Welcome to the IBM Hackathon at ZendCon 2014

Carl Osipov, IBM, @CloudsWithCarl

Joshua Solomin, Zend, @JSolomin

Ground Rules (1 of 2) Build an application to wow your

audience, the attendees of ZendCon 2014

Work individually or as a team of up to 3 people One prize per team

Use Zend Server 7 / PHP on Bluemix Zend and IBM people are around to help

Sample code is available, check your hackathon registration email

github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon

Think of your own application idea or do something with wearable and mobile application backends

API composition

Internet of Thing

Ground Rules (2 of 2)

Ensure that your application is accessible to anyone on the Internet via a URL

Tweet @IBMBluemix with your application URL and #zendcon to describe what you built

ZendCon attendees will be tweeting and retweeting about your applications

Hackathon starts at 8pm on Tuesday and ends at 4pm on Wednesday

We will contact you via email tomorrow after 6pm if you were selected to present

Use common sense: We reserve the right to ignore any project that we deem inappropriate

Bluemix PaaS Code the way you want. Deploy in seconds. Scale as

needed.

Reuse services like IBM Watson, MySQL, Twilio.

Start with a free trial. Experiment with a free tier for every service.

Zend Server 7 Fast PHP environment with extensions and libraries

preconfigured

Use Z-Ray to rapidly find problems while you code Execution time, database queries, functions, request

details, and more

Sample code github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon

IBM Watson for Travel, Cloudant (CouchDB) NoSQL, Internet of Things

MySQL

Sendgrid, Twilio

Tools at your disposal

Starting at 5pm on Wednesday, judges from Zend will monitor tweets mentioning @IBMBluemix and #zendcon to learn about your applications

Tweets that get the most retweets and favorites will be filtered out by the judges and the corresponding projects will be selected for the top 12

If your application is selected by the judges, we will contact at 6pm on Wednesday using the email you provided when you registered for the hackathon.

Top 12 Selection Process

If you receive an email notifying you that you were selected for the top 12, please be ready to present your app during a 5 minute lightning talk between 8 and 9:30pm on Wednesday

Our distinguished panel of handpicked judges will review the top 12 projects presented at the Wed event and choose the top 3 prize winners

Judges Matthew Weier O’Phinney Michelangelo van Dam

@DragonBe

Rob Allen

Judges Panel

Each winning team (or individual) will be awarded a Raspberry Pi dev kit on Thursdayduring the closing keynote

Prizes

THANK YOU

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