Gucci to develop mobile app for Chime for Change campaign

In San Francisco for the first time, TEDWomen 2013 will channel the sensibility of Silicon Valley to celebrate invention in all its forms. The group of 100+ hackers will spend Friday, December 6 and Saturday, December 7, developing their apps, and ideas will be presented to a panel of expert judges on Saturday, December 7, followed by an awards ceremony.

CHIME HACK is offering cash and in-kind prizes to hackers from sponsors including Gucci, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Hearst Magazines andthe Skoll Foundation. Additional prizes and sponsors for the event will be announced in the coming weeks.

Confirmed CHIME HACKparticipants include Dick Costolo, Twitter; Susan Wojcicki, Google;Juliet De Baubigny, Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers; Jared Morgenstern, Yub.com; Andrew (Boz) Bosworth, Facebook;Hugo Barra, Xiaomi; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Dave Morin, Path; Guy Oseary, Maverick/A-Grade Investments; Sara Haider, Twitter; Trevor Traina, IfOnly and Traina Interactive; Renee Kaplan, Skoll Foundation; Brit Morin, Brit + Co; Megan Quinn, Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers; Kate Aronowitz, Facebook; Phil Wiser and Annie Fox, Hearst Magazines; Jocelyn Ross, Stripe; and Alexia Tsotsis, TechCrunch.

The girls’ and women’s issue space will be represented by CHIME FOR CHANGE Advisory Board members and leading issue experts, includingAlyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices and Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center For Media and host of TEDWomen, as well as others to be announced soon. Other involved nonprofits include Women Who Code and TechWomen/IIE.

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