On the 18th of August over 100 of Synthesis Software Technologies’ employees will rally for 24 non-stop hours to work against the clock and develop their ideas. These solutions will be built with leading technologies including everything from artificial intelligence to Web3.
Synthesis is a software development company known for its innovation and for being home to some of the brightest minds in South Africa. Synthesis’ hackathon was paused with the advent with Covid-19. This will be its first hackathon in three years. This year’s theme is a mad scientist lab.
Synthesis has created an open hour for the event so outsiders can have a glimpse into the process. Software developers and business owners have applied to attend the event.
“The Synthesis Hackathon may have been on hold due to Covid-19 restrictions but its return promises to be like nothing we have ever seen before.
When we launched the hackathon, ideas that our developers had been sitting on flooded in. Our channel was immediately overloaded. On the 18th, for 24 hours, these ideas will be brought to life with constant coding, and they will be presented to judges in the morning in an exhibit.
The point of the day is to merge idea generation with action – which is what we do best – bring ideas to life through technology,” says Howard Feldman, Head of Marketing & People at Synthesis.
Over 60 ideas were collected by the Synthesis team, who will collaborate in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and globally online. The employees will then be divided into 14 groups to build out these ideas. Ideas have included everything from Spotify playlists designed to find music that will be liked by everyone in a group to an AI demand-based calculator.
“When the Synthesis team walks into the hackathon, they will walk into a lab transformed to encourage experimentation where anything goes.
The event will be an amalgamation of caffeine, midnight laser tag, waffles, brilliant minds (including business leaders from outside of Synthesis), music, SWAG and code – everything needed to encourage creativity. We excited to see what unfolds,” concludes Feldman.
