DevCup 2013 : Hackathon Brought to You by WebGeek

WebGeek has announced it's second DevCup hackathon event, to take place at the Meralco Multi-Purpose Hall on August 17 to 18, 2013. Participants can now enjoy and show what they got through this two-day event. Last year’s completion was attended by more than 200 developers and participants armed with the single aim of learning and challenging their skills and building apps.

Join this year’s DevCup: You can sign up as an individual participant or register up to a maximum of three as a team. Give yourself the boost to prove that you have what it takes to be called as one of the “best” and manifest your skills during this two-day hackathon. Conceptualize, develop, and create your bizarre kind of app that is of course in harmony with the given theme.

Winning is not the only thing in this event, as you indulge yourself in you will learn how to make decision quick with your team. You can also increase your circle of network, since WebGeek is targeting 50 to 60 teams of participants to hop in. you will certainly meet lots of interesting and useful people for your connections.

Early bird tickets will be available on July 15 - 27, 2013 for PHP250. If you don’t purchase your tickets by then, you’ll be missing out on a 75% discount. It looks like it’s going to a great DevCup 2013 this year, so don’t wait any longer.

For more information about the DevCup 2013, check out http://webgeek.ph/devcup-2013.

iZone-iHub : Changing the Rules of Startup Assistance

An invention is, more often than not, very slow to transcend from conceptualization to implementation. It often requires a critical mass of talents and resources to market and commercialize a single technology no matter how breakthrough it is. This is the main reason why technology business incubators are being established to accelerate the successful development of tech startup firms through an array of business support resources and services, developed and orchestrated by the incubator through its network of contacts and affiliates.

I've read a lot about companies and groups coming up with programs that are aimed to tap into the potentials of entrepreneurs. They are venture capitalists whose ultimate goal is to discover bright new innovative ideas that could make a fortune, and give them a lot of bragging rights to say they invested on that entrepreneur's little project which that's now making a name in the technology industry - meaning the next Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Learn To Launch Competition Preview

Formerly known as Andersen Consulting, Accenture just recently held a warm-up hackathon at their Cybergate Tower office called learn to Launch. Below are some preview pictures of what transpired during the event. I will update this posts once they release the official press release.

Thanks for the opportunity to get some pictures, though I was informed later that it was not allowed in that particular room. Lol!

Top Apps at the PinoyBBDev Hackathon

Philippine BlackBerry developer group PinoyBBDev hosted the PinoyBBDev Hackathon 2012 last August 4 and 5. Almost 100 developers gathered from around the country and spent 35 hours to develop apps for BlackBerry.

Twenty-Two Teams accepted the 2 day hackathon challenge last Aug 4-5. Attendees from several companies, schools, and freelancers join forces to create 22 Blackberry applications using different platforms namely Adobe AIR, HTML5, Native C++, Android and Cascades.