TADHack Global 2017 will run across 30+ locations around the world at the end of September. Locations will run on one of two weekends: 23 – 24 September or 29 Sept – 1 Oct. We tried to keep it to one weekend, but given the complexity of running such a massive global event, we added … Continue reading TADHack Global 2017 Announced
A few weeks back I jumped into my 3rd TADHack event to compete. I’d been doing a good bit of work in the run up to the event using Amazon Lex, so I decided to build a simple interface from the PSTN (or old telephone network for you telecom newbs) to a Lex chatbot. Lex … Continue reading Scott Barstow on Hacking with Amazon Lex
Chatting with the people taking part in TADHack-mini Orlando highlighted a few things we do at TADHack, that perhaps we need to emphasize more in explaining why we’re unique and a great event for people to attend: We bring many technologies together so you can compare, contrast, understand how they can be mashed up, and … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando Review
TADHack-mini Orlando delivered on our motto of TADHack is for Everyone! We had many first time hackers achieving impressive results. The diversity of people from students to business, from hardcore coders to newbies, delivered a freshness and uniqueness of telecom applications that everyone involved was proud to be part of. This weblog is just a … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando Winners
For TADHack-mini Orlando, Telestax, the Restcomm company, would like to help participants that want learn and use our product for the event and to meet the Telestax team on-site. To help participants prepare for the TADHack-mini Orlando challenge, we’ve prepared a short set of tutorials using an innovative online learning tool, Lessonly, to get up … Continue reading Restcomm Tutorial from Telestax
Happy New Year! Its just 80 days until our first mini-hackathon of 2017, TADHack-mini Orlando at Catalyst Spaces on 25-26 March. We’ll also have a meetup on the evening of the 24th March (6-8pm) to help people form teams and network before the hackathon. Then on Saturday we’ll hit the ground running. With this hackathon … Continue reading TADHack-mini Orlando 25-26 March
Firstly, thank you to everyone who took part, organized, or promoted TADHack this year. You’re part of a global community discovering and promoting the latest ways to add communications to your applications, services or business. TADHack is the only global meeting place for developers who want to learn, share, code and create using the tools … Continue reading TADHack 2016 Review and 2017 Plans
For the first time at TADHack we had a sponsor outside the telecoms industry, Carrefour, a French multinational retailer. They are the second largest hypermarket chain in the world, with 1600 hypermarkets. They operate in 30 countries, in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Carrefour means “crossroads” and “public square” in French. Given TADHack is … Continue reading Carrefour at TADHack Global
TADHack Global was massive, 2600 registrations, over 170 hacks. We delayed announcement of the winners until Wednesday 19th Oct as we did not want to miss any hack, every single hack is reviewed both locally and globally as their quality is world-class. The global judges had an exceptionally hard time deciding given the quality of … Continue reading TADHack 2016 Winners
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