How can we successful with IoT Hackathon - learn from John

Intro to the Hackathon

Let's start with an introduction to the Hackathon itself. Here we provided a shareable showcase that outlined the themes, challenges, guidelines and rules of the event:
http://prezi.com/u3vmz1xu1hnl/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share


Overview of the winning hackathon entries

Here we have the video's that each of the finalists created, they give a good introduction to the respective app's they submitted

A Big Data fitness app - http://youtu.be/HFQoZSd-uP8 

A Zombie paintball app - http://youtu.be/7a-qYNdkHxY

A CICS monitoring app - http://youtu.be/jkm2sgHQ0jo

A sensor driven/guided robot - http://youtu.be/lhD4_aNojxs


The collateral that the teams came up with and shared (code, doc, etc)

I have externalised these on DeveloperWorks so our external audience can download and try them out.

The collateral: http://bit.ly/ibmhackathon


My external blog entry describing the event.

DeveloperWorks blog: http://bit.ly/j0nnymac


The lessons I learned of the logistics and practicality's of putting a hackathon together

If it's useful - I've also put together a practical guide for delivering a hackathon. Effectively, its everything I wish I'd known before I started.

DeveloperWorks activity: http://bit.ly/hackathonsteps

Thanks to John McNamara for sharing all the experiences...