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TADHack Johannesburg / South Africa

TADHack Johannesburg was our largest location in 2019, with over 200 participants. The sponsors were: MTN, IBM, TCS, Huawei, and CSG; with partners: Here Technologies, SqwidNet, RedBull, and Simwood; making TADHack Joburg possible. One of the reasons live streaming is so important between the TADHack locations is the vibrancy of Johannesburg. I remember Mark White commenting … Continue reading TADHack Johannesburg / South Africa

Location Focus: TADHack Johannesburg (TADHackJHB)

TADHack Johannesburg (TADHackJHB) is the largest TADHack location. This year we’re anticipating over 200 people taking part, registrations are already over 450! MTN South Africa do an amazing job running TADHack Johannesburg, since 2016, making it one of the longest running hackathons in South Africa. TADHackJHB even made it onto breakfast TV in 2016!  Thanks … Continue reading Location Focus: TADHack Johannesburg (TADHackJHB)

List of TADHack Hacks

This weblog provides a list of the 408 TADHack hacks created so far. The data is distributed over the weblogs and YouTube, we’re simply consolidating it into one place. The list covers the hack name, team members, sponsor resources used, description, and link to the pitch video. Its amazing the creativity displayed in this list, … Continue reading List of TADHack Hacks

Announcing New TADHack Partner Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs is the powerhouse behind a number of important decentralized web projects, for example IPFS (Inter Planetary File System) and Filecoin. Protocol Labs mission is broad, to improve the internet and computing. They do so by creating groundbreaking protocols, and speeding up the pipeline from ideas on paper to users’ hands. TADHack and TADSummit … Continue reading Announcing New TADHack Partner Protocol Labs

Mark Shuttleworth Keynote at TADHack Global

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, is back! He keynoted at the first ever TADHack in Madrid. You can see his presentation from 2014 here. At TADHack Global over the weekend of 14-16 October, we’ll have an inspirational video keynote from Mark, which is played near the start of every TADHack location. I’m sure we’ll … Continue reading Mark Shuttleworth Keynote at TADHack Global

GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund

Recently Maxime at the GSMA published a nice report on the role of APIs in developing markets, and referenced the work of TADHack in these markets over the past 3 years. The first round of the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund is now open for applications from start-ups in Africa and selected Asian countries. Successful … Continue reading GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund

Newbies Guide to TADHack

If you’re new to TADHack, a newbie, this weblog is for you! Firstly, the sponsors making TADHack possible are: Apidaze, hSenid Mobile, Huawei, Nexmo, Oracle, Solaiemes, Telestax, Tropo, Truphone, Ubuntu / Canonical; technology partners Appery.io, Metaswitch and Voxbone.  Check out the developer resources, there’s lots of free stuff to play with, and on the TADHack weblog … Continue reading Newbies Guide to TADHack

Truphone is the latest TADHack Sponsor

Truphone are sponsoring TADHack. Demonstrating their leadership of innovation in the telecommunications industry. They will be sharing with developers at the TADHack event exciting plans to revolutionize the telecoms industry and putting developers’ telecom applications front and center of the industry. Truphone’s founder and CTO, James Tagg, will be keynoting at TADHack. Together with Mark … Continue reading Truphone is the latest TADHack Sponsor

Ubuntu / Canonical is Latest TADHack Sponsor

Canonical have just confirmed as the latest TADHack (Telecom Application Developer Hackathon) sponsor. At TADSummit last year Maarten Ectors presented how Ubuntu and Juju Charms enable new telecom services to be launched in minutes; the presentations are here, and the video from the developer sessions is shown below.  At TADHack developers will be able to … Continue reading Ubuntu / Canonical is Latest TADHack Sponsor