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Take a peek behind the scenes of the local Space Apps events being planned in cities around the world by enthusiastic volunteers.
You can find out more about each of the participating cities on the International Space Apps website at http://spaceappschallenge.org/locations.
You can also listen to our deep dives with Challenge subject matter experts and feature interviews from the central team in the countdown to the event. And don’t forget, we’ll be bringing you regular ’round the world’ event updates throughout the course of the Challenge weekend.
San Francisco
Carl Sagan, tacos and global tech4good. A fun chat with Willow Brugh |
New York
NY Tech Council Executive Director and Founder Donn Morrill chats @NYTEchCouncil @PivotalLabs @mik3cap @TheStartupBus NY Digital City Roadmap (PDF) > @RachelSterne |
Miami
Meet the super keen organizing team behind Miami’s Space Apps @DLagomasino @slong001 @CBIL360 SpaceApps Miami Facebook page |
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo city lead Ray Hernandez from Las Americas Institute of |
Vancouver
Vancouver organizing team Angelina Fabbro and Bill Mills talk about |
Melbourne + Sydney / Canberra / Adelaide
Australian organizer Naomi Mathers, together with Andrew Maher from |
Nairobi
Simeon Oriko from the iHub in Nairobi, Kenya, discusses Pete’s coffee, how hackathons create new shared opportunities, and the enabling power of Space Apps on a developing country with no space program. |
Stuttgart
Andreas Hornig talks about the Space Apps Challenge at the Stuttgart ShackSpace which is drawing interest from across Germany and even France. He says every project will be a starting point for doing some good. |
Exeter
Local lead organizer: Mike Saunby Mike Saunby gives us a sneak preview of the Exeter event, where the expertise (and hidden talents!) of the Met Office team will be on hand to guide local participants through the challenge weekend. |
Istanbul
Lead organizers: Alp Burak Pehlivan and Mahmut Demirst Alp Burak Pehlivan and Mahmut Demirst from Base-Istanbul talk about the developer community in Turkey’s capital, open hardware and being inspired by a fellow Space Apps lead organizer in Stuttgart. Türkçe özetini dinleyin (Listen to Turkish language summary) |
Tokyo
Local lead organizers: Hal Seki and Fumi Yamakazi Hear from Fumi Yamazaki of Google Japan about space ice cream, a Japanese astronaut special guest, Hayabusa and the Japanese community of space lovers as well as apps to help in such crises as the 311 disaster. |
Other cities
You can find out more about each of the participating cities on the International Space Apps website at http://spaceappschallenge.org/locations. |
(CC) City images courtesy Manish Vohra, Joan Grifols, Kevin Lau, Evan Leeson, Kay Gaensler, Paul Hocksenar,
Steve Arnold, Neal Jennings, Stefan Jurgensen, Tik-Tok, Alexander Johmann, Rockman of Zymurgy, Ilkin, Vincent van der Pas
