VictorOps adds mentorship to women’s 24-hour hackathon at CU

BOULDER — A Boulder-based company will kick off a mentorship program Saturday to support a 24-hour women’s hackathon at the University of Colorado Boulder’s ATLAS Institute. Because of what they called overwhelming response, the event’s sponsors closed registration for the free event early.

VictorOps, which provides information-technology incident management for development and operations teams, is conducting the program to help increase female participation in hackathons and create an opportunity for students to explore new technologies, solve problems and build a project as a team.

“Diversifying the software industry is important because it opens the software community to unexplored perspectives and ideas,” said…