NYU Abu Dhabi

Program

Thursday October 27, 2011

International Arrival:
Cristal Hotel

Friday October 28, 2011

Day 1: Downtown Campus

Time Title Description
8:00 am - 8:35 am Breakfast At hotel; buses to DTC leave at 8:35
9:00 am - 9:50 am Welcome and Opening Remarks; Q/A Panel Q/A Panel: Best software practices, open source, accessibility, startups, coding for social good, team work and collaboration
Break
10:00 am – 10:50 am Interactive-Workshop Shawn Van Every: Mobile development for smart phones (Android)
Break
11:05 am – 12:00 am Interactive-Workshop David Hutchful: Mobile Apps using Java (j2me) and ivr System for Voice Functionality
Break
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Interactive-Workshop Maha El Choubassi: Augmented Reality
1:35 pm - 2:20 pm Interactive-Workshop Thierry Sans: Web Security
Break
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm Interactive-Workshop Mohammad Khatib: Python AppEngine Development and J-Query
Break
3:30 pm - 4:20 pm Interactive-Workshop Arjun Venkatraman: Low-tech Development and Voice Functionality
Break
4:30 pm - 5:05 pm Interactive-Workshop Mutaz Qasem: Agile Software Development
5:05 pm - 6:00 pm Interactive-Workshop Jeremy Johnstone: HTML 5
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm The Pitch Pitching ideas and the finalizing of teams

Saturday October 29, 2011

Day 2
Coding (Team-determined Schedule)

Sunday October 30, 2011

Day 3: Downtown Campus

Time Title Description
8:00 am - 6:30 pm Coding (Team-determined Schedule)
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Public Event: Building Apps for Social Good in the Arab World (Q/A) Innovations, startups in the Arab world, coding for the social good
7:30 pm - 8:40 pm Presentations Students demo their applications, 5 minutes per project
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm Judging Winning apps announced
9:00 pm - 11:00pm Party