List of hackathons in Cape Town, South Africa in 2020

South African DevOps professionals! Do you want to take part in the 2020 Global DevOps Bootcamp? The Cape Town MS Developer User Group (@CPTMSDUG) invites you to participate in the Cape Town edition of the GDBC2020 @ Global DevOps Bootcamp! You'll get to network with other DevOps professionals from the region, share real-world experiences, as well as participate in a challenging hackathon focusing on DevOps and Modern Software practices. Get the best hackathon advice on the hackathon tips page!

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Developers, innovators. and start-ups in South Africa and beyond! You're invited to participate in the Ayoba Virtual Hackathon. At this event, you'll first be given a preview of the developer sandbox for the Ayoba messaging platform. Then, as part of a team, you'll be challenged to design an innovative Ayoba-based solution or service that meets a daily need of African consumers and/or businesses. The top 5 teams from the virtual Hackathon will compete for the top spots at a subsequent on-site or virtual hackathon. The 3 top teams will win co-working space plus technical, marketing & development support from Ayoba offices, as well as R150k in prize money.

SWIFT will hold an open API hackathon at its annual African Regional Conference (ARC), taking place on 21-23 April in Cape Town, South Africa. The hackathon is open to developers and engineers working in the financial sector who want to shape the future of Africa’s growing payments market. Over two days, teams of developers will be given access to a combination of SWIFT and industry APIs in an open sandbox environment provided by SWIFT. They will be asked to develop solutions to concrete, real-world challenges currently facing the payments industry in Africa. The teams will then pitch their work in front of an expert industry panel at ARC. The team that develops the most impactful solution will receive complimentary tickets to attend Sibos, SWIFT’s annual global financial conference taking place this year in Boston, USA in October. Developers from financial institutions, fintechs, telcos and universities in Africa who are interested in participating in the hackathon can find out more information and apply to participate by contacting: Nkiruka.Uwaje@SWIFT.com.

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