Want to get involved with WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows? Check out this brief presentation on how you can be part of this great event!

1. WOWZAPP 2012
Worldwide Hackathon for Windows

2. what is WOWZAPP 2012?
WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows is an event that
allows you to take part in a truly global experience – developers and designers
all over the world coming together to build apps for Windows, Windows Phone
and Windows Azure.
WOWZAPP 2012 is on November 9-11, 2012, timed to celebrate the launch of
Windows 8 and immediately after the Build conference to take advantage of all
that fresh new information that will be delivered at that time. It’s also on the
weekend before Global Entrepreneur Week so that startup developers can kick
off that week with a bang.
Instead of various teams and groups of people running their events in isolation,
WOWZAPP 2012 brings them all together, connects them and supports it with
PR, social media connectivity and content and collateral.

3. part of a bigger picture
WOWZAPP 2012 is part of a bigger picture for
Windows :
General Availability of Windows 8
…leads to…
Build Conference
…leads to…
WOWZAPP 2012

4. what you’ll get for being involved
We recognize that you’ll want to run your event as locale context sensitive as
possible, so rather than provide a hard and fast set of rules you should follow to be
involved, we’re instead providing you a set of supporting materials and guidelines
when you register your event as part of WOWZAPP 2012:
• Sub page on the WOWZAPP 2012 website for your event, providing details,
registration link, and link to your online event stream if you publish one.
• Registration page for your event, templatized in WOWZAPP 2012 layout,
providing a consistent experience for attendees regardless of venue.
• Design collateral including web elements, T Shirt designs, Sticker and Poster
designs and PowerPoint templates.
• Content including presentations and hands on labs for HTML5/JavaScript and
XAML/C#, select Build talks adapted for WOWZAPP 2012, Opening Night
presentation, suggested agenda, suggested Closing presentation for App
Showcase on final day, pre-event activity list, post-event guidance for follow up,
and speaker schedule for online broadcasts of Microsoft speakers situated
worldwide.

5. summary info
Date: November 9-11
Timing: 5pm Friday to 5pm Sunday, local time
We understand that you may not be able to run a
full 48 hour hackathon, so we ask that you do a
minimum of 24 hours. Of course, if you can do the
full two day experience, welcome to the big
leagues!

6. is your country here? these countries are already in!
Algeria Malaysia
Austria Mexico
Belgium Northern Ireland
Brazil Norway
Bulgaria Pakistan
Chile Philippines
Czech Republic Romania
Finland Singapore
Germany Slovenia
Greece South Africa
India Spain
Indonesia Sweden
Ireland Thailand
Italy Tunisia
Kazakhstan Turkey
Lebanon United States
Lithuania Vietnam
Macedonia

7. Content and
Collateral
what you get

8. event guide contents
Introduction
Sample agenda/schedule
Suggested “WOW Awards” and “ZAPP Activities” for momentum and
atmosphere
Pre-event/Preparation
Outline of available content
Collateral list – both digital and printable
PR and Promotion plan – press and social media
Post-event actions
Social media interactions and outreach plan
Speaker schedule
Event Lead-up activities
Post Event follow up activities

9. learning content
Event guide
Windows 8 learning content
- 20 presentations
- 10 hands on labs in HTML5/JS and XAML/C#
Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 – tips and tricks
Game Development Content
both HTML5/JS and DirectX/C++

10. design collateral
WOWZAPP 2012 logo
Poster design
PowerPoint template
T-Shirt design
Sticker design
Online assets

11. design collateral: two themes – city and zombie

12. Microsoft Corporate Speaker Schedule
Andrew Parsons – Finland
Ben Riga – Greece
Dion Hutchings – Malaysia
Drew Robbins – Chile
Jeff Burtoft – Finland
Nick Harris – Vietnam
Nikola Metulev – Chile
Nisha Singh – India
Peter Dwersteg – Finland

13. What next?

14. what next?
Get involved:
Promote and attend your existing local event
Run a new WOWZAPP 2012 event
Main site: wowzapp2012.com
Channel 9 intro video: aka.ms/APwz2
Microsoft contact: wowzapp@microsoft.com

15. running your own venue?
Email wowzapp@microsoft.com with the following:
City and Country
Name of school or organization
Name, Address (physical and URL) and Contact
person of venue in your school/organization
Maximum capacity for your event (and expected #)
Start and End Date and Time

16. running your own venue? the response
We will:
set up your registration page for you,
assign you (or your appointed representative)
access to the attendee list for checking in and the
ability to send reminder emails,
put your site on the www.wowzapp2012.com map
send you the full event guide for content and other
information to make your event a success