Make it Mobile - RBC Digital Challenge

What is the Make it Mobile – RBC Digital Challenge? Imagine the future of mobile banking, a future where people’s everyday financial activities blend completely with the native functionality of their mobile devices. We’re RBC – Canada’s largest bank by market capitalization – and we want that future today. So we’re inviting the most visionary – and driven – developers, designers and entrepreneurs to compete over 24 hours in the creation of brilliant pieces of new mobile banking technology.   The Future of Banking Mobile technologies are transforming the way people engage with their finances. They’re paying for things, borrowing money, and managing accounts across a range of tiny interactions, multiple locations and varying spans of time. But that’s nothing compared with the ways in which people interact with their phones’ native technologies. Cameras, Bluetooth, geo-location, accelerometers, NFC: people know them so well that they don’t even think of them as separate items. So how do we use those familiar tools to push their mobile banking habits even further into the future? How do we turn their hum-drum experiences of daily finances into something exciting?   What is the Challenge? We’ll ask every participant to build on those native features and what we know about people’s mobile behaviors. Use ANY mobile device* and ANY of its features to create the next great leap in the way people engage with their financial world. If your idea is functional, adoptable and really fresh, it could become a piece of our next mobile technology release. Your brilliance can actually change the way people think about their money. *We ask attendees to bring their own developer phones or emulators so that they can demo their projects.   What are the Prizes? We recognize success at the RBC Digital Challenge. We reward it, too. We’ll award at least $8,000 in total to the winning teams (up to five of them). And just to keep spirits high over the long haul, we’ll also be giving away door prizes and freebies. Register early so you don’t miss out. Grand Prize: $5,000 for the team 2nd Place: $2,000 for the team 3rd Place: $1,000 for the team 4th Place: $500 for the team 5th Place: $100 for the team   Schedule The Make It Mobile – RBC Digital Challenge will be held Saturday-Sunday, November 7th-8th at RBC WaterPark Place Auditorium (88 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto, Ontario). Although staying overnight isn’t required, we highly recommend it. Saturday, November 7th 09:00 am – Doors Open, Breakfast and registration 10:30 am – Opening Ceremony & Presentations 11:30 am – Coding Begins 12:00 pm – Lunch 06:00 pm – Dinner 12:00 am – Midnight Snack Sunday, November 8th 7:00 am – Breakfast 11:30 am – Submission Deadline 12:00 pm – Lunch 02:00 pm – Judging 04:00 pm – Awards 05:00 pm – Closing   Judging Criteria Simplicity (5 points): Is the application simple to use and can the team explain it clearly in three sentences or less? Creativity (5 points): How creative was the team in developing an innovative solution for the challenge? Impact (5 points): Did the team create an application that can have a real and valuable impact? Design (5 points): Was the UX/UI intuitive and appealing?   What are the Rules?    Team Size: Each team can include up to five humans. Each team can be comprised of no more than half of RBC Employees. Fresh Code Enforced: We all start coding at the same time. This is done to keep things fair. Please don’t come in and build on top of previous projects if you want to win. No PowerPoints: You must demo your hack in order to present. No slide-decks or power-points will be allowed. 2 minute presentation 1 minute Q&A from Judges Submissions: Each hackathon has its individual hackathon.io page, which projects should be submitted on. Submission time is 12:00pm Sunday, November 8th, 2015 unless stated otherwise. Code Review: Winning teams will be subject to a code-review at some point following the event or immediately before winning. Please click here for the Participation Agreement