We’re taking our second hackathon on a tour — join us on July 3–5 in Lisbon, Portugal for 3 days of learning, open collaboration and experimenting with decentralized technology to develop industry backed Proofs-of-Concept.

Jump straight to hackathon details & apply to participate here.

What To Expect This Year?

Following the success of our inaugural hackathon in Prague back in October we’re excited to offer our community of airlines, hotels, travel technology vendors, travel startups and blockchain experts even more opportunities to leverage the collective intelligence and work together on real world industry challenges in the spirit of open innovation.

Winding Tree Hackathon in action

It’s not a coincidence that in Prague our team was constantly witnessing unprecedented levels of drive and motivation to openly collaborate vs. compete, coming not only from independent developers and travel startups, but also from corporate technical teams and business folks. We felt the industry is ripe to embrace the myriad of advantages of open innovation.

Therefore, the Lisbon Hackathon is being designed to maximize tangible results for both — the developers and the business teams, offering more content and activities to:

Enable the exchange of expertise across variety of industry players . When your innovation efforts and projects happen only within siloed groups — the entire industry is missing out! When you open those up to other industry players who you didn’t even imagine you could ever collaborate with — the industry gains new perspectives, new angles and can step forward beyond the established paradigms.

. When your innovation efforts and projects happen only within siloed groups — the entire industry is missing out! When you open those up to other industry players who you didn’t even imagine you could ever collaborate with — the industry gains new perspectives, new angles and can step forward beyond the established paradigms. Develop shared understanding of the nature of the most pressing industry challenges together. We’ve seen, including within our own team, that lacking this shared understanding stalls movement forward and the only way to gain it is to put out what we understand about those challenges on the table for different players to take a stab at deconstructing and reconstructing it.

of the nature of the most pressing industry challenges together. We’ve seen, including within our own team, that lacking this shared understanding stalls movement forward and the only way to gain it is to put out what we understand about those challenges on the table for different players to take a stab at deconstructing and reconstructing it. Bring back home tangible outcomes of actual work. Yes, building a somewhat working hack fast, pitching and winning prizes at hackathons is a lot of fun, but we also want our hackathons to become a platform for the industry to experiment together in order to see how each organization can benefit from real application of the open, decentralized technology. And bring that knowledge home.

Brand New Addition — Business Hackathon

In Prague we realized that with all the industry business experts in the room eager to collaborate, next time we absolutely must find opportunities to put these business minds to work together. After all, that’s exactly the opportunity that the technical teams get when they join a hackathon.

At a conventional hackathon all the great benefits of “a whole is greater than the sum of its parts” are reserved for people who can write code. Traditionally, it’s part of a hacker culture. We, however, see a huge opportunity to extend this hacker culture to our business attendees — writing code is not a precursor to coming up with great hacks and experimenting with solutions — both technology or business driven.

In Lisbon, in parallel to the Technical Hackathon we’ll be introducing the newest addition — Business Hackathon where business attendees will get a chance to dig deeper into strategic benefits of decentralized technology and work together on business cases, guided by our team. The output for business attendees won’t require any coding, instead we’ll focus on defining proofs-of-concepts from business perspective. Think of it as an opportunity to pitch your business needs and business cases to the developer community with the goal to encourage and support the development of solutions around those business cases.

Great news for the business attendees who are bringing their technical teams to join the technical portion of the hackathon — approved technical teams get to participate at no cost and their business colleagues will get 50% off the business tickets!