MasterCard, one of AnyPresence’s strategic customers, has kicked off an exciting series of 10 hackathons on February 7th, 2015. These hackathons circle the globe, from Sydney to Tel-Aviv, Singapore, Montreal, Sao Paulo, and San Francisco, to identify Masters of Code.
Sponsored and hosted by MasterCard, the competition aims to find the best developers around the world and award them the title of Masters of Code Champions. Contestants will be given access to MasterCard’s APIs to create innovative prototypes focused on driving the next generation of commerce applications.
Several of the APIs used in the hackathon, such as MasterPass and Locations, provide fully working sample apps and SDK source code via the AnyPresence App LaunchPad solution, to help accelerate development efforts.
Winning teams from each hackathon will be flown to the Silicon Valley to compete for the Masters of Code Championship at the grand finale in December 2015.
The grand finale prizes are enticing! They include:
- Grand prize of $100,000 to develop the winning innovation.
- Two weeks on-site at the MasterCard Start Path accelerator location in Dublin, Ireland, or an alternate remote program.
- Six months of mentoring from a member of the MasterCard Open API executive team and the Start Path program team.
- Free payment processing for up to $250,000 in transactions for the first 12 months using Simplify Commerce.
You can find more information including rules, judging criteria, prizes and how to register to local events at mastersofcode.com/.
And to learn more about AnyPresence’s Hackathon offering, email info@anypresence.com.