ICIMS Halloween Hackathon Live Blog -

22.16

#DMWF

09.48

And thats it. I like the NY Apple event. Good vibes.

And now songs from Lana del Ray

IOS12.1 is shipping today with group chat

Order today and get it next week

This is cool. The Pencil is magnetic and clips to the top of the iPad and then charges.

USB-C around the house for Apple

Comes with Face ID and cool things at the top

Same size but bigger screen

The NEW iPad Pro

Bring on the iPad

New Apple stores look amazing!

Order today – get it next week

Now for the new Mac Mini

Starts at 99 and you can order today. Available Nov. 7

Nice colors as usual

It’s Purty

Smaller better faster

The New MacBook Air

The Old MacBook Air

100 Million Macs – wow

They will start with the Macs

They love NY

How about them Apples?

Cool apples

21.11

Hi folks. Left a little early form the Hackthon so I wish the rest of the hackers good luck on the competition.

A really great event – well organized. Look forward to the next one.

15.46

Get your audience game on for Ted Talks tips

Workshop: How to Hack a TED Talk, sponsored by TEDxAsburyPark Always wanted to give a TED Talk or just feel more confident with your public speaking skills? Come and learn how with Public Speaking Coach/TEDxAsburyPark Curator and Rehearsal Director, MK Harby and author/TEDx Speaker, Olive Persimmon. You’ll learn tips for finding your message, how to audition, and tools for connecting with your audience.

Do you have an objective? as a speaker? as a person?

Do these things to become Ted:

Breath
Eye contact
Smile
Strong opening hook
Tell a story
Annunciate
Speech tempo (slow it down)
Tone
Make it relatable
Talk to the audience not the slides
Sound credible
Teach them something new
Be convincing to the audience and yourself
Trigger curiosity
Have a call to action

How to become a Ted speaker – Get recruited or audition to become a Ted Talker.

“Rewrite your story” is the story today.

13.28

This was a pirate led presentation.

Cloud AWS Hardware Hacks,
Presented by Jeremy Wallace, Solutions Architect, AWS

This session will be cloudy with a chance of IoT-storms! Join Amazon Web Services for a lesson on the Internet of Things and its design patterns on the cloud. Once we’ve covered the basics, Jeremy will show you how to run an AWS green grass enabled application on a raspberry pi.

12.19

Halloween costumes. 3rd Place baby!

12.03

What hackers eat for lunch. Thanks Livoti’s.

11.40

Workshop: Intro to Chatbots – Peter Hagelund

Come chat about chatbots! This session will serve as an introduction to the major concepts of chatbots, including intents, utterances, slots and prompts and provide a walk-through of what is required to build a bot using Amazon Lex with serverless business logic implemented in Python.

Points of interest:

Bots
- personal assistants
- support and help
- virtual staff
- Google home and Alexa
Building the Bot
- AWS Lex – 3 parts
  - Transcribe – Lex – Polly
- INTENT what is your intent from the chatbot?
- SLOT what is the variable you want to set?
- UTTERANCE Identify the intent
- PROMPT request of your input
- FULLFILlMENT the users request