Introduction to CD

Prize

All teams are competing for 3 cash prizes:

  • First Prize: $1500
  • Second Prize: $1000
  • Third Prize: $500

We will also have many giveaways:

  • We will have special giveaway (iPad mini 4) for a lucky winner at the end of hackathon! (Sponsored by FINRA)
  • We will also have sponsor giveaways throughout the event

Schedule

When What Where
Fri, 10/23    
7:00pm

Kickoff Keynote from FINRA Tech Executive

(Saman Far, Sr. Vice President, Technology)

FINRA Rockville Office
(9513 Key West Ave
Rockville, MD 20850)

Sign-in (located right beside)
(9509 Key West Ave
Rockville, MD 20850)

Parking available
(front/back of building)
8:00pm Present Rules and Challenges FINRA Rockville Office
8:30pm Happy Hour - Free Food & BYOD (buy your own drinks!)

Paladar @Crown

203 Crown Park Avenue,
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
  Hacking may begin (at team's discretion) Offsite
Sat, 10/24    
9:00am Venue available for hacking

JHU MCC
(9605 Medical Center Dr
Rockville, MD 20850)

Parking available
(front/behind of building)
12:00pm

Lunch Break - Keynote by the Guest Speaker

"Infrastructure as Code"

(Paul Duvall, CTO of Stelligent)

 JHU MCC
1:00pm Hacking Resumes JHU MCC
7:30pm All Submissions due to DevPost JHU MCC
(Submissions online)
7:30pm Demo and Judging Begins JHU MCC
9:00pm Awards Presentation JHU MCC 
* Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner will be provided

Keynote Speakers:

  • Friday : Saman Far - Sr. Vice President, Technology, FINRA
  • Saturday : Paul Duvall - Chairman and CTO, Stelligent

Submission

Submissions will be encouraged to fit into at least one of the following categories related to Continuous Delivery:

  • Build
  • Test
  • Provision
  • Configure
  • Deploy
  • Release + Release Orchestration
  • Pipeline + Lifecycle Orchestration
  • Operational Readiness
  • Release Readiness

Sponsors:

Event/Prizes || FINRA ||

Food/Snacks || Corporate Brokers | Ilerra | Celerity | Eliassen | Compugain | Ettain Group | Kinetix ||

Eligibility

All participants must be present in-person to participate in this hackathon.  Participants may form or join a team and compete for this challenge.

Requirements

Teams should plan to host their code and other artifacts on a public repo (e.g., GitHub) and create a Web page showcasing their solution.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$3,000 in prizes
First Place
1 winner

Second Place
1 winner

Third Place
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Daniel Koo

Daniel Koo
Director, Productivity Engineering, FINRA

Kostas Gaitanos

Kostas Gaitanos
Sr. Director, CM & Development Tools, FINRA

Andrew Pach

Andrew Pach
Sr. Architect, Fox Smart, Inc

Tim Griesbach

Tim Griesbach
Sr. Director, Technology, FINRA

Judging Criteria

  • Completeness
  • Creativity
  • Quantity of Original Work
  • Relevance/Impact to CD
    Real-time feedback on release readiness | 1-button, anytime deployments | Enterprise orchestration

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