TIM, in collaboration with Google Cloud and Codemotion, launches the first 'Smart Spaces Hackathon' from Thursday 2 July to Sunday 5 July, a real innovation marathon involving the entire innovation community of the country, from startuppers to software developers, from digital designers to marketing experts and many others. The purpose of the event, which hundreds of participants are expected to attend, will be to design new intelligent spaces, i.e. innovative services to improve the places in which we live, with particular attention to the new scenarios linked to the discontinuities introduced by the Covid-19 emergency.
During the hackathon, participants will be invited to test themselves by designing new solutions for the home, offices and outdoors, using the most modern Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Internet of Things made available by the TIM Digital Business Platform, the TIM software platform that is easily usable by developers and with "ready to use" functions thanks to a set of specific programmatic interfaces (Application Programming Interface) and by the Google Cloud platform, the suite of services of Google cloud computing.
In detail, the program is divided into five areas in which the participants will have to conceive and implement the new models: Home, for the environments in which we live; Office, the spaces in which we work; Public Spaces, common spaces, cultural places and tourist attractions; Retail, the processes of production, delivery and sale of enterprises; finally Care Residence, to explore the value of technology in the context of assisting people in difficulty. The initiative is part of the activities of TIM WCAP, the Group's open innovation program for startups and SMEs. Born in 2009, the program is now increasingly oriented towards promoting business initiatives to enrich TIM's offer of digital services.
In the coming weeks, a jury made up of professionals from TIM and Google Cloud will decide the five winning teams, who will receive a prize worth 23 euros each at the awards ceremony on July 5.000rd. Winners will also be able to activate a collaboration with TIM to develop their projects. Particular attention will be paid to projects that will enhance the themes of sustainability and inclusion, founding elements of the vision of TIM and Google Cloud on the theme of innovation which is at the heart of the recent technological partnership signed between the two Groups. In this sense, a special mention is reserved for those projects that stand out in this area.
