Overview

GE Digital, the newest company within the GE portfolio, is bringing the Industrial Internet to life by connecting minds and machines. The GE Digital Hub Detroit, located between Detroit and Ann Arbor, is home to nearly 800 of the world's best Digital Technology professionals who are changing the way we work by leveraging our Predix platform.

We are proud to present this year's Detroit Maker Faire at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. As part of the Maker Faire, we will host a unique Hackathon that will give innovators a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build on our Predix platform to create Smart Museum solutions at the Henry Ford. We're looking for technical innovators of all kinds, from early career to senior professional developers to join us.

Hack Categories

Here are the hack Categories:

Over all champion
Design Originality
Technical Difficulty & Usability
Potential Value to the Henry Ford Museum
User Experience & Functionality

These hack categories are carefully picked to give hackers this unique opportunity to solve the real life use cases for The Henry Ford Museum by using GE's Predix platform. By providing solutions for these use cases it will help The Henry Ford Museum to convert their analog operations to digitally smart using Predix and maintain their 125 years old American innovation history archival of artifacts for the coming generations to enjoy and learn.

You will be hacking one of the three use cases randomly selected by each team, there will be up to 25 teams, 5 members in each team. If you are registered as an individual participant you will be added to a team by the administrator of the hackathon.

Eligibility

The Competition is open to all individuals, able to attend in-person, over the age of 18 who are residents of the United States for the duration of the Competition (“Eligible Individuals”), teams of such individuals (“Teams”), and to all validly formed legal entities domiciled in the United States that have not declared or been declared in bankruptcy. Employees and contractors of GE and any of their respective affiliates or subsidiaries are not eligible to enter.

Requirements

Predix is an easy-to-use system. However:

Predix does require software coding skills. While most skills are quite common in a developer’s portfolio, not all of them are (e.g. CF CLI). In particular also, mastering the powerful and uncompromising security scheme can be a challenge though for starters. Also consider that you will run a “Platform-Hackathon”. A developer needs to understand how to navigate the Predix platform, how to deploy services, and so forth. We recommend six (6) hours at very minimum learning, even for experienced software developers. (Caution: Don’t confuse that with an “API-Hackathon”, which is common in the consumer space, e.g. using Google Map API. A simple API can be learned often in 20 minutes or less. However that is NOT sufficient for a “Platform-Hackathon” such as in the case of Predix).

Important: See below for Predix training recommendations.

General software skills requirements

(by hackathon team, not by each developer):

HTTP, REST and JSON form the interface of the cloud-based Predix services.
Cloud Foundry CLI (command line interface) enables management of applications in the cloud. Cloud Foundry UAA is the critical OAuth based security piece. Predix takes an uncompromising attitude toward security, so if unfamiliar with OAuth expect a learning curve.
Predix Machine leverages Java to run on a wide array of devices. Java is most widely used today for Predix app development, hence also the vast majority of tutorials and code samples for Predix Cloud development as of today are Java based. While most programming languages are supported via Cloud Foundry Build Packs, expect to spend more time learning for non-Java languages. Also note, C# / .NET is NOT supported widely with Predix, as of today.
Predix UI web components are Polymer-based, and downloaded with Bower.
In addition, depending on your specific application use case, we find the following software skills to be valuable: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS for front-end development; Spring, OpenJPA for back-end development; SQL (Postgres) and / or Redis for database development; Maven for software builds; Eclipse incl. Sprint Tool Suite (STS) for IDE based development; Linux Shell for Predix Machine deployments.

Submission Requirements

All submissions done via Devpost, at detroitindustrialhack.devpost.com

If you have not created a Devpost account yet and registered, you should.

Below are the requirements for submitting the application.

What is it?

Brief description of the application

What problem(s) does it solve?

Problem statement of the application and the logic it will use to solve the problem

How it works?

How does the user interface with the application and what kind of features does it have

Technologies used?

Describe tech stack that was used to build your application

Link to the application and the github repo.

Participants – Recommended Training

Self Paced Learning Content

Predix Technical Overview (30mins) – Video
Intro to Cloud Foundry (30mins) – Video
Predix Fundamentals (1hr) – Video

Additional Content: Optional

predix.io/resources/training

Implementing Security (1hr) - Video
Reference App and Time Series

https://www.predix.io/resources/tutorials/journey.html#1905

Asset Modeling (1hr) - Video
UI Basics (30mins) - Video

Exploring Analytic Services – Journey
Predix Tool kit

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$12,000 in prizes

Detroit Industrial Hack - Best Overall $5000 (Non Cash Prize)

Best in all categories including Design, Usability, UX, Adaptability and Desirability. Show understanding of Predix platform and its usage.

Prizes: Apple Watch, Beats Headset, Amazon Echo, Samsung Gear VR W/Controller

Design Originality - $2500 (Non Cash Prize)

Best innovative UX design for application

Prizes: Beats Headset, Amazon Echo

Technical Difficulty & Usability - $2500 (Non Cash Prize)

Algorithm that maximizes solution efficiency and usability

Prizes: Apple Watch, 1080P Camera Drone

Potential Value to The Henry Ford Museum - $1000 (Non Cash Prize)

Entire problem statement addressed (only one out of three use cases)

Prizes: Amazon Echo, CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3

User Experience & Functionality - $1000 (Non Cash Prize)

Make it easy to use, add value, make it adaptable to scale and engaging to the user

Prizes: Amazon Echo, CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3

How to enter

To complete registration, you must sign up to create a free Eventbrite account, or log in with an existing Eventbrite account. This account can be created at Eventbrite.com. All registration information you provide is collectively referred to as your "Eventbrite Account." Once you have a Eventbrite account go to https://detroitindustrialhack.eventbrite.com address and click on the register button, follow the instructions and fill out all the details and submit your request. This Eventbrite registration is the first step of entire this registration process, it does not guarantee a spot for this hackathon. If you are selected, you will receive an email confirmation notification and further instructions from us to complete the registration.

At the Eventbrite registration page, you will find and must follow further instructions for submitting your completed proposal (your “Submission”). By making a Submission, you formally accept the Official Rules for this Competition and you agree that (a) your Account is complete, correct and accurate and (b) your registration may be rejected or terminated and your Submission submitted by you may be disqualified if any of the information in your Account is (or Sponsors have reasonable grounds to believe it is) incomplete, incorrect or inaccurate. You are solely responsible for your Account. You will receive an email from the GE Digital Hackathon team with further instructions for completing the registration. You must follow the email instructions from the GE Digital Hackathon team for creating Predix, Devpost accounts, competition website and other Predix setup information for you or your team. All these accounts will collectively use throughout the competition and must follow all the instruction from the GE Digital Hackathon team. You will be using Predix as a part of the Competition, you must sign up for a Predix Free Trial, and agree to the Predix terms and conditions in connection with the Free Trial. This can be created by completing the form at https://www.predix.io/registration/. All of the registration information that you provide is collectively referred to as your "Predix Account." Your Devpost Account and Predix Account are collectively referred to as “Accounts.”

Note: Agenda is subject to change

Agenda for the Hackathon	Date	Start/End Time	Day	Notes
Registration	28-Jul	3:30PM	Friday	Sign-In, collect your team information & swags
Welcome & Key Note	28-Jul	5:00PM	Friday	Welcome & Key Note from GE and the Henry Ford
Maker Mixer - Food & Beverages	28-Jul	6:00PM	Friday	Maker Mixer by the Henry Ford
Day One Concludes	28-Jul	7:00PM	Friday	Day One Concludes
Hacking Begins	29-Jul	8:00AM	Saturday	Hacking Begins
Catered Breakfast	29-Jul	8:30AM	Saturday	Catered Breakfast
Featured Speaker	29-Jul	11:15AM	Saturday	Becoming Digital Industrial
Catered Lunch	29-Jul	12:00PM	Saturday	Catered Lunch
Tech Talk	29-Jul	4:00PM	Saturday	Predix and Augmented Reality - A modern industrial experience
Catered Dinner	29-Jul	6:00PM	Saturday	Catered Dinner
Day Two Concludes	29-Jul	8:00PM	Saturday	Day Two Concludes
Hacking Begins	30-Jul	8:00AM	Sunday	Hacking Begins
Catered Breakfast	30-Jul	8:30AM	Sunday	Catered Breakfast
Tech Talk	30-Jul	11:15AM	Sunday	Connecting networks with Enterprise Connect
Catered Lunch	30-Jul	12:00PM	Sunday	Catered Lunch
Hack Ends & Final Submission Due	30-Jul	2:00PM	Sunday	GE Judging Panel
Featured Panel Discussion	30-Jul	3:15PM	Sunday	Digital Revolution Fueling Entrepreneurs
Winner pitches & prizes	30-Jul	3:45PM	Sunday	Announcement of the winning team, demo, prizes and closing
Day Three Concludes	30-Jul	6:PM	Sunday	Day Three Concludes

Judges

Kamil Litman
VP - Software Engineering, GE Digital

Sanjay Das
Product Manager, GE Digital

Jason Torrez
Sr. Director - Software Engineering, GE Digital

Phil Grumm
Curator of Digital Learning, The Henry Ford

Anna Cronin, Ph.D.
Corporate Relations Manager

Brent Cieszynski
VP - Security & Compliance, GE Digital

Judging Criteria

Detroit Industrial Hack - Best Overall
Best in all categories including Design, Usability, UX, Adaptability and Desirability. Show understanding of Predix platform and its usage
Design Originality
Best innovative UX design for application
Technical Difficulty & Usability
Algorithm that maximizes solution efficiency and usability
Potential Value to The Henry Ford Museum
Entire problem statement addressed (only one out of three use cases)
User Experience & Functionality
Make it easy to use, add value, make it adaptable to scale and engaging to the user

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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