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It's all about design and consumer experience. Hack into the power and create new solutions for the digital future. Collaborate with other professionals, master your skills and conquer the digital frontier. The idea behind the hackathon: combine energy and entertainment in a innovative way, and develop things that are fun and relevant & deal with modern connectivity.

Are you the right guy?

We’re looking for developers, designers, strategists or business people who want to explore the Internet of things in a new way. All you need is enthusiasm & creative thinking. Have fun with the development of innovative concepts using anything you can find on the spot. Sign up for our newsletter and register here. Please join alone or sign up as a team. The community is waiting for you already.
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Choose your character

The #hckr

You are half human half learning machine. When you wake up in the morning, you check the weather variables to see if you have to make adjustments to your previously calculated dressing algorithm. For you, your home feels like a badly coded software dinosaur. None of the methods or operators properly interact, nothing is properly streamlined. Hack, it feels like a someone put 150 high school kids who never met each other into a gymnasium. Everybody used their own language, nobody cared about performance or ressources, somehow a working prototype happened to serve the basic functions and people just went with it. Nobody ever cared about refactoring - until today!

The #beautifuleur

You are an artist at heart. To you, a morning is good when things fit together nicely: Fresh air let inside your sunlit room by opening the window with that beautiful handle you picked up on that fleamarket in Lyon last summer. Amazing how good a piece of metal can feel in your palm, isn’t it…? To you the homes of most people are just depressing. So many things feel wrong and seem to only be there because some robot decided they were necessary. Who ever came up with the idea putting a plastic-lamello-knob somewhere in the corner behind your couch that you have to climb to in order to do something as beautiful as making your room feel warmer? It is about time someone with a sense for aesthetics and user experience gave this whole concept a thorough overhaul - let’s get on with it, shall we?!

The #Analy$t

You just know your way round in the modern world. As a strategic thinker who is up for new ideas and the next big thing. First thing you check when you wake up in the morning is your newsfeed with the latest business alerts and the global politics. You have an app that informs you about the share prices and market quotations from market closings in New York and the opening of the Tokyo stock exchange, your regular update of the Frankfurt stock exchange follows later during the day. You know your math and are familiar with figures and graphs. The template to calculate the business case of large investments is always at hand, and you frequently use it also for private decisions. You are success-oriented and pragmatic. Working in a team for you means being an opinion leader and making sure that the process is structured and within schedule. But you are definitely up for the fun part, as well. Work hard, play hard!

How does it go´s?

The Power Hack: That's two days full of interesting material. On day one, registration opens, you arrive, you scope us out and share skills, create teams, meet judges, and then the hacking begins. Then, eat some food, collaborate with professionals and expand on your ideas. Hack through the night, grab a nap, or take a beer break with the other participants. On day two, you can practice your pitch, eat more food, and still have enough time to continue working on your project. In between and at the end teams present their outcomes, a panel of judges decides on the winners and prizes are awarded. Afterwards at the party, contacts can be intensified. For all the winners, we offer a deep dive session on Saturday morning.

Schedule Overview
Day 1

Arrival // Get together
Briefing
Lunch
Pitch // teambuilding
Start Powerhack
_Open end_
Day 2

Re-Opening 
Mentoring // Feedback
Lunch
Pitch // Business Plan, Design & Most innovative
_Party_
1/2 Day 3

Deep Dive //
for all winners and other interested parties


_see you next time_

#PowerHack special features

Operation
Not only the content is all about the connection of entertainment, energy and technology. It is also reflected in the format of the hackathon. In your groups you go through ever new levels, and can collect points for each of your team.Those points can be exchanged for special support in order to improve your chances.

Jury
The jury is made up of professionals from different disciplines. In addition to the jury you will own vote on the individual projects. You introduce yourself in different categories with the judgment of the other participants.

Professionals
Professionals in the field of Internet of Things.

Networking
Enough time to exchange ideas and get to know.

Support
Experts from business and the start-up scene answer your questions and help you to develop your ideas.

Ongoing
This is the kickoff of a series of events.



Power-Packs
API´s
yetu gateway with open source software
Wishlist of NEW gadgets

What our Jury says?

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Kyle Killit
CEO at E.ON

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Sergie Kalashnikov
CEO at yetu

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Bryant Chou
CTO at Pfeffermind

What to win?

Get the throphy: Deep Dive – You gain a deep dive with our experts and get an thorough assessment of your concept with the chance to realize it. 

Where to play?

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