free: ÖBB & 0bsnetwork Blockchain in Mobility Workshop & Hackathon

Second Hackathon on 0bsnetwork

Under the umbrella of the ANON Blockchain Summit Austria and the Vienna Blockchain Week, 0bsnetwork and Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) are organizing a workshop and hackathon with a focus on Blockchain in Mobility.

This two day event takes place at the ÖBB Open Innovation Factory, at Laxenburger Strasse 2, Vienna.

The Workshop & Hackathon will be lead by the 0bsnetwork Head of Development, James Hitchcock, and run for two days: April 1-2, 2019. register here: https://tinyurl.com/0bsOeBB

The winners of the Hackathon will get to present their application on stage to the big crowd of the Blockchain Summit Austria, and also get some 0bsnetwork ZBS Coins as a prize from 0bsnetwork team. ZBS Coins will enable you to run a full node on 0bsnetwork, participate in securing the network, processing transactions and get a share of all the transaction fees generated on the platform.

For All Developers, Even Without Previous Experience with Blockchain

If you are a mid to senior level developer experienced with JavaScript, Python, Java or C#, you already have 99% of the skills necessary to develop fully functional applications on the 0bsnetwork blockchain platform! Even as a junior developer, with at least a year (or two) of experience, we think you’ll be able to develop your first blockchain based application over these two days.

That’s why we’re calling this Workshop + Hackathon: we are happy to show you how to work with the 0bsnetwork platform, and not just give you a challenge and wait for you to complete it 🙂

To find out more about the 0bsnetwork platform, visit http://www.0bsnetwork.com and http://docs.0bsnetwork.com

ÖBB Challenge for The Hackathon

New technologies like IoT are enabling new possibilities in the mobility and transport sector. Thousands of different devices on freight wagons, trucks, buses, rental cars etc. are generating massive amounts of data. Normalizing is necessary and a high level of security must be ensured, so that recipients can rely on the information. How can blockchain technology be used to enable secure and reliable information for all participants, even if they do not know or trust each other?

Blockchain in Mobility – Main Topic

There are some obvious candidates for transformation using blockchain-based or hybrid solutions:

• mobility in the city: electric scooters, vehicle sharing, multi-modal transport, V2X (vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure) communication, etc.
• decentralized payments,
• energy in the service of mobility, vehicles as electricity storage and grid balancing providers,
• self-driving vehicles, …

And then there are topics less visible, but definitely with significant impact on our daily lives:

• goods transport: multi-modal globe-crossing supply of raw materials for industry and finished products, delivery drones, online shopping package routing, ..
• logistics systems (documentation, payments, tracking…)
• ticketing
• etc., etc., etc. 🙂

Other Topics?

If you have an amazing idea for real life application of blockchain in a different sector, feel free to apply for attendance anyway. If we don’t fill up all the slots with mobility-focused developers, we’ll be happy to invite you to join.

Benefits of Participating:

1. Learn to develop blockchain-based applications on one of the most advanced blockchain platforms in the world
2. Rely on the skills you already posses (JavaScript, Java, Python, C#…) and get up and running quickly
3. Get to know the teams of 0bsnetwork and ÖBB, as well as your fellow developers participating in the event
4. Win cool prizes
5. Run a node on the 0bsnetwork main net, secure the network, process transactions, get a share of transaction fees
6. Present your solution to the big audience of the Blockchain Summit Austria