Congratulations to our Winnners
Team Happy Home!

Their awesome app helps folks triangulate affordable rental housing to reduce long commute times to work, home, and family (school, daycare) by cross-correlating rental housing costs, apartment occupancy, transit times, driving congestion, and the distance between home & work! Amazing work!




Martin Folkoff, Shaq Katikala, Kevin Hawkins, Savanna Rovira, Naudy Martinez

About

Celebrating Cities – Hack the Last Mile is a weekend event where innovators are invited to design solutions that help residents of the Baltimore and DC metropolitan areas better access their places of work, schools, job training opportunities, and essential services from any neighborhood they choose to live. A panel of judges from Uber's engineering team will choose what they believe is the most innovative solution, and the winning team will have the opportunity to demo their application to Uber leadership in DC.


Problem Statements

Check out the problem statements and kickoff presentations for an overview of our challenge for the weekend where we review what data are available and how these data relate to the problem statements.

Data

Check out the datasets we've published specifically for the hackathon. We've consolidated a number of agency datasets and made them available through Socrata's platform.



Documentation

You'll find documentation on how the APIs work as well as provide a few usage examples.



SCHEDULE

FRIDAY

5:30PM Registration
6:15PM Opening Remarks
6:30PM Fireside Chat
7:30PM Group Formation & Networking
9:00PM Kickoff Ends

SATURDAY

8:30AM Breakfast
9:00AM Problem Intros
10:00AM Coding Begins
1:00PM Lunch
7:00PM Dinner
10:00PM Day Ends

SUNDAY

8:30AM Breakfast
9:00AM Coding Resumes
1:00PM Coding Ends
1:15PM Lunch
2:00PM Presentations
4:00PM Awards

Our Special Guests

Carlos Monje Jr.

Acting Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy
Department of Transportation

Zuhairah Washington

General Manager
Uber DC

Dan Morgan

Chief Data Officer
Department of Transportation

Andrew Salzberg

Transportation and Mobility Policy Manager
Uber

Stephanie Gidigbi

Director of Strategic Initiatives
Department of Transportation

Adam Rogal

Head of Engineering
Uber's Developer Platform

Data Providers

Uber

DOT

Census

HUD

City SDK

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MD

Uber is evolving the way the world moves. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through our apps, we make cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers. From our founding in 2009 to our launches in hundreds of cities today, Uber's rapidly expanding global presence continues to bring people and their cities closer.

Thanks to our friends at

About the Event

Since day one, our mission has been to connect people with reliable rides through the use of data and technology. As our footprint has grown throughout the years, so has our ability to use the Uber network in different ways.

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