CreatorCon Challenge 2019 - The Innovative Six

[Martin Barclay]

The short list is in! Congratulations to the 2019 CreatorCon Challenge final six. These developers, entrepreneurs, and startup founders represent the pinnacle of ISV app innovation on the world's most innovative platform.

They have risen to the top of hundreds of entries with break through apps they have created on the Now Platform, and will be live in person in the CreatorCon Challenge Pod in the centrally located CreatorCon area on the Knowledge 2019 show floor to showcase their apps to the twenty thousand attendees so come meet and congratulate them and see what they've created!

All are in the running to be selected as one of the three finalists who will pitch shark tank style in the CreatorCon Challenge Keynote in the Venetian Ballroom to the esteemed judging panel led by Fred Luddy and VC luminaries BJ Lackland (Lighter Capital), Om Malik (True Ventures), and Glenn Solomon (GGV Capital) and compete for a $250K investment from ServiceNow Ventures and then go on to fame and fortune with sales enablement and marketing support from ServiceNow and selling apps on the ServiceNow Store to ServiceNow customers and new accounts in new markets globally. This year the winner will also receive an invitation to the ISV Accelerator at ServiceNow Jay St. in Santa Clara and get access to ServiceNow platform solution consultants, product management, and other key personnel to help guide their product evolution and go to market plans.

The quality bar for the CreatorCon Challenge is high. It takes commitment to make it this far and so kudos to all six who have invested considerable time and effort in not only creating high impact apps,  but also the entry materials themselves - investor pitch video, investor presentation, and app demo video.  We thank you for your commitment, energy, and passion to get this far and for building your business on the Now Platform!

The short list was selected  based on the following criteria:

• leadership team experience and ability to execute
• total available market opportunity
• sustainable competitive advantage and innovation level
• extent of utilization of  Now Platform London or Madrid release 
• extent to which the App complements or extends ServiceNow products or addresses a solution white space
• technical viability of the App as verified by ServiceNow platform technical experts 

The final six in alphabetical order are:

4Industry is a Total Productive Maintenance / Operational Equipment Effectiveness solution for the manufacturing industry.

Green Folder is a unified digital workflow and document management solution for government. 

  

Workforce Connect provides analytics, forecasting and planning processes that connects and directs talent management activities across a company

 

Stave Voice turns ServiceNow into a voice driven system of action by executing commands sent through digital voice assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and more.

Tempo is a single source of record for professional services time tracking, invoice creation, resource allocation, resource matching, and visualizations to track project allocation burndown. 

VividCharts delivers high quality data visualizations, reports, dashboards, and presentations directly in ServiceNow

What's Next?

A ServiceNow executive panel is meeting with each short listed company to see their pitch live, ask questions, and learn more about the people, companies, and apps. The three finalists will be selected by April 12th and will be announced then.

We're impressed and excited by the creativity and developer skill of the short list in addressing clearly defined, high impact business problems that take the Now Platform into new use cases in lines of business and departments across the enterprise and help our customers to drive digital transformation in new areas of their business. This is what the CreatorCon Challenge is all about!