Hackathon Spots Are Almost Full & Public Tickets Are Out!

Come join businesses and developers jumping in to experiment with Blockchain technology and solve real industry challenges.

We’re super stoked to see so many great companies joining us to hack, mentor, deliver workshops and collaborate openly. More than that, we’re truly impressed with the quality of hacker applications — no doubt, 4 weeks from now we’re going to have solid, diverse, top notch teams working on the hackathon challenges. Hacker spots are almost gone, grab yours here while we still have some left. All approved hackers participate at no cost!

Now we’re ready to invite hackathon attendees to join us — come to learn, meet the community, watch demos, discuss challenges and solutions, all in an open, collaborative environment. Grab your tickets here, spots are limited.

Meet The Hackers

We’re proud to stand behind an unprecedented phenomenon in travel — collaboration on an even field where you’ll see companies like Air France hacking alongside travel startups, hospitality businesses exploring decentralized booking solutions alongside Blockchain community leaders and open source developers voicing their expertise in front of the industry veterans. This is a real step forward to make the industry a little more open and collaborative vs. siloed and protective.

We’re also happy to see high levels of commitment to experimenting with the new technology — there’s really not a single person who applied to hack because they have nothing better to do. Everyone is ready to put some serious effort in attempting to solve real world industry challenges. Moreover, numerous hackers are bringing their entire technical teams to put in some serious work that will benefit the entire community.

We have quite an even split between individual developers, startup teams and developers representing an airline or hospitality businesses. What’s interesting is that we also have a pretty even split between developers from travel industry and developers with background in Blockchain making it a great mix where everyone will be able to introduce and learn new perspectives on technology.

In terms of hackathon challenges — the interest is also quite evenly distributed with the following challenges leading so far: Access to Airlines API, Distributed Storage, Oracles for Dynamic Pricing and State Channels. See all of the challenges here.

Meet The Technology Mentors

All hackathon attendees and hackers will have an opportunity to learn directly from these teams on October 24th during morning tech talks:

Winding Tree (smart contracts, Winding Tree architecture and API)

ENS (decentralized name services)

Swarm (distributed databases)

Zeppelin (smart contracts)

Liquidity Network (Blockchain payments)

More mentors are announced as we go and full hackathon program will be published shortly!