Amazon Web Services launches AWS Hackdays 2019
AMAZON. COM- owned Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) has launched its annual education and hackathon event dubbed AWS Hackdays 2019: Hack for Good, with the goal of empowering a community of Southeast Asian developers to drive positive change using AWS’s technologies.
The hackathon will be conducted online across six Southeast Asian countries, inclu ding the Philippines. Participants are invited to create solutions around four topics: HealthTech, AgriTech, Smart City and FinTech.
At the hackdays, builders in the region will showcase their innovation, and demonstrate skills in either artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML), Internet of Things ( IoT), data analytics or modern applications.
Participants will have access to AWS services such as Amazon Sagemaker to build, train and deploy ML mo dels; Amazon Polly to build speech- enabled applications; and Amazon Lex to build chatbots, as well as AWS IOT services, AWS data analytics, and modern applications such as serverless technologies, microservices and continuous integration and continuous deliver (CI/ CD).
By tapping into AWS technologies, they are encouraged to create cloud-based solutions that can contribute to positive social and economic results across the region, and inspire the next generation of developers.
“Advancements in cloud technology have allowed developers around the world to design and develop solutions that were previously unimaginable, said Nick Walton, managing director for Asean, AWS. “At AWS, we hope to enable members of the developer community to harness the power of technology to drive positive impact for a better world. AWS Hackdays 2019: Hack for Good will provide Southeast Asian builders with access to tools and services on the broadest and deepest platform, and enable them to develop forward- thinking solutions to real world issues that can help improve the way organizations do business, or the way we live.”
For the first time ever, the AWS Hackdays 2019: Hack for Good will include an online component, where participants can submit their entries to aws. agorize. com/ en in an online hackathon.
Five teams in each country will earn the opportunity to participate in the national Demo Days, where they will pitch their final projects to a panel consisting of AWS and other expert judges in the startup/ innovation space.
The deadline for submitting the deliverables for the online hackathon in the Philippines is on March 10, 2019.
Each winning national team will represent their country, and compete in the AWS Hackdays 2019 Grand Finale in Singapore on April 10, 2019.
Entries will be judged on originality and creativity, feasibility and potential impact, and how well the proposed application integrates with AWS services.
The winning team of the AWS Hackdays 2019 Grand Finale in Singapore will receive a paid trip (including airfare, accommodation, and re:Invent tickets) to AWS re:Invent 2019 in Las Vegas, the world’s leading learning conference for the global cloud community.