The 2019 Hacks with Friends was the biggest and best event yet! More than 140 IT professionals from across Michigan IT gathered once again at the Ross School of Business to create 18 unique and amazing hacks. Participants came from units across the university including HITS, ITS, Dearborn, Michigan Medicine, the University Library, LSA, Ross School of Business, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Student Life, CAEN and the Office of Development. Each hack/project was built from scratch to completion during the two-day event, March 7-8, and presented for final judging on Friday afternoon. Judges praised the number of hacks that developed a minimal viable product in such a short amount of time and their impressive ability to present their concepts clearly and professionally. See for yourself. Browse the event highlights below or...
- See the Submitted Pitches
- Read the Michigan IT News article profiling the winning hacks
- View all photos from the event
- Review the 3-minute pitches from all the Hacks with Friends teams
Welcome & Opening Remarks by Dr. Ravi Pendse, VPIT and CIO
Remarks by Dr. Andrew Rosenberg
The 2019 Hacks with Friends winner is…
1st Place - Team 15. ContaMiNot: A Sustainability App to Help You Find a Home for Your Trash
Team Members
- Jule Krüger, Institute for Social Research
- A Bilge Ozel, Medical School
- Chris Stockbridge, LSA-TS
- Tom Pickren, OUD
- Paul Bigler, ITS
- Kyle Oberle, CAEN
- Chris Eckmeter, CAEN
- Jennifer Burch, ITS
- Chris Hedly, HITS
- Siqing Hu, HITS
Videos of Team 15
2nd Place - Team 14. U-M Studyspace
Team Members
- Jim Charters, ITS-Ann Arbor
- Kyle Cochrane, ITS-Ann Arbor
- Shun Han, CLASP
- Imani Tarpeh, ITS-Ann Arbor and Dearborn Student
- Jeran Norman, CAEN-CoE
- John Pariseau, CAEN-CoE
Videos of Team 14
3rd Place - Team 10. Gitlab for Finding Security Bugs Early in the Coding Process
Team Members
- Rick Getchell, ITS-Information Assurance
- Ben Balk, ITS-Infrastructure/Storage
- Greg Benn, ITS-Support Services/ Service Support
- Patrick Steffes, ITS-IAM
Videos of Team 10
4th Place Team - Team 19. Ask MiBot! Data at your fingertips
Team Members
- Amber McKenzie, ITS-Information Quest
- Will Burns, ITS-Enterprise Application Systems
- Mandie Chapman, ITS-Information Quest
- Chris Rowland, ITS-Information Quest
- Leticia Valdez, ITS-Information Quest
- Zhen Qian, ITS-Teaching and Learning
- Amy Marsh, ITS-Enterprise Application Systems
- Chuyao Wang, Grad Student
- Jane Zhao, ITS-Enterprise Application Systems
- Britain Woodman, ITS-Teaching and Learning
- Einor Jacobsen, HITS/Research Liaison
- Michael Matola, ITS-Enterprise Application Systems
- David Duenn, College of Engineering
- Joseph Lipa, HITS/Research
- Siyu Jia, Grad Student
- Sinji Yang, LSA
Videos of Team 19
2019 Hacks with Friends Judges
- Andrew Rosenberg, M.D.
- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Internal Medicine
- Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine
- Catherine Curley
- Chief Information Officer for the College of LSA
- Marcelline Harris, PhD, RN
- Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership
- Associate Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
2019 Hacks with Friends Planning Team
- Tom Amerman, ITS (Chair)
- Christopher Visel, Ross IT
- Sheri Fillip, Ross IT
- Joel Iverson, ITS
- Gretchen Kopmanis, LSA
- Benjamin D Ibach, HITS
- Joe Lubomirski, Dearborn ITS
- Charles J Antonelli, LSA
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