BattleHack Athens 2015: Make your sign up for the best hackathon of Southern and Eastern Europe, created the application that will win and traveled to California to claim 100.000 dollars and absolute glory.
HAher first birthday party BattleHack in order to become the capital of innovation, development and technological excellence in the wider region. Η PayPal and Braintree give local developers the opportunity to help their community, show skills and share their ideas, contestants against the top hackers of South-Eastern Europe.
The winners of each local contest BattleHack will travel to San Jose, California, to participate in the World Finals BattleHack (November 14 & 15, 2015), where rival teams will claim the grand prize of $ 100.000.
The BattleHack Athens 2015 will be held from 10 on the morning of 30 Saturday Saturday, until 5 on Sunday afternoon on Sunday 31 on 2015, at "The Hub Events".
Collect your team and now join in BattleHack Athens 2015:
The contestants
Athens hosts the most epic series hackathon of the world, 30-31 Week 2015 Weekend. The BattleHack Athens 2015 invites European developers, hackers, computer technicians and others who want to compete, creating an application for the common good, incorporating the API (Application Programming Interface) PayPal ή archives SDK (Software Development Kit) of Braintree. There is absolutely no limitation on its subject matter BattleHack and participation is free. Previous years' winners and runners-up are eligible to re-enter, provided they submit new and unique entries. applications.
The Battle Arena
In order for the participants in BattleHack Athens 2015 to maintain the absolute dominance of the game throughout the 24 hour period of the event, will offer gourmet delicacies, delicious beer and massage. On the first day of BattleHack Athens 2015, the contestants will state their names, get to know each other, form teams according to their skills and meet the judges before the competition starts. During the second day, the hacking will continue with unabated intensity and will peak at noon, when the jury will award the prizes to the most distinctive and groundbreaking applications.
The Abomination
Each standalone application that will be created during the BattleHack Athens 2015 competition, will be evaluated based on the quality of its code and the integration of the required AP, and not on the feasibility of commercial exploitation. The jury consists of distinguished names of the site, such as the John Lunn, Senior Global Director, PayPal / Braintree_Dev., ο George Psistakis, Founder of the Blendo and Apirise, and George Kasselakis, Partners of Openfund, and they all look forward to discovering the greatest talents and unlocking the potential of the region's programmers.
Unlike many others hackathons, This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. BattleHack create a truly liberalized environment for developers, where no one intends to discriminate in favor of the companies involved or influence the work of the developers, no way.
The Trophies
Οι νικητές του BattleHack Athens 2015 you will earn troops, air tickets and stay for the World Finals in Silicon Valley, and of course the opportunity to treat as "Top Developers of Greece" the winners of other local competitions BattleHack 2015 στην μεγάλη τελική διοργάνωση. Το βραβείο για τον πρώτο επιλαχόντα θα είναι μια console XBOX One 500GB and for the second runner a kit ADAFRUIT ARDX V1.3.
For more information about the event, please visit the website 2015.battlehack.org. There you can find the application form, the schedule of the event, information from other partners, various videos, and answers to the most frequently asked questions.
Ο John Lunn, Senior Global Director, PayPal / Braintree_Dev., is looking forward to uncovering some of the region's top talents, while mobilizing the local community of developers.
"We travel around the world and find a number of separate ones hacks and apps which provided innovative solutions to the local community and we are looking forward to seeing this year's home developers present their skills and creativity.
Unlike many others hackathons, we will not discriminate in favor of the companies involved nor influence their work, no way. We evaluate each application, based on the quality of our code and the incorporation of our own API. By helping developers to monetize their ideas, we not only facilitate innovation, but at the same time support new generation companies that have the potential to become just as radical and successful as the Uber and Airbnb'', says John Lunn.
The BattleHack is a series of international competitions hackathon, organized by the PayPal and Braintree. Contestants undertake to solve a local coding problem. The winners of the first prize of each contest win a trophy as a trophy, as well as participation in the World Finals, where participants compete for the 100.000 grand prize of thousands of dollars. Competitors retain the ownership of the applications they created during these competitions. The previous two events accounted for more than 5.000 entries. The winners of past years presented pioneering ideas that attracted tremendous interest from both the private and public sectors.
The team Gearbox who won it BattleHack Sydney 2014 has created a storage cabinet that allows users to borrow sports equipment using a mobile application, which is now in a trial phase from Sydney City in some of the largest parks in the area.
Η service CleanAgents, which won the first place at BattleHack of Berlin in 2013, is an on-demand cleaning service. After just 11 months, the business of Clean Agents expanded its activity to over 200 cities around the world and is already considered to be the top in the German market. Today, and less than two years have passed since the creation of the application in BattleHack, the company was acquired by Helpling.
