Microsoft Ventures
Microsoft Ventures Hackday
Microsoft Ventures presents an exclusive hackday; a chance for top developers to dive into application development using the APIs of our portfolio companies. The hackday will be held on July 4th & 5th at the Microsoft Ventures office in Bangalore. So if you want to hack on bleeding-edge APIs of cutting-edge companies - this is where you've gotta be!
What to expect
Get introduced to the latest and most innovative tech from our portfolio companies.
- Make desktop docs natively usable anywhere on the Web?
- Analyze social trends on Twitter and mash them up?
- Want a workspace for collect and keep parts of the web and collaborate?
- Get super detailed social information just from an email id?
- Want to mine a knowledge graph on the lifesciences?
- Build extensions and plugins to deliver the best customer service on email?
- Hack around with the HasGeek API?
Grab this opportunity to work with the founders themselves - there to assist you in building your hacks and using their platforms! Become some of the earliest adopters of the APIs: the building blocks of future multi million dollar businesses.
We even have many exciting prizes, based on these criteria:
- Technology
- Design
- Value proposition
- Inspiration
So what will these two days look like?
- 6-7pm: Startups talk about their APIs
- 7pm-4pm: Build, build, build!
- 4-5pm: Judging
- 5pm: Prizes
- 6pm: It's a wrap!
And that's it! You will be provided will all the necessities, with unlimited soda/coffee/tea/energy drinks/pizza/sandwiches in order to keep energy and caffeine levels at a high. All you need to bring is a laptop and yourself!