TODAY Transforming the Bay hackathon Sep 21-23

You can choose from three locations: San Francisco, Palo Alto, or Fremont.

Our meetup organizers have 20 free tickets for our meetup group, so go to this link (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-the-kingdom-hackathon-san-francisco-tickets-25961049197) to register today using the free code FriendofChris

Win a lunch with Henry Kaestner - Managing Principal at Sovereign's Capital LLC (http://sovereignscapital.com), and Gamification Pioneer Yu-kai Chou (http://yukaichou.com), and Josh Kwan, co-founder of Praxis Labs (http://praxislabs.org). We think this would be a great opportunity to grow strong relationships with some great leaders.

Awards also include more than $1,000 to best projects based on new and existing code.

This fourth San Francisco Bay Area Code for the Kingdom (C4TK (http://codeforthekingdom.org)) hackahton builds upon the success of the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Bay Area Code for the Kingdom hackathons, the 2015 Global C4TK hackathon and previous regional hackathons. Since the first Code for the Kingdom hackathon in June 2013 there have 28 hackathons in 10 countries activating over 3500 innovators who have created over 330 technologies for the common good. These new technologies have tackled human trafficking detention, reporting and disruption, games for children that foster love and compassion, encouraging and facilitate a culture of generosity, community and ministry volunteerism; prayer, environmental sustainability, strengthened marriages, caring for homeless and refugees, disaster response, and so much more.

Come with your ideas, join with others, and create awesome technology to improve the lives of people in the Bay Area and beyond.

Register at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/code-for-the-kingdom-hackathon-san-francisco-tickets-25961049197

About Henry Kaestner:
Henry is a Managing Principal at Sovereign's Capital LLC, a private equity fund focused on making investments in Indonesia and the US, particularly in the IT, Healthcare and Consumer Goods/Services industries. Sovereign's invests in leaders whose faith and values create a workplace culture that is about business excellence and community citizenship.
Henry Kaestner is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board at Bandwidth.com, a 420 employee telecommunications firm serving the business market based in North Carolina. The company was the fourth fastest growing privately held company in the country during the 5 years of 2003 through 2007 according to INC Magazine's INC 500. The company's values are faith, family, work and fitness (in that order).

About Yu-kai Chou:
Yu-kai Chou is an Author and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification. He is the Original Creator of the gamification framework: Octalysis, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. He is the Founder of The Octalysis Group and has been a regular speaker/lecturer on gamification worldwide, including at organizations like Google, Stanford University, LEGO, TEDx, SxSW, Gamified India, Huawei, the Innovation Center in Denmark, Kingdom of Bahrain, and many more.
Yu-kai was one of the earliest pioneers in Gamification, starting his work in the industry in 2003. In 2015, Yu-kai was rated #1 among the “Gamification Gurus Power 100” by RISE, and was also awarded “Gamification Guru of the Year Award” for both 2014 and 2015 by the World Gamification Congress based in Europe. He has helped a variety of companies, from seed stage startups to Fortune 500 companies such as LEGO, Accenture, eBay, Huawei, Fidelity, AIG Japan, Verizon, HP, Ericsson, Cisco, Wells Fargo, and more. His work has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The World Journal, Business Insider, PBS, and many more.

About Josh Kwan
Josh finds joy in building high-impact organizations that create enduring value. He co-founded Praxis while he was the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, where he divided his time between conducting due diligence on innovative social enterprises and helping portfolio organizations scale their impact; he continues to advise DWFF on grantmaking and impact investing. Josh is a founding board member of Village Schools International, a ministry that has started more than 30 high schools in Africa. He also served on the founding executive committee of the Big Bang Philanthropy Group. Previously, Josh worked as a journalist and was published in The San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Josh also co-founded and serves on the board of Carpenters Code. He graduated from Harvard and earned an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management