THack @ Hamburg is a travel hackathon presented by Tnooz and IATA (International Air Transport Association) to create new air travel shopping and passenger experience applications.
Software developers, designers and business developers from airline, travel tech and broader technology businesses gather at Betahaus co-working space to create solution to travel challenges in mobile, business travel and consumer/passenger shopping and planning.
Over the weekend of Oct. 16-18, teams will code applications based on IATA's NDC airline retailing standards, APIs from travel industry leaders such as Airbus BizLabs, Sabre, SITA, Hotelbeds and Make It Social and technology leaders HP, IBM and Jet Messaging Technologies.
Eligibility
THack @ Hamburg is an open event. However, hackers teams should have experience in front-end, back-end or full-stack development, UEX design for web or mobile, or business and product development.
Requirements
The goal for developers is to build working prototypes that demonstrate solutions to travel problems in airline shopping and selling, or in air passenger experiences.
Prizes
THack best small team (1 or 2 members)
Cash prize to best idea from a small team.
THack best large team (3 to 5 members)
Cash prize to best idea from a small team.
People Choice best team
Best idea from any team as chosen by a vote of all THack developers.
Airbus BizLabs best use of on-board systems.
Idea that makes best use of data provided from Airbus on-board systems. (Selected by Airbus BizLabs)
Hotelbeds best of API
Ideas with best use of Hotelbeds API. (Multiple prizes selected by Hotelbeds)
IBM Bluemix best use of cloud services.
Best user of IBM Bluemix cloud services will get access to IBM Global Entrepreneur program and be eligible for up to $120,000 of free IBM Cloud credit.
Jet Messaging Technologies best use of JMT library and NDC 15.2 schemas
One winner receives a Microsoft Surface 3 tablet and one winner receives EUR500 cash.
Make It Social best use of API
Best user of Make It Social API for group travel planning.
Sabre best use of APIs
Best use of Sabre Dev Studio API(s).
SITA prize for best use of developer.aero APIs
Best user of SITA's library of APIs
How to enter
THack @ Hamburg is free for developers, who must register on Tnooz's Eventbrite site. (Registration is now closed.)
Judges
Jorge Diaz
Flyiin
Frank Steuer
Blacklane
Abrar Ahmad
Travel Capitalist Partners
Judging Criteria
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Challenge
Does the project meets the standards of one or more of the three THack challenges? (25% of score) -
Originality / Innovation
Is the project a wholly original idea or innovative in some way beyond incremental improvement of a current product, process or product feature? (25% of score) -
Technical Merit
Does the product prototype actually work? Is the integration of APIs, information, user interface and other digital features superior to other projects presented? (25% of score) -
Presentation Skill
Has the team presented its project clearly as a solution to a problem or pain point? Does the design and function of the coded project reflect the solution described by the team? (25% of score)