Hack With The Best: The Mercedes-Benz RD Center in Silicon Valley is hosting a Hackathon from 12 to 14 June
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Are you an exceptionally gifted programmer or creative designer?
Do you live the "Digital Drivestyle" and have ideas about how the
intelligently connected vehicle can make the next step towards becoming an
automotive companion? Then why not take part in the Mercedes-Benz "Hack
With The Best" Hackathon in Silicon Valley from 12 to 14 June
2015?
SUNNYVALE/STUTTGART -- June
9, 2015:
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America (MBRDNA) is hosting
a public Hackathon at the GSVLabs in Redwood City on this weekend. It
starts on Friday, 12 June at 7.00 p.m. local time. Registration is still
open, so those who decide to take part on the spur of the moment can still
do so. To obtain further details and register for the Hackathon, visit:hackwiththebest.com. The organizers
are looking for new and exciting in-car concepts as part of the Internet of
Things. But also innovative ideas looking at how vehicles can communicate
with wearable devices. To this end, the Hackathon participants are provided
with vehicle data in the form of an API (Application Programming
Interface).
The three
Hackathon finalists will then be announced on Sunday, 14 June at 6.00 p.m.
local time. Before the prizes (including a Mercedes-Benz CLA 250) are
awarded, however, the three finalists have to negotiate the all-important
second phase.
Daimler
Board of Management chooses winning project
Following the Hackathon, the three finalists will further
develop their ideas and produce prototypes with a team of coaches. To try
out their concepts in a real environment, they are given access to
Mercedes-Benz vehicles, for example. Plus there will be MBRDNA engineers
and developers on hand with help and advice.
The
day of reckoning then arrives at the start of July when the finalists pitch
their projects to the Daimler Board of Management. The members of the Board
of Management will then decide which project is the overall winner of the
Hackathon.
Who knows, there could then be a
third, even more important phase… to be continued.