Workshop of ideas
WearCityHack brings together passionate developers and talented coders, and provides them with a venue for self-expression to create something new and unique through creativity and technology for future living or smarter wearables. But WearCityHack is more than just another hackathon.
For the best teams, it will be a stepping stone towards a six-month Hack@Home program during which they will be supported by mentors and experts from Berlin-based accelerator AtomLeap. It will help them stay focused and develop their hackathon project — and as a special treat, the Hack@Home phase ends with a presentation at Metropolitan Solutions, the German summit on smart cities of the future.
Organization & motivation
Members of Berlin Partner, AtomLeap, and Wear It Berlin joined forces to create
WearCityHack
. With this special kind of hackathon we want to create a format that focuses on two megatrends: wearables and Smart City. It combines methods of design thinking and service design with technology and research on human needs to create solutions for the city of tomorrow.
The Challenges
With this special kind of hackathon we want to create a format that focuses on two megatrends: wearables and Smart City. It combines methods of design thinking and service design with technology and research on human needs to create solutions for the city of tomorrow covering three core challenges:
- Urban Living: Build innovative wearable devices that help people make better decisions, live healthier, become more social or have more fun doing sports.
- Urban Mobility: Create innovation ideas and novel business models in the field of eco friendly and shared modes of personal mobility, public transport or logistics.
- Urban Sustainability: Improve the environment, nudge people towards more sustainable behaviour and help them lead more healthy lives in the smart city of tomorrow.
The Partners
WearCityHack is supported by amazing partners including IBM, Garmin, Tech Berlin, and Metropolitain Solutions. The participants get access to data sets and APIs from Garmin, IBM, MotionTag, InnoZ, and Business Location Center.
