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Going forward a New Guinness World Record – IBM is a proud partner of the @koding Global Virtual Hackathon, over $150K in prizes, December 12-13, koding.com #hackathon

Koding Inc. has announced its second annual global virtual hackathon, set for December 12-13. Sponsored by IBM, this year’s virtual event is expected to draw more than 100,000 participants worldwide, setting a new Guinness World Record and surpassing last year’s inaugural event, which set the record for the largest-ever virtual hackathon.

IBM’s sponsorship of the event is part of the company’s strategic relationship with Koding, a developer community and cloud-based developer environment that allows users to easily work, collaborate, write and run apps—all within a Web browser. Confirmed hackathon participants will receive an invitation for a free trial of IBM Bluemix, an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture based on Cloud Foundry, an open source platform as a service.

Registration is now open, and teams of up to five developers from around the world can sign up for this year’s hackathon at https://koding.com/Hackathon. During the event, participants will have 48 hours to hack their way into $150,000 in cash prizes. This year’s themes include educational games, enterprise productivity and data visualizations.

Koding was inspired to tap the minds of developers all over the world for a second year after an overwhelmingly positive response to last year’s event. Koding’s 2014 hackathon had more than 60,000 participants from a total of 900 total cities, and more than 500 projects were completed and submitted within 48 hours.

Wimbledon And Bluemix! The IBM Hackathon that disrupts the Fan experience!

I am live in London for the excitement in the developer and entrepreneur communities.   Monday June 15th kicks off London’s Tech Week!

But we have been busy ahead of time!

For two days, IBM invited developers to rapidly build new ways to create an even more exceptional experience for fans on site at Wimbledon.   The coders used IBM Bluemix,our Cloud platform that is the fastest growing developer platform in the world!

The winners were serial Box which was all about automating the ticket resale process!

hack winners wimbleton

Check it out!

https://storify.com/ibmevents/ibm