Cisco Developer Contest – The Winners!
On October 14th, 2008 we announced the Cisco ‘Think Inside the Box’ Developers contest with an objective to educate our application developer community on the power of the network as a platform for enabling innovation. The response to this contest was phenomenal. With over 900 registrants and 110 qualified teams submitting proposals in Phase-1, to the challenge was to narrow the list down to ten finalists who got a chance to develop applications on the Cisco Integrated Services Router’s Application Extension Platform.
For Phase-2, these ten finalists were asked to convert their paper proposals to workable prototypes – in 90 days! Eight teams made the cut with application concepts that impressed the judging panel we assembled.
We had asked the contestants to “Imagine. Innovate. Inspire”. And these finalists certainly did. These judges were very impressed with the quality of the ideas and the way these applications were demonstrated. We decided to host the demos from the final eight for you to judge here.
It was a difficult choice for the judging panel as there were a lot of innovative ideas here and the scores wound up close, but were distinct enough to make a clear decision.
So today, nearly one year from when we announced the contest, we’re ready to announce the three winners. Here goes:
The first prize of US $50,000 goes to Team MADnetwork from Spain
The second prize of US $30,000 goes to Team Enhancers from India
The third prize of US $20,000 goes to Team BugsBernie from Germany
Congratulations to all the three winners. You can view their video responses to winning the contest below and read more about their entries on the Innovation Blog. Kudos to all the ten finalists and especially the eight teams that crossed the finishing line.
As a token of appreciation, Cisco invites these ten finalist teams into the Cisco Developer Network, and will waive the fees of US $2,000 to join the development community
A year-long contest cannot be successful without commitments from a lot of people. I would like to acknowledge our team here at Cisco that kept the momentum going. We are also extremely grateful to the panel of internal and external judges that spent quality time to go through the demos from these eight teams to declare the winners.
As the Chief Technology Officer at Cisco, I cannot ask for any further proof point of Innovation than these bright young minds bringing such creative ideas to the table and demonstrating proof-of-concept within 90 days. This is the best example of Business Agility I’ve seen in recent times.
I wish all of them the very best.
Posted by Padmasree Warrior at 09:00PM PST
AmateurFoam Oct 7, 2009
Congradulations to the winners, cisco systems rocks.