List of hackathons organized by neo in 2018

We designed this competition as a way for the community to get together and try to tackle the development side of NEO's complex ecosystem. Participants will be divided into several small teams. All teams will have 32 hours to innovate, design and develop their projects related to the theme. We wish for as many of you to try your hand at this event, we're welcoming people from all areas in the NEO community. If you're a seasoned developer, UI/UX designer, or even an avid NEO investor, please join us in this friendly competition for a chance to win some NEO or GAS! * Free NEO T-shirts and catering are provided.    Bounty Program! To encourage more people especially students to actively join this Hackathon, below are extended coding subjects:  NEP (NEO Enhancement Proposals) NEO 3.0 NEO smart contract ecosystem Community development of NEO in Switzerland  Any participants will be awarded at least 10 GAS, and no ceiling for the award!     Hackathon Location and Date Location：Zürich, Switzerland Date： 2018.11.3 - 2018.11.4 Hackathon Awards First Prize - 500 NEO (1 team) Second Prize - 450 GAS (1 team) Third Prize - 300 GAS (3 teams) Mystery Prize (It depends on the submitted work) Hackathon Deadline 6:00 PM, Nov 4th (Local Time)   Schedule November 3rd (Saturday) 08:30   Sign up 09:00   Opening ceremony, announce hackathon theme and rules 09:30   Free Team Up 10:00   Start hacking! 12:30   Lunch November 4th (Sunday) 18:00   Project Submit Due 18:30   Presentations 21:00   Awards Announcement For detailed rules, you can check: Hackathon Specifications For more information, you can also join our discord channel: https://discord.io/neo   * The organisers or/ and professionals commisioned by the organisers will be taking photographs, recording video or making audio recordings during the hackathon which might be shared to the public. Should you wish not be photographed or recorded, please inform the organisers.     Judges Kasimir Blaser Senior Consultant at Swisscom Blockchain AG He has many years of experience as developer and architect. In the blockchain space he is focusing on public blockchain technologies, smart contract development and testing, Self-Sovereign Identities, auditing protocols and operation of full nodes.    Arno Pernthaler Leading the Swisscom Blockchain Academy / Senior Consultant for Enterprise Blockchain Advisory Prior to joining SCB, he was a Digital Strategy consultant at Monitor Deloitte and blockchain consultant at the Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Center of Excellence in Dublin. Arno has written multiple publications on blockchain and holds a Master's degree in Strategy and Entrepreneurship.   Erik Zhang Founder & Core Developer, NEO Author of dBFT consensus mechanism, expert on blockchain technology and computer security and a certified information system auditor (CISA)    Fabian Whale Co-founder of NEX exchange built on the NEO blockchain As an early contributor to NEO and co-founder of City of Zion, NEO’s largest international developers’ community, Fabian is a highly valued member in the NEO community. He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University.      Guido Rudolphi Renowned cyber security and cryptography expert Guido is Chief Information Security Officer for SEBA Crypto AG which is seeking to obtain a Banking and Securities Dealer licence from the Swiss regulator FINMA. He is a Bitcoin pioneer and was running the biggest mining farm in Switzerland.    Dr. Fabian Schär Professor for Distributed Ledger Technologies (Blockchain) and Fintech at the University of Basel His research focus is on interdisciplinary analyses of Smart Contracts, asset tokenization and Blockchain applications. He has a PhD in Cryptoassets and Blockchain Technology and co-authored several publications including the bestselling book "Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets" and several scientific articles.      Dr. Thomas Bocek Professor at the Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil Previously he was the head of P2P and distributed systems at the Communication Systems Group at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on communication systems and networks, especially focusing on peer-to-peer, distributed systems, including Bitcoins and blockchains. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications.      Peter Lin Director of R&D NEO Global Development (NGD) One of the early NEO developers.   Organizers NEO Global Development (NGD) NEO Global Development (NGD) is an organization that was founded by the NEO Foundation (NF) in March of 2018. Its purpose is to focus on the execution of NF strategies surrounding technological R&D, marketing, and community development. As NEO is a non-profit, international, open-source blockchain project seeking interaction and collaboration with the global community, NGD will liaise with organizations and members of the community on behalf of NF. NGD is dedicated to realizing NEO’s vision - the implementation of the NEO Smart Economy, a new economic model empowered by technical innovation and the convergence of community forces. Swisscom Blockchain AG Swisscom Blockchain AG is founded by Swisscom and led by technology experts in the blockchain area with a "Big 4" background. It is supported by Swisscom's infrastructure and development know-how and offers blockchain solutions, advisory services and professional training.  

This hackathon aims to encourage using Go language to write smart contract. Whether you are a seasoned developer, junior coder in tech universities, UI/UX designer, or an avid NEO investor, please join us.  Want to know more about NEO Blockchain ecosystem updates? Please join our workshop on October 20th, or Hackathon Presentations on October 21st at 1PM.  * Free NEO T-shirts and catering are provided.     Bounty Program! To encourage more people especially students to actively join this Hackathon, below are extended coding subjects:  NEP (NEO Enhancement Proposals) NEO 3.0 GO smart contract ecosystem Community development of NEO in Netherlands Any participants will be awarded at least 10 GAS, and no ceiling for the award!    Hackathon Guidelines Hackathon Theme Build dApps of NEO with Golang Hackathon Spirit Learn, Think, and Create Hackathon Awards First Prize - 500 NEO (1 team) Second Prize - 450 GAS (1 team) Third Prize - 300 GAS (3 teams) Mystery Prize (It depends on the submitted work) Location KPN Head Office Rotterdam (Oct 20th) Delft University of Technology (Oct 21st) Attendees 50-100 people, including developers, business and design professionals Hackathon Deadline 1:00 PM, Oct 21st (Local Time) Schedule Sep 21th (Friday) Hackathon Online Announcement We encourage participants to start brainstorming, organizing teams and coding. This is the perfect time to join NEO discord and try to build a team to map out for the next few weeks. We hope the time period from Sep 21st to Oct 21th can be used to sketch out the delegation of work and start coming up with ideas and solutions for the Challenge. Do your best to accomplish as much as possible in this period. It should be the main bulk of the hackathon. Oct 20th (Saturday) Rotterdam  We'll give a workshop and show how to write smart contract in golang. 11:00AM will be the deadline to finalize teams and team concepts. Once it has passed, new team and change of the team will not be allowed. Workshop and Guidance 09:00 Registration 09:30 Welcome notes, intro NEO Smart Economy 10:00 Workshop & Guidance 11:00 Start sprint 22:00 Report deliverables/ feedback session Oct 21st (Sunday) TUDelft Deadline is 1:00PM. After submitting your works, each team has a 10-minute presentation to show off to the judges and fellow teams about their work. We'll provide you with a projector. Winners will be chosen by the judges and announced when consensus is achieved.  Presentation and Award 10:00  Registration & Final sprint 13:00  Team Presentations (10 mins per team) 16:00  Awards Announcement 17:00  Networking and Drinks   For detailed rules, you can check: Hackathon Specifications For more information, you can also join our discord channel: https://discord.io/neo * The organisers or/ and professionals commisioned by the organisers will be taking photographs, recording video or making audio recordings during the hackathon which might be shared to the public. Should you wish not be photographed or recorded, please inform the organisers.       Hackathon Judges   Zeki Erkin, TUDelft Tenured assistant professor in the Cyber Security Group, Delft University of Technology member of TU Delft Blockchain Lab, core member of Cyber Security Next Generation (CSng) and ICT Next Generation (ICTng)   Alexakis Lefteris, KPN Technical Specialist of KPN CTO Technology Labs Expertise on mobile core related projects about telecommunication   Anthony De Meulemeester Distributed systems engineer / Creator of NEO-GO (VM, complier, Node) Master degree in computer science engineering. Have an impact on the world through technology      Peter Lin  Director of R&D NEO Global Development (NGD) One of the early NEO developers     Organizers  NEO Global Development (NGD) NEO Global Development (NGD) is an organization that was founded by the NEO Foundation (NF) in March of 2018. Its purpose is to focus on the execution of NF strategies surrounding technological R&D, marketing, and community development. As NEO is a non-profit, international, open-source blockchain project seeking interaction and collaboration with the global community, NGD will liaise with organizations and members of the community on behalf of NF. NGD is dedicated to realizing NEO’s vision - the implementation of the NEO Smart Economy, a new economic model empowered by technical innovation and the convergence of community forces.   KPN  KPN is a leading supplier of ICT services. We serve a large number of diverse customer groups at home and abroad with our wide range of products and services under various brands. From cloud services to mobile calls. This is our business at a glance. TUDelft Blockchain Lab  Blockchain-Lab established in Delft University of Technology is one of the largest research groups in Europe, consisting of researchers from several disciplines including distributed systems, cyber security, ethics, economy and law. The multi-disciplinary team is focusing on fundamental research questions as well as software development of proposed solutions to be tested in practice. The lab has been involved in several national and international projects and has strong ties with the Dutch Blockchain Coalition.   

This competition is a way for the community to get together and try to tackle the development side of NEO's complex ecosystem. We created several challenges, with difficulty ranging from novice, all the way to challenging. Hopefully, we wish for as many people to try their hand at this event from all areas in the NEO community. If you're a seasoned developer, UI/UX designer, or even an avid NEO investor, please join us in this friendly competition for a chance to win some GAS. The total prize adds up to more than 1000 GAS!   Challenge Guidelines Design and develop a web system that can monitor the NEO network, most importantly the node statuses. Great UI design will be considered as a huge bonus to the resulting service. You can run your system on localhost during exhibition. This Challenge is unique in the sense that we encourage preparation and team-building prior to the challenge date while allowing for the challenges to be known beforehand. Theme NEO Network State Monitoring Challenge Spirit Learn, Think and Create Location To be confirmed Winner Awards First prize - 400 GAS (1 team) Second prize - 250 GAS (1 team) Third prize - 100 GAS (3 teams) Mystery prize (It depends on the submitted work)   Challenge Deadline 7:00 PM, June 17th (London Time) Rough Timeline Initial Announcement of the Challenge ~ June 17th 10:00 AM: This is the perfect time to join the discord and try to build a team to map out the next few weeks. We hope this time can be used to sketch out the delegation of work and start coming up with ideas and solutions for the Challenge. Do your best to accomplish everything in this period and it should be the main bulk of the hackathon. June 17th: 10:00 AM ~ 10:30 AM: We'll give more hints and explanations of the Challenge in detail. 10:30AM will be the deadline to setup teams. Once it has passed, new team and change of the team will not be allowed. 10:30 AM ~ 7:00 PM: This section is the final sprint of the marathon. We hope to see as many people as possible getting together to work in person with their respective groups. The judges will be there to make sure that everyone in the group is present and participating. 7:00 PM ~ End: Each team has 10 minutes presentation to show off to the judges and fellow teams about their work. We'll provide you with a projector. Winners will be chosen by the judges and announced when consensus is achieved. Challenge specifications For more information, you can also join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/knTrtW5   Challenge Judges Peter Lin Director of R&D of NEO Global Development (NGD) One of the early NEO developers.  Anthony De Meulemeester Distributed systems engineer / Creator of NEO-GO (VM, complier, Node)  Master degree in computer science engineering. Have an impact on the world through technology.  Charlie Revett Founder of NeoAuth Blockchain developer based in London. Creator of NeoAuth and maintainer of the Go NEO SDK. Professional experience at IBM and BBC News.