What's your BIG idea to improve travel?
Can you and your developer friends dream it, code it and present it to our judges over the weekend?
Here's your chance to make the travel experience better ... and win your share of more an US$5,000 in cash and other prizes.
Join Tnooz and up to 100 developers at THack @ Bengaluru for a creative and collaborative hackathon to disrupt travel with your digital product or service.
Tnooz, the leading source of news and analysis about travel tech and the digital travel economy, brings our global hackathon series to RoomsTonite's headquarters in Bengaluru December 4-6.
THack @ Bengaluru is open to individual developers and teams up to five members who will compete on-site for more than US$5,000 in cash and other prizes. Participation by developers is FREE and registration on Eventbrite is required.
THack @ Bangalore brings together developers, designers and other digital "makers" as well as leading travel and technology companies for a creative competition that seeks solutions to real-world travel challenges.
Headline sponsors are Amadeus, RoomsTonite and IBM (and others to be announced).
THack's sponsoring organizations will provide access to their technology and expertise for programming solutions to the following travel challenges:
- Inspiration, discovery, memories – Create a travel inspiration engine that reduces complexity in trip planning and leverages photos, videos and other visuals.
- Air, land and water ... get me there – Create a multi-modal travel engine that helps travelers plan doorstep-to-doorstep journeys by considering all forms of transports.
- No plan, no problem – Develop an engine that solves the problem of on-demand or unplanned travel ... before the trip or during the in-destination journey. Hint: tours, activities and food services are usually important to the connected traveler.
- Personalise my experience – Using semantic search, artificial intelligence or machine learning, build an application that enhances traveler purchasing behavior.
THack @ Bengaluru is FREE for developers, who may compete as individuals or form teams with a range of programming, design and business development skills. Registration is required for ALL participants. Admission is limited to 100 individuals or team members (maximum of 5 members per team). Earliest date of registration will be used to determine participation if the event is over-booked. Attendees must bring their admission ticket and a photo ID to enter the event. NOTE: All hackers must compete on-site. No virtual projects will be accepted.
THack will provide table-top space at RoomsTonite, power, wifi and A/V presentation equipment. Developers must bring their own laptops, software tools and special presentation devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, wearable tech, presentation devices/interfaces, etc.).
Food and beverage will be provided. We'll organize a drinks/snacks meet-up Friday, Dec. 4, 6 to 8 pm for developers to meet, form teams and pick tech sponsors' brains.
Hacking begins Saturday, Dec. 5 after 9 am check-in and API provider presentations and continues until noon on Sunday, Dec. 6 at noon. Developer presentations to a panel of expert judges will follow hacking, and THack concludes with prizes awarded and networking over casual dinner.
Additional information, including THack details on sponsor APIs, will be sent by email to registered attendees.
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FAQs
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
Your must bring your mobile or printed Eventbrite ticket and a photo ID for admission. Participants must be 18 year sor older.
What can/can't I bring to the event?
You should bring a laptop, power cable, A/V connectors you may require for presenting your idea, refillable water bottle and comfortable clothing for overnight hacking. Do not bring full-size monitors, desktop computers or other space-consuming electronic equipment or audio speakers that will disturb fellow hackers.
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
No. Each participant must register, including ALL members of a team. If you or a team member must cancel, please log on to Eventbrite and cancel your ticket. We expect all registrants who register to attend or cancel.
How do prizes and "teams" work?
Tnooz will award prizes to the best-judged small team (1 or 2 members), large team (3 to 5 members) and to the People's Choice winner (as voted on by the developers themselves participating in THack). Each sponsor will award a prize for best use of their API or other technology.
What are the hackathon rules?
We will provide detailed rules to registered developers. For now, we can share that participants must develop a new, coded application (not a repurposed app) that addresses one or more of the four challenges outlined in the event description above. You are welcome to use the sponsored APIs offered (descriptions and registration details will be be supplied to registered developers a week prior to the event). No other proprietary APIs may be used, Note: APIs avaialble on the open internet (e.g., maps, social logins, open databases) may be used. Intellectual property developed by participants is owned by those inventors. APIs and other technology made avaialble for use during the hackathon is owned by the company offering its use based on the terms and conditions it outlines.
Where do I address my questions before the hackathon?
Please email your questions to Gene Quinn, CEO and cofounder of Tnooz and moderator of THack @ Bengaluru, at gene@tnooz.com.