VIOLET HACKS

VIOLET HACKS 2018 INFO

LOCATION: Domino Data Lab, San Francisco

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TIMING: Saturday, November 3, 2018

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Violet Hacks is a 1-day startup-focused hackathon for female & non-binary individuals in technology. 💡 Learn what it takes to build a startup, meet investors, and join a community of aspiring female & non-binary founders. 

Get ready for an awesome weekend of creating, learning, and connecting. 👯‍ You'll work on a team with 4-5 other talented techies who have a variety of roles & backgrounds -- Engineering, Design, Product, Marketing, Biz Dev, Talent, Community, and more -- who want to start a startup. ✨ There will be workshops, talks, and resources to help you put together a brand-new business concept, prototype, and pitch. 🎙 You'll have delicious meals and fun swag included in admission. 🥑 Finally, you'll demo your creations to a panel of judges (accomplished investors & founders) and compete to win awesome prizes! 🚀 Thank you our generous host & partner, Domino Data Lab, for providing our venue! 📈

OPENING KEYNOTE

Lucy Zhao
Cofounder of Honeydew

PANELISTS

Athena Kan
Investing Team at 8VC

Rachel Star
Investor at Shasta Ventures

Laura Montoya
Founder & Executive Director of Accel.AI

Megan Holston-Alexander
Senior Associate at Unusual Ventures

Arjita Sethi
Co Founder of Equally

Lavanya Shukla
Co-Founder of Dataland.ai

Ivy Nguyen
Associate at Zetta Venture Partners

Hannah Meyers
Cofounder of Aether Biomachines

Nicole Garcia
Founder of Femikit

WORKSHOP LEADERS

Spriha Baruah Tucker
PM at Google

Ana Pischl
PM at Zeus

Cassie Wang
Software Engineer at Palantir

Meghan Mehta
Founder of A Dressy Engineer

Lida Tohidi
Founder of Pidari Consultancy

JUDGES

Ellen Chisa
CEO/Cofounder of Dark Inc.

Amy Sun
Partner at Sequoia Capital

Harshita Arora
Founder of Crypto Price Tracker (acq'd by RWCV)

Sampriti Bhattacharyya
Founder of Hydroswarm

Kinjal Shah
Investment Associate at Blockchain Capital LLC

Selene Cruz
Founder of Re:store

CLOSING KEYNOTE

Ashley Wellington-Fahey
Co-Founder and CEO of The Relish

TEAM

Shriya Nevatia
Product Manager
GLIDR

Meghan Mehta
Founder
A Dressy Engineer

Kathy Zhou
Software Engineer
Pinterest

Dylan Portelance
Product Manager
Wonder Workshop

Malvika Nagpal
Advisory Associate
PwC

Ria Mirchandani
Senior Product Manager
Credit Karma

Florence Kwok
Sr. Integrated Program Marketing Manager
SPARC

Mahati Kumar
Software Engineer
Facebook

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