{"id":6718,"date":"2020-02-27T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redesign.leogistics.com\/uncategorized\/hackathons-more-than-just-a-school-reunion-of-nerds\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T09:16:52","slug":"hackathons-more-than-just-a-school-reunion-of-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leogistics.com\/en\/blog-en\/hackathons-more-than-just-a-school-reunion-of-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackathons: More than just a school reunion of nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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How a gathering of visionaries can provide new impulses for logistics technologies.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Our first in-house “leoHackathon” will take place on 25 and 26 of March 2020. We are so excited about this occasion; thus, we would like to tell you a little bit about the fascination “Hackathon” in advance. Let’s start with the terminology.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What exactly is a \u201ehackathon\u201d?<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A “hackathon” is a word formation, a kind of fusion, a neologism and is composed of the terms “hacking” and “marathon”. The term “hacking” does not mean any form of negative or even criminal cyber-energy. Rather, the term “hacking” in this context is understood as an approach to approach solutions to problems in new and unconventional ways. To think differently. Embracing new perspectives.<\/p>\n

The second part of the word formation probably results from the fact that a “marathon” is a sporting endeavor. Probably both, the “marathon” and the “hackathon”, are a sweaty matter!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tradition since 1999<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The genesis of the Hackathon dates back to 1999. In this year a software for a pocket computer was developed at the Java-One-Conference in San Francisco. celebrated developer John Gage invented at this time the “competition” called “Hackathon”. The task he set for the participants as the ” event’s supervisor ” was: Invent a program in Java for the above-mentioned pocket computers, which can connect to other pocket computers by using the infrared interface.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Colorful and diverse: a little insight into the \"toolbox\" for creative processes<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The basic philosophy of that time has remained: developing creative ideas in an interdisciplinary team, programming prototypes and implementing successful changes. Hackathons are the catalysts of solutions that often find no room in everyday business life.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Who can participate? <\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A total of 20 people are taking part in our leoHackathon, consisting of colleagues, partners and customers of leogistics GmbH. The constellation of the teams is multidisciplinary from all trades. It is true that the majority of the participants are software architects and developers. After all, they are the namesakes of a “hackathon” and have been genetically interested in “coding” since the beginning of their lives.<\/p>\n

But also participants from the professions of project management, content management, consulting or UX design, both male and female, are most welcome in the teams. Thanks to the mixture of people with different mentalities, (solution) creativity is particularly encouraged. The versatile perspectives and the exchange of knowledge of all participants can lead to exciting “out-ofthe-box” solutions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hotspots for ideas - our logistics main topics 2020<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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All topics to be worked on were selected from the suggestions submitted by customers, partners and employees. A “Call for Paper” was launched in 2019. All participants were given the opportunity to submit their proposals for the topics. In addition to current consulting issues (e.g. planning problems), the selected topics also focus on technological issues (e.g. data migration in S\/4 HANA).<\/p>\n

The following topics made it into the final selection:<\/p>\n