Hackathon for all from GDG & WTM Moscow

November 24-26, a hackathon for all will be held in Dom-Kommune, organized by IT communities: Women TechMakers & Google Developers Group Moscow. Co-organizers of the event are VEB and MISiS. For participants will be available to various nominations from such partner companies as Google, App in the Air, VEB. Participation in the Hackathon is completely free, but by prior selection.

Up to 25 teams will be selected for participation. Both ready-made teams (up to 4 people) and individual specialists (front-end and back-end developers, designers, UX-pro, authors of ideas), who will team up on the first day of the hackathon, can try their hand.

The hackathon begins on the evening of Friday November 24, when participants talk about their ideas and put together teams. Then, during Saturday and Sunday (non-stop!), With breaks only for food, pizza and communication with mentors, teams design, code, draw and test their applications. And all in order to present prototypes to the jury and colleagues after lunch on Sunday.

Created web services and mobile applications can be absolutely any, the choice of programming language, platforms, API and SDK depends only on the nomination that participants choose.

IT specialists of famous Russian and world companies will act as hackathon mentors. Among the honored guests of the event, top managers of the largest enterprises will be invited. Among the partners are well-known major companies.

Partner Hackathon Nominations

From Google: the best application using PWA technology.

Requirements for participation:

• Creating an application / service using the PWA technology stack
• Additionally, Firebase, Dialogflow (Api.ai), GCP and any other Google products and not only can be used

From App in the Air: for the best use of the Travel Profile API.

Requirements for participation:

• Creating an application with the Travel Profile API

From VEB company: for the best use of blockchain technology in the financial sector.

Requirements for participation:

• Creating an application / service using blockchain technology
• It is not recommended to do a project for storing transactions in the blockchain.

PRIZE FUND: designed for each nomination. Includes cash certificates from 50 to 100 thousand rubles or valuable prizes equivalent to these amounts. As well as special prizes from the company Softline for those who will create projects on the GCP - certificates on GoogleCloudPlatform.

The terms of participation:

• An application for participation can be submitted by one person or by a team.
• Both male programmers and female programmers are invited to participate.
• The prize fund is designed for teams of two to four people.
• Correspondence of ideas / projects to hackathon nominations
• Teams / projects, authors of ideas and independent developers who have been pre-selected will be allowed to participate in the hackathon

Start date of applications: October 23, 2017

Deadline for applications: November 17, 2017 (23:59 Moscow time)

→ Register for Hackathon here .

You can also read more about the program and details of the hackathon in the GDG Moscow group at Meetup.com