•  Hack-a-thons  •

Here are some fun opportunities (outside of my day job) to collaborate with new people on ideas completely unrelated to the products I work on. Winning these hack-a-thons is a real honor considering these are global competitions that include IBM’s top talent. 
 

 
 

1st place

IBM Design Hack•a•thon

In 1 day we defined a problem that could be addressed with design thinking. This was our video submission targeting current meeting painpoints.

2014 / Laura Rodriguez (UX), TJ Blanchflower (UXR), and Stuart Whitehead (Dev)

 

 

2nd place

IBM Watson Hack•a•thon

In our spare time, over 3 weeks, we went from concept to code creating a mobile app (proof of concept) using the Watson Personality Insights api. 

2015 / Corville Allen (Dev), Alissa Hartenbaum (Dev), Trenton Johnson (Dev), Joseph Kozhaya (Dev), Laura Rodriguez (UX)

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1st place

IBM Design Jam • Design For Social Good

In one day we defined a social problem and used design thinking to ideate on the best solution. Now we get to work with the IBM Service Corps to realize our vision - so unfortunately the project is NDA at the moment.

2019 / Laura Rodriguez, Courtney Banning, Scott McCall, Shannon DeCock, Roberth Uthe, Shell Zhu, Corey Keller

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1st place

IBM Your Career AI Hack•a•thon

In 3 days, we ideated on the creation of a recommendation engine that leverages Watson to automatically aggregate personalized skills growth learning paths with evidence for its reasoning, based on a diverse set of public and private data.

2021 / Laura Rodriguez, Abdul Quddos, Aliaksei Siadniou, Laura Rodriguez, Reneir Cochrane, Steven Black