CreatorCon Hackathon 2016: Revolutionary

[Martin Barclay]

Update: If you are registered for Knowledge16 or CreatorCon you can register immediately for the CreatorCon Hackathon at https://hackathon.service-now.com/hacknow/

Just be sure to use the same email that you used to register for Knowledge16 or CreatorCon!

This year's CreatorCon Hackathon at K16   will take it to a whole other level. Luxe new Developer Hub,   DJ, persistent food & bev, three categories to specialize in, video-taped fast pitches, luminary judging and community voting, all at the center of the K16 action. We're expecting the Developer Hub Hackahon Zone to be bursting with over 300 developers, the biggest ServiceNow hackathon on the planet so far.

Hackathon Zone in the Developer Hub

You'll be competing in one of 3 categories for $3,000 in prizes and the chance to star in a webinar that will be seen by the 30K+ strong ServiceNow developer community. 9 finalists will be selected by ServiceNow luminaries and will compete in a videotaped TC Disrupt style fast-pitch on the Developer Hub floor the next day. CreatorCon and K16 attendees will vote for the 3 category winners and ServiceNow luminaries will pick the GP Winner. Check out the categories and all of the awesome prizes below.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for you to solve a hard business problem that you/your team is actually facing at work or could imagine facing at work. This could be something that you haven't had time or cycles to address in your day-day work life, or something super cool and high value that you've always wanted to try but never had the time or resources. The hackathon is the perfect opportunity for you to take a crack at it, with the very latest ServiceNow Platform release and tools, plus ServiceNow gurus to speed you along your way. Some examples to get you thinking:

• A broken process that is causing wasted time, user frustration, and unnecessary complexity
• A legacy app with a poor UX that is difficult to maintain
• A workflow that takes multiple apps and manual steps to complete
• Big, hairy, audacious app requests sitting in the backlog
• Repetitive tasks involving external systems and processes that take up more time than they should, that if automated would save big bucks, people time, and reduce errors
• Management reports involving enterprise assets, CMDB, and service records that require multiple data sources and reporting systems to get the necessary information and are slow, cumbersome and error-prone to pull together
• Any service (request-action-result)   in any department in your company that is unstructured and uses email, spreadsheets, Word docs, IM, and phone calls to get done that could be improved via process re-architecting, automation, and a consumer-grade UX.
• Crazy things most people would never think about - standing up new physical storefronts; running a smart city, neighborhood, or building. You get the idea.

Since we're not in the business of capping or limiting your innovation, "work" could be either at your current workplace or any place of work/business where you could envision ServiceNow being of value. Let's drill down a bit on the categories:

Platform Vanguard: Best use of new Platform features and tools in Helsinki - think Service Portal, ECMAScript/JavaScript 5, Git integration. Excel XLSX support, native Android app, Delegated Development.

Best Business Solution: An app that delivers the highest tangible/measurable ROI in terms of i)   increasing revenue, productivity, efficiency, business agility, user satisfaction (NPS) or ii)     reducing cost or risk. Think about pitching your app to the CFO or COO.

Most Innovative: This is an open category. The only requirement is that it be of high value to some kind of business (any business, not necessarily your current place of work).   Unleash your creativity about what can be done with the ServiceNow Platform.

Registration Instructions

To get in on the action, follow these three steps in sequence:

1) Register for K16 or CreatorCon

2) Add the CreatorCon Hackathon Session Type to your K16 agenda using the Session Scheduler on the K16 website.

3) Within 24 hours of doing 2), we will send an email to the email address you used in 1) with further instructions to officially register for the Hackathon, start or join a team, and preparing to compete!

Slay your (or any) business problem in 8 hours with your innovation on top of the ServiceNow Platform and be a hero when you get back to work.

#HackNow Team