Macaw is an enterprise grade prescriptive Microservices development and runtime platform (https://macaw.io). Participants are required to develop an application or microservice(s) using Macaw Platform and utilizing built-in platform capabilities and prepackaged services such as Identity service, Email service etc. A full list of services available on Macaw platform will be published at the beginning of the hackathon. Participants are encouraged to use Eclipse plug-in for Macaw SDK for defining, creating, publishing and deploying Macaw Microservices. Participants have opportunities to gain additional points:
10:00 AM | Registration Opens / Form Hackathon Teams |
11:00 AM – 11:45 AM | Main Stage Kick-off Talks (Live streamed to partner site) |
12:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Technical Workshops (Workshop Room 1 & Workshop Room 2) |
1:00 PM | Lunch |
7:00 PM | Dinner |
11:00 PM | Doors Close (attendees cannot work overnight on-site) |
9:00 AM | Doors Open / Breakfast |
11:30 AM | Lunch |
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Overall judges visit assigned teams and hear 2-minute pitches (partner site too) |
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Hackathon teams visit sponsors to pitch their projects (remote teams come to HQ to present) |
2:00 PM | Top 5 teams notified |
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Top 5 teams presentations on stage |
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Top 5 teams pitch (2 minutes each) |
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Judges meet to discuss Top 5 Team Pitches |
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Overall winners announced and sponsor winners announced on stage |
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Sponsors and winning teams sync up (make arrangements for prize transfers) |
4:30 PM | Doors Close Promptly |