Hackers, innovators, tech specialists, artists, makers and coders! Come share your knowledge to develop the next game changers in the Music Tech industry at the Wallifornia Music Tech Hackathon in Liege, Belgium July 5-6!
Participants will join forces with the aim of developing an overnight unicorn and compete for a 2000€ cash prize and tickets for all 4 days of the Les Ardentes Music Fesival!
Travis Laurendine, who has run Hackathons for SXSW, Outside Lands, Bonnaroo, The White House, The Super Bowl and others, will be facilitating! Then stay for the fantastic Les Ardentes Music Festival, too!
Wallifornia Music Tech Hackathon
July 5-6
9:30am July 5 - 11:00am July 6
Location: Halles des Foires - Quai de Wallonie, 4000 Liège
In conjunction with Les Ardentes Music Festival
Additional prizes and gifting courtesy of Cloudinary, Merge VR and Musimap
Eligibility
You must complete an application by Thursday June 29, 2017 at 12:00pm CST to participate (some exceptions may apply at our sole discretion). You must be selected as a participant. Once you are selected as a participant of the Contest, You will be required to submit a project (“Project”) in compliance with the rules set forth herein (“Project Requirements”). At least one member of your team must be on-site for the duration of the Contest.
Requirements
• You must write fresh, new code and put the code in a repository that our judges can review.
• You must use at least one of the APIs provided by us for the Contest.
• Your Project must be your own original work created for this Contest, except for any materials made available by us for the Contest.
• Your Project cannot have been selected as a winner in another contest.
• We, in our sole discretion, reserve the right to disqualify any Project containing racial, religious, or ethnic slurs, explicit language, obscene, defamatory, pornographic, violent, or sexual content, or libel, hate speech, references to alcohol, drugs or other illicit substances, or otherwise objectionable, offensive, illegal, inappropriate or prohibited material.
• By entering, you represent and warrant that: (i) your Project includes only material that you own or that you have permission from the copyright/trademark owner to use (including source code, user interface, music, video or images); and (ii) your Project does not contain any third party copyrighted materials, and otherwise do not violate or infringe the rights, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademark rights or rights of publicity/privacy, of any third party.
Prizes
€2000 cash prize
Les Ardentes Music Fesival Tickets
Free Landr Pro account.
Lifetime subscription to PlayGround. 1 CTRLCap.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
To participate, visit https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-wallifornia-musictech-hackathon-2000-cash-prize-34664700051 and submit a Contest application.
Participants will be selected based on the completeness of their application and the potential to impact the music and VR/AR industries. Selected participants will be notified of their selection before the Event. If you are a minor and are selected to participate, you must get written permission from your parent/legal guardian before you can participate.
Judges
Nicolas Roebben
SABAM
Fred Feytons
Tapptic
Youri Balcers
CTO / Himeta
Emeric Florance
Dev for Playground
Virginie Berger
CEO Armonia + DBTH
Björn Lindborg
STHLM Music City
Matt Clark
Last.fm
Judging Criteria
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Judging
Judges will select finalists and winners with the highest scoring submission based on the judges’ opinions on the following factors: Impact to the Music and VR/AR industries (25%); User Experience (25%); Innovativeness (25%); Technical Excellence (25%)
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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