Microsoft Ventures Hackday

Microsoft Ventures presents an exclusive hackday; a chance for top developers to dive into application development using the APIs of our portfolio companies. The hackday will be held on July 4th & 5th at the Microsoft Ventures office in Bangalore. So if you want to hack on bleeding-edge APIs of cutting-edge companies - this is where you've gotta be!

What to expect

Get introduced to the latest and most innovative tech from our portfolio companies. 

1. Make desktop docs natively usable anywhere on the Web? 
2. Analyze social trends on Twitter and mash them up?
3. Want a workspace for collect and keep parts of the web and collaborate?
4. Get super detailed social information just from an email id?
5. Want to mine a knowledge graph on the lifesciences?  
6. Build extensions and plugins to deliver the best customer service on email?
7. Hack around with the HasGeek API?

Grab this opportunity to work with the founders themselves - there to assist you in building your hacks and using their platforms! Become some of the earliest adopters of the APIs: the building blocks of future multi million dollar businesses.

We even have many exciting prizes, based on these criteria:

• Technology 
• Design
• Value proposition 
• Inspiration

So what will these two days look like?

• 6-7pm: Startups talk about their APIs
• 7pm-4pm: Build, build, build!
• 4-5pm: Judging
•  5pm: Prizes
• 6pm: It's a wrap!

And that's it! You will be provided will all the necessities, with unlimited soda/coffee/tea/energy drinks/pizza/sandwiches in order to keep energy and caffeine levels at a high. All you need to bring is a laptop and yourself!