon Kickoff- Thursday March 7th, 7:30 PM
Interact + Thiel Lounge: University of Texas Information School, 16th & Guadalupe. 7th floor.
Meet up in the Interact + Thiel Lounge at 7:30 to head off to the SXSW Startup Crawl. Sponsors will have an opportunity to address the group. Post- SXSW Startup Crawl, Interact will be hosting a crawl of our own. Limo through Austin and make stops at all the favorite local hubs, including the Interact Lounge for the Sails Hackathon. Stops along our route include: Downtown Austin, South Congress, South 1st, Interact Lounge, and The University of Texas.
Interact ATX Crawl- Thursday March 7th, 7:30 PM
Interact + Thiel Lounge: University of Texas Information School, 16th & Guadalupe. 7th floor.
Meet up in the Interact + Thiel Lounge at 7:30 to head off to the SXSW Startup Crawl. Sponsors will have an opportunity to address the group. Post- SXSW Startup Crawl, Interact will be hosting a crawl of our own. Limo through Austin and make stops at all the favorite local hubs, including the Interact Lounge for the Sails Hackathon. Stops along our route include: Downtown Austin, South Congress, South 1st, Interact Lounge, and The University of Texas.
Burnt Orange Breakfast- Friday March 8th, 8:00 AM
University of Texas Mechanical Engineering Building. First floor. Will send room number upon confirmation
Hosted by the Cockrell School of Engineering, this breakfast kicks off the SXSW Interactive weekend. Built for 100, with appearances by Cockrell School Dean Gregory L. Fenves, professor of innovation Bob Metcalfe (inventor of the Ethernet) and other UT Austin researchers and local entrepreneurs. We are also extremely pleased to announce that Alex Mooradian, CEO of ReadyForce, will be mingling in the audience with the Interact fellows and we expect this to be an enjoyable Burnt Orange Breakfast!
Interact EXPO - Friday March 8th, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location for A16Z: Capital Factory, The Omni Hotel. 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701, 16th floor.
The inaugural Interact ATX Expo, co-hosted by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, will showcase the best of young entrepreneurship this Friday, March 8 from 10 AM- 4 PM. The participating startups represent the top students and entrepreneurs from high-profile universities and accelerators across the country. Startups include YCombinator's Family Leaf, Forbes 30 Under 30's Ecoviate, Techstar's Fetchnotes, and media success stories like One and Finish. Come join Interact ATX in presenting the ambitious young entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of technology and entrepreneurship. Drinks provided for our 21+ crowd, no badge required.
Sign up on Eventbrite: Interactatxexpo-es2005.eventbrite.com/
The "+1" Party- Sunday March 10th, 10:30 PM
A party that encourages each of our 100 to bring a "+1". Your guest can be anyone you want: a buddy from school, fellow startup founder, or random person you met on 6th at SxSW.
Goodbye Breakfast- Monday March 11th, 9:30 AM
A chance for the 100 to come together as a whole one final time and say our goodbyes. Bring your tissues folks, this is going to be a sad, sad breakfast. No worries, though- we'll stay in touch.
Sails Hackathon
One of our generous sponsors, Balderdash, is organizing a hackathon promoting their killer NodeJS framework, Sails. Check out the Eventbrite for more information: Sailshacks.eventbrite.com . All submissions must be made to hackathon.io/sails-hackathon
Sails is the best & fastest way to build powerful, real-time web applications. Sails borrows the MVC design pattern from the well-known Ruby on the Rails framework, but is built on top of NodeJS, the powerful back-end, async JavaScript framework. The Sails framework was developed by Mike McNeil (@mikermcneil) and is maintained by Balderdash (@balderdashy), a realtime web & mobile studio based in Austin. Check out the Sails Github page for more deets -- https://github.com/balderdashy/sails.
We will be holding the judging on Sunday, at 2 PM, at the Longhorn Startup Camp (7th floor of 1616 Guadalupe). Our 4 judges have graciously lent their time during an otherwise extremely busy weekend, so we are looking forward to all the great hacks people are building! For more information on judges & location and to sign up to attend, please visit our Eventbrite: Sailsjudging.eventbrite.com
Mentorship
We're looking for great mentors to work with our fantastic Interact class this year. Many of them are first & second time entrepreneurs who are working on very interesting & ambitious projects in their respective startups & nonprofits. This is a great way for experienced industry professionals, entrepreneurs, and advisors to give back to & to foster the rapidly growing, youth startup community.
If you're interested in being a mentor, please sign up here: http://bit.ly/YfbfQP
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