Intelygenz organizes the largest hackathon for Google Glass developers in Spain

The UPM University School of Informatics will be the meeting place to celebrate the largest hackathon for the development of applications for Google Glass in Spain. An event that will take place tomorrow and has been organized by the company Intelygenz.

this saturday 22 March, The largest application development hackathon will be held in Madrid for Google Glass from Spain. The event has been organized by the Spanish custom software development company Intelygenz , with the collaboration of the University School of Informatics of the UPM and the sponsorship of BBVA, Estrella Damm, Telepizza and Nextinit.

This hackathon will be held at the facilities of the University School of Informatics of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and will begin the 8 in the morning with an introductory talk to the event to, later, launch the challenges that participating developers will have to face. At the end of the work day they will have to deliver and defend the results obtained before a jury made up of the Intelygenz technical team and a representative of each sponsor..

This celebration aims to help developers learn to program for Google Glass, detect pioneering ideas in development for this device and attract new talent. With this objective this hackathon will bring together 90 professional developers who will have four Google Glass units to test the apps and will have an introduction to the GDK (Glass Development Kit – App Development Kit for Glass), the interface used to program them.

How the idea came about

The Google Glass hackathon arose from ideas presented by Intelygenz employees through the open innovation platform Nexinit, that offers companies a service to attract and manage innovation through crowdsourcing, motivating the community through gamification techniques.

Nextinit transforms everyone involved into entrepreneurs, whose ideas have to convince the rest to invest with their virtual currency. Every time an idea moves forward in the process, wise investors and those with brilliant ideas are rewarded with more virtual currency..