Tanda Hackathon 2016

It’s back, bigger & better than ever: The 2016 Tanda Hackathon! This year we’re doing things a bit differently, and co-inciding the hackathon with the launch of our official Tanda API. As always, you’ll also get a heap of data to play with. So get together as a team and build something cool - there will be prizes for the best project, and we’ll be featuring projects that use the API on the add-ons directory on our site. The lucrative Tanda Selfie Competition will also be back. Bring your blue steel. Your ticket gets you free food, drinks, and a place to work for the entire event. All you need is a laptop charger. And as usual, all ticket proceeds will go back to IT and programming clubs at local unis. Read more about what is a hackathon? Interview with attendees from last year's event  Check out all the photos from last year! Read more about our awesome 2015 Hackathon: Our post-event wrap up blog post A great blog post by Keran Mackenzie, one of the judges Interview with hackathon runner-up, Kelsey-Lee Stay How does it work? About a week before... we'll have an info night where we step you through the API and answer any questions you might have. Friday 22 April 6:00 - Registration & beers. Arrive at Tanda HQ and get checked in. We’ll have a keg and plenty of food. 7:00 - Welcome. We’ll brief you on what the next 24 hours holds, and introduce judges and mentors there to help out. 7:30 - Team forming. Pitch your idea, form into teams, and start hacking. Saturday 23 April 8:30 - Doors open. Get some work done before brekky. 9:00 - Start the day right with a filling continental breakfast. 12:30 - Lunch is on us. Get keen, get fed. 6:00 - Presentations and judging. Dinner, as usual, is on us. 7:00 - Awards and beers. 9:00 - Go home... or to a pub across the road. Judges: Brett Hooker Group Director of Research & Development @ TechnologyOne Brett Hooker is recognised as one of Australia’s leading IT professionals with more than 25 years of experience in the national and international sectors. His specialty lies in international scale business applications and software technology. As Group R&D Director of the Brisbane-based software firm TechnologyOne, Brett delivers up-to-date enterprise software for organisations all around the world, and in particular is responsible for the redevelopment of TechnologyOne’s applications for delivery on the Cloud. Adrian Karzon Group Technology Manager @ Indoor Skydive Australia Group Having a mixed background in Finance & IT has lead Adrian to hold a variety of roles within the leisure industry including Ardent Leisure and more recently Indoor Skydive Australia Group as Group Technology Manager. He has expertise in designing customer experiences that leverage technology, helping blend the physical and digital worlds and building out information technology strategies that span holistically across an organisation. Adrian’s technology passions lies with digital strategy, IoT and mobility.   Prizes: iFLY Indoor Skydiving Intro Pack This beginner level package includes everything that you need to experience what indoor skydiving is all about. DigitalOcean Credit Deploying an SSD cloud server in just 55 seconds, DigitalOcean is simple cloud computing, built for developers. More awesome prizes coming soon...    Watch this space... We'll continue to update http://hack.tanda.co/ with more information as it gets closer to the event.