API World 2021 Hackathon

The API World 2021 Hackathon is the nation's largest API hackathon.

Win prizes & future API World passes.

View all the amazing hackathon challenges & prizes located below. 

October 11 -28, 2021

 1. Register via Eventbrite.

2. Create a DevPost account and click Register on the DevPost API World 2021 Hackathon page.

3. API World 2021 Hackathon Kicks off! Check out the full API World 2021 Hackathon schedule here

4. Review Hackathon Instruction here!

* All Hackathon Attendees must be pre-registered on Eventbrite & DevPost.

 

Requirements

Age - 18 years and older. 

Citizenship - Participants from any country are allowed to participate. 

Location - Virtual

 View Step by Step Instructions here!

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Prizes

$31,500 in prizes

API World 2021 Overall Winner

1st Place Prize: - (2) Amazon Echos (Up to 5) - DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2020-2021 virtual conferences - Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project Build a web or mobile app solution that solves a real-world challenge (for people or companies) in a new, innovative way. Most important factors are: Innovation, Practicality, and Progress on the application in the allotted time.

Symbl.ai Challenge - Go Beyond Speech Recognition with Conversation Intelligence APIs (2)

1st Place: $1K in cash + $1K in Symbl.ai developer credits
2nd Place: $500.00 in cash + $500.00 in Symbl.ai developer credits
Question - Contact: developer@symbl.ai
Go beyond basic speech recognition, and enable applications to truly understand natural human conversations. Conversation intelligence enables you to build applications that not only recognize the spoken words, but also the context of entire conversations. This is easily achievable with various conversation intelligence solutions and APIs. For this challenge, leverage Symbl.ai's conversation intelligence APIs to build a unique application that transcribes and analyzes a single conversation stream, personal or otherwise, to extract actionable insights and analytics. Symbl.ai's APIs will provide all the AI you need, so just focus on building a cool app.Remember, the objective is to take your application beyond speech recognition, so all submissions must combine transcription with extracting intelligence and/or analytics to qualify.

Examples include building a virtual meeting assistant, analyzing a sales call, automated workflows based on sprint meetings, etc… the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination. Happy hacking!

Symbl.ai Challenge - Build an AI App that Understands Natural Human Conversations at Scale (2)

1st Place: $2K in cash + $2K in Symbl.ai developer credits
2nd Place: $1K in cash + $1K in Symbl.ai developer credits
Question - Contact: developer@symbl.ai
Imagine having the ability to transcribe, analyze and extract intelligence from large quantities of conversations across video, audio and text channels by hitting a few endpoints? It’s actually pretty simple to do with Conversation Intelligence (CI) APIs. CI enables developers to take applications beyond just simple speech recognition, and build applications that understand natural human conversations… taking unstructured conversations, across various channels and modes, and converting it into structured intelligence and data. In this challenge, leverage Symbl.ai’s conversation intelligence APIs to analyze multiple conversations (the more streams the better), to accurately transcribe and extract actionable intelligence.

Examples include: analyzing sentiment across large volumes of call center agent calls, intelligence for coaching sales teams, summarizing large corporate meetings or conferences, etc… the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination. Happy hacking!
Simple transcription and speech recognition is not the focus here, it's all about extracting and leveraging the intelligence you get from conversations. Submissions must combine transcription with extracting intelligence and/or analytics to qualify.

WSO2 Challenge - Microservices Project using Ballerina (2)

• $1k Gift Card
• $500 Gift Card
Questions - Contact: dhananjayaw@wso2.com
In this challenge, you are required to create a microservices based solution for a business problem you have using the Ballerina programming language. We prefer that you create a solution to solve an existing business challenge for your organization. Ballerina has inbuilt support for services, communication resilience, data querying, cloud deployment support, observability among many other features. Users are expected to leverage these features effectively in their solution.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Geoff Domoracki

Geoff Domoracki
Founder, DevNetwork

Intesar Mohammed

Intesar Mohammed
CTO and Founder @ apisec inc.

Navdeep Sidhu

Navdeep Sidhu
VP Product Strategy and Business Development @ Software AG

Joao Martins

Joao Martins
CTO @ Yapily

Matthew O'Riordan

Matthew O'Riordan
CEO @ Ably

Tanya Vlahovic

Tanya Vlahovic
Head of Developer Ecosystem & Distinguished Architect @ eBay

Daniel Carrión

Daniel Carrión
CPTO @ INSPIDE

Zohar Babin

Zohar Babin
EVP Platform & Growth @ Kaltura

Vince Padua

Vince Padua
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer @ Axway

Mark Piller

Mark Piller
CEO @ Backendless

Tanel Tähepõld

Tanel Tähepõld
Founder @ PDF Generator API

Vijji Suryadevara

Vijji Suryadevara
Technical Advisor @ NEOM - Tech & Digital

Nuwan Dias
Deputy CTO @ WSO2

Judging Criteria

  • Progress
    How much progress did you make?
  • Concept
    Does it solve a real problem?
  • Feasibility
    Could this become a startup or company?

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