You know hackathons, right?

The Speed Hack Challenge is a hackathon on speed! The participating teams of developers will have to solve various tough, strictly time-limited coding challenges.

The Speed Hack Challenge will start in the morning (11:45am) on the last day (Sept.26) of APIStrat in the Developer Track. The total duration is 3 hours (see also the main conference schedule).

Challenges will be announced here

Make sure to do your homework to prepare for the Speed Hack this Friday! The sooner you do these things, the greater your advantage in the competition. At a minimum, you should create developer accounts with all the API providers.

1. Form a team of 1-3 members.
2. Create a developer account with each of the participating APIs and gain an unfair advantage by familiarizing yourself with all of them -- trust us, during the Speed Hack there won’t be much time!

• Twilio Developer Portal
• Twitter Developer Portal
• Context.io Developer Portal
• Respoke Developer Portal
• Traitify Developer Portal
• APITools Developer Portal
• ESRI Developer Portal
• Sendgrid Developer Portal

Descriptions and links are available on the Speed Hack page of the APIStrat website.

1. *New* We will use IRC as our central communication tool during the Speed Hack (for example to submit challenges to judges). For this, download an IRC client like:

• Colloquy for Mac (http://colloquy.info/)
• mIRC for Windows (http://www.mirc.com/)

The channel is #apistrat on irc.freenode.net You can also use the web interface http://webchat.freenode.net/ There you will interact with hapibot who will handle team creation, submitting solutions and judging. You can already join the channel.

To participate in the Speed Hack Challenge, you can get your special "Developer Ticket" here. 

When registering, be sure to indicate "Yes" when you're asked if you want to participate in the Speed Hack. That's all there is to it!

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