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Android Wear(able)

4 hour venture Hackathon

Thursday, March 5th in Cologne (near Central Station)

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What you can expect

Create with other designer and developers new ideas for the smartwatch. Implement your ideas as rapid prototyp within four hours. And sure, you can join other teams with great ideas as well as pitch your own ideas at the beginning of the hackathon.

We know that any team / project will profit from people with different backgrounds! So, anybody who could constribute something is absolutly welcome. Android developers as well as people with Ideas, Concepts, Designs or small backends.

Everything is possible

Adopt your existing Android app to Android Wear or create something new. Open doors, connect other devices or people, display your car position, ...
Be creative!

With the pleasure of our sponsors we provide you
with test devices and other hardware to play, like iBeacons.

Impressions

Over 40 developers and designers creates 18 ideas and finally 12 apps at the 5th March 2015

We thank our engaged participants, our capably jury, our generous sponsors and our friendly host.

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Schedule

We open the doors for you in the Solution Space at 2 pm and start the hackathon at 3 pm with some great talks about the opportunities. Get some inspiration before you start your 4 hour venture.

14:00 Doors open, meet people, time to kicker, first beer
15:00 Kickoff Hackthon
15:30 The vision talk: Wearables today & tomorrow, Ralph Christoph
16:00 The tech talk: Android Wear introduction, Pascal Welsch and Frederik Schweiger
16:30 Pitch your ideas, create or join a team
17:00 Start hackin’
21:00 Finish hackin’ incl. some slides. Present your results!
22:00 Winners will be announced.
  Get some more beers at the Früh brewery next door.

Speakers

The vision talk: Wearables today & tomorrow

Ralph Christoph

Ralph Christoph is a founding member and head of strategy of the c/o pop festival and convention in Cologne. We are happy that he will give us an short non technical vision talk about the future of wearables.

The tech talk: Android Wear introduction

Pascal Welsch
Frederik Schweiger

Pascal Welsch and Frederik Schweiger are great Android developers and will give us the technical introduction into the Android Wear ecosystem.

Mentors

We are proud to present some great developer and designer which will support you.

Pascal Welsch

Pascal Welsch
Android and Android Wear
Developer at Grandcentrix.

Frederik Schweiger

Frederik Schweiger
Android Developer
working at Grandcentrix.

Christoph Kolb

Christoph Kolb
Founder & CCO of widjet.
Interaction Designer & Lecturer

Thomas Weingardt

Thomas Weingardt
Android Developer
working at Grandcentrix.

Location

Solution Space, Innovationshaus am Dom, Am Hof 20-26, 50667 Köln

Prizes with a value of over 1.000 EUR

We are happy to announce different prizes!

Android Smartwatch

Sponsors

This event was not possible without these great companies:

SONY Google Developers LG
developer media Grandcentrix O'Reilly Screen Guide
GitHub jetbrains
Solution Space railslove Think mobile bringnow

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Christoph Jerolimov
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Jan Kus
Coder, Innovator, Entrepreneur. Co-Founder at railslove and hack.institute.

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Christian Stahl
Organizes the @mobilecgn meetup and Founder and developer of Think mobile.

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