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Farm Bill Hackathon
- 1. FARM BILL HACKATHON 11.3.11 The Farm Bill is one of those essential, but painfully tedious documents, with huge implications for society, dictating what we eat, how much it costs, who grows it and how. On December 3, Food+Tech Connect and Gojee are bringing together journalists, technologists, designers, policy makers, and food data specialists to develop tools and visualizations that help the public better understand how the Farm Bill impacts our lives. Goals: 1-Arm news media, organizations and anyone who wants to convey the complexities of the Farm Bill with tools and visualizations that the public can relate to. 2- Develop toolkit allowing others to host their own hackathons and to understand how to communicate with technologists and designers. SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES connect with thought-leaders | produce valuable tools | support a better future of food – Title Sponsor – – Community Sponsor – $1,500 $1,000 • Logo placement on all event • Logo placement on all materials, online, promotion event materials, online, and press communications promotion and press • Product/organization communications showcased at event • Run custom contest • Opportunity to give opening • Product / organization remarks showcased at event • Run custom contest • Banner placement • Banner placement and • Offer prizes distribute materials • Guest post on FTC • Access to attendee email list – After Party – • Offer prizes • Logo placement on all event materials, online, – Product – promotion and press meal, snacks, beer, wine, coffee communications • Product/organization Logo placement on all event showcased at the event materials, online, promotion and • Custom contest & prizes press communications • Banner placement For more information contact Danielle Gould at danielle@foodtechconnect.com
- 2. Selection of PastFood+Tech Connect Events Food Tech Hackathon NY 2010 - first-ever food and technology hackathon, brought together 75 developers, designers, statisticians, urban farmers, public officials, and researchers to hack for 12-hour, resulting in 9 projects that can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/viesPN. FOOD 2.0 - Official Internet Week 2011 panels exploring food data sharing and standards, the future of food reviewing, open source food, and the social kitchen. Notable panelists included: Amanda Hesser, Nick Fauchald, and Natalie Jeremijenko. IdeaCOMM - Interactive farm-to-table lunch at SXSWi that brought together 150 leading food and technology innovators. Participating organizations included: Consmr, Greenling, Grubster, Lovefre.sh, The Wine Agent, and USDA. EATS+APPS - Official Social Media Week NY 2011 food app showcase and networking dinner featuring reps and founders from: Gourmet Live, Food Network, Foodspotting, Snooth, Bread Baking Basics, Ratio, Dinevore, and Gojee. Press: GOOD, PSFK, Forbes, Tasting Table, Tech President, Goodlifer, Ecocentric, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Grub Street, Serious Eats, Treehugger, and Gothamist. Typical Attendees Startups Attendee Income PR / Marketing / 42% Strategy Under 25K Media 25k to 50K Technologists 50 to 100k Agriculturalists / Policy 100k + Investors 58% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 1,400+ Innovators Connected Including : IBM Food52 CBS American Express Real Time Farms The New York Times Bitly Gojee TechCrunch USDA Fousquare Tasting Table Tumblr Nike Savour Zagat Yelp Mashable Snooth AllMenus Grubstreet Mashery Seamless PSFK Zaarly Snooth Gourmet Live Foodspotting Consmr Food Network Pop Tech Gilt Groupe O'Reilly Media For more information contact Danielle Gould at danielle@foodtechconnect.com