SolutionsX Hackathon Hosted by Bank of the West

This October 4-5th, Bank of the West will be offering a unique challenge and creative opportunity to hackathon attendees.

Arizona State University, Tempe Campus

Apply your skills in developing a solution for one of Arizona’s Fastest Growing Companies. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers, and by Javelin as one of the best Online Banking Leaders for outstanding customer experience, Bank of the West is committed to its customers and eager to continue its evolution to suit every need. To compete, students should be familiar with or eager to learn with one of the following fields:<ul><li>Front-End or Back-End Web Development</li><li>Computer Science </li><li>UI/UX Design</li><li>Business Analytics &amp; Modeling</li></ul>You must be an enrolled Arizona State University student to participate. Student teams will be given 24 hours of hack time to design and develop a bank of the future in an effort to help Bank of the West change banking for good. Student teams of 2-5 can either be assembled ahead of time or will be matched at the start of the event. Teams will be required to use business acumen and technical skills within design and coding to develop and propose a solution directly to executives from Bank of the West. By drawing on personal experience, creativity, and the need to push the envelope, participants will be able to expand the initial desired capabilities of a banking platform and create a bank they’d want to join.Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 ranking teams. Food will be provided.SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE (subject to modification)Friday
8:00a - 8:55a Registration &amp; Breakfast
9:00a - 9:10a Kickoff with John Fleharty, Vice President, DevOps Engineering at Bank of the West
9:10a - 9:25a Keynote Digital with Hisham Salama, Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Channels at Bank of the West
9:25a - 9:40a Product Design &amp; Guidelines with Janet Covey, Vice President Senior Product Design Manager at Bank of the West
9:40a - 10:00a Team Formation &amp; Start of Hackathon
12:00p - 1:00p Bank of the West Recruiting with Elijah Padua, Recruiting Manager, Vice President at Bank of the West &amp; Lunch
3:00p - 4:00p Optional Workshop 1 (Mark Naufel "Producing Mockups with Figma") 
4:00p - 5:00p Optional Workshop 2 (Mark Naufel “Front-End Development with Bootstrap”)
6:00p - 7:00p Dinner
9:00p - 10:00p Optional Workshop 3 (Chase Adams “Intro to React Web Apps”)
Saturday
12:00a - 1:00a Optional Workshop 4 (Chase Adams “Backend Development with Node.js”)
8:30a - 9:30a Breakfast
10:30a Project Submissions
10:30a - 10:40a Innovation at Bank of the West with John Fleharty, Vice President, DevOps Engineering at Bank of the West
10:40a - 11:10a Bank of the West Panel
11:10a - 12:30p Judging 
12:30p - 1:30p IT Keynote with Jacob Sorenson, Chief Information Officer, Executive Vice President Information Technology Group at Bank of the West &amp; Lunch
1:30p - 2:30p Conclusion &amp; Awards

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