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Are you ready to have a Silicon Valley style A.I. Hackathon in San Diego?

We are!!! Join the Machine Learning Society for a full weekend of hacking, data crunching and team building at San Diego's first Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Hackathon. We are expecting 130+ Data Scientists and over 1000+ Guests to attend. We invite technologists of ALL levels from Beginner to Advanced to join us. Spectate or Collaborate with Data Scientists to solve real world problems. Play with Drones / Robots / and other Autonomous Vehicles powered by AI. Attend Free Classes & Workshops(daily at 11am & 6pm): Class: Introduction to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Workshop: How to use Data Analytics for Business. Challenges will be announced globally during the kick off of the event, and attendees can pick one of the challenges to work on either by themselves or with a team. After two days of hacking and prototyping, teams have the option to showcase their projects on stage. Your local audience will pick 3 winners, one for each challenge, prizes TBD. We will be hosted at the ScaleMatrix (Launch Center) which will be providing free Data Center tours!   Meet our Venture Partners - Analytics Ventures Co-host - IEEE San Diego Section - BDSE   Cross-Promotional Partners