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Jeana has been in the tech industry for 15+ years, both as a communications professional and writer. As Director of Global Communications at Auth0, she works with her internal team and external agencies to amplify the company's visibility worldwide and establish its leadership in the identity industry. When she is not working, she can most likely be found on a field watching one of her three kids playing sports, or cleaning up after her one-year-old retriever who chews everything.

Senior Director, Global Communications

Jeana Tahnk

Developers called upon to “hack for change” for today’s real-world issues



**BELLEVUE, Wash. &mdash; July 31, 2020 &mdash;** The [Auth0](https://auth0.com/) Identity Platform, a product unit within Okta, today announced its first-ever global [Hackathon](https://hackathon.auth0.com/), which will take place August 7-9, 2020. With a mission to create solutions to address today’s real-world challenges, Auth0 and event partners, AWS, Microsoft, Vercel, Ionic, DigitalOcean, Gatsby, Hasura, and MongoDB, seek developers who wish to “hack for change” around three relevant topics: COVID-19, connectivity, and security. Teams can register for the event at [https://auth0.devpost.com/](https://auth0.devpost.com/). 

Despite the turmoil and uncertainty in 2020, innovation and its ability to transcend today’s challenges is one constant, and will continue to flourish amidst distributed developers. Auth0 and its Hackathon partners will bring together hundreds of developers to harness ideas and creativity to tackle the biggest issues facing organizations and communities today. The three categories of the event are focused on solutions that address the after-effects of COVID-19; create secure connections, and keep remote friends/co-workers/families connected. 

Submissions will be judged on the quality, implementation, and potential impact of the idea. The esteemed judging panel is comprised of the following developer experts: 

* **Matias Woloski**, Co-founder and CTO, Auth0
* **Evil Rabbit**, Head of Design, Vercel
* **Sherry List**, Azure Developer Engagement Lead, Microsoft 
* **Rob Melka**, Solution Architect, AWS
* **Chris Sevilleja**, Founder Scotch.io and Developer Advocate, DigitalOcean 
* **Obinna Ekwuno**, Software Engineer, Gatsby 
* **Mike Hartington**, Developer Advocate, Ionic
* **Ado Kukic**, Developer Advocate Lead, MongoDB
* **Praveen Durairaju**, Developer Advocate, Hasura

“Since its inception, Auth0 has empowered developers all over the world to innovate. We know developers are facing unique challenges during this pandemic, and also have tremendous talent and innovation to offer,” said Jarod Reyes, director of developer relations at Auth0. “We want to tap into this vast innovation pool and call out to our far-reaching developer network to rally around making a difference. We are grateful to our judges and to all developers who join us in hacking for change.”  

In addition to the gratification of hacking for change, the best ideas deemed by the judges will be rewarded with cash prizes, gift cards, and custom Auth0 and partner swag. Participation rules, guidelines, and event details can be found here: [https://hackathon.auth0.com/](https://hackathon.auth0.com/). To register a team, please sign up here: [https://auth0.devpost.com/](https://auth0.devpost.com/) by August 6th.

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Jeana Tahnk<br />
Auth0 Global Communications<br />
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Auth0 Announces First-Ever Hackathon

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I am the Group Manager, Developer Content at Okta, and a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular. I'm passionate about identity, authentication, constant learning, and developer communities. As a developer advocate, engineer, mentor, and international speaker, I love learning from and sharing with other inhabitants of the tech space.

Group Manager, Developer Content

Kim Maida

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Martin Gontovnikas, a.k.a Gonto, is a software engineer at heart who moved to the ‘dark side’ and became VP of Marketing at Auth0. He considers himself lucky to have found a way to combine his two passions and apply his engineering thinking model to marketing.<br/><br/> Gonto’s analytical thinking is a huge driver of his data-driven approach to marketing strategy and experimental design. He is based in the Bay area, and in his spare time, can be found eating gourmet food at the best new restaurants, visiting every local brewery he can find, or traveling the globe in search of new experiences.

Former SVP of Marketing and Growth at Auth0

Martin Gontovnikas

Learn how to create a real world angular 2 app using Pipes, Directives, Components, DI, ES6 and much more! We'll implement from Authentication to calling an API and everything in between

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Pace co-founded Auth0 in early 2013 with CTO and “brother-in-arms” Matias Woloski while living 7,000 miles apart from each other. Since then, Pace has played an instrumental role in growing Auth0 into a leading identity management company that is loved by developers and trusted by global enterprises. He loves traveling and has visited more than 35 countries for business and pleasure. He currently lives in Redmond, Washington with his wife, two sons, and their labrador retriever. In his spare time, he enjoys the outdoors, rowing, riding bikes, spending time with his family, restoring his 1970 Karmann Ghia, writing his blog, and reading history and philosophy.

CEO and Co-Founder

Eugenio Pace

Nick Harris was very kind to have us as guests on the CloudCover show. Matias provide details on Auth0, and then talks a little bit about the internals: how

[Nick Harris](http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/nickharris) was very kind to have us as guests on the CloudCover show. Matias provide details on Auth0, and then talks a little bit about the internals: how we work as a team, how we build & deploy our software, etc.

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Link to the show [here.](http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover/Episode-101-Real-World-Windows-Azure-with-Auth0)

Thanks for the opportunity Nick!

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