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Disrupt NY - Sponsor Prize Details!

Our sponsors have provided some amazing prizes. Check out these contests running at the hackathon:

Amazon Alexa

Best use of Amazon Alexa in a voice user experience. The winning team will receive an echo for each team member (up to four).

Cisco

Come hack with Cisco Spark and Tropo! Connect applications and processes to enhance customer engagement across many industries or solve problems. Use Cisco Spark APIs to integrate and customize collaboration experiences. Add real-time communications to apps by using Tropo APIs. These open APIs are easy-to-use with access to 24/7 developer support, so you can build off the platforms anytime from anywhere.

Prize: Cisco will be giving away DJI Phantom 3 Standard drones and BB8 Spheros (5 of each) for the best use of our Cloud Collaboration APIs in a hack

Esri

Best use of Esri ArcGIS mapping technology wins $5,000! ($2,500 cash, plus $2,500 valued ArcGIS Online subscription). ArcGIS is the Location Platform for Apps. Quickly add geo to your apps using Esri’s online services and SDKs. Develop in the API of your choice and deploy on any device.

HARMAN International

The top three use cases of the following HARMAN SDKs/APIs will win our headphone and speaker swag kits.

Best Overall use of Everest Headphones SDK:
Winning team receives a max of 5 Everest Headphones 5 Pulse 2 Speakers & 5 Omni 10 Speakers

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. We are challenging developers to think about applications that could help transform learning, inside and outside of the classroom. Do you have great ideas about the next generation of digital learning tools for teachers and students? Or a way to help families stay engaged in their children’s learning?Prize: $5,000 (All developers who use our API in the hackathon will also get a T-shirt.) IBM Watson

Have a great idea on how you can build with Watson? Exercise your skills and creativity by creating a cognitive app using Watson services. Leverage the latest in self-learning technology. Participate in the IBM Watson category to:

Get hands-on with Watson capabilities Develop an app powered by artificial intelligence Give your hack team a competitive advantage Increase your chances of ending up on the winners’ stage Prize: Apple Watch (each member of the winning team up to five members)

Microsoft

1. Office Apps and Add-ins Contest

Two ways to be eligible for this contest:

Build using Office 365 APIs powered by Microsoft Graph, OR
Build an Outlook, Word or Excel add-in

Judging Criteria Categories:

Solutions that help solve big problems and provide high user value
Completeness of the solution; build a working solution that can be used right away
Extensive use of Office developer platform; use several REST API’s or build an add-in

Prizes:

1st place – $3,000
2nd place – $1500
3rd place – $500

2. Office 365 Connectors Contest

Build using the Office 365 Connector platform

Judging Criteria Categories:

Solutions that help solve big problems and provide high user value
Completeness of the solution; build a working solution that can be used right away _ Extensive use of Office 365 Connectors platform

Prizes:

1st place – $3,000
2nd place – $1500
3rd place – $500

pmdtechnologies

Google CardBoard devices have been around for a while with hundreds of developers creating apps for it but without touchless interaction. Until now. pmd, Google’s 3D depth sensing partner for Project Tango, is making its technology available for CardBoard developers, successfully partnering with gestigon enabling the most intuitive and immersive input for VR: touchless interaction.

Using pmd’s 3D ToF technology in combination with gestigon’s Carnival SDK enables you to understand where your hands and fingertips are. Playing VR chess, re-decorating your VR living room, grap/touch/push/pull VR content, even bringing real objects into the virtual world … we are happy to put this into your hands. Literally.

Prize: $5,000

Twilio

The best use of Twilio’s API will score you an Amazon Tap for each member of the team.

URBAN-X

URBAN-X’s mission is to catalyze, educate, invest in, and advocate for startups who are shaping the future of cities through technology. Hack with city data, creating new products and services that make cities more livable, efficient, and sustainable. This is your chance to show us what you can build to make the city a better place and have your worked judged by people passionate about making it happen. Check Devpost for more info.

1st place – $3000
2nd place – $1500
3rd place – $500

Radix

Radix is offering prizes worth $5000 for the best project using a Radix domain name (.TECH, .SPACE, .ONLINE, .SITE, .PRESS, .WEBSITE and .HOST). Register here

1st prize - $3000
2nd Prize - $2000