AEC Hackathon 6.2 – Seattle

The AEC Hackathon 6.2 – Seattle will take place on April 26th – 28th, 2019 in Seattle at University of Washington’s Center for Research and Education in Construction. The Hackathon was created to give those designing, building, and maintaining our built environment the opportunity to collaborate with cutting edge technologies and its developers and designers. All around the world, it has quickly become a community of innovators that include all professionals working in the built environment, not just the architects, engineers, and contractors (AEC).

We are building real momentum. This year, local leaders in real estate have been added to our panel discussions so our AEC Hackathons are now where AEC, Tech and Real Estate all converge. We will have workshops presented by Unity and Magic Leap; and Saturday panels will focus on The Future of Real Estate and The Future of Digital Construction.

Unity is a Community Sponsor of our Hackathons and their AEC Team will be available as mentors and advisors at the Hackathon. Shaan Hurley from Autodesk Research will also participate in the Hackathon as a mentor. Autodesk and Unity announced a partnership at Autodesk University: the gaming, CAD and AEC industries are converging as the building industry becomes a technology industry and the built environment evolves into an innovation platform.

The AEC Hackathons have become THE event for creating innovation for these industries so get engaged today! Our world faces fresh new problems that urgently need brilliant minds to solve them and this is the community that is improving how our world is designed, built, and operated.

For an introduction to our AEC Hackathon global community, we highly recommend you read this LinkedIn post, “Hacking the $10 Trillion Construction Industry: 40 AEC Hackathons in 25 cities in 10 Countries,” the above short video from our 37th Hackathon in Berlin last summer, and this post from Mignon O’Young on our 40th AEC Hackathon held in February, 2019 at Facebook’s headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Seattle will inevitably become a global leader in making the built environment itself an innovation platform and the city where the AEC, Real Estate, Technology, Fintech, Proptech, Gaming, Metaverse, Spatial Computing, Robotics and Industry 4.0 all converge. Let’s hack these industries together to make it happen faster – and connect to our partner AEC Hackathon communities across the globe.