Sports Tech – GeekWire — Hackathon RSS

Jun 27, 2017

Real-time sports news text update service wins top pitch at the Seattle Sports Tech Hackathon

As we saw at the second annual GeekWire Sports Tech Summit last week, there is plenty of opportunity for entrepreneurs and engineers to come up with new tech-powered products and services that serve the massive sports industry. Much of that excitement carried over to the Seattle Sports Tech Hackathon this past weekend, where six teams spent more than 36 hours coming up with innovative ideas that ranged from an Airbnb for sports fans to a prediction app for soccer matches. The winning group was Sportxts, a real-time sports news notification service powered by text messages that pulls live data from… Read More

Aug 26, 2016

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Sports Tech Hackathon, indie games expo, and more

If there are three things Seattleites love, it is sports, technology, and coffee. On Sept. 9 and 10, you can get your fill of all three at Seattle’s first Sports Tech Hackathon, which will bring together coders, athletes and entrepreneurs for a full weekend of innovation in sports tech. At the end of the weekend, teams will have a chance to present their projects to a panel of judges, who will assign prizes for the top innovations. The event is hosted by the Seattle Sounders and Galvanize, and Sportradar is opening its API for all participating teams to use. Registration is open to anyone interested in the… Read More