Hackathon TmForum 2017 - EPITECH Nice

In partnership with Salesforce, Huawei and Vodafone, TM Forum continues our series of enterprise hacks inside our flagship event, TM Forum Live! 2017. Taking place in the coastal city of Nice, France on May 14-16, this event will feature telco Network Services and IoT Services innovation challenges. Our hack delivers an audience like no other, featuring service providers, software developers, architects, product designers, startups and university students from around the globe.

This is an opportunity to learn and build new innovative services, APIs and plugins with a group of likeminded and talented individuals from diverse countries and companies. Leveraging a common underlying platform, hackers will create new potential products and services underpinned by Open APIs in the areas of 5G Network Service, Connected Experience and IoT/Smart City.

Challenges

Network Service Connected Experience IoT/Smart City

So what does that mean? Well, when operators expose network services, they can ensure reliability and low latency which are features required for crtical services such as automous cars, flying drones for business cases and many other examples. Exposing these capabilities in this way is very new and is the backbone of 5G technologies, combined with real city data, IoT technologies and Open APIs this event provides a rich set of capbilities to create new enterprise grade services.

Prizes:

First Prize: €5000 cash + opportunity to listed in the Salesforce AppExchange + exclusive exposure and networking opportunities at TM Forum Live!

Second Prize: €3000 cash + exclusive exposure and networking opportunities at TM Forum Live!

Third Prize: €1000 cash + opportunity to demo at TM Forum Live!

Additonal Prizes: 5 drones will be awarded to the team who creates the best drone app