Build for Good: KPCB Fellows Challenge Kickoff

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is excited to invite you to one of our events in the "Welcome to Silicon Valley Event Series": Build for Good - the KPCB Fellows Challenge.

At KPCB we started the KPCB Fellows Program to bring the best design, engineering and entrepreneurial students to our portfolio companies. Our fellows inspired us to launch our Build for Good Initiative - a set of open innovation challenges for hackers and makers everywhere. We partnered with amazing non-profit organizations tackling some of the world's toughest challenges. We believe that technology has the power to truly change the world and make it a better place. As part of our Build for Good initiative, we are launching an online hackathon called the KPCB Fellows Challenge. We encourage you to spend time this summer hacking on challenges to help these innovative nonprofits tackle tough real world problems. To do this, we are throwing a kickoff event in our San Francisco office. We challenge you to build for good.

The Challenge

This event is to kickoff our online hackathon: the KPCB fellows Challenge. You can register to participate, check out the rules, see the prizes and learn about the challenge here: http://kpcbfellowschallenge.challengepost.com/

Solve one of our challenges and help us build a better world:

1) Create a way to address live donating to increase number of surgeries funded

• Benefits: Samahope
• http://kpcbfellows.com/challenges/improve-our-doctor-api

2) Build an application that helps Kiva donors assess impact

• Benefits: Kiva
• http://kpcbfellows.com/challenges/kiva

3) Help improve our teacher training program

• Benefits: Pencils of Promise
• http://kpcbfellows.com/challenges/scaling-literacy-education-in-rural-schools

4) Design a standalone mobile messaging hub

• Benefits: Medic Mobile
• http://kpcbfellows.com/challenges/design-a-standalone-medic-mobile-server

5) Create an application to record and measure the global impact of Brilliance

• Benefits: D-Rev
• http://kpcbfellows.com/challenges/create-an-application-to-record-and-measure-the-global-impact-of-brilliance

Event Details

KPCB San Francisco Office

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:00pm-9:00pm

7:00pm - 7:30pm: Welcome

7:30pm - 8:30pm: Brief overview of the Challenges

8:30pm - 9:00pm: Form teams, meet & greet, come up with ideas, hack

KPCB's "Welcome to Silicon Valley" Event Series

This event is part of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)'s "Welcome to Silicon Valley" event series where we invite student entrepreneurs, designers and engineers to join us at events that give insight into exciting trends, thought leaders and companies. Events in the series include:

6/17/15: #DesignInTech with John Maeda

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-maeda-presents-designintech-tickets-16977165158

7/1/15: Build for Good Reception and the KPCB Fellows Challenge Kickoff

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-for-good-kpcb-fellows-challenge-kickoff-tickets-16977739877

7/7/15: KPCB Edge Fund Open House (By Invite from a 2015 KPCB Fellow only)

7/30/15: KPCB Portfolio Company Reverse Pitch (By Invite from a 2015 KPCB Fellow only)

8/5/15: Diversity Mixer: Find Your Next Silicon Valley Mentor

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diversity-mixer-find-your-next-silicon-valley-mentor-tickets-17358444575

*Interested in joining us at these events or learning more about the KPCB Fellows program? We'd like to hear from you, email Justin at jsayarath@kpcb.com.