What’s different this year?
This is the first ever TADHack dedicated to a single sponsor, STROLID, and focused on vCon. Virtual conversation (vCon) is the global standard for conversations. After the success of TADHack 2024 we’re bringing that learning to TADHack 2025. Simply, each sponsor gets a dedicated online event, and we stagger multiple sponsors’ events over time.
This enables better focus on each sponsor’s resources, provides fairer judging for each event, online hackathons work well, we’ve been doing them since 2014, and enables each sponsor to structure the event to their specific needs.
It’s not just about prize money. Winning at TADHack is a great addition to your resume, and last year we had a variety of internships. Enabling those seeking such opportunities to get invaluable real world experience. The vCon ecosystem is expanding rapidly, we’re hoping to grow the internship opportunities.
For the vCon TADHack, the focus is creating vCon apps for the vCon App Store.
Prize Money
STROLID’s TADHack will have $5k in prize money, a variety of awards and recognition, and if you are interested in internships all you need to do is ask. If you get an app in the vCon app store, you have a side hustle!
Resources and Guidance
There’s now a vCon App Store. This has 3 components:
- vCon Creator – something that creates vCons, for example a SIP trunk or a collaboration app. There are also vCon data files you can use.
- vCon Bucket – hosts the vCon data, ensures compliance, and enables people to know if their data is stored and enables its removal.
- vCon App – these are all the cool things you can build using vCons. All your communications from the day are stored and analyzed to produce to-do lists, recommendations on priorities, and updated targets.
We’re going to provide more information and guidance soon, this is just to help you see what we have planned. Remember the early days of the Apple App Store? Will we see the same goldrush with the vCon App Store?
Timetable
- Early May, announce vCon TADHack, explain the event’s process, and share the resources once available.
- Monday 2nd June – live event for Q&A (hacks can start at anytime, but you should get going by then)
- Monday 9th June – live event for Q&A
- Thursday 12th June Submission deadline (6PM ET)
- Monday 16th June announce the winners (3PM ET)
- Wednesday 18th June, TADSummit Online Conference session (10AM ET). Strolid and its winners share their experiences, and plans for the future.
- Throughout the TADSummit Online Conference series, not just in 2025, but beyond. As teams develop their hacks and bring them to market, TADSummit Online Conference provides a channel for market awareness. Plus share their intern experiences.
Important Links
Register: send an email to (info @ tadhack.com – remove spaces) with the list of team member names and their email addresses.
The vCon GitHub Repo <https://github.com/vcon-dev/vcon>
And here is an interview with Dan Petrie who created py-vcon-server.
