Ideathon - Turn your ideas into reality.

Dear women,
We need you!
By Hackathons

The ratio of male:female in hackathons is 15:1. Can you believe that?
We really need more diversity! We at Women Who Code are resoluted to encourage more women to participate in hackathons. How, do you ask? By organizing our "Ideathon"!

At this workshop, you will be given the opportunity to learn how to build your business framework and its prototype.
So bring your ideas and let’s turn them into reality!

This event is powered by Le Wagon Tokyo and partnership with Junction Tokyo.

📌Objectives
We will be covering the following key steps to help you bring your business ideas to life:

• Discovering your target users, the issues they face, and the potential solutions to their problems;
• Defining your unique value propositions;
• Identifying your core user journey;
• Designing & prototyping your full-fledged product with Figma.

📌Agenda
13:15- Check-in
13:30- Product Design Sprint 101 (1h30min lecture);
15:00- Team assembling(15min);
15:15- Idea operationalization & Added value (30 min)
15:45- Core User Journey & Prototyping (2 hours)
17:45- Pitching (30 min)

📌Pre-requisite

• No pre-requisite; this is a workshop for beginners!
• Ideally, come with a cool business idea - even if it seems crazy! Try thinking out of the box.
• Bring your own laptop.
• Install Chrome (https://www.google.com/chrome/) and Figma (https://www.figma.com).

📌 About Le Wagon Tokyo
Le Wagon Tokyo (https://www.lewagon.com/tokyo) is a coding school for startups, creative people and tech entrepreneurs. Our 9-week full-time and 24-week part-time Full-Stack Coding Bootcamps (https://www.lewagon.com/program) are designed for complete beginners or "half-beginners" who really want to dive into programming and, above all, change their mindset. Learn to think like a developer, consider issues with new insight, and become more autonomous thanks to these newly acquired abilities.

📌 About Junction Tokyo
Junction Tokyo is Japan’s largest international hackathon, and it is absolutely free! Each year they have several interesting tracks to choose from and even better prizes.

WWCode Tokyo strives to be an inclusive and safe space. We are a multilingual group, and all women in tech (or interested in tech) are encouraged to join! Beginners welcome.

Men are welcome to attend this event too 🙂

https://www.womenwhocode.com/codeofconduct

📌 WWCode call for speakers, leaders and volunteers

Pssst! Would you like to get more involved with the Women Who Code community and help us make a difference for women in tech? We're always looking for new leaders and volunteers to help us organize the events, spread the word or mentor in our study sessions! Email us at tokyo@womenwhocode.com.
If you want to be a speaker in one of our future events, fill out our speakers form and we will be more than happy to get in touch with you. First time speakers are super welcome and encouraged!
Speakers form: https://goo.gl/forms/uJrU5hYO29nos56K2

📌 Stay in touch!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wwcode_tokyo
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wwcode_tokyo
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wwcode.tokyo
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwcode.tokyo
Get invited to our Slack chat! Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/sJkvekR9LIq0tXOH3

📌 Women Who Code とは？

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