Esri is sponsoring an internal developer hackathon. Tell us what the Science of Where™ means to you through your project solution. This hackathon is open to Esri employees, distributors, and partners.

This is an opportunity for you to put together a project team and bring to life your ideas utilizing ArcGIS APIs and SDKs. Present a workflow and a solution that will help new and existing enterprise developers solve real-world problems they are facing everyday by using the ArcGIS Platform and the Science of Where. The solution should illustrate how easy and effective it is to use the different parts of the ArcGIS platform to solve a problem and what makes ArcGIS technology great.

It’s not just about building fancy desktop or mobile apps, it’s about showing how to use our platform in a simple, clear way to solve real-world problems. We want your app to help sell the platform! Ultimately, we would like to use the app you create as showcase/model apps on Esri labs, Example Apps, or the developers site.

Eligibility

Open to employees of Esri, including Esri Int'l Distributors and partners.

Esri employees are required to have their manager’s approval. There are specific charge codes for this event.

Participants must be able to appear in-person at Esri headquarters or via Skype/Lync over Esri's VPN.

Participants can form teams of up to 6 individuals.

Teams must declare participation by the Team Entry Deadline (Friday, January 11, 2019, at 11:00 AM PST) with an entry in Devpost submitted to our hackathon.

Requirements

Submissions will be judged on content developed during the hackathon submission period only. Any component developed before the hackathon submission period is not eligible for judging.

All teams must declare their participation by the Team Entry Deadline by completing the team entry form and submitting it to the hackathon on Devpost.

All code must be submitted to a public Github repository and available for the judges and event organizers to access.

The submitted solution must build and run in a standalone app on a PC or Mac computer, mobile device, or in a simulator running on a PC or Mac computer.

All projects submitted must use the ArcGIS platform APIs in some way. Projects submitted that do not use ArcGIS developer technology are not eligible for judging and prizes.

All submissions must use only publically released APIs, SDKs, software and services. Since the submissions are made to public github repositories, and our ultimate goal is to show your project off on a public facing website, we cannot accept submissions that use proprietary or internally available non-public components.

All submitting teams must be able to perform a 5-minute presentation of their solution. Teams may present in-person, via videoconference, or by submitting a video of their presentation. When presenting in-person at least one team representative must be on site during the presentation period at the specific time requested. When presenting via video conference at least one team representative must be online during the presentation period at the specific time requested. When submitting a video the video must be submitted with the project by the submission deadline.

All submissions must include: title, elevator pitch (short description), technology used, link to public github repository, all contributing team members, project description, 3 screenshots. Video, additional screenshots, project thumbnail are optional.

If any additional hardware is used it will not be considered in the judging. If additional hardware is required it is the team's responsibility to make it available to the judges during the judging period.

If you are an Esri employee, Esri maintains full rights to the resulting project and maintains the right to continue further development of the idea.

If you are an Esri employee, Esri maintains ownership of all code, designs, and all components of each project submission worked on as part of this event.

Esri will have the right to include the project on its website and marketing material.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$240 in prizes