Space Apps Vilnius

First time in Vilnius – NASA’s International Space Apps hackhathon

Join us the weekend of Oct 18-20, 2019 to tackle the most exciting multidisciplinary space challenges, work with real NASA data, and meet with aerospace experts! Collaborate with other space experts, coders, engineers, scientists, designers, artists, storytellers and students from all kinds of disciplines to develop solutions to challenges we currently face on Earth and in space. NASA challenges will be posted about one month before the event. Prove your ideas with mentors and experts. Compete to be nominated by local judges for global competition. Attendance is free.

Topics of the NASA challenges: “Earth’s Oceans”, “Our Moon”, “Planets Near And Far”, “To The Stars”, “Living In Our World”. Challenges are described here.

Hackathon participants are invited to develop useful apps for community. But it’s not just about apps! Challenges can be tackled using data visualization, design, story-telling with satellite images, analyzing data from Earth, Moon, planets and stars and applying different specialties.

Hackathon participants who join this creative weekend are offered:

  • 2000 Eur fond for local awards
  • Possibility to be nominated for global NASA judging
  • Possibility to hack all night long and don’t worry about food
  • Networking with other inspiring space enthusiasts
  • Support by mentors and experts

If you haven’t registered yet, you can do it here.

Organiser:
Visoriai Information Technology Park.

General Sponsor:
No Magic Europe – a modeling tool provider with sales and development office established in Lithuania more than 20 years ago. No Magic was recently acquired by Dassault Systemes – second largest software company in Europe with more than 17000 employees and 4 billion revenue. No Magic developed software is used to guarantee success of all current NASA projects. Thousands of systems engineers start their days with No Magic developed modeling tools at NASA and other huge corporations like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Airbus. Their goal – to create the best sophisticated and future-proof products for current and future generations. No Magic goal is to ensure that thousands of users are thrilled by the capabilities of the tools they’re using daily and advocate No Magic solutions as the best available on the market today and tomorrow.

Partners:
Baltic Amadeus – Lithuanian IT company which delivers custom software solutions in Europe and the US.
Critical Security – a SEC Consult company, providing innovative cyber and application security services.