TADHack London 2017

For TADHack Global’s second weekend, I ran TADHack London 2017 in cooperation with UCL and Idea London. London has been part of TADHack since 2015, where we’ve run global and mini events over the years. The themes I took from London this year are an impressive increase in hack quality, augmentation of conversations through the … Continue reading TADHack London 2017

TADHack Global 2017 Winners

We ran a live stream on the 2nd October to announce all the TADHack Global 2017 winners across all locations, ArcFire challenge, and global sponsors’ prizes from Apifonica, Matrix, Telestax, and Vidyo. We’re missing the the Lusaka location winners, and the Telestax video. We’ll update the content when it becomes available. Below I list out … Continue reading TADHack Global 2017 Winners

TADHack Global Weekend #1 Summary

TADHack has grown yet again, with currently 3300 registrations, quite a few locations had close to 300, and of course TADHack Sri Lanka leads the pack 🙂 On the first TADHack global weekend there were close to 100 hacks created from around the world. The locations running on 23 – 24 September were: Auckland, Brisbane, … Continue reading TADHack Global Weekend #1 Summary

TADHack Chicago 2017

As part of TADHack Global 2017’s first weekend, I attended the Chicago location run by the IIT RTC Labs. Chicago has been part of TADHack since its founding in 2014. Each year it gets bigger and better. The themes I took from Chicago this year are a stronger focus on community and humanitarian problems; and … Continue reading TADHack Chicago 2017

TADHackANZ, More than a Hackathon

One aspect of TADHack is we bring many smart, influential and knowledgeable people together focused on programmable telecoms. TADHackANZ have a number of interviews and presentations live-streaming over this weekend, you can see them on the TADHack YouTube channel. We have a playlist dedicated to the live streams from all locations, so you can watch … Continue reading TADHackANZ, More than a Hackathon

Visualizing the TADHack Community

We’ve just finalized the TADHack Global banner.  Wow is it packed this year! Its a great visualization of the TADHack community that comes together to celebrate developers, creativity and programmable telecoms. A big thank you for the global sponsors, Apifonica, Matrix, Telestax, Temasys, Vidyo; and the over 50 partners from around the world running locations. … Continue reading Visualizing the TADHack Community

Vidyo Sponsors TADHack Global 2017

We’re pleased to announce Vidyo, a leader in embedded video,  is the latest TADHack Global 2017 sponsor. Vidyo also sponsored TADHack-mini Orlando in March and had some impressive hacks created using their Vidyo.io platform. Their overall winners were Bruno Alves, Shibli, and Jerry Reed from Valencia College with “Whos_up”. A video and text chat app, … Continue reading Vidyo Sponsors TADHack Global 2017

Sponsored Challenges at TADHack Global

We’ve added a new section to TADHack Global for 2017, Challenges and Ideas. Sponsored Challenges are challenges you can hack on that have prizes associated with them, you must use the global sponsor’s technologies in the hack. So even if you do not win a global sponsor prize or a location prize, you still have … Continue reading Sponsored Challenges at TADHack Global

Finland’s Apifonica becomes the latest TADHack Global sponsor

We’re pleased to announce Apifonica is the latest TADHack Global 2017 sponsor. Apifonica is a communications API provider based in Helsinki (Finland), with direct connection to over 120 carrier networks in 46 countries. As of July 2017, Apifonica’s solutions enable voice calls, SMS messaging and phone numbers inventory management for web and mobile applications serving … Continue reading Finland’s Apifonica becomes the latest TADHack Global sponsor