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Our 2017 Mentors

The heart of memorable Hackathons is often the leverage that can be gained by working with switched on,  experienced and creative Mentors. We're adding our list of collaborators here for you to get to know a little about them before our event.

​If you'd like to become involved and offer some time as a Mentor for some of our innovation catalyst events, please, let us know at hunterhackfest@laughingmind.com
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Colin Goudie
Colin is an award winning local entrepreneur and software developer, best known for his work in building Social PinPoint, a multiple NEWi Award winner and Slingshot accelerator program alumni. As CoFounder of Assemblient, he spends much of his time solving collaboration and systems integration challenges for a diverse client base. With his technical hat on, he'll help you navigate your way to fast solution builds with the tools from Atlassian that help teams across the world deliver at a fast tempo.

Love the value of connecting talents and experience in #hackathon events like #hunterhackfest Our collaboration crucible at @innx.hub has merged Hackers, Hustlers & Hipsters to quicken the digital pulse of the #hunterregion

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Event Partner Mentors

Anditi
As event partners in 2017, Anditi are supplying a range of mentors to help teams with this years entries, including:
Peter Jamison - Managing Director
Stephen Craig – Head of Strategy + Business Development
Andrew Goodwin – Chief Technical Advisor
Samantha Parker – Marketing Coordinator
Virtual Perspective
As our Virtual Hunter challenge partner, Virtual Perspective are committed to helping teams explore VirtualReality, AugmentedReality possibilities for the Hunter region, with the following mentors:
Tim Davidson - Creative Director
Ivan Demidov - Technical Director

Judges

Rhett Morson - Eighteen04     |     Nathaniel Bavinton - Newcastle City Council     |     ​Brian Hill - Laughing Mind

Crew

We've got some invaluable helpers coming on-board to help you along your HackFest journey. Take the time to spot their faces in the crowd if you need help or have a question and they'll do their darnedest to get you sorted.
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Charles Pham
Charles is an experienced and well travelled Atlassian resource, having held senior roles with global Atlassian solutions partners. With experience across the Atlassian product stack and a Bachelor of Information Systems, Charles is a curious, friendly and committed technology professional working to deliver projects at Assemblient to a high level of success. In his spare time, you'll find him building Apps for Android and exploring what's coming next on the technology horizon.

Location

We're in re-scheduling mode at the moment, with venue details to be confirmed with the release of our new event date.

HunterHackFest - Event Mission

"Grow the capacity of the Hunter to create a vibrant pulse of digital skills, creative spaces, connected communities and emergent ventures, leveraging contemporary tech platforms + skilled people."

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