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TAPPED: The NFC Accelerator
Make your idea into a Near Field Communications reality! How about the chance to connect with some of the most influential people in mobile and NFC? How about the chance to win some major cash? Tap into that!
Visit our website at tappednfc.com for additional details, developer guide and NFC resources.
What it is
TAPPED: The NFC Accelerator is a collection of three free events, with one goal: drive innovation of novel NFC mobile app prototypes built on solid business plans.
Apps will need to focus on:
- Social – Enhance, alter, and establish social interactions.
- Gaming – Enrich games and possibly take them beyond the digital world and into the physical realm.
- Internet of things – build bridges between the Android device and real-world objects. Leverage tools ranging from NFC tags, NFC-enabled appliances, or dedicated NFC-enabled devices built on Arduino and the Raspberry Pi minimal computing platforms.
Your app will need to run on Android, the leading smartphone platform for NFC development. Loaner devices will be available.,
Visual designers will be on hand to help with app user experience and graphics. You will also get a presentation template so you don’t need to worry about making your presentation to the judges look cool (you can still roll your own).
What you get
Developer help
While we encourage you to take a very good look at our development guide, sample project and app code, expert Android and NFC developers will be on hand. We will also have a back-end developer on hand to assist with server-side matters (as well as folks from Kinvey, a nifty back-end as a service cloud offering we love).
Schedule
TAPPED tour events take place over the weekend and run from 10:30 am on Saturday through 6:30 pm Sunday. Coding will run from 11:30am Saturday through 3:00pm Sunday.
- Saturday
- 9:30 am – 10:30 am Registration
- 10:30 am – 11:00 am Opening remarks
- 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
- Development begins
- Breakout sessions about Android NFC development
- Q&A with some of our API provider partners
- 10:00 pm - You can continue coding but we have to leave the space
- Sunday
- 8:00 am - Back at the Verizon Innovation Center (breakfast)
- 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Judging presentation prep
- 3:00 pm Coding ends
- 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Presentations to the judges
- 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Judges finalize decisions
- 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Award ceremony, drinks, finger foods
Very Important Note
Before we go any further we want to assure you: your code, ideas, thoughts remain YOUR OWN property (or your team’s). You keep your code wherever you want and we will never take it away from you. We want to help spur innovation and help NFC become ubiquitous and that’s it.
Also be aware that the ideas and prototype you present at TAPPED will no longer be confidential. It’s a hackathon and there are people (and maybe even press) around you.
Prizes and Rules
Winner Selection and Prizes
- One winner will be selected for each one of the themes – Gaming, Social, Internet of things
- Each of the three winners will then be ranked with each other to produce an overall winner, second place and a third place winner.
- PrizesPrizes will be distributed as American Express gift cards.
- First Place: $3000 plus $1000 for 3 months of hosting on Rackspace
- Second Place: $2000 plus $500 for 3 months of hosting on Rackspace
- Third Place: $1000 plus $250 for 3 months of hosting on Rackspace
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- First place winner will also get one Samsung Galaxy S3 phone
- Best use of the NFC Geeks API will earn the winner a Google Nexus 7 (NFC enabled, of course) tablet.
Event winners from all three events will be invited to submit their work to Verizon’s NFC challenge, part of Verizon’s participation in this year’s premier NFC industry event, WIMA. The Verizon NFC Challenge winners will be invited to join Verizon in San Francisco, CA, November 27-29, 2012 to present their apps.
But wait... there's more!
After the third and final event a judging panel will decide upon a grand prize winning app.
The grand prize winner will be announced at an MIT Enterprise Forum (link coming shortly) on October 29, 2012. In addition to the prizes above, the grand prize winning app will receive:
- Automatic entry as finalist for the WIMA Verizon NFC Challenge contest, one of only FIVE spots
- $2,000 per month in Rackspace hosting AND admission to Rackspace’s prestigious Startup program
- 12 months free service from Kinvey
In addition, WIMA will offer another wildcard entry to San Francisco and Boston hackathon participants, giving you and only you additional time to enter the WIMA Verizon NFC Challenge.
Gift Cards
Gift cards will be sent to users following the event. That way if you have a team of three you won’t need to find a way to split a $3,000 gift card.
TAPPED Rules
- All coding and development must take place during the event and on event premises.
- Competition entries can be from single developers or from teams of 2-4 developers.
- Competition entries will be presented and must run on a device provided at the event.
- Event participants must be willing to show their code to event staff and able to demonstrate it compiles in an Android development environment.
- All code developed during the event will remain the sole property of its developers.
Competition entries must be related to one of the three themes of the eventsApps must run on an Android device and use NFC in their operation.
- Gaming
- Social
- Internet of Things
- Apps developed during the event will not be secret or confidential. We will use the apps in our publicity materials.
- Winners will provide the Event organizers with a working Android app apk file for demonstration purposes in publicity functions. We will not distribute the app but want to have the ability to remember what you created.
Judging Guidelines
- Working App – the app must be working and demonstrated on the device during the presentation (25%)
- NFC Use – The app must use NFC as a key element in its functionality. (25%)
- Relevance to the the application theme – The app must relate to one of the following: social, gaming or Internet of things. An app can cross boundaries but cannot be disconnected from the themes. (15%)
- Originality – the app bringing something novel to life? (15%)
- Business prospects – Is the app built with a business model in mind? (10%)
- Look and feel – How well does the app look and work? (10%)
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When & Where
Verizon Innovation Center
201 Spear St
San Francisco,
CA 94105
Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 6:00 PM (PDT)
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