Lately, Gucci hosted the luncheon to announce the winners for CHIMEHACK 2, a hackathon presented by CHIME FOR CHANGE and Twitter, with support from Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers, the Kering Foundation and Hearst Magazines.
After hours of deliberation and review of more than 45 solutions from more than 215 hackers, 18 esteemed judges selected the following winners, who were announced in an awards ceremony emceed by Del Harvey, Twitter’s Head of Trust & Safety:
1. Team “Safebridge” won the Hearst Magazines Prize for Best Product, which included a $5,000 cash prize and 3 months of incubation at Hearst’s Office in San Francisco
2. Team “ChiCa”won Uber Prize for Scalability & Global Impact, which included a $5,000 cash prize and lunch with Uber’s Chief Security Officer, Joe Sullivan
3. Team “Think Twice for Change” won the Docusign Prize for User Experience and Design, which included a $5,000 cash prize and a career mentoring session with Catherine Courage, SVP of User Experience at Docusignand Gordon Payne, COO at Docusign
4. Team “ReaXn” won theChegg Prize for Young Innovators, which included a $5,000 cash prize and textbook scholarships
5. Team “CHIME IN” team won the Airbnb Prize for Most Original Concept, which included a $5,000 cash prize, lunch at Airbnb with senior leadership and Airbnb credits to support development of their solution
6. Team “Safrzone” won the Twitter Prize for Engineering Excellence, which included a $5,000 cash prize and 5 concert tickets plus travel and accommodations to the Global Citizen Festival concert in New York this September, provided by CHIME FOR CHANGE
7. Team “Upstanders”, which included hackers from Girls Who Code, won the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Prize for Citizenship, which included a $5,000 cash prize from Gucci, and lunch and a careermentoring session with Juliet de Baubigny, Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
The CHIMEHACK 2 judging panel included Adam Messinger (Twitter), Andy Chen (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Anne Dwane (Chegg), Catherine Courage (Docusign), Ciara Peter (Betterworks), Cindy Southworth (National Network to End Domestic Violence), Elena Grewal (Airbnb), Jackie Xu (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Kelsey Gilmore-Innis (Sexual Health Innovations), Laurent Claquin (The Kering Foundation), Mary KaramMcKey (International Institute of Education, Techwomen), Meghana Rao (Breakthrough), Melorie Acevedo (San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate) NandiniRamani (Twitter), Phil Cardenas (Uber), Renee Kaplan (The Skoll Foundation), SofieKarasek (End Rape on Campus), and Sukrutha Raman Bhadouria (Girl Geek Dinners).
