Category Archives: Developer Spotlight

Spotlight on Africa’s Talking

Yusuf Kaka introduced me to Samuel Gikandi and Michael Kimathi of Africa’s Talking. BTW for any telco or business wanting to build a business and community around service exposure, there really isn’t anyone more experienced and driven than Yusuf. We’ve worked together for close to one decade. Introducing Africa’s Talking The focus of this post … Continue reading Spotlight on Africa’s Talking

Wrapping Up TADHack 2023, and Looking Forward to TADHack 2024

Thank you to everyone who took part in TADHack Global 2023. We had 550 hackers take part from around the world, with over 1200 registrations. I want to give a special shout out to Yeapp, Africa’s Talking, hSenid Mobile and Telesign for all your hard work in running TADHack locations. We had 53 finalist hacks … Continue reading Wrapping Up TADHack 2023, and Looking Forward to TADHack 2024

TADHack Open 2023 Summary

That was an intense weekend! And it continued as we also at Enterprise Connect, presenting the Hackathon Report on Tuesday 28th at 3PM. You can see all the TADHack Open videos here, and all the pictures here. Thank you to Radisys for making TADHack Open possible. And thank you to WebRTC.Ventures for supporting TADHack Open. This is the 10th year … Continue reading TADHack Open 2023 Summary

TADHack Global 2022 Summary

That was an intense weekend! And here’s the TADHack Global 2022 summary. You can see all the videos here. And all the pictures here. This is the 9th year of TADHack, we began in 2014. We’re immensely proud of the many people involved in TADHack and all they’ve achieved. For example, check out these location … Continue reading TADHack Global 2022 Summary

Spotlight on TADHack Sri Lanka 2022

Thank you to the world-class team at hSenid Mobile for making TADHack Sri Lanka 2022 powered by ideamart possible. Sri Lanka is an “original cast member”, there at the launch of TADHack in 2014. Every year Sri Lanka demonstrates its impressive talent to the world, by mashing up the ideamart APIs with the global sponsors. It’s lovely to … Continue reading Spotlight on TADHack Sri Lanka 2022

Spotlight on TADHack Colombia 2022

Thank you to the amazing team at Yeapp! for making TADHack Colombia 2022 possible, especially Gabriel Rengifo and Daniela Granada. This is the 6th year of TADHack Popayán / Colombia. We’re proud of all they have achieved, it is truly world-class. Its lovely to see the progress of the people involved in TADHack Colombia / Popayán: Congratulations … Continue reading Spotlight on TADHack Colombia 2022

Conner Luzier – seeking full-time or project work in programmable comms / WebRTC

Conner Luzier is a TADHack regular. Check out his hacks from TADHack-mini Orlando in 2018, 2019, and 2020. He’s also presented at Enterprise Connect several times, how many soon to be graduates have such industry exposure! He’s looking for work, ideally full-time, but is happy for project work to build his references in the industry. … Continue reading Conner Luzier – seeking full-time or project work in programmable comms / WebRTC

TADHack-mini Orlando at Avaya ENGAGE: The Results

TADHack-mini Orlando at Avaya ENGAGE ran on 11-12th December. It’s a hybrid hackathon (in-person and remote) about using Avaya’s and its partners’ resources (Subspace, Telnyx, Toolwire, Red Hat, and Google) to solve problems that matter to you. You can see all the resources here. This year’s theme, Succeeding in a Hybrid World, focuses on answering … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando at Avaya ENGAGE: The Results

TADHack South Africa Winner: Maftuha

(by Adela Bootha and Talhah Patelia) A big thank you to TADHack, TADHackZA, Alan Quayle and MTNZA for another fantastic Hackathon. Once again we enjoyed the opportunity to learn from the incredible sponsors and to connect with like-minded individuals. This was my third year competing and I have grown tremendously. Due to Covid19, schools and … Continue reading TADHack South Africa Winner: Maftuha

Marquis de Geek’s TADHack Global 2021 Review

Thank you to Steve Goodwin for the excellent feedback. The original weblog is here, this is a copy. I’m writing this the week after TADHack finished, and all the prizes have been cashed. However, all these thoughts were had during the hackathon itself, before even the local prizes were announced, so the results have not … Continue reading Marquis de Geek’s TADHack Global 2021 Review