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Saturday, Nov 11th: imnotHackathon Kickoff Event 🍹 

A VIP experience for participants, team members, and approved hackers.

**6:00pm - Doors Open & welcome!**
The event kicks off with tasty food and a welcome speech, introducing the participants to the cyberjam, sharing the story, and setting the stage for the event.

**6:30pm - Keynote Panel**
Moderated by Tippi, the panel features Spencer Saar Cavanaugh (AKA Clinamenic, Cyberjam's head of design), Russell Ratcliffe (founder of dAppling.network), Vlad Avesalon (Co-founder of Vennity), and Matthew Shapiro (co-founder of imnotArt).

**7:15pm - [Ceptor Club](https://imnothackathon.devfolio.co/prizes?partner=Ceptor+Club)**
Led by Tippi Fifestarr, this interactive workshop introduces the audience to the world of Ceptor Club & tabletop roleplaying games, the parallels with hackathons (and cyberjams!), and takes us on a journey of Art + Tech + Games.  (watch the [recording here](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1978110651))

**7:45pm - [Learn, Build, and Thrive on Ethereum by Kevin Jones](https://imnothackathon.devfolio.co/prizes?partner=BuidlGuidl.eth+%F0%9F%8F%B0+%F0%9F%94%A5)**
🧪 Scaffold-ETH is an open-source, up-to-date toolkit for building decentralized applications (dapps) on the Ethereum blockchain. It's designed to make it easier for developers to create and deploy smart contracts and build user interfaces that interact with those contracts.

**7:55pm - Rescue / Destroy featuring Twinrafters**
Chicago Artist Allen Vandever has been hosting this interactive art experience for over a decade, this time he's auctioning (OR DESTROYING) the iconic artwork from ETHChicago by Twinrafters (as well as other art!).  

**8:30pm - Closing Comments**
Summarizing the day's events and outlining expectations for the following day.

**8:45-9:30pm - Music / Outro**
A musical end to the evening for energizing relaxation and networking among participants.

Offchain Labs

Cool Guy

James He

Vennity

Boss

Vlad Avesalon

BuidlGuidl.eth 🏰 🔥

Growth | L&D | DevRel | Marketing

JP Miller

Ceptor Club

Hackathon Head | DevRel | Cat Wrangler

Tippi Fifestarr

Edge & Node

Developer Relations

Kevin Jones

allenvandever

Artist and founder

Allen Vandever

dappling.network

Founder

Russell Ratcliffe

HUMANCORE

Joe Juhnke

imnotHackathon Kickoff (Day 1, Nov 11)

Sunday, November 12th: Hackathon Begins

**10:00am - Doors Open**
A recap of the previous day's highlights and a warm-up for the day's activities.

**10:45pm - Teambuilding**
Exercises such as music playlist selection, art curation, and game character selection, all likely aimed at fostering team synergy and creativity.

**12:00pm - Lunch & Opening Ceremonies**
Hackers are assigned to their teams and pizza arrives. **The 2 Sponsor Menus are revealed and the rules of engagement and goals are announced.** Online hackers encouraged to head to discord and chat and find teammates.

**12:30pm - Ways of Working | Tippi & The Hackathon Survival Guide**
This session, focusing on team dynamics and effective collaboration strategies, primes the participants for the intensive collaborative work that will follow.

**12:50pm - Pick an item from each menu.**
Each team aligns on an interesting problem from each sponsor that they’d be happy to work on solving over the hackathon. *Sponsors are available for quick clarifications*

**1:00 (30 min) – Problem Research on both items.** **Write down more detailed problems statements inspired by menu item. Do research on YouTube, Google, Newspapers. Try to understand the User Journey and Pain Points you’re going to solve.**  Quickly digging into understanding and then coming together to share their insights.

**1:30pm - Brainstorming & Design Sprint**
David leads this with support from OpenUX. *Key point: there are two teams, two menu choices and two work areas. Brainstorming design solutions is about getting ready for their pitches.*

**2:10 - Create pitches for sponsors.** Humancore will entertain two pitches and imnotArt will too, so take 30 minutes to put your best pitch and paper prototype forward.

**2:40 - Teams Pitch to Sponsors.** 5 minutes maximum including Q&A, each team has prepared an approach and perhaps a paper prototype for each sponsor.

**3:00 - Sponsors choice.** We flip a die or roll a coin to symbolize chance.

**3:05 – Roadmapping, assigning responsibilities.** Who what when.

**3:20pm-4:00pm - Co-working & Closing “What is expected in the following week reminder”**
After the brainstorming, there's a co-working session where teams start to implement their ideas. The day closes with a briefing on what is expected in the following week, ensuring everyone is on the same page regarding deliverables.

OpenUX

Co-founder, Product and UX Research

Henry Harboe

Exponential Enlightenment

David Prorok

Team Building (Day 2, Nov 12th)

Phygital Co-working @ imnotArt

Monday-Friday Nov. 13-17th

Open Hours from Noon-4pm

Come join us in the Discord! 
https://discord.gg/6p9EZX5n4y

Hackathon Open Hours

**12:00pm - Welcome back**
Quickly recap and jump right into the projects. Online hackers can watch live in the metaverse (virtually) and conversate in the Discord.

**12:15pm - Presentations & Lunch**
Time to present LIVE what we've built and get feedback. We'll eat lunch as we give feedback.
* IRL hackers: be prepared to showcase live with a presentation
* Online hackers will pre-record their projects and share in the discord.

**1:00pm - Patrick Collins / Cyfrin - Star Wars CTF**

**1:50pm - A brief word from our Sponsors**

**2:00pm - Teams Huddles & Mentorship Help**

Cyfrin

Engineer, Security Researcher, & Co-Founder

Patrick Collins

Filecoin Foundation

Developer Advocate

Jenks Guo

Presentations & Feedback (Day 3, Nov 18th)

All imnotHackathon projects must be submitted via Devfolio by midnight.

Sunday Deadline

**6:00pm - Back at it (doors open)**

**7:00pm - Final Presentations**
Take 2 on the presentations, judges will then deliberate on the presentations

**7:30 Final Deliberations**
Judges deliberate on the presentations, who will win?

**8:00pm - Announcing the winners!**
Judges will announce the winners

**9:00pm - Doors closed**
EVERYONE OUT BY THIS TIME

imnotHackathon Closing Ceremony (Day 4, Nov 21st)

twinrafters

Artist & Founder

Twinrafters

imnotArt

CEO & Co-Founder

Matt Shapiro

imnotHackathon

IRL Hackathon

Build a novel map of 5-10 geo-locatied collectibles based in the Chicago area. Use AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to conjure your Pokemon Go-like world in record time.

Vennity will host a workshop tutorial Vennity Studio the first weekend of the hackathon.

Video tutorial here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BmPwGlLFc&ab_channel=Vennity

The winning map will be published and promoted by Vennity.

**Requirements:**
-Use Vennity Studio create your own custom verse and deploy the collection contract
-Create 5-10 geo-locked collectibles and place them in the Chicagoland area
-Preference will be given for themed maps (ie. "Hidden Alleyways of the Chicago") 

Build a Map-based Collectible Universe with Vennity

Build (BUIDL) with Scaffold Eth 2 to go fast and far!

https://youtu.be/Un5A3WhrIW4

Best use of SE-2

**dAppling Side Quest:**
Deploy a site using dAppling!

Go to https://dappling.network/, connect your GitHub, and deploy your frontend



Platform overview (workshop):  https://cln.sh/Ljf8dyM3 


Links 
https://dappling.network/
https://docs.dappling.network/ 



Anyone who participates in the event gets 5 months of the Grow plan for free ($100 value) email bookland@dappling.network to redeem


dAppling Track

Ceptor Club in the house:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1978110651

Ceptor Side Quest

Best use of Vennity

SE-2 Winner

Lock it in and win

Ceptor Club Side Quest

Favorite Online Project

Cyberjam's favorite

Key Sponsor

Sponsor

relax center (skokie)

Partners

Developer DAO

icebreaker.xyz

ethchicago

TheHSG

The Crypto Recruiters

ETHDenver 2025

DeFy25

Winter of Code 4.0

RNS Hack_Overflow 2.0

Organizer