Google Announced As Title Sponsor of FOCUS100’s Global Mobile Hackathon

NEW YORK - Sept. 16, 2013 - PRLog -- digitalundivided is honored to announce Google as the title sponsor of The Global Mobile Hack ™ October 5-6, 2013 at Ogilvy Headquarters in New York City. Aligning with Google’s company mission of organizing the world’s information and make it universally accessible, the overnight hackathon is designed to increase access to data/information on mobile platforms in urban communities domestically and abroad. The hackathon is a new addition to the annual FOCUS100 Pitch Boot Camp and Symposium which connects tech companies with founders/co-founders who are black women, angel and venture investors, leading corporations, and those interested in the future of tech.

“Google is the ideal partner in the quest to increase data access around the globe,” says digitalundivided Founder Kathryn Finney, “We feel incredibly privileged to have the pleasure of working with one of the most dynamic companies of our era and look forward to producing a wealth of new applications to support our joint vision for the future.”

The Global Mobile Hack ™ will kick off on the morning of the Friday, October 5th and break for a luncheon keynote with Three-time Grammy award winner, digital pioneer and founder of several Silicon Valley based startups, MC Hammer. For 24 hours coders will work with the assistance of a talented team of award winning mentors including Jan Baker of Somo Ltd, Microsoft’s Scott Hanselman and Tara Walker, Technology Evangelist Adria Richards, and Tobias Wright of Victoria’s Secret. Participant submissions and presentations will be judged based on creativity, design and ux, their effective use of the APIs, and utility in an urban community. Judges include Interactive One CTO Navarrow Wright; Allison Remsen of Mobile Future; Brian Dixon of Kapor Capital; Corey Neufville of Facebook; Tumblr’s Kyle Wanamaker; and Eghosa Omoigui of EchoVC.

Though the hackathon is anticipated to have an attendance of over 25% African American women, event registration is open to everyone. Space is limited for the hackathon and interested developers must pre-register to attend at www.digitalundivided.com/hacktest.html.

Founded in 2012, digitalundivided is a Harlem based social enterprise that develops programs that increase the number of urban entrepreneurs, especially women, in the digital space. Its anchor symposium, FOCUS100 reached 3.7 million people, with 47 Million impressions in its inaugural year. Additional sponsors for FOCUS100 2013 include Andreesen Horowitz, BlogHer, MobileFuture, Oglivy, and sole financial sponsor American Express.

For more information on the FOCUS100 including sponsorship and registration, please visit: http://www.digitalundivided.com/

For interview requests or media inquiries, please contact PR Coordinator Amanda Spann at Amanda@digitalundivided.com

About digitalundivided
digitalundivided (DID) is a social enterprise that develops programs that increase the participation of urban communities, with a focus on women, in the digital space.

About FOCUS100
FOCUS100 is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. This October 4th-6th in New York City, digitalundivided brings together top tech companies founded/co-founded by black women, innovative companies like Facebook, Google, AMEX and Microsoft, and top investors from firms like Andreesen Horowitz, Gen Y Capital, Techstars, and more for the most diverse tech conference on the planet. Over 80% of FOCUS100 speakers are women and/or people of color.